The Real Difference Between Smartphones

Some interesting nuggets from today’s newsletter article comparing smartphones.

If you look more carefully at the CFI Group study, the satisfaction data doesn’t seem all that disparate, with some exceptions. For example, the BlackBerry and Treo tend to index lower for some of the multimedia functions, which makes sense given that these two devices have historically been oriented toward business use. This person nails it:

Generally speaking, the answer is “not much”. Deltas of +/- 5% aren’t really that statistically significant, especially as you get down to smaller and smaller sample sizes.

Some of the usage data seems more significant for the conventional wisdom it appears to debunk, such as the generally accepted fact that iPhone users do more with their devices. This data seems to be saying that owners of Android devices and Palm Pres use several of the content/media categories (e.g. checking voice mail, checking/sending email, using maps) to an equal or greater extent.