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February 27, 2012 06:00 pm GMT
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Googles Mobile Sales Head: US Smartphone Ownership Grew 7% Last Year Plus, Predictions
Jason Spero, Google's head of mobile sales and strategy, will be taking the stage at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later today, where he'll be revealing new research about smartphone growth and making some predictions about what we'll be seeing in the mobile world over the next year.In advance of Spero's talk, Google is publishing a blog post that previews some of his comments. It summarizes a new research conducted in January with Ipsos, under title "Our Mobile Planet: Global Smartphone Users," highlighting smartphone growth and usage in various countries. Smartphone ownership grew 7 percent in the United States, to 38 percent of the total population. In Spain, ownership grew 11 percent to 44 percent of the total population. And in the United Kingdom, 84 percent of smartphone owners look for local information on a mobile device and 78 percent take action afterward.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/I091CYWqdHU/
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