Sentences with phrase «smartphone owners said»

Our findings on mobile wallet usage were similar: In a 2012 CreditDonkey.com survey, nearly 68 % of smartphone owners said they do not want to replace their cash and credit cards with mobile payment apps.

Only 4 in 10 smartphone owners said they also used large tablets.

In the U.S., 86 percent of smartphone owners said they used their device while watching TV at least once during a 30 - day period.

Ninety percent of those smartphone owners say they use the device to check email and surf the web.

News remains an important part of what people do on their mobile devices - 64 % of tablet owners and 62 % of smartphone owners say they use the devices for news at least weekly, tying news statistically with other popular activities such email and playing games on tablets and behind only email on smartphones (not including talking on the phone).

Not exact matches

And while a new smartphone and a very secure network are unlikely to generate the excitement of, say, the Fighting Androids (a popular CES unveiling), here are a five new products that business owners may want to keep an eye on:

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.

A man in his 40s said he paid 100,000 yen ($ 917) for a smartphone app that was supposed to mine cryptocurrency and provide the owner with a constant stream of income.

In this way, the course teacher can assess and develop the conversation, while new courses and lectures get downloaded to the smartphone automatically (say for Drip courses), or manually (by choice of the smartphone owner).

In a product briefing, Mark Webster, Mercedes - Benz general manager of e-mobility, said owners would get online accounts for their cars, letting them schedule charging and set climate control remotely from a PC, tablet, or smartphone.

That said, the redesigned 2017 Sportage showcases the brand's aggressive exterior styling to good effect, while also introducing the latest generation of Kia's UVO telematics service, complete with the ability to leverage Wi - Fi tethering — and the Sportage owner's compatible smartphone — for mobile Internet connectivity.

While Fictionwise sells e-books primarily to users of smartphones and handhelds, its nonencrypted versions of e-books are sold to owners of dedicated e-reader devices, such as the Kindle from Amazon.com Inc. and Sony Inc.'s two e-readers, Pendergrast said.

Among smartphone and tablet owners asked, 60 percent said they'd cast their vote for the next president through a mobile app or text message — if they could do so without any fear of fraud.

As for other Xperia smartphones, Sony has said that a second wave of rollouts is due in early June, so owners of the Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Pro, Active, and Live with Walkman should be receiving Ice Cream Sandwich in the next few weeks — though unfortunately Xperia Play owners are stuck with Android 2.3 for good.

So, whereas now the percentage of smartphone users who will root their device (the fringe, let's say), though in the many thousands, is small and not representative of the mainstream of owners (as you imply), eventually an industry will emerge for productizing all the measures now done by the fringe.

Jobs also argued that tablet owners are already smartphone owners, and that both devices have their distinct advantages — and that seven - inchers fall into the chasm between those two device types: «The seven - inch tablets are «tweeners»,» he said, «too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with an iPad.»

Brighthand said the Ascend P6 is an ideal smartphone for Android users who are jealous of iPhone owners.

PetChatz, launched in 2014, is a greet and treat videophone that allows the pet owner to «phone home» from anywhere using a smartphone or computer, said Lisa Lavin, CEO of PetChatz, a division of Anser Innovation in Burnsville, Minn..

«Blackberry owners are equally deficient in not enabling smartphone passwords,» he says.

The alarm system would offer similar functionality to many smart locks, a smartphone app allowing the owner to permit entry to specific visitors, while the upgraded camera system is said to be capable of identifying specific people, presumably via face - recognition.

«There does seem to be a desire among some owners of Fitbit and other fitness trackers for a device that allows greater functionality and integration with smartphones,» said Pund - IT's King.

That being said, a lot of smartphone owners like the security of buying accessories from the same company that makes the phone itself.

Kakao Talk has a 95 percent plus attachment rate among Korea's smartphone owners — which numbered 30 million as of August — and while the company says it is growing its marketshare in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, it is yet to show compelling statistics to suggest it has cornered an overseas market.

This presents the vulnerability of an attacker to breach the lock of a Google Pixel device by acquiring a recording of the voice of the smartphone owner, having him or her say the words «OK» and «Google» and then editing the recording to combine the two words.

The Google Pixel comes with the Trusted Voice feature, which allows owners to unlock the smartphone by saying «OK Google.»

The company is said to be looking at how it can differentiate its flagship product in a smartphone market that's becoming increasingly saturated with devices.According to people with knowledge of Apple's plans, the touchless control feature is described as a hover - like gesture system that would let future iPhone owners navigate iOS «by moving their finger close to the screen without actually tapping it.»

It looks like Honor is speeding things up, as the company originally said that owners of the 6X smartphone can expect to receive the update sometime in the second quarter of the year.

While owners say that the ROM is pretty stable, the Chinese smartphone maker states that there are plenty of bugs and that you should go through that list, before you take the plunge.

Nokia says that it has been making it easier for owners of both smartphones to charge their devices with these plates.

As any electronic device owner knows from experience, dropping a smartphone or small tablet or even that handy digital music player into a body of water, whether it'd be a pool, toilet, bay, sink or bathtub, can lead to a daunting and stressful experience of having to wait anywhere from three to 24 hours to see if said device will work again.

Smart speakers have demonstrated their staying power, with usage replacing at least some time that would've been spent on computers (26 percent of owners said yes to the suggestion), television (30 percent), traditional radios (39 percent) and even smartphones (34 percent).

Although, it's not all bad news for the smartphone, with 44 % of smart speaker owners saying they use voice assistants more on their phones since getting a speaker.

«Each of the world's approximately two billion smartphone owners is carrying a camera capable of capturing photos and video of a tonal richness and quality unimaginable even five years ago,» Google said on its blog.

Branding Brand said that 46 % of respondents had become Samsung smartphone users within the past two years, while more than half — 54 % — had been loyal Samsung phone owners for three years or more.

But needless to say, it's going to be the platform of choice for many millions of smartphone and tablet owners.

A study in August carried out by TalkTalk Mobile surveyed 2,000 owners of the three major smartphone brands — iPhone, Android and BlackBerry users — determining whether their choice of phone said anything about their personality.

«Millennials are spending more time on their smartphones during work hours and becoming more involved in communicating through texting and social media, instead of focusing on work projects and deadlines,» says Wendi Weiner, certified resume writer and owner of resume service firm The Writing Guru in Miami.

«This dramatic increase in smartphone use to help with remodeling is driven by a variety of changes: greater use of mobile devices, a need of home owners to get better results from their remodeling investments, and better apps,» says Dan Fritschen, founder of www.remodelormove.com.

Twenty - seven percent of home owners surveyed say they've used their smartphones to help with the remodeling of their homes.