I just presented at the first Betavine Developer’s Day and some interesting statistics below:

- Expected global mobile users are 5 Billion at the end of 2010
- 91% of mobile phone users go online to socialize compared to only 79% of PC users
- 25% Facebook Mobile users
- Women express themselves more than Men via mobile phones
- 60% are likely to use mobile phones for transactions
- Elderly are more eager to learn mobile phones than PCs
- Youth are expert users and more likely to buy
- 60% are likely to use mobile phones for transactions

Vodacom in partnership with RLabs have a Community Information Challenge for 2010 where we are looking for Mobile Innovators. More information about the challenge here.