Majorly Mobile

Everyone’s been talking about Apple’s latest trophies: the ipad and the iphone 4.

Unfortunately the latter appears to be experiencing some ‘technical difficulties’, yet according to an article on Computer Weekly today, they’re not going to recall it. How gutted would you be!

The ipad, on the other hand, has been much more successful. (And John Allen has already shared his thoughts on it).

It just looks like a giant iphone and at first I thought it appeared a bit cumbersome to be a handheld device or that it might accidentally just slide off your lap. But when I managed to get my hands on my mate’s for a test drive, I must say I was more than a little envious!

The ipad has certainly been making an impression amongst IT professionals too. In the first month the ipad was launched, visits to the site via this gadget increased by 571%.

Not surprising, I hear you say, considering this device did not exist before.

So one month on, how are the stats looking? Still increasing.

So what if you don’t have spangley new £429 ipad?

The top 5 mobile platforms used to visit the site (including the % increase) are:

1) iPhone + 28.54%
2) Android + 16.35%
3) iPad 21.24%
4) Blackberry + 15.14%
5) iPod + 18.52%

At the other end of the spectrum, visits to the site from an old Nokia are down 42.9%.

Old skool Nokias are definitely out, the ipad is officially the hottest new thing since the Ferrari 458 Italia.

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