How Mobile Will Evolve In 2012

How obile Wirolue In 2012? Research firm Gartner predicted 10 top mobile applications of 2012, as listed below. 1. Mobile Transfer By using this service people can make payment via SMS messages. Like mobile . payments, this service has more appeal in developing markets for noW. 2 Location-Based Services Application that taps into your phone's GPS capabilities to offer location-based services of any kind, whether that's local business reviews or directions to the nearest Starbucks. 3 Mobile Search Consumers won't necessarily be sticking with common search services. Instead they will experiment with using a few different search providers that have "unique technologies" for mobile search. 4 Mobile Browsing Mobile browsing technologies will be heavily used and more and more people will be using mobile web applications developed by numerous mobile web apps developers. 5 Mobile Health Monitoring Mobile healthcare monitoring products, services and solutions to various care delivery organizations will be available. Impact of this technology will be felt more heavily in developing markets. you may contact Indus Net Technologies (www.indusnet.co.uk/mobile/) 10 get your own Customised Mobile Apps developed, Mobile Payments Mobile payments are more common in developing markets at the moment. However, mobile payments will be a highly fragmented market where there will not be standard practices of deployment. 7. Near Field Communications (NFC) More popular in some European and Asian markets than in the U.S. NFC-enabled phones will sell more, with Asia leading deployments, followed by Europe and North America. 8 Mobile Advertising Mobile advertising is one of the most important ways to monetize mobile content. Total spending on mobile advertising in 2008 was $530.2 million and it will grow to $7.5 billion in 2012. 9 Mobile Instant Messaging Latent user demand and market conditions are conducive to mobile IM's future adoption. It will appeal to developing markets where mobile phones are often the only connectivity device a user owns. 10 Mobile Music Mobile music services, especially for non-iPhone devices, would see new innovative models that will include both device (think "Comes with Music") and service bundles. Designed by : Source: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1230413 InfoGraphic DESIGN TEAM woɔ FEBRUARY 2012