Sentences with phrase «smartphones while shopping»

Customers are now increasingly using their smartphones while shopping physically in a retail store.

TORONTO — Most Canadians will be armed with their smartphones while shopping this holiday season and likely won't pull the trigger on purchases without launching a few quick searches first, suggests new research released Thursday.

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.

A customer who barely takes the time to look up from his smartphone while shopping for a tank, for example, would not be considered a good candidate for a sophisticated setup.

Not exact matches

Mobile e-commerce — shopping on a smartphone or tablet while on the go — is also expected to rise next year, although it may see somewhat slow growth in Canada.

Efforts to squash review aggregators come from the same playbook that retailers used a few years ago when trying to eliminate «showrooming,» the practice of using a smartphone to comparison shop while inside a brick - and - mortar store.

Opinion differs on whether Research In Motion, based in Waterloo, Ont., can buffer its bottom line by establishing a significant beachhead in the increasingly lucrative tablet market to go along with its ever - growing smartphone sales, or whether it should close up shop and get out of the game while it still can.

While not every millennial is shopping on their smartphone daily, it's definitely another avenue where money is spent.

According to the same RIS study mentioned above, they use their smartphones for multiple reasons when it comes to shopping, including comparing prices while in - store, reading product reviews, and purchasing from the website instead of the brick - and - mortar store.

And while the long - term effects of small - screen screen time on toddlers remain unclear, anecdotal field studies and tech repair shops confirm that toddlers can be lethal to smartphones and tablets.

Target shoppers Kelly Foley (from left), Debbie Winslow and Ann Rich use a smartphone to look at a competitor's prices while shopping shortly after midnight on Black Friday, in South Portland, Maine.

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.

You should be able to read each story in under five minutes — on your desktop computer, laptop, or tablet at home or in the office, but also on your smartphone, on the go, while you are commuting or waiting at a coffee shop for your significant other to arrive.

Showrooming is what retailers have come to call the act of window shopping in a local store while comparing prices with online outlets like Amazon.com on a smartphone.

Of those who said they don't shop on their smartphone, 38 per cent said it was because of security concerns while 36 per cent said their device's screen was too small to enjoy online shopping.

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The Gear VR only works with select Samsung smartphones, so keep that in mind while you shop.

The object recognition and camera settings recommendation are similar to what Huawei introduced with the Mate 10 Pro, while the shopping feature is something that Google has already meade possible with its Pixel 2 smartphones, as pointed out by The Verge.

It's been rumored for a while that Google was shopping for a smartphone company, so it makes sense.

Online marketing and technology company, Monetate, which analyzed over 100 million online shopping experiences, reported that tablet traffic to commerce sites grew by 348 % from the year prior while smartphone visits increased by only 117 percent (no small growth either).

It also runs the Evernote app, so you can add to your shopping list while your partner is at the supermarket and it will update the list on their smartphone accordingly.