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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Why do people by tablets?

In February 2010, when the first iPad appeared, most users rightfully asked themselves “Why should I buy a tablet?” A year later, as the iPad 2 debuts in Hungary, the question is more pressing than ever. Global tablet sales are expected to be the same order of magnitude as sales of netbooks, which turned the [...]

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E-commerce on mobile phones – heavy traffic also from smartphones in 2010

Purchases made via smartphones were finally measurable in 2010 and reached 1.5% of all electronic sales in Hungary. Consequently, Hungary is in line with other developed e-commerce markets: shopping habits are gradually changing – reveals GKIeNET – T-Mobile’s Report on the Internet Economy.

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Smartphones are navigating us

The past three years brought a breakthrough in the world of navigation devices: PDA devices used solely for navigation are gradually being replaced by smartphones. In September 2010, 1.5 million navigation-enabled smartphones were used in Hungary, giving momentum to location services, reveals the Report on the Internet Economy published by GKIeNet – T-Mobile.

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