UK Counties mobile web download speeds :Glasgow vs Edinburgh vs Manchester vs Liverpool

Mobile web download speeds compared : Glasgow vs Edinburgh v Manchester vs Liverpool vs Bristol vs Leicester vs Birmingham vs London vs Nottingham

 

Mobile Speed Connectivity tests in UK from Sumit Roy

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mobile coverge and speed test in UK while travelling :

 

Mobile cells covering roads reach only a comparatively small number of customers. This makes the deployment of a mobile network along motorways a relatively costly affair.

1. Nonetheless EE and Three managed to deliver results in connecting roads performance which were remarkably close to the benchmark results shown in small cities.On YouTube SD EE and Three show a 90 % success rate while Vodafone and Three stay below 80 %. Youtube HD makes things worse.( source :)
   
2. The key performance indicators in the web-page download sessions showed a success ratio of 92.4 % (EE) and 89.9 % (Three) which are slightly lower than in small cities.
   a)Vodafone with 75.8 and even more Telefonica with 75.6 % had noticeably more difficulties covering roads. You can see download the entire here

•  Vodafone and more so Telefonica again have issues with file transfer success ratios starting below 90 % and in many cases reaching around 80 %.

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The Mobile Network Speed Test in UK :Vodafone vs EE vs Telefonica

While Telecom network providers take great care in covering the metropolitan areas, small cities often lag behind. Is this true for the United Kingdom too?

How does Mobile Network speed in terms of web page downloads compare in UK .In 2015 the Mobile Network Test in the UK  compared  3  telecom majorsThree, O2 and Vodafone.The above chart shows the ranking of mobile Networks in term of web page downloads on their mobile

•  In 2014  in a similar mobile network test showed EE as the clear winner followed by Three with the best voice performance. O2 and Vodafone followed almost head-to-head. 

1)The test also displayed much better performance in metropolitan areas than in smaller cities and on connecting roads. That fact and the population of 8.6 million people are good reasons to look at the results of the largest city London separately

2)One of the most often used services is web surfing which was tested with a mixture of 9 popular live and one static web-pages. The winner of last year‘s benchmark EE managed to improve its session success ratio for live web sites from 97 to 99 %.

a)The average session time to download a popular live web site decreased from 4.1 to 2.7 seconds.

 b)The other three operators showed almost identical session times between 3.1 and 3.2 seconds, but on reliability Vodafone clearly ranked second with a healthy success ratio of 97.4 %, while Telefonica followed with 96.8 %.

c)With an error rate of more than 5 % , all three telco network carriers needs quite catching up to do

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the tablets with the highest battery life rated

The lst of tablets with the highest batter life rated from highest to lowest

All the data that has been compiled while making the comparison have been taken from manufacturer websites. Ratings from CNET, PC Mag, PC World, and LAPTOP Mag.

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Thinnest Smartphone Manufacturers : 10 slimmest mobile phones

For Apple and specially for late Steve Jobs, having the slimmest smartphone was an obsession, and Apple it has continued his dream of  the  iPhone"being the slimmest mobile device handset in the market and it makes it right at the top as the slimmest smartphone with a  mere 7.09 mm.

The 10 slimmest mobile handsets in the market  from thinnest to thickest today are iPhone,Huawei, Samsung, Sony,Meizu,HTC ,BQ,ZTE,Blackberry,OnePlus,Xiaomi, Nokia,LG and Motorola

10  Thinnest  Smartphones Manufacturers: 

While iPhone is the undisputed no 1 being the slimmest mobile device,it  does have a lot of competitors racing in to take that coveted spot . Closely following Apple's flagship iPhone is Huawei which  is  7.69 mm thin, while Samsung with 7.89 mm takes the  3rd rank

Meanwhile at 9.62 mm LG ranks at the bottom of the list .On the thicker side,feather-light manufacturer Motorola—counter-intuitively—also makes the thickest device

This is likely yet another consequence of releasing more small-screen phones, on average, than competitors. A smaller display often means less room to squeeze in a battery, and as a result, the need for thicker internals.

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globally every 8 smartphones bought are powered by Android ,as iOS growth declines

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According to IDC, the smartphone OS during Q2,2015  was  led by Android who remains the  undisputed number 1  with a marketshare of 83% ,and  leads by a huge  margin as compared to its nearest competitor at 14%. 

The number 2 is Apple's iOS with 14%, followed by windows phone with 2.6%

Likewise the next  chart ( above this) shows marketshare of smartphone OS as of Q2,2014,during which  Android had 76% marketshare .Meanwhile  iOS smartphone OS  looked strong at that point with almost 20% marketshare However its growth fizzled down  and as the first chart shows.

