The future of mLearning is looking strong as more people make use of all the extra functionality that is built in to smartphones like iPhone, BlackBerrys and Android OS phones.
Here a few of the key points from this article:
- Although almost 90 percent of households in the United States now have a cellphone, the growth in voice minutes used by consumers has stagnated, according to government and industry data
- The number of text messages sent per user increased by nearly 50 percent nationwide last year, according to the CTIA, the wireless industry association
- For the first time in the United States, the amount of data in text, e-mail messages, streaming video, music and other services on mobile devices in 2009 surpassed the amount of voice data in cellphone calls, industry executives and analysts say
- Conversations have become shorter; the average length of a local call was 1.81 minutes in 2009, compared with 2.27 minutes in 2008, according to CTIA
- More than half of American teenagers send about 1,500 text messages each month
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