Mobility force in Hong Kong

04.10.2011
Bottom Line

• There's no stopping the march to mobile"

• Hong Kong leads the way in developments like mobile advertising and AR

• But security is always a concern

Hong Kong, with its mix of switched-on smartphone users and agile developers, seems a natural place for mobile enterprise application development. And so it is--according to a recent poll by Google (which partnered with Ipsos Research on a global research survey of smartphone usage, including 11 Asia-Pacific markets), 35% of all mobile phone users in Hong Kong use smartphones. And Hong Kong smartphone users use their phones mostly at home and at work with 63% and 56% using their devices at these respective locations over the period of seven days, said the survey.