Sentences with phrase «consumer use of smartphones»

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Public attention is about to be grabbed by the rapid evolution of the auto dashboard, as carmakers and tech giants work out bringing to the car the Internet experience consumers have gotten used to on their smartphones.

This past year, 51 percent of purchases took place online, more than 90 percent of consumers used smartphones while shopping in - store and 78 percent of global shoppers were influenced in some way by social media.

Uses for consumers go much further, like Ikea's smartphone app that lets people get a virtual preview of how furniture or appliances might look in their homes.

They argued that as consumers use their PCs less in lieu of more capable smartphones, the number of security threats to mobile devices would also grow.

After all, technology is bringing financial services to unbanked corners of the world and allowing consumers to pay for goods using just their smartphones.

Smartphones are used namely as a research tool to help in purchasing things later online or when they actually go to the store, and tablets are sort of in that middle ground, because they provide the mobile experience but on a larger screen, which is appealing to many consumers.»

In February, Consumer Reports urged Tesla to change a feature within Autopilot known as Summon, which lets owners start cars and move them out of a garage or parking spot automatically using a key fob or a smartphone.

The company has a smartphone app and API that can be used by consumers and local, state, and federal law enforcement and first responder units that makes it unnecessary to have to actually call 911 in the event of an emergency.

While smartphone owners only use a handful of apps, messaging apps are the platform of choice for consumers with more 1.6 billion global users this year,» Smullen said.

No. 5: Mobile Marketing Advice: Be the mouse While 2010 showed us that many people use text messaging, email and social media on their smartphones, most consumers still aren't comfortable snapping a picture of a bar code.

That could make the bundle more attractive to plugged - in consumers who use smartphones and tablets for a growing variety of entertainment.

With surveys showing that on average, 96 percent of consumers will research a product online before going into a store to buy it, and more and more consumers using smartphones, business owners are realizing the importance of online marketing to draw in these customers.

About 72 per cent of moms aged 25 to 54; 77 per cent of male consumers aged 25 to 54; and 79 per cent of young consumers aged 18 to 29 said they already use a smartphone or tablet as a shopping tool in stores.

In fact, 62 percent of consumers report using their smartphones more than previous years to research holiday shopping, and 60 percent of consumers say that they plan to buy more often from smartphones or tablets.

Increasingly sophisticated voice assistants and the growing potential use cases they can assist in are driving consumers to adopt them in greater droves — 65 % of US smartphone owners were employing voice assistants in 2015, up significantly from 30 % just two years prior.

After Uber launched in Chicago, the city's consumer protection board proposed regulations that would limit sedan drivers» use of metering devices — which in Uber's case is a smartphone.

Mobile payments are gaining acceptance among consumers in North America, Japan and some countries in Western Europe, according to Gartner, Inc., with half of consumers in mature markets expected to be using smartphones or wearables for mobile payments by 2018.

French supermarket chain Carrefour now uses DLT to create smartphone - scannable quick - response codes that consumers can use to check the origin of products.

About 32 percent of consumers say they would use a smartphone app to pay their check instead of using cash or a credit card if it were offered, the NRA reports.

EVRYTHNG announce a QuickStart Online Tool for brands to connect consumer products to the Web with the standard GS1 identifier codes used in every barcode, enabling mass scale direct - to - consumer smartphone interaction and supporting an industry - wide initiative to web - enable trillions of barcoded products.

Some owners of Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphones learned the hard way last year that lithium - ion batteries, commonly used in many consumer electronics, can be flammable and even explosive.

While this work - around has worked for some consumers, it's getting a little trickier to pull off as more and more smartphones are now using microSIM cards instead of standard size SIMs.

They have grown up using smartphone apps such as Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, and have become sophisticated consumers of digital products.

Think of personal and consumer uses for mobile devices: using a smartphone to look up a nearby restaurant, store hours, or turn - by - turn directions.

An article by Flurry Analytics states that US consumers spend an average of 5 hours per day using their smartphones.

Smart consumers of smartphones should use these three social and emotional competencies to reduce wasted time and the health risks of smartphone use.

