Posts tagged gps apps
Samsung Smartphone Sales Soar On Android Platform
Sep 6th
Samsung Electronics expects to sell up to 25 million smartphones by the close of 2010, a significant increase to the company’s earlier estimate and due mostly to its recent allegiance to Google Android – a 7 million unit increase on its original sales target of 18 million. Samsung expects to double the number of smartphones it ships in 2011.
Earlier this week, Samsung said it had shipped more than 1 million of its Galaxy S smartphones in the U.S. The Galaxy S is Samsung’s first smartphone on the Google Android platform and will offer all of the LOCiMOBILE apps.
“We are prioritizing our Android platform. Android is very open and flexible, and there is a consumer demand for it,” YH Lee, Samsung Mobile’s head of marketing, said this week.
GTX Corp was counting: Mobile app downloads top 3.8 billion in first half of 2010
Aug 26th
Smartphone owners worldwide downloaded more than 3.8 billion mobile applications in the first six months of 2010, compared to 3.1 billion in all of 2009, according to new data issued by market analysis firm research2guidance. Global smartphone revenues for the first half of 2010 exceed $2.2 billion, surpassing full-year 2009 revenues of $1.7 billion. The study adds that the average premium application price in now $3.60.
“Apple’s competitors like Nokia and BlackBerry started to leverage their global reach and increased the traffic on their app stores,” said research2guidance analyst Egle Mikalajunaite in a prepared statement. “We see this trend continuing in the next several months and years. The next wave of new app stores will be niche stores specializing on e.g. business or mobile health apps.”
Everything has a price, including mobile privacy.
Jul 23rd
That’s one of many conclusions to be drawn from audit, tax and advisory services firm KPMG’s new Consumers & Convergence study–the annual survey reveals that while user concerns over data privacy are growing, with 79 percent of respondents worldwide expressing angst over unauthorized access to their personally identifiable information, 58 percent of respondents also say they would be willing to allow tracking of their digital behavior and profile information if it resulted in lower costs. KPMG also notes the emergence of what it calls “Information Sharers”–i.e., mobile subscribers willing to exchange personal data for cheap or free content, as well as conduct their banking and even access personal medical information via wireless device. The study indicates Information Sharers now make up about 10 percent of the overall mobile user population, led by consumers in China and India; however, U.S. respondents represent just 4 percent of the Information Sharer segment, despite making up 12 percent of the KPMG survey group.
Location App Privacy: a question asked and answered.
Jul 17th
The great thing about personal location services is you and I can have instant access to a multi-billion government GPS technology enabling the display of the location of the people we know with a push of a button right on our smart-phones. As amazing as this opportunity is for each of us, displaying and sharing personal information with the assurance of privacy is a significant concern.
When people make personal information available, they make themselves vulnerable. To deal with their vulnerability people weigh both what they have to “give” and what they “get” when asking and answering personal information questions. It should come as no surprise that Pew research found that 85% of adults want to control access to their personal information because that something is publicly accessible doesn’t mean people want it to be publicized.
As Helen Nissenbaum of New York University has argued, “contextual integrity” is necessary for people to effectively manage their privacy. The mere threat of a breach of integrity is experienced as a violation of privacy as we have recently witnessed both with FaceBook and Google Buzz.
Providing and insuring control of personal privacy has been a fundamental precept for GTX Corp and its LOCiMOBILE GPS Tracking Apps. Sharing personal location information is kept securely between the people asking and answering the “where is” question in a peer to peer environment. No information is taken, stored, shared or used by anyone but the app’s subscribers. The keyword is “personal” location service.
App stores anticipated to generate $15 billion in 2013
Jul 13th
With app store downloads topping 3.6 billion in 2009 and expected to grow to 6.6 billion this year, market research firm Futuresource Consulting forecasts downloads will leap to 16.2 billion in 2013, translating to worldwide revenues of close to $15 billion. According to Futuresource, more than 85 percent of existing app store downloads are free to consumers, a percentage expected to remain stable over the next few years–consumer spending is nevertheless surging, with the premium mobile app market from developers like GTX Corp continuing to expand their titles.
Futuresource says that, along with direct-per-pay downloads, its revenue projections incorporate indirect value-add services like in-app payments and subscriptions as LOCiMOBILE does with its new people finder TRACKING app. “Factor in mobile content revenues which fall beyond the world of the apps store–like direct downloads from gaming companies, handset manufacturers and operators, video downloads, music and ringtones–and the whole package will be worth $38 billion worldwide by 2013,” said Futuresource senior market analyst Patrik Pflandler in a prepared statement.
Futuresource adds that app stores also hold significant promise for non-smartphone devices like the forthcomong Samsung Bada OS tablets, and expects applications to become a major feature of connected TVs and Blu-ray players, with a particular emphasis on familiar apps and brands that fit comfortably within the viewer experience.
