More than half of those 27 million-plus smartphone owners in Myanmar are regular data users, who check into Facebook daily and the Viber messaging and VOIP app almost as frequently. How can so many people afford phones when the average wage is $3 a day?
* Who needs an iPod?—Forbes (US)
In Japan, digital music players haven't had a chance against the phone companies. Last year, mobile-phone downloads accounted for 91% of the country's $278 million in digital-music sales, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. In Korea the breakdown has been running 58% mobile to 42% online, according to the federation, but probably more than one-third of the online downloads were destined for a mobile phone.