Tag: mobile trends

The President was recently reported to have held his flight in order to retrieve his handset after having forgotten it.

Reporters at the White House recently reported that President Obama had been seen getting back off the Marine One helicopter, only moments after boarding, so that he could return to the official residence, as it seems that his BlackBerry had been forgotten.

A New York Times reporter tweeted that he explained that the delay was the result of having to fetch the smartphone.

Other news reports have also revealed that the President delayed the flight in the helicopter after having forgotten his BlackBerry. After this story became quite large, particularly over social media, Obama addressed reporters, asking them “Didn’t you guys ever forget something?”

Obama has proven to be one of the most loyal of BlackBerry users, which is likely a matter of pride for the company.

At a time in which the Canadian handset manufacturer has entirely shifted its focus to the business and government markets – its original position – and has left the consumer market behind, the fact that President Obama has remained a holdout throughout the last few years in which the company, formerly known as RIM (Research In Motion), has seen considerable struggles, particularly on the consumer side.

The company has never ceased to keep up its concentration and reputation when it comes to mobile security, and this is likely one of the features that the president finds to be the most appealing.

Back in March, Jay Carney, who had been a spokesperson at the time, explained that the White House had stated that it would be keeping up their use of BlackBerry smartphones and would not take part in a Google Inc. pilot program that would have had them using smartphones that were based on Android software.

President Obama is far from the only head of state who is still using a BlackBerry. Recently, others have also been seen with their smartphones equipped with the distinctive QWERTY keyboard. They include the United Kingdom’s David Cameron, as well as Angela Merkel from Germany. It looks as though 2015 will be another defining year for the company.

Research has shown that people are on the internet a great deal more due to their smartphones and tablets.

Canadians are becoming increasingly hooked on their smartphones and tablets, and are streaming video on a more regular basis, and these mobile trends are causing the amount of time spent online to nearly double.

This is according to some of the most recent data that has been released by comScore.

Since August, there were around 27.8 million Canadian adults who were using a computer of some form to access the internet. The average amount of time spent browsing the web every month over a laptop or desktop computer was close to 39 hours per month. However, when mobile trends are taken into consideration, the use of those smaller stream devices, combined with viewing video online spikes the amount of time spent online to almost 75 hours per month. This is the equivalent to approximately 2.5 hours every day.

comScore has found that there has been tremendous growth as a result of video and mobile trends.

According to Bryan Segal, the vice president of sales at comScore, “We’re seeing extremely large growth.” He added that “It really points to the fact of how much impact – in terms of engagement and time spent – that mobile is having on what we traditionally looked at as a PC world.”

He pointed out that Canadians between the ages of 25 and 34 years old were found to be the ones who spent the largest amount of time online. The average time spent on the internet for people within that age group was about 110 hours per month. This included time spent online on all of their connected devices. That said, of those hours, only about 50 of them were actually spent browsing the web on a computer.

In the age group of 55 years and up saw different mobile trends. comScore found that Canadians were spending only about 20 hours online per month on mobile devices or streaming video on any type of connected gadget or computer. The majority of online usage from that age group was dedicated to browsing the web through the use of a computer.