Worldwide Industry Segment Statistics for year 2007

I compiled the statistics for different industry segments for the year
2007. Mobile phone comes right on top, second only to radio users.

Less than 500 Million users

PDA = 85 million
iPod = 85 Million
Camcorders = 100 million
DVD recorders/ PVR = 100 million.
Gaming consoles = 200 million units (where,second generation consoles(PS2/Xbox) = 150 million )
Digital Camera = 300 million.

500 Million to 1 Billion users

People accessing internet content via a mobile phone today = 750 million
Worldwide registered automobiles = 800 million
Worldwide PCs = 850 million
People accessing internet content via a PC today = 850 million


1 to 2 Billion users

Worldwide Email users = 800 million
Worldwide email accounts = 1.5 Billion
Worldwide Fixed land lines = 1.3 billion
Worldwide TV sets = 1.5 Billion (TV is often shared. Thereach of TV is much beyond the 1.5 billion sets in use.)
Credit card users = 1.4 Billion
Worldwide users of SMS Texting = 1.8 Billion

2 to 4 Billion users

Worldwide mobile phones = 2.7 Billion
Worldwide radio users = 3.2 Billion to 3.8 Billion


Now you do your analysis ...

Mobile phone FAQ's for year 2007

• The mobile telecoms industry earned 725 Billion dollars last year.(2006)
• Mobile telecom growth in dollar terms, from 2005 to 2006, was 105 billion dollars.
• During 2007 the first cross-over from PC to Mobile phones will happen, with more users accessing via phone than PC.
  
• Phones are replaced every 18 months (and this is still shrinking)
• USA has reached 75% penetration for mobile phones
• The Western European average per capita penetration for mobile phones is already 110%
  
• Italy, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Israel have penetration rates at about 140%
• China adds 6 million phones every month, India adds 7 million phones every month.
• Finland,
  Norway, Denmark and Portugal - each countries with 120% or more
  penetration rates - Mobilephones are less than 6 million units total.
  
• SMS Messaging Is Biggest Data App On Planet
• E-mail is opened in 24 hours and replied to in 48 hours.
• SMS is read within 15 minutes on average and responded within 60 minutes.
• 65% of e-mail is spam, less than 10% of SMS is spam.
  
• In South Korea five separate credit card services are available on the three mobile networks
• In
  South Korea almost 100% of credit card based point-of-purchase sites
  accept payment via mobile phone credit (and charge) cards
  
• Two years from launch almost 10% of South Korean phone users watch digital broadcast TV on their phones
• The Pop Idol formats have earned a windfall of over 700 million dollars out of text messaging votes
• In 2005 already half of all phones sold were cameraphones so cameraphones outsell digital cameras by more than 4 to 1 .
• 73% of the population now uses the mobile phone as their portable clock.
• 2.7 Billion phones in active use. There is a subscription for 40% of the planet's population.
  
• Global music industry earns 16% of its revenues from mobile phones (mostly ringing tones);
• Videogaming earns 14% of its global revenues from mobile.

Get Alerts Via Mobile

4INFO, Inc.,
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text YANKEES ALERT or NETS ALERT to 4INFO.




Sports news alerts are specially suitable for mobile users. Because, sports info is most useful, when provided real time.

Another real time alerts category could be stocks.

Mozes innovative sms solution

Mozes SMS Soultion

Keyword buying And advertising
Users send a keyword by text message to 66937 (Mozes) and receive whatever message the owner of that keyword has determined. In addition to news updates on any topic, keyword owners can send ringtones and perform polls. Registering your first keyword is free and additional keywords cost $5 per month.

Answering Questions
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Saving Notes
Users can send notes to themselves by entering ".n" before any note they want to store in their Mozes account online. (.n nice hair, singer guy.)

Saving MySpace profiles
Links to MySpace and Facebook user profiles can be saved by sending the social network's name followed by the username.

Saving Book names
Amazon affiliate links to books can be saved in you Mozes account by texting "book" and the ISBN number.  

Top 5 problems faced by mobile video startups

In my view, these are the top 5 problems faced by mobile video startups.

1) No ease of viewing video on small screens
2) The tech not worth enough to justify the data charges,subscriptions charges and premium content charges
3) Battery getting drained quickly by using mobile as entertainment device
4) Not enough bandwidth available on cellur networks for streaming and downloading video content
5) Mobile handsets supporting streaming video display are priced high.

And startups in this domain are positioned by what problem they are solving.

Mobile Companies for this Week

Companies added to my Mobile company list this week.

nexidia
Voice search

joopz
Web based SMS texting/Communication

amazegps
Mobile Maps service

linkedcampus
Group messaging for college campus

minfo
Chinese mobile search provider

nuance
Voice to text, sms tool

scanr.com
scan, copy, fax ussing mobile phone camera.

letmeparty
SMS Blogging

down2night.com
post and receive notices of events that are going on at your favorite local venues


See the full list here

Mobile printing , scanning and fax

Mobile office application is imerging concept.
It not only means MicrosoftOffice like application. But also access to printing, scanning and faxing via mobile.

ScanR is filling into this overlooked area. It converts the camera phone images of Documents/Whiteboards etc. to pdf format.
"scanR will save your scans online or optionally will send them as PDF files to your email address. To send a copy to someone else, just add their email address in the subject of the message you send to scanR."