{"id":269,"date":"2013-09-05T11:22:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T10:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/?p=269"},"modified":"2013-10-15T09:31:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T08:31:34","slug":"mobiles-re-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/2013\/09\/05\/mobiles-re-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobiles re-revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was July 2012 when I last reported on the University&#8217;s mobile users so it seems like a good time to see what&#8217;s changed.<\/p>\n<p>So, last summer we had 11,461 ActiveSync devices which connected to the Nexus service. Today that figure has more than doubled, to 24,492. But that&#8217;s not necessarily 24,492 different people: the number with more than one ActiveSync device has rocketed too. That figure has gone from 3,031 to 11,151.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another factor to bear in mind is that not all of these devices are mobile ones \u00a0&#8211; Windows Mail uses ActiveSync but is a feature of Windows 8&#8217;s touch interface, widely known as TIFKAM.<\/p>\n<p>As before I&#8217;ve not recorded devices which have fewer than twenty users.<\/p>\n<table width=\"247\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"119\" height=\"20\">Device<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">Number<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">% of total<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">Android<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">7623<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">31.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">BlackBerry<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">37<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">iPad<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">4162<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">17.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">iPhone<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">11049<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">45.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">iPod<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">587<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">Nokia Email<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">74<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">Palm<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">20<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">Playbook<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">48<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">Windows Mail<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">342<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">Windows Phone<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">429<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>That means that nearly a quarter of Nexus users are making regular connections via ActiveSync devices. Apple still dominate but Android is also a significant force. The graph below shows the change over time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/files\/2013\/09\/usage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-270\" alt=\"usage\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/files\/2013\/09\/usage.jpg\" width=\"287\" height=\"535\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windows Phone shows the largest percentage increase over the last two years, but behind that impressive growth figure is the rather more down-to-Earth one that they only represent 1.7% of the total. Who knows, another year and Windows Phone could overtake the iPod!<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly BlackBerry&#8217;s Playbook has leaped from ten devices last year to 48 today. But the tiny number of BlackBerry phones (even if I were to add those 360 BlackBerries using our BlackBerry Enterprise Server &#8211; not listed here) shows that their technology is very much in fourth place behind Windows Phone, Android and Apple.<\/p>\n<p>I will finish off with a few final items which caught my eye &#8211; Palm lost two users over the last year and are now in a precarious position, just barely scraping onto the table by maintaining twenty active users.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to say a big &#8216;hello&#8217; to the two people who&#8217;ve bought Surface RT tablets in the last year. Maybe they&#8217;re the same two people who gave up their Palm devices? \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was July 2012 when I last reported on the University&#8217;s mobile users so it seems like a good time to see what&#8217;s changed. So, last summer we had 11,461 ActiveSync devices which connected to the Nexus service. 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