In Q1 2008, about 300M mobile phones were shipped.  That will equal about 1.2B mobile phones this year.

Who’s building the handsets?  Look here for the data:

http://www.isuppli.com/news/default.asp?id=8937&m=5&y=2008 

Who is buying these phones?  I have two, one personal and one for work.  (I don’t get to expense the personal one).  Still this is crazy.   I don’t replace my phones every year.

Oh, and nearly every phone has USB internally or externally.

 Mobile Phone Shipments

Listening to the WebbAlert Video Podcast last week I learned that people that read less news papers, are actually reading less on the internet too.

The following study estimates that readers only read 18-28% of the text on a webpage:  http://www.useit.com/alertbox/percent-text-read.html

 A different study says that once committed, a reader will read an average of 77% of the words based on eyetracking:  http://eyetrack.poynter.org/keys_01.html  People like graphs and pictures and figures and stuff.

Basically, readers are choosy, really choosy with what they read, but if they commit to a subject, they will read most of it.

Expect every word my blog to be scintillating from now on.

 More analysis can be found here:  http://www.searchwritten.com/content/web-writing-less-more-or-maybe-not

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