Ok, so think about how many times a month you browse the web on your smartphone?  Every week, every day? And do you just take a quick glance, or are you using it for a significant period on the bus, at the airport, or somewhere else? How many hours total does it add up to per month?

Well, if you said anything more than 4.6 hours, then you are an above average Smartphone browser and thus, deserve to upgrade your device.  According to this story from MarketingVox, based on research from our friends at mMetrics, 4.6 is the magic number in the U.S. (2.5 in Britain.)  If that sounds high, it should, because it’s a full 89 percent increase year over year.  Consequently, mobile pageviews have increased 127 percent.

Checkout the whole story at MarketingVox.

Here’s an interesting report which we found at David Siecker’s blog.  The article quotes a study from ABI research.

David seems interested in Voice-to-Text, starting with Jott.  His analysis is great, but we think he should do a little research on Voicemail to Text companies too…

We’re not talking about hamburgers.  MobileCrunch reports that in 2007, more than 1 Billion Mobile phones were sold to consumers. At GotVoice, more mobile phone sales means more people can receive voicemail as text messages, so these stats are very interesting:

The article quotes:

According to figures from Gartner, sales of mobile phones surpassed 1.15 billion units in 2007. This number is a 16% increase from 2006’s numbers of 999 million units sold. Much of this growth is due to emerging markets like China and India where many people are buying their first handset.

Nokia is still the world’s alpha male of mobile phone manufacturers. It sold 435 million handsets last year. Throughout 2007, Nokia controlled 37.8% of global market share. For the first time, Nokia accounted for 40% of all sales in the fourth quarter.

Here’s a link to the official press release about Talking Avatars. More info to come soon.

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If you like to talk about cool mobile gadgets, make sure to join our Facebook Group called Cool Apps For Mobile Phones. You can promote, debate, comment on, praise or ask questions about any mobile application here. And you make even make some new friends in the process.

You need a Facebook account to join, but that’s it. Then we’ll all be able to keep up on new events and announcements from mobile start-ups.

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Here’s a story from Cellular-News.com, but without any other attribution, so take it for what it’s worth.

According to the report…

A woman in Russia has given birth - by the light of cellphones after a power failure plunged the hospital into darkness. Quick thinking nurses borrowed mobile phones from visitors and other medical staff and were able to generate sufficient light by the power of the display screens to help the doctors complete the birth. Both mother and son are doing well. It was not reported if the mother plans to name the baby in honour of the mobile phones in use during the birth.

This is not the first time a medical procedure has been reported to have been carried out by the light of a mobile phone. Last year, there were reports of hospital surgeons in Lahore, Pakistan regularly carrying out medical operations using the light from cellphone screens at times, due to persistent power failures in the national electricity supply.

Oh, and no word yet on whether they used the Voicemail to Text features to get instructions on how to perform any part of the procedure…..

Business Wire brings us a release from the Mobile Marketing Association, featuring new data from their third-annual Mobile Attitude and Usage Study.

Particularly relevant to the world of Voice to Text and Visual Voicemail, is that “54 percent of 13-34 year olds use SMS for social networking, while 44 percent of 13-34 year olds said they use text messaging for flirting or dating…”

Also noted in the survey results: “Teens and young adults use text messaging more than any other demographic. People ages 13-24 send and receive the most – more than 50 messages per week – while half of all survey respondents use text messaging at least once a week.”

And one last thing we found interesting - “Sweepstakes and voting campaigns are the most widely used types of mobile marketing. The second most common type is receiving alerts about products, services, accounts.“

All of this data points to a single trend - More people are using SMS more often, for more types of services. Receiving SMS Text versions of Voicemail is already rapidly rising, and all signs point toward it continuing its ascent.

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