Best Buy Mobile commissioned a survey revealing that a large portion of adults in America plan to buy a smartphone in the next 12 months. However, many barriers stand in their way, including confusion about the technology, the shopping experience and price.Continue reading...

Best Buy Mobile commissioned a survey revealing that a large portion of adults in America plan to buy a smartphone in the next 12 months. However, many barriers stand in their way, including confusion about the technology, the shopping experience and price.

A Best Buy Mobile survey conducted by GfK shows that many adult Americans plan to buy a smartphone in the next 12 months and they are confused.  They do value their mobiles and would go to great lengths to keep their mobiles. Their texting habits are regrettable. Six in ten (60%) of those surveyed said they would rather abstain from alcohol for a week than give up their mobile phone. One in t...

A Best Buy Mobile survey conducted by GfK shows that many adult Americans plan to buy a smartphone in the next 12 months and they are confused.  They do value their mobiles and would go to great lengths to keep their mobiles. Their texting habits are regrettable. Six in ten (60%) of those surveyed said they would rather abstain from alcohol for a week than give up their mobile phone. One in t...

Best Buy Mobile has just announced the launch of its own mobile-web connected cloud service, called mIQ and available starting October 12. The new mIQ service lets users sync and backup the info found on their smartphone and access/manage it via a Web interface, from any computer. mIQ offers 1GB of storage space and allows you

Best Buy Mobile, the unit of Best Buy Co., Inc. specialized in mobile retail, announced on Monday the launch of a new Web-based service, mIQ. According to the company, the new service is aimed at changing the manner in which customers make use of mobile content smartphone features. Starting with October 12, Best Buy Mobile customers will be able to enjoy the new service for free. The service, Best...

Once upon a time, when you wanted to buy a mobile phone you did just that it was a phone you could carry around and nothing else. Then, as technology moved on, we got the choice of flip phones, sliders and candybars, before being tempted by phones with QWERTY keyboards and smartphones, which could do almost everything your laptop could do. Now, since the launch of the Google Nexus One, ...

Best Buy Mobile announced the launch of mIQ, a new Web-based service that allows smartphone users to take the information captured on their mobile devices and access it from an easy-to-use Web interface on any computer. Once a user signs up for this free service – contacts, text messages, calendar events, calls, photos, videos, and phone

Best Buy plans to open 40 stand-alone Best Buy Mobile stores this fiscal year and is aiming to quintuple its share of the U.S. mobile phone market to 15 percent, the company said. Brian Dunn, who formally took over the reins as CEO Wednesday from the retiring Brad Anderson, said mobile phones would be a key part of the company's strategy of focusing on devices featuring "connectivity." The co...

Best Buy Mobile is mostly known as a mobile phone retail outlet, but with their latest offering, mIQ, they’re showing us that theres more to them than just selling phones. mIQ is an internet-based service that allows registered users to sync and backup their phone online as well as send messages and even configure their