Mobile Phones VS Desktop Computers

Back on August 10th 2012 we published a post named:  Top 10 Used Mobile Phones in the UK besides telling our fantastic visitors which mobile phones were the most popular in the UK we also researched into how many people were using their mobile phone (or smartphone) to gain access to the internet to visit websites.

The results in August 2012 showed that 13.16% of people using the internet in the United Kingdom did so from a mobile device. The remaining 86.84% were people connecting to the internet via a desktop PC or laptop.

Now 4 months later we have delved back into the archives of information and can report there has been a slight increase of 0.18% of people using mobile phones to access the internet. 13.34% may seem a small percentage to some people but when you consider the population of the UK (62,641,000) and multiply that by the mobile percentage, that tells us that there are over 8.35 million people in the UK (an increase of roughly 1 million people) that are using their mobile devices to connect to the internet.

Media City Way specialise in displaying websites onto mobile devices, take a look at our own website on your mobile phone. Businesses that are selling either themselves or products on the internet need to consider their options and make sure their website displays clearly on a mobile phone.

Leave us a comment and we will perform a mobile optimisation check on your website free of charge and provide recommendations on what can be achieved to improve your websites functionality and visibility on mobile devices.

Personal Computers VS Mobile Phones 2012

Over the past 12 months the number of people using their mobile phone to gain access to the internet in the United Kingdom has increased by more than 2.1 million people. Forecasts suggest that there are around 5.65 million people in the UK that use their mobile phones to get onto the internet, that's an increase of nearly 170% in just 1 year.

Below we have provided a graph to show you how the Market share has changed over the last 12 months (April 2011 - April 2012).

Over the next 12 months we have predicted that the number of people in the United Kingdom using their mobile phones to get onto the internet will be around 9 million.

As more and more people are using smartphones to gain access to the internet we ask, is your website compatible with mobiles? If not you could potentially be losing business for the sake of a couple of hundred pounds, get in touch and see how we can help you transform your website so it's ready for the mobile generation.

Research and stats have been collated from http://gs.statcounter.com and http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

Top 10 Used Mobile Phones in the UK

This page was updated on 10th August 2012

This is a list of the top 10 must used mobile phones in the UK (according various resources) as of August 2012:

1. Apple iPhone 4S

2. HTC One X

3. Samsung Galaxy S2

4. Samsung Galaxy Note

5. Samsung Galaxy S3

6. Sony Xperia S

7. Nokia Lumia 800

8. Blackberry Bold 9900

9. Samsung Galaxy Nexus

10. Samsung Galaxy Ace

There are an estimated 7.36 million people in the UK alone (an increase of nearly 1 million people since May 2012) who use their mobile phones to access the internet. Media City Way develop stunning effective websites for all of the mobile phones listed here and we make sure they are cross browser, cross mobile compatible.

Our mobile optimised websites work with Apple iOS (this includes iPod, iPhone and iPad), Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile.

Don't miss out on extra business by not having a mobile version of your website. Give us a call on 0161 669 4633, email us at admin@mediacityway.com or click here to find out how we can optimise your website for mobile devices and make your business even more professional than it already is.