Check out these interesting facts:
►91% of Americans keep their cell phones within 3 feet 24 hours a day
►Google: Mobile searches jumped 500% in just 24 months
►Google: Mobile search increasing while desktop search decreasing
►5 billion people are using mobile phones now which makes them 5 times bigger than the Internet
►Google senior VP of product management, said “Clearly, Mobile is the future of search.”
►Mobile phones have changed the face of communication and marketing in emerging markets around the world, and the implications are profound.
►Over half of all new connections to the Internet are from these new mobile phones.
►Smartphones have suddenly become the device to have.
►The consumer adoption rate of mobile devices is significantly faster compared to the adoption rates of laptop computers and wired Internet access in the ‘90s.
►Mobile Payments will see 55% user growth.
►Mobile web visitors are inherently different, so mobile Web design and development strategies must be aligned to this fact.
►Mobile Web content should be specific to mobile users looking to accomplish smaller tasks more quickly.
►The design user interface and functionality of mobile websites should be tailored specifically to varying device and browser types.