Now here’s an interesting little factoid gleaned from a new research report from JiWire. It seems that, when it comes to connecting handheld mobile devices, cafe wireless local area network hostpots across the US service darn near all of their radio bits and bytes to the iPhone OS. The iPhone OS (which runs on the iPhone and iPod Touch) accounts for 97.6% of all handheld devices logged onto wireless local area network hotspots tracked by JiWire – 54.2% manipulation the iPhone and 43.4% are using the iPod Touch.
Taking the iPod Touch out of the equating for a consequence, it’s interesting to see just how far ahead of other devices the iPhone stands – more than one-half of all mobile devices using coffeehouse WiFi are iPhones. The closest competing handset in terms of cafe WiFi hotspot market contribution is the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N95. In fact, the Sony PSP is the second base most used handheld gimmick at these wireless local area network hotspots.
One way to looking at the data is that the iPhone makes vane browse so easy that users are more likely to record hop on the selective information superhighway for a quick stint. It also helps that all iPhone users are given free people access to wireless local area network hotspots at Starbucks and Barnes & Noble stores in the US.
Here’s our yield: iPhone users love cafe WiFi hotspots.
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