yuilop tips for Christmas App Shopping

The team of Mobile enthusiasts from around the world is working in Barcelona for yuilop . As 21 million mobile phone users in Germany most yuilop employees use smartphones with Android and iOS. yuilop team has collected interesting information, to give you a few tips for your new phone or tablet.
Ready, steady, go…

Smartphones and tablets are the most popular Christmas gift in 2012. The ICT industry association Bitkom found out: Every 5th German wants a smartphone, 18 percent have a tablet PC on the wish list. The industry association for consumer electronics gfu expects 19 million new smartphones and 3.5 million tablets sold. According to  idealo.de their favorites for the smartphones include the Samsung Galaxy family with S3 and S2. The new Google Nexus 4 lands at # 9, followed by the iPhone 5.

In the U.S., iPhone and Android phones provide 48% to 46% market share in a neck-to-neck race. In Europe, the situation is clear: Kantar Worldpanel recorded in the 5 biggest markets of the EU with 64% an Android-share. With nearly 75% market share, Google Germany is even as good as alone in the grip.

The network equipment maker Ericsson predicts that over the next 5 years, the number of smartphones worldwide will triple to 3.3 billion. But smartphones are only the part of it. There are around. 700,000 apps in the stores of Apple and Google, and - according to IDG Research - an average of 40 different apps on every consumers phone, the choice is not always easy.

In the 5 largest smartphone Markets in Europe Android’s share of total installed apps is the whopping 70%. In return, the iOS share declined since January of this year by 23%, to the 30%. So the balance of power of Android to iOS in Europe has changed enormously within the year.

Spoilt for choice

Toluna online panel says that almost every second German believes that he can no longer do without apps. The American Pew Research Center adds: Despite many apps use 68% is from U.S. users use max. of 5 applications per week. The most popular apps among the Germans are the weather, the navigation and search - followed by calendars, notebooks and games on the phone.

Regardless of the question of Android or iPhone, we present you today and in the coming days. A small number of contributions to the top app categories. Here’s an overview:

Part I: Search & Find
Part II: News & Weather
Part III: Appointments & Tasks
Part IV: Friends & Colleagues
Part V: Fun & Games

Due to the large variety of good apps, our advice: Rummage through the Online Best of the computer magazines with the most popular apps. As we continue to find small trinkets for our phones.

Christmas App Shopping Tips - Part I: Search & Find

Google is pre -installed on Android which is more than 50% of all smartphones sold worldwide and is one of the most important successes of the past. You can do your search while being with friends, in the electric market or on the sofa it is a matter of choice. According to experts at the end of the year, the share of mobile Google searches are around  33%.

A recent ebay study shows: A good 30% of the users has already used the Smartphone as a price comparison tool.

Bargain hunters find  apps like “buying because” and “My Brochure” , barcode scanner apps and search from the leading price comparison sites and marketplaces, such as Amazon and eBay.

It is crucial to search results on Google or Bing choosing the mobile browser. Chrome and Opera or Safari on the iPhone hardly run the zoom.

On classical search engine search, the search by voice is becoming increasingly popular. Apple’s Siri and Google Now standing in the wings to as “Natural User Interfaces” in addition to touch and Swipe function play along the front and lead the next round of mobile use.

Anything, anytime

With fast smartphones and affordable data tariffs from 5, - € more and more users move to video portals and card services for the search. YouTube as a replacement for TV and Google Maps as a location finder dominate with their search results, used at anytime and anyplace.

Increasingly users search via social networks for specific assistance. Facebook, blogs, Twitter and YouTube, according to Nielsen also act as a user on the network. Social services play an ever-increasing role in Search & Find.

And tomorrow we will talk about: calling, texting and chatting - how yuilop changed the world. And also. News, weather, events and calendars