1）51Degrees.mobi最新报告指出，智能手机普及率最高的15个国家（以丹麦、以色列、西班牙、澳大利亚和韩国为代表）的智能手机网络流量更高；这15个国家依次是，其智能手机平均普及率约53%。

而这15国的智能手机网络流量所占份额却达到90%左右，这意味着人们使用智能手机上网的频率高于功能性手机和其他移动设备。

smartphone ownership(from 51Degrees.mobi)

丹麦和以色列的智能手机网络流量占有率仅低于100%，美国则仅位居第8位，其智能手机网络流量占有率仅略高于90%，位居其后的是英国，占比90%。第15名是挪威，其智能手机普及率为67.5%，网络使用率为68.9%。

值得注意的是阿联酋国家（UAE）智能手机普及率相当高，但智能手机网络使用率却相对较低。

2）据pocketgamer报道，中国第七大智能手机制造商小米日前宣布其Android应用商店用户活跃度比苹果App Store、Google Play高两倍。

Xiaomi – App Download Rate(from Tech-Thoughts)

Tech-Thought数据指出，该应用商店活跃用户为1700万，过去13个月总下载量已达10亿次，平均每天下载量为500万次，由此可算出小米用户平均每设备每季度下载26.5款应用，而iOS和Android用户平均每季度仅下载13-15款应用。

3）据gamasutra报道，微软日前宣布降低Windows Phone开发订阅年费。该公司曾在今年夏天展开推广活动，允许开发者以19美元注册Windows Phone开发中心的帐户（远低于此前的99美元年费），Windows Phone总经理Todd Brix最近表示微软将延长这一活动，当前年费仍保持在19美元。

windows phone dev center(from create.msdn.com)

这意味着开发者仅需19美元就可以向Windows Phone Store提交和发布游戏、应用。

4）YouGov最新调查显示，半数以上英国人不愿放弃手机合约来节省话费，甚至有76%受访者即使身陷债务危机，也不愿意在家庭宽带服务上妥协。

这一结果表明连网设备对人们日常生活的重要性，这些服务已经成为人们居家的必需品。

smartphone(from gomonews.com)

有77%受访者自称因为有了这些连网设备，他们正在削减电影票等娱乐开支，以及在外就餐的开销，有64%自称现在很少同朋友外出喝酒。

25-34岁群体最不愿意节省智能手机上的开支，55岁及其以上年龄群体则更重视家庭宽带服务。

5）据serkantoto报道，日本手机游戏公司GREE韩国子公司GREE Korea日前向韩国手机游戏平台Kakao　Talk发布游戏“Jumping Tail for Kakao”，这款休闲动作游戏由GREE Korea（游戏邦注：该工作室在7月份刚进行了一轮裁员）开发，目前仅支持韩语版本。

jumping-tail(from serkantoto)

据App Annie数据显示，《Jumping Tail》曾位居韩国iOS免费应用下载榜单第一名，但在收益榜单仅排在第352名。在韩国Google Play免费下载榜单最高排名是第12名，在收益榜单则是281名。之后该游戏在两个榜单的排名均呈下滑趋势，目前尚不明确是否将推出国际版本。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，拒绝任何不保留版权的转载，如需转载请联系：游戏邦）

1）Smartphone web traffic exceeds that of device ownership

by Phil Tottman

Almost 100 per cent of all web traffic comes from a mobile in some countries.

The top 15 countries with the highest smartphone penetration have even higher smartphone web traffic, reports 51Degrees.mobi.

Ownership of smartphones in the top 15 countries – led by Denmark, Israel, Spain, Australia and South Korea – averages around 53 per cent.

However the web traffic share from the same 15 countries has averaged at around 90 per cent, displaying that people are using a smartphone to browse the web much more than on feature phones or any other device.

Smartphone traffic from Denmark and Israel, who lead the top 15, is just under 100 per cent.

The US – who currently lead the smartphone shipment market – are down in eighth place with just over 90 per cent of traffic from a smartphone, and just behind is the UK who has stuck fast at ninth place with 90 per cent.

