Smart phones do indeed drive consumer purchases of data plans, new data from Palm suggests. Palm reports that 95 percent of new Centro buyers signed up for a data plan.
More than 70 percent of Centro buyers also appear to be upgrading to a smart phone for the first time, Palm says.
Keep that up for a long enough period of time and mobile providers will discover that most users have data plans and smart phones.
Which is just what they plan.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Palm Centro: Major Shift to Smart Phones, Data
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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