Thirty-percent of smart-phone subscribers downloaded applications and nearly two-thirds sent text messages
Jul 9th
So says Firece Mobile’s Jason Ankeny
Smartphone ownership in the U.S. surpassed 49.1 million at the end of May 2010, an 8.1 percent increase over the previous three-month period, according to new data from market research firm comScore. Although Research In Motion’s BlackBerry operating system remains the dominant smartphone platform in the U.S., representing 41.7 percent of the market, its market share dropped 0.4 percent during the period as Google’s Android increased 4.0 percent to 13.0 percent. Android was the sole platform to grow its market share during the period: Apple’s iPhone slipped 1.0 percent to 24.4 percent, Palm’s webOS fell 0.6 percent to 4.8 percent and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile dropped 1.9 percent to 13.2 percent. comScore notes that despite losing share to Android, most smartphone platforms continued to gain subscribers during the period; the firm adds its data does not include Apple’s new iPhone 4, issued in June.
As smartphone penetration continues to grow, so too does mobile data usage–65.2 percent of U.S. subscribers sent and received text messages, up 1.4 percentage points over the previous three-month period, and 31.9 percent accessed their mobile browsers, up 2.3 percentage points. Thirty percent of subscribers downloaded applications (increasing 2.1 percent); 20.8 percent of users accessed social networks or blogs (up 2.6 percent); 22.5 percent played mobile games (up 0.7 percent); and 14.3 percent listened to music on their phones (increasing 1.2 percent).
LOCiMOBILE’s release of its “TRACKING” app utilizes new multitasking tools allowing it to run in the background…more apps, shared by more people running more of the time.
Introducing a Real-Time GPS Tracking App for Android
Jun 18th
Real Time GPS Tracking
Not too long ago, Real-Time GPS Tracking was a gimmick in science fiction movies. Not any more! LOCiMOBILE introduces real-time GPS Tracking for Android and GPS Tracking for iPhone & Android.
Real-Time GPS Tracking for Android: The app is called Tracking. Find it in the Android Market. Here’s how it works. Request permission to track your friends and family just one time and then the app runs in the background and will report its location on user set intervals (every 1 minute, 5 minutes, 60 minutes, etc.) Tracking is perfect to know the whereabouts of family members, friends and co-workers that you trust and care for and want to know where they are at all times. Tracking is only possible if your contact agrees to being located (give consent one time – users privacy is protected). Real-time Tracking is only possible on the Android/Blackberry as background processes are required. Download: For Android
Gps Tracking for iPhone and Android: GPS Tracking allows you to locate others and share your location via Google map with turn by turn directions. The app ensures privacy through an opt in Yes or No whether to share your location or not with each request. Facebook and Twitter connect. Download: For iPhone | For Android
Both the apps can be found in the Android market. Search for GTX and both apps will show up or search for GPS Tracking or Tracking.
GPS Tracking Apps are for tracking people not places
May 7th
If you are looking for the answer to the “where is” question you have found the answer; the better people finder iPhone, Android and Blackberry apps are available from LOCiMOBILE®.
The GPS Tracking App can find one person or groups of people and do so accurately, quickly and privately with a touch of a button. Without ads, badges, check-ins, promotions or gimmicks. The apps will locate a staff of mobile sales people, an extended family, or the kids at the park. With TXT messaging and photos it’s possible to personalize your locate requests while assuring absolute privacy to everyone.
Hundreds of thousand of subscribers use the Apps everyday in 80 countries making it one of the top 25 free and top 10 paid options in the iPhone store. Your network is right in your contact list.
As great as the iPhone is, it has one major weakness:
Apr 11th
The current iPhone is unable to run third-party applications in the background which limits certain types of apps, such as location-based services. However, rumors suggest that the iPhone OS software 4.0 revision will support foreground and background performance while preserving battery life. The same rumor says it will arrive this summer, while iPad users will have to wait until the fall…But, you don’t have to wait until that long if you download the GPS Tracking app. It’s a peer to peer messaging app running in the foreground and able to locate anyone or everyone in your contact list with a single click and now it can share a photo with its point to point locates. So if you need to know now, now you know where to find everyone you know.
Apple introduced the Top Grossing Downloads list to highlight differences between Top Downloaded and Top Revenue generating apps. GPS Tracking from LOCiMOBILE® makes both lists.
Apr 8th
Top 10 Highest Grossing and number 6 on the top 25 List!
: “Nearly one-third of apps downloaded are purchased, up from 18% a year ago. Further, individual app prices have risen. The average paid app costs $2.85, compared with $1.99 last year.”
Yankee Group
According to the analysts at research firm Gartner, mobile application stores are expected to generate revenues of nearly $7 billion over the course of this year. (This is more than double their previous forecast)
Nearly a third of all apps downloaded today are purchased, compared with just 18 percent a year ago.
That figure is a combination of the $6.2 billion spent purchasing the mobile applications themselves combined with an additional $.6 billion generated through advertising revenues from in-app ads. Not surprisingly, Apple dominates this market, accounting for 99.4% of the market as of last year, states the report.
New revenue options are forecast: Up until now, App Store vendors have worked around the lack of a paid upgrade feature by offering different “versions” of their apps. Developers have been asking for an option like this since the beginning of the App Store — it looks like Apple might finally be listening.
The initial estimate of iPad sales is close to 6 million units by the end of 2010 and the GPS Tracking app can be found in the iTunes store available on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.