I thought for sure I knew how last week’s Facebook Friday poll question would turn out, but instead, I was way off!
Our Facebook Friday poll question last week was: What does your church stream live? (see results)
This week, we would like to know about your smartphone OS!
I’ve always been suspect that smartphones get plenty of game time, considering gaming is the leading use of tablets.
Nintendo even claims that smartphones are destroying handheld gaming with their low priced titles.
After seeing the big money in these little games, I’m starting to think that smartphones aren’t destroying handheld gaming, but perpetuating the market.
This past February, smartphone market penetration in the United States was almost 50%.
The year before (February 2011), smartphones comprised only 36% of the market!
If this rate of growth continues, smartphone penetration will reach over 70% by next year!
Here’s how it’s been trending for the past few years:
2012 should be interesting to see how the battle continues to play-out between Android and iOS, and whether or not WP7 can even get into the game at all.
After see these top five apps for these three platforms, you can certainly see WP7 has a very long way to go.
Here are the best mobile apps for the Android, iOS and WP7 according to Mashable:
Tablets have become popular as all leading mobile manufacturers are following Apple in the mobile computing race. Most of you know that a tablet is nothing but a small-sized computer that has almost all key features of a laptop.
Is a tablet better than a laptop?
The answer depends on what you intend to do with it.
StrongsSearch was put together by iBibleApps.
Their StrongsSearch app really got my attention. You can search the entire Strong’s Concordance with a few clicks or taps!
It’s entirely web-based as of now, so you can also use StrongsSearch in your desktop browser. Although it would be nice to have the app siting on a mobile device’s internal memory, it could take a bit of memory.
Take a look at StrongsSearch:
Although the infographic below highlights many of the extremes of smartphone bling, the question still remains:
Are we spending too much on our smartphones?
At what point do our iPhones become iDols?
At what point do we crossover from using technology as a tool, and becoming a tool of technology?
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