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Why is mobile the future?
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I moved from Blackberry to an Android and I'm back to Blackberry. I don't use the phone to play, read news, or anything else. I use the phone exclusively to work: calls, email, and text. After trying the Android for a month I could not find a way to make those 3 things better than the Blackberry did, and the battery last all day.
iPhone FTW. Sorry, I had to. It's essential to my every day routine both at home and work. I could survive with out it, but my weekdays wouldn't operate near as smoothly.
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I was on the latest build of Andriod just yesterday and the UI is not very friendly IMO. It lacks integration between apps that I use very day (even Mac misses out on several important integration points).
I've been a diehard BlackBerry user for several years now. It's rare I find someone that uses a BlackBerry the way I do. I'm a superuser freak on BB - just ask Alex! Unfortunately for BB, most are not. And for this reason the BlackBerry UI is often overlooked for it's abilities.
Example:
- Power Apps. I don't think most understand the integration of a power app. One inbox allows you to see and manages Twitter, facebook, chat, BBM and Linkedin messages.
Have an "email response" you would like to insert into an email? Download an email template app, click on your options button and insert template into your email right from your bb email application. No in and out of apps to achieve this. - You can send just about anything - email, photos, webpages, blog articles from BB News Feed, voice notes and more straight to twitter and facebook.
- BBM is hands down the best mobile chat client to date (Yes, I know imessenger is coming out)
- Email to calendar integration. I can make any email into a calendar event. Not only does it allow me to schedule but it attaches the email content into the notes. This has proved to be very very helpful over the years.
- Email signatures parsed right into my Contacts - not need to retype
- Shotcuts - something you can't get with a virtual keyboard. I know, keyboards are for people that cry about not wanting to grasp the virtual keyboard. The fact is, I'm quite fluent on a virtual keyboard. But unless your are a power user, most fail to realize you loose productive "shortcuts".
Examples of productive shortcuts
Make email(s) unread: alt + U
Flag email for todo in outlook: W
Scroll to bottom of email list: B (T for top)
Delete an email or message: D
Next email: N
There are a slew more. This is something you don't get on a virtual keyboard.
And of course Email,Messaging and integration points on a BB can NOT be touched by Andriod OR OS4. Trust me, I can argue with the best ALL day long and win the conversation (If you are a true "get-things-done" power user).
I do NOT play games one my phone (expect for FourSquare, but that's different). I use my phone to Get Stuff Done! I follow the InBox ZERO rule and have method for responding and deferring.
Currently ONLY BlackBerry allows me to work this way. There is nothing that I NEED to get done that I cant get done more effectively and efficiently on a BlackBerry.
With ALL OF THIS SAID - I'm most likely going to move to iPhone once OS5 hits.
OS5 will FINALLY include "Flag message" and allow one to build out folders on the fly. With 2 hours of personal research and testing, I believe I have a system of InBox Zero that I will be able to duplicate on the iPhone with OS5.
OS5 will also have deeper integration with Twitter - my social platform of choice. I have also seen a new feature that allows you to grab a signature and parse to your Contacts. And if there is an actual date in the body of the email, you can send to calendar.
I'll still loose my shortcuts using a virtual keyboard
Where I could/would loose any efficiency on an iPhone, I hope to gain with the Cloud. Having access to everything from from my phone, makes changes and such and have everything in sync from my ipad to iphone to my imac might just make up for any lose of efficiencies elsewhere.
We'll see. If not - the new Bold comes out soon.
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This article I found today called, Driving Consumer Insights With Mobile Analytics, is crazy-full of mobile statistics and phenomenal nuggets.
Here's a bit from the article about mobile Facebook users:
Looking at Facebook usage specifically, it's staggeringly huge (20 percent of all pageviews are on Facebook):
Here's a bit from the article about mobile Facebook users:
Looking at Facebook usage specifically, it's staggeringly huge (20 percent of all pageviews are on Facebook):
- 40 percent of users' time spent on News Feed
- 250 million photos uploaded daily
- 2.7 billion Likes every day
- 37 million pages with 10+ Likes
- 425 million mobile users
- 43 percent male vs. 57 percent female
- 20 minutes time spent per visit
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Holy wow info coming at ya.
Check out this article 82% of In-Store Shoppers Use Mobile Search to Make Purchase Decisions.
While the article doesn't state the stat for auto purchases, we all know they're using them on the lot.
I thought it was interesting the article said people are using search, rather than apps. Hmmmm....
Check out this article 82% of In-Store Shoppers Use Mobile Search to Make Purchase Decisions.
While the article doesn't state the stat for auto purchases, we all know they're using them on the lot.
I thought it was interesting the article said people are using search, rather than apps. Hmmmm....
84%* seems awfully high, but I do notice that it's happening around me.
These apps / Google tools that can scan barcodes and show you Amazon prices are really changing the landscape for retailers.
As far as automotive goes, up here in Canada the big thing is MSRP vs actual price.
There are so many fees that we have to disclose on the website / price sheet that customers can look up the MSRP from our lot and immediately see a vast difference.
Edit: It appears that 84% of shoppers use their mobile device and 82% of those users are using search. That means that the other 18% of the 84% are using apps or something I suppose. Unless I read that incorrectly. Either way, interesting stuff.
These apps / Google tools that can scan barcodes and show you Amazon prices are really changing the landscape for retailers.
As far as automotive goes, up here in Canada the big thing is MSRP vs actual price.
There are so many fees that we have to disclose on the website / price sheet that customers can look up the MSRP from our lot and immediately see a vast difference.
Edit: It appears that 84% of shoppers use their mobile device and 82% of those users are using search. That means that the other 18% of the 84% are using apps or something I suppose. Unless I read that incorrectly. Either way, interesting stuff.
Google was extremely careful how they worded their conclusion and they state its to use their phone while in-store, not make purchase decisions. Huge difference in my opinion.
In fact, 84% of smartphone shoppers use their phones while in a physical store.
79% of smartphone users are smartphone shoppers
So in reality that's about 66% of smartphone owners use their smartphone while shopping in store.
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