Credit crunch causes mobile users to change upgrade plans

Mobile application developer GetJar has just published the results of its first Mobile Attitudes poll, which shows that mobile phone users around the world are delaying plans to upgrade or buy new handsets because of the global economic crisis. 78% of users worldwide are delaying plans to upgrade or buy a new mobile phone, and 76% are cutting the amount they spend on mobile usage. When asked whether they’d reduced spending on mobile phones in the previous 12 months, more than half hadn’t reduced their spending at all or had cut it by less than 10%. [MobileAttitudes.org]

Mobile users ditching MMS

Mobile application site GetJar.com says 15% of its users have dropped MMS in favour of messaging software, including migg33, eBuddy and Nimbuzz. It says high cost, poor reliability and alternative social applications are all to blame. [Source: 160characters.org]