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What is the trend in mobile device usage?

A mobile device is a pocket-sized computing device.

After the release of the Apple iPhone the mobile device usage has been growing steadily.

Smartphones today have large touch screens, nice user interfaces, and are highly optimized for browsing the web.

From the statistics below, collected from W3Schools' log-files, you can see the trends of mobile device usage.

The following table is a breakdown of the Mobile numbers from our OS Platform Statistics:

2013	Total	iOS *	Android	Others
May	2.64 %	1.12 %	1.04 %	0.48 %
April	2.24 %	1.06 %	0.97 %	0.21 %
March	2.26 %	1.11 %	0.96 %	0.19 %
February	2.17 %	1.06 %	0.91 %	0.20 %
January	2.18 %	1.07 %	0.90 %	0.21 %
2012	Total	iOS *	Android	Others