Comments on: The Midwest and Greater Russia: Mobile Equivalents

By: seo service provider

seo service provider — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:59:00 +0000

nice thing to hear about….

By: Jordan Bartholme

Jordan Bartholme — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:25:00 +0000

Yeah Chris, Ben already mentioned that in his original comment…

“so my sample is obviously biased”

crack work there Holmes.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:41:00 +0000

In mother Russia, Beavis and Butthead watches YOU!

By: Shelley Goodge

Shelley Goodge — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:39:00 +0000

There could be another reason for the lack of smartphone use in the heartland. I live just 30 miles west of Ann Arbor, MI — home of a certain Big House — but even basic DSL wasn’t available until the end of October. If you’ve ever suffered with a satellite ISP or used a wireless plan, you know all too well about cap-and-throttle or cap-and-overcharge. The policy is MURDER to those with families and homework requiring internet access on a regular basis. Wireless data charges stink and none of us have anything good to say about them. It’s hard enough to monitor your own usage on an aircard, but when you have a family that “needs to use the crack pipe” to get online, it gets ugly. My husband, kids and I all have dumbphones, and we don’t have to babysit a bandwidth meter anymore.

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term paper help — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:42:00 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:48:00 +0000

I live in the NW suburbs of Minneapolis and work in the IT department of a college in St. Paul. Tons of staff at the college own smartphones…and not just those of us in the IT department either. Android smartphones seem to be particularly popular amongst my peers. I use a Nexus One (I have my eye on the Galaxy Nexus), my wife has a MyTouch 4G and my son is using my wife’s old MyTouch 3G Slide.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:34:00 +0000

I live about 45 min. SW of Minneapolis and a lot of people still look at me and my OG Droid as if I’m cutting edge. I think I was easily one of the first people I knew with a smartphone. However, the number has increased dramatically in the last year or so. Now I’d say close to 50% of the people I know have smart phones now. I think Android also has a slight lead over iPhone too.

By: chris mccormick

chris mccormick — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:27:00 +0000

To be fair, those are also college kids. Not your every day man, woman, and child in the depths of Minnesota.

By: Chris Burns

Chris Burns — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:56:00 +0000

Word, thanks for the input!

By: ben

ben — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:34:00 +0000

I attend the University of Minnesota, so my sample is obviously biased, but I would say that about half of the people I talk to daily have smartphones.