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Mobile technology news is starting to include older age groups

| April 28, 2014

A new study has revealed that higher age brackets of Americans are now buying smartphones.

Although smartphones are typically considered to be the devices of the younger generations, recent mobile technology news is showing that people in the older age groups across the United States are starting to become owners of these devices, as well.

Some of the latest tech research has indicated that Millennials are far from the only ones with smartphones.

This mobile technology news is the result of a Nielsen survey, which were recently published. What it showed was that among Americans who are aged 55 years and older, 51 percent now own smartphones. This is a considerable increase for that age group over the figure from early 2013. In fact, there has been an increase of 10 percent over that span of only one year. This data is quite notable as it reveals that smartphone penetration is growing among everyone.

This mobile technology news shows that most of the people in every age group now own smartphones.

This increase in smartphone ownership represents the very first time in history that the majority of every age group now owns one of these mobile devices. Out of every ten Americans, Nielsen’s data suggests that seven are now smartphone owners. Moreover, 85 percent of new cell phone shoppers are choosing smartphones over feature phones and other forms of the devices.Mobile Technology News - Mobile Consumers

Among all of the smartphone manufacturers, Apple continues to hold its position at the top. Among all owners of these mobile devices, 42 percent in the United States are choosing products from that company, said the recent survey. That said, the operating system that is most popular among all of the cell phones that are owned in the United States is still Android. In terms of numbers, that Google OS has an advantage because it works devices across several different manufacturers.

Among the Android smartphones, 19 percent are manufactured by Samsung. The mobile technology news isn’t as good for BlackBerry, which continues to slip out of popularity. Windows Phone based smartphones represent only 3 percent of those in the United States.

Technology news bursts with excitement with new wireless charging

| April 24, 2014

A new system has now been tested for charging 40 mobile phones from a distance of up to 15 feet.

Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology are now making important technology news with a mobile phone charging system that has already been used for charging equipment at a nuclear power plant.

While wireless chargers are nothing new for the majority of mobile users, this invention adds a new level.

The typical wireless charger isn’t making technology news anymore because they’re found in a large number of homes and businesses in the form of a pad that can charge devices that are resting on top of it. However, the next generation of these gadgets will be able to charge mobile devices from halfway across a good sized room without ever having to rest the smartphones or tablets down or having to plug them in.

The latest technology news that has to do with chargers can power up several gadgets from 15 feet away.

At the moment, this mobile device consists of a coil filled box that is nine feet long and that uses a magnetic field to charge up to 40 rechargeable gadgets, wirelessly, up to a distance of 15 feet away. The team officially launched the system last week, but it was tested out in the real world back in March, when it was used for charging nuclear power plant equipment.Technology News - Wireless Charging

The charger, called the DCRS device, is not the first time that wireless charging over distances has been attempted. A wireless power platform called Cota is sit to hit the commercial market next year and it will be able to charge devices within a distance of 30 feet. However, the difference that the DCRS has to offer is that it has a lot of power to offer, charging up to 40 mobile devices at once, or even powering larger devices such as televisions.

According to the leader of the team, Chun Rim, in a technology news release, “Just like we see Wi-Fi zones everywhere today, we will eventually have many Wi-Power zones at such places as restaurants and streets that provide electric power wirelessly to electronic devices.”