Recently, research firm Gartner published a report titled “Mobile Insight: Ten Consumer Mobile Applications to Watch in 2012.” It highlights trends that are currently popular in consumer apps and that may soon impact enterprise mobile application development as well. The trends include the following:
- Location-based services (LBSs)
- Social networking
- Mobile search
- Mobile commerce
- Mobile payment
- Context-aware service
- Object recognition (OR)
- Mobile instant messaging (MIM)
- Mobile e-mail
- Mobile video