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comparison of nations :Mobile broadband penetration vs mobile broadband speeds

In terms of mobile broadband penetration Europe and America tops mobile broadband subscriptions, followed by CIS nations, Asia pacific and  Middle east. The Europeans amd Americas have an average of 75-77% mobile broadband penetration

In terms of mobile broadband speeds, Akamai's latest report  confirms that  UK now has an average mobile connection speed of 20.4Mbps, a huge 28 percent increase on the previous quarter. The average UK speed is twice that of second-placed Denmark, which has a 10Mbps average, while other leading nations such as Germany (5.7Mbps), the US (4Mbps) and even South Korea (8.8Mbps) lag some way behind.
The UK can also boast that more than 95 percent of all mobile connections are over 4Mbps, which is twice as fast as the 2Mbps stipulated by the last government as the basic speed needed for fixed broadband services.

Mobile Payment company Square gets a scare before its IPO

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Jack Dorsey’s challenge to raise money for his mobile payment business just make harder.

Squares q3,2015 loss (third-quarter )was $53.9 million — the largest quarterly loss since at least the fourth quarter of 2013, which is the furthest back the company disclosed Monday in its amended regulatory filing to go public.

Square 's Q3 financials showed a $53.9 million net loss on $332.2 million in revenue. Those figures represent slower revenue growth and faster loss growth than in the year-earlier period However Square rides on a business model that seems to be Robust as it enables merchants to process card payments on smartphones and tablets, offering both the hardware and the software necessary to do so. In 2014, the company processed payments worth $23.8 billion, generating revenue of $850 million.

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Apple's iphone juggernaut rolls on, contributing 63% of its $234 billion revenue

Apple delivers Yet another Blockbuster Quarter

1)Apple stunned Wall street as it continued to show robust earnings quarter after quarter as it exceeded expectations in Q4, as its net income totaled $11.12 billion, up from $8.47 billion in the year-ago period with profits rising 31%. Not only that Apple also managed to increase

2)It also managed to increase the  iPhone’s average selling price during the quarter to $670, compared with $662 last quarter, at a time when smartphone prices  have seen crashing over the last 6 months.

3)Apple's gross margin was 39% compared to 38% in the year-ago quarter.Gross margin is a closely watched measure of profitability. It sold 48.04 million iPhones in its fiscal fourth quarter. Once again the iPhone was instrumental in Apples success which accounted 63% of revenue in this quarter

4)Fiscal 2015 was Apple’s most successful year ever, with revenue growing 28% to nearly $234 billion.In 2014, during the  quarter Apple sold a record 74.46 million iPhones.

5)The biggest news was that Apple was growing at the expense of Google's android.Apple's CEO announced that 30% of consumers who bought an iPhone replaced a smartphone running Google Inc.'s Android operating system during the quarter. He said this is the highest rate of Android "switchers" that Apple has ever measured. This is the first time " Android has seen" such a switch to iOS OS according to Apple

6)International sales accounted for 62 percent of the quarter’s revenue. Apple said its quarterly profit rose 31%, sparked by strong demand for iPhones in China.Sales to Greater China, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan, rose 99% to $12.5 billion.

You would also like to read :Why iphone and ipads cannot be manufactured in US

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the real reason why iphones and ipads cannot be manufactured in US

r those of you using apple products . specially iphone and ipad would have noticed the following t? "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.". So why exactly does ipad and iphone cannot be made in US, is it the cost of production, the costs of labor in US that makes it  difficult to made iphones in US.. Why cant  apple 's  iPhones, iPads, and all the rest of Apple's magic gadgets be built in the States?

The real story of why this cant be done ... will be a revelation .. and its also a sad  comment how America  have been loosing its " manufacturing base"  and we are no longer producing the kind of people " with the required skills "

 The New York Times asked that question, and after an extremely well-researched report involving interviews with both former and current executives at Apple, the answer the Times found is both simple and chilling: iPhones aren't made in America because they just can't be, not because of  manufacturing costs and other hyperbole . The infrastructure and labor force that apple needs to manufacture iphones and ipads  doesn't  exist at any levels  in US , which is necessary to support Apple's operations -- in fact its not even close to China...

• The Chinese factory where most iPhones reach final assembly employs 230,000 workers. Compare this with US: how many cities in the US have a population higher than that, ( according to SIRI the answer was a mere 83 cities )-- and that's total population, not workforce. With an average labor force of around 65 percent of the population, only 50 US cities are large enough to provide that kind of labor pool... and even in the biggest US city of them all, New York, 230,000 people still amounts to almost three percent of the city's entire population. 

•  One of apple's biggest supplier Foxconn  has  over  60,000 people living and working at the factory. Many of the people at "Foxconn City" work six days a week, twelve hours a day.. In US you just cannot do that .Apple employs 43,000 people in the United States, less than a fifth the number of contractor employees assembling iPhones at one Chinese factory

• Even though the 200,000 assembly-line workers putting part A into slot B could potentially be classified as unskilled labor, the 8700 industrial engineers overseeing the process  are highly skilled -- and according to the nytimes Times, finding that many qualified engineers in the States would take 9 months . Chinese manufacturers found them all in 15 days..In US the demand and supply gap between engineers who  graduates every year is appalling .

