Android Users Are The New Data Hogs: REPORT

NewTeeVee:

iPhone users have long been accused of being data hogs, gobbling up bandwidth and crushing AT&T's 3G network. But it's Android users who could be pushing their carrier's limits by watching huge amounts of mobile video over 3G networks rather than Wi-Fi, according to new research from mobile ad network Rhythm NewMedia.

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Comments

[speedntktz]

10:27 PM on 08/18/2010

PORN

[vetxcl]

05:51 PM on 08/17/2010

uhuh. i get it hufpo. apple good. google bad. nice try, but not buying the b.s. i don't need apple anything. neither do i need a smart phone that emits too much radiation made by anyone.

[ibsteve2u]

05:24 PM on 08/17/2010

An article that attempts to point the finger at Android and away from Ipod by Rhythm NewMedia, eh? Let's see..who is on Rhythm NewMedia's board of directors...oh:

[bq]
Gary Little
General Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures
[...]
Gary came to Morgenthaler from Apple Computer where he served as Sr. Vice President and GM of the $3 billion Power Macintosh division. Earlier, as Vice President of Sales, he oversaw channel distribution in North America and managed Apple's $1.2 billion small business market. Gary also served as Sr. Director of Marketing for Apple's $2.9 billion Pacific division (Japan, Asia, Latin America, Canada) where he directed a $150-million marketing and merchandising budget.
[eq]

http://www.rhythmnewmedia.com/board_of_directors.html

Hey, and what do you know:

"Menlo Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures sell Siri to Apple"

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/stock-alert/aapl_menlo-ventures-and-morgenthaler-ventures-sell-siri-to-apple-948522.html

Still, no particular reason to suspect a biased report, eh? After all, Wall Street...private investment capital groups...long history of spotless adherence to ethical principles, eh?

[ibsteve2u]

05:26 PM on 08/17/2010

oops...iPod...iPhone...iKnow.

[HorseChoker]

10:55 AM on 08/17/2010

data hogs WTF?... are they really trying blame network congestion on the customer?

The real problem are those ridiculously cheap networks they love to put up. AT&T could easily handle any traffic the consumer throws at it if they actually put some kind of investment into it but no they have to be as greedy as possible and make shoddy networks that barely work then charge us more money than anybody else in the world pays to use it

[norepinephrined]

12:27 AM on 08/17/2010

I admit Android phones are well suited for vidiconsumption. Now if we can get the bandwidth providers to rapidly build up their data carriage capacity to give these devices a chance to bloom. And not charge the usual Shylock's pound of flesh for it. That would be sweet.

[MrVee]

10:49 PM on 08/16/2010

This is the result of a better device in the hands of a user base who did not want the kinds of restrictions you get with the iphone. This also means those providers better be up on their game when it comes to limiting the sale of handsets when their network clearly cannot support it. AT&T continued to dump more and more users onto their network when clearly, they did not have the infrastructure to support them, this is ALL phones, not just iphone.

I is also BS, the assertion in the story that claims iphone usage caused the kinds of spotty connections that made them the emperors of the dropped call. I had AT&T BEFORE iphone and dropped calls was a way of life then. Even their customer support said this was normal and that not even they could get a signal if they are in the house...suggesting I'm whining to complain. Anyway, this is a good news for Android. People apparently love what Android is doing. Moreover, more iphone users are making to switch and loving it..and it shows.

[The Rewd]

10:47 PM on 08/16/2010

Those young ladies in the picture are hardly hogs.

[JasonMcl]

09:01 PM on 08/16/2010

People speak of data as if it were some kind of finite resource and using less is somehow akin to going green. The only major data bottleneck is between the tower and the phone, and that can be corrected in the future by 4g technologies.

But for ANY us cellular provider to say that they cannot keep up with the data useage is absolute bogus crap. And I will explain it right now with a question.

"If mobile data is so limited, why do all cellular providers require that you activate it on smartphones?"

Exactly.

There are plenty of users that would be happy to return that 25/30 dollars a month and forgo the data plan and use only wifi, but the carriers absolutely will not allow that. So take your smartphone, stream netflix and pandora all day and all night until every last bit of your plan is used every month.

Until they change that data requirement rule, they are absolutely and inexcusably full of feces.

[enigmatic zero]

09:14 PM on 08/16/2010

I totally agree!