At the tail end of the 15 countries is Norway, who has seen the most similar results between ownership at 67.5 per cent and web usage at 68.9 per cent.

The only country not conforming to this stat is the United Arab Emirates, which showed that even though smartphone ownership is high, actual web usage on their devices is rather low.（source：mobile-ent）

2）Very engaged: Xiaomi’s users downloading 26.5 apps per quarter

by Matthew Diener

After adding Google VP Hugo Barra to its payroll last week, the seventh largest Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi reports that its Android app store is encouraging its users to be twice as active as those on the App Store or Google Play.

This line of extrapolation comes from Tech-Thought’s Sameer Singh, who set out to examine a vague quote by Xiaomi’s CEO Bin Lin.

Lin stridently claimed that “Xiaomi’s customers are twice as active on the mobile web as those of other manufacturers” – and after running a quick analysis, Singh found that Lin wasn’t wide of the mark.

Working calculation

According to his data, Singh found that Xiaomi users are downloading 26.5 apps per quarter per device, while iOS and Android users are averaging 13-15.

Singh arrived at his figures by working back from Xiaomi’s earlier announcement that it has seen 1 billion downloads from its app store in the past 13 months, which has led it to become one of the top five app stores in China.

With 17 million active users in the app store, Singh calculates that it sees 5 million downloads per day which then works down to 26.5 app downloads per quarter for each device.（source：pocketgamer）

3）Windows Phone annual development fee permanently reduced

By Mike Rose

Newsbrief: Microsoft has significantly lowered the annual fee for its Windows Phone development subscription, following what appears to have been a successful summer promotion for the service.

The company previously held a promotion over the summer, allowing developers to sign up to the Windows Phone Dev Center for $19, down from the usual $99 annual fee. However, following the conclusion of the promotion, Windows Phone general manager Todd Brix announced that the annual fee will stay at $19.（source：gamasutra）

4）53 per cent of Brits would not give up their mobile to save money

by Phil Tottman

More people would rather their social life suffered in order to stay within a budget.

More than half of Brits are unwilling to give up their mobile or smartphone contracts to save money, reports Leeds Building Society.

The YouGov survey found that a massive 76 per cent of us would not even allow their home broadband services to suffer, even if they were in the depths of financial despair.

The results have displayed the importance of a connected device to our everyday lives. No longer do we see it as a disposable luxury, but in fact an extension of our day-to-day necessities.

Even our social lives are at risk of being put on the back burner before our trusty devices – as 77 per cent said that they are currently cutting back on entertainment such as cinema tickets and eating in restaurants, and 64 per cent are spending less on going out drinking with friends – as the kids say, WTF!

The 25 to 34 year-old age group were least likely to spend less on their smartphone outgoings, where as the 55 and overs were more protective over their home broadband services.

Gary Brook, head of corporate communications at Leeds Building Society, said: “These results indicate that technology in particular, is increasingly being seen as a necessity rather than an avoidable expense by many people.”（source：mobile-ent）

5）Jumping Tail For Kakao: GREE Releases First Game On KakaoTalk (In Korea)

by Dr. Serkan Toto

If you can’t beat them, join them: that’s what GREE probably thought when it allowed its subsidiary in Seoul, GREE Korea, to use a competing platform for distribution of in-house content – a few months after the company’s own platform plans outside Japan were buried.

GREE has (very quietly) released “Jumping Tail for Kakao” on South Korea’s KakaoTalk platform (on iOS and Android) earlier this month. As far as I can see, the casual action title is only available in Korean at the moment.

The game was developed entirely by GREE Korea (which was hit by lay offs in July).

KakaoTalk’s game platform (in its home market) is known to be hugely successful.

So how did the GREE title do in the first 2-3 weeks of release?

App Annie reveals that Jumping Tail peaked on the top free app download ranking on iOS in Korea at #1 and the top grossing ranking at #352. On Google Play, the game’s highest rank in the free download ranking in Korea was #12 (grossing: #281).

Since then, the title dropped off quite a bit in both rankings.

It’s unclear at this point if Jumping Tails will get an international version as well.（source：serkantoto）