 So the reason of iphone being manufactured  is not " a merely"  manufaturing cost issue,, Instead, it's about who can build manufacture  the greatest number of iPhones within the shortest period of time, all while remaining flexible and instantaneously adaptable to Apple's needs.

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The LG V10 smartphone with two front cameras launched

LG introduced the newest addition to its flagship smartphone series with the LG V10. 

The new LG V10  has some great features as a dual screen and two front cameras. With it, the company unveiled a new version of the Watch Urbane. Though not the first smartwatch to have this feature, the LG Watch Urbane 2nd edition is the first Android Wear watch to include cellular connectivity and LTE.
The LG V10 stands out due to its richer multimedia experience than what’s possible on other smartphones in today’s market. And from its innovative new Second Screen feature to manual video recording mode, is one of the best features which no smartphone can boast of today.

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global mobile messenger marketshare whatsapp vs facebook

The above chart shows which mobile messenger has the largest marketshare across the world as of 2015.Whatspp leads with 800million users followed by Facebook Messenger with 600million monthly active users

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iPhone shipments vs iphone revenue:2007 onwards

Apple iPhone Shipments vs Revenue : 

The iPhone revenues have been growing consistently since 2007 onwards and has been the best selling Apple products with 400% growth .Similarly iPhone shipments have hit the roof in the last 3 years with a huge uptake and  in volumes  almost touching 1.25billion

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10 years of smartphone sales : Apple, Android and Nokia

This chart compares Nokia  against  the booming android growth and the growth of Apple smartphones since 2007 . However Nokia was  already faltering as samsung came out with its mind blowing products..and the declining share of RIM and adoption of Android  OS standard all but killed the brand

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germany mobile and tablet web users by income group

  Germany Mobile web vs tablet web users by income

The chart shows the average germane user who used mobile web and tablet internet according to age group, 18% of smartphone users had a household income of less than 1,500 euros.32% smartphone uses had an income  1500 to 2499 euros. While  28% of german tablet users who go online via the device earns 2500 to 3499 euros

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In UK mobile accounts for 56% of all time spent on the internet.

 This chart by Comscore shows the mobile user engagement in UK. Over 72% of the 47 million large UK digital audience access the internet via more than one device, across desktop/smartphone or desktop/tablet. Mobile has also now become more engaging than desktop, accounting for 56% of all time spent on the internet.

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Nokia 920 : 5 things you dint know about this phone

5 things you dint know about the Nokia 920 Phone

1)The cameras of Nokia 920  front and side buttons are made from an incredibly hard substance called zirconium. Both are scratch and dirt resistant.

2)The Lumia 920 uses floating lens technology, which means less camera shake and eventually the better quality of the picture it takes'

3)The Lumia 920  is a  Dual-LED flash, means the light on the subject illuminates better, and its evenly distributed all round. Consider a surround sound system.. which essential ensures that the sound gets distributed through out.

4)Nokia Lumia directly enables all images to save  across Microsoft photo app SkyDrive , thereby  you can show them now on any web enabled tablet, laptop or PC. Additionally it offers you based on your choice when you can upload these pics, during charging the device or during wi fi.This can save your bandwidth and battery as well.

5)The Lumia 920 also makes it easier to save info from the web, by giving you the option to take screenshots. Simultaneously press the power key and Windows key and your Lumia will take a screenshot of your display and save it in the gallery.

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the mobile evolution in search : from WAP to responsive design

 The infographic shows how the mobile web has evolved over the last  5 years. From WAP to mobile web .: A timeline. Since 2004 to 2012 desktop search enjoyed uninterrupted attention and reputation. However  things began to  change at a rapid rate from 2012 onwards. The mobile app economy  heralded and changed the " ecosystem" as  smartphones led by  low prices and  availability  began to explode,
 The adoption of mobile  by enterprise  along with apps ..  gave way to rapid scaling up  of  the mobile ecosystem. In 2015 Google mobile algorithm" finally made it clear that a sites mobile friendliness is a ranking signal. 

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24 out of every 100 smartphone sold this year was samsung

Apple Xiaomi and Huawei was the biggest winner in Q1,2015 with a growth of more that 60 , 39%and 27%. respectively.In 2015  Samsung  contributed 24% os smartphones shipped globally compared to  30% in 2014Q1 a drop of over 6% Meanwhile 

Apple gained 3% and formed 18% of smartphone shipments in 2015  to be the number 2 brand after samsung

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By how much has the iPhone outsold iPad in the last 36 months ( 12 quarters)

 The Last 12 quarters or 3 years of iPhone sales compared with ipad sales .

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