A longer upgrade cycle will also hurt shipments, since many consumers prefer to spend their money on new smartphones or laptops instead of tablets, which are mainly used for social networking, web browsing, and other lightweight applications that don't require a better processor every year.

Many consumers appear to be unfamiliar with the process of connecting a smartphone to a tablet device, although one in four or 23 - percent do intent to get a tablet plan for their smartphone for this exact use.

I don't understand why the e-reader vendors don't ditch micro-usb in late 2016, while virtually no new smartphone is still using it, just go usb - c give the consumers the peace of mind.

While it may seem like a ridiculous form - factor to many consumers shopping for a new smartphone, be sure to consider that most of their clients are using them in a business setting where a larger and wider screen could be put to good use.

«The availability of apps unique to media tablets and that differentiate the experience of using one compared with a PC or smartphone will be crucial for driving consumer demand.

If you are interested in using a smartphone app to search the consumer version of the database use Bowker's free smartphone app for Apple or Google Play (Android devices).

Younger consumers who are used to paying for 99 - cent smartphone apps with their credit cards generally see nothing wrong with pulling out plastic for small retail purchases at places such as coffee shops and restaurants — the heart of Main Street...

Technology is being developed to allow consumers to make credit payments utilizing their smartphones or tablets, and this technology is likely to make the use of plastic as payments for small purchases skyrocket.

Younger consumers who are used to paying for 99 - cent smartphone apps with their credit cards generally see nothing wrong with pulling out plastic for small retail purchases at places such as coffee shops and restaurants — the heart of Main Street small businesses in the United States.

With the upcoming launch of Google Wallet and ClearXChange, consumers will be able to use their handy smartphones when they're on the go to pay for their purchases.

Meanwhile, technology may change the game as secure mobile transactions using a smartphone to access a bank account or line of credit become available to consumers at the coffee counter.

With the use of smartphones for web browsing growing rapidly (according to eMarketer, the number of smartphone users worldwide will surpass 2 billion in 2016, and by 2018, over one - third of consumers worldwide will use smartphones), this development will have an impact on sites that get meaningful traffic from mobile searches run on smartphones.

With the increasing use of smartphones and tablets and the millions of accompanying apps, there are now more ways than ever for consumers to connect to the internet.

For example, today, over half of all consumers connect to the internet using a smartphone or tablet.

Taking just the first of that chain of events described above — location - based services — a recent report from Forrester notes that only six percent of consumers in the smartphone - friendly U.S. use location - based apps on a regular basis.

Carriers are always interested in finding new ways of making money, and as the vast majority of consumers embrace smartphone use in the US, it's simply going to be tougher for them to bring in the revenues they're used to enjoying.

As I wrote last year, I'm a big supporter of the move to use our smartphones to make breathalyzers readily available to consumers.

Also part of its research efforts, HUAWEI assessed various facets of consumer needs and desires, allowing the brand to take the uni-body design concept to the next level In addition to creating a smartphone that is entirely rose gold in colour — from its antenna to the exterior case and even its camera — HUAWEI's designers and engineers also applied used sandblasting technology to create a unique finish for product, which has an exceptionally great feel.

Even as consumers shift away from tablets in favor of bigger smartphones, businesses remain a growth opportunity for iPads because the devices can be used for field work and as laptop replacements.

The HUAWEI P8 is the culmination of the P series» rich heritage of style and functionality, and is once again redefining the smartphone market with easy - to - use features that amaze and inspire consumers.

Samsung needs to provide as many compelling smartwatch use cases to keep consumers locked into its smartphone hardware, and PayPal is desperately looking for partners to keep it relevant against the threat of Apple Pay's ubiquity.

«Ironically, smartphones collect considerably more data than today's wearables, because they have many more sensors, as well as rich applications which consumers use for all kinds of entertainment, communications and productivity purposes,» he told TechNewsWorld.

At least 41 percent of consumers in Europe and 50 percent in the U.S. use a smartphone or tablet for their banking transactions.

At the time when most of the brands are using specifications to attract the prospective consumers with their 3 GB RAM and octa - core processor based smartphones, Nokia decided to put its entire effort into the user experience.