Christmas Presents Getting Smarter – Smartphones Are All The Rage

The penetration of smartphones in Hungary has gained momentum – last year’s sales of 800,000 mobile handsets were exceeded by mobile network operators by October, 2012 and the Christmas shopping spree is likely to boost that figure to a total of over 1,000,000 smartphones by the end of the year. As a result, one in [...]

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Players with Handsets, Handsets that Play

Currently the most popular items in mobile app stores are mobile games. Games of skill and logic are the most popular among users, especially if they also have multiuser capabilities. At the end of August 2011 there were 2.4 million smartphones in use in Hungary, which is 25% of the 9.6 million total inventory, reveals [...]

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Mobile Internet Has Been a Success in the Competition among Internet Access Technologies

The number of internet subscriptions in Hungary exceeded 2.4 million at the end of the first half of 2004, propelled largely by the growth in mobile internet services over the past year. At year-end 2008 a higher percentage of the population used mobile internet services in Hungary than in Norway or China, the September 2009 Report on the Internet Economy by GKIeNET – T-Home – T-Mobile reveals.

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