Mobile Dating On The Rise

LONDON EVENING STANDARD - Dec 14 - 15M people in Britain are single, and ~5M are shopping for love online. The next dating revolution is happening in your pocket and it's all about location. Soon, Apple's iPhone and other touchscreen mobile devices will replace PCs as the main way we engage with social media. In 2007 the global mobile dating market was pegged at £200M, that figure rose to £332M worldwide in 2008 and is expected to more than double over the next five years, reaching ~£784M by 2013. Grindr, which launched in March this year, is presently most popular in San Francisco, with its dense concentration of gay men and iPhone customers, but gained more than 30,000 British users. GPS-enabled dating apps aimed exclusively at the straight market have just arrived, StreetSpark, Skout and Are You Interested being some of the latest.

The full article was originally published at London Evening Standard, but is no longer available.

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[How To Fix Relationships]

I think this goes hand in hand with smartphones, which are capable of just about everyting from going on to the internet to watching television. According Gartner, 65% of all cellphone sales in 2012 will be smartphones. It will be interesting to see how this will change the dating landscape.

[Mobidates1]

Life is getting busier day by day and with the advancement of mobile technology a greater part of the population is getting access to internet on the mobile phones. Mobidates is not only optimised for mobile phones but also has come up with a new idea. It gives you the possibility to advertise your current location by putting in the postcode of the location. The moment you do so, email alert with your profile and your wishes is sent to all members of the Mobidates community in the proximity. If they have the time and like what they see they can get in touch and make an appointment for lunch, dinner or just plain drinks. A bold but new idea