Top Mobile Behaviors Vary by Region

A cross-market analysis of mobile activities in Japan, the U.S. and Europe by comScore shows significant differences among consumers by geography. Mobile users in Japan were the “most connected” of the three markets, with more than 75 percent using connected media (browsed, accessed applications or downloaded content) in June, compared to 43.7 percent in the U.S. and 38.5 percent in Europe. I suspect nobody would be surprised by those findings.

About 59.3 percent of the Japanese users made use of their browsers in June and 42.3 percent accessing applications. Abou percent of mobile users in the U.S. and 25.8 percent in Europe used their mobile browsers, with 31.1 percent in the U.S. and 24.9 percent in Europe using applications.

Europeans were the heaviest text messaging users, with 81.7 percent sending a text message in June, compared to 66.8 percent in the U.S. and just 40.1 percent in Japan. Japanese users exhibited the highest reach in the email category at 54 percent, while consumers in the U.S. were most likely to use instant messaging services on their mobile (17.2 percent).

U.S. mobile users were the heaviest blog and social media users. About 21 percentr of users do so. Some 17 percent of Japanese users do so, while 15 percent of Europeans do so.

Japanese users were most likely to capture photos (63.0 percent) and watch TV/video (22.0 percent) on their mobiles, while Europeans were most likely to listen to music (24.2 percent) and play games (24.1 percent).

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Will amazon and bestbuy start app stores?

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DMA: Mobile marketing: UK users prefer browsers to apps

Browsers are better than apps for some operations.

http://www.dma.org.uk/news/nws-dmitem.asp?id=6067&t=Mobile+marketing%3A+UK+users+prefer+browsers+to+apps

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PayPal will be launching a payments technology for micropayments.

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Apple iPhone Will be Available on Verizon Wireless in 2011

Verizon Wireless will be selling the Apple iPhone in 2011, the Wall Street Journal now reports, potentially ending the seemingly-endless speculation about whether that would happen.

The new iPhone would be similar in design to the iPhone 4 currently sold by AT&T.

As with the ramped-up Long Term Evolution deployment plan Verizon Wireless also has announced, Verizon getting the iPhone would close a window, ending AT&T's years-long exclusive on the device.

With Verizon Wireless also saying it will activate 4G networks in 38 U.S. cities before the end of the year, Verizon is ending the relatively-brief window of time when Clearwire and Sprint Nextel could claim to operate the only nationwide 4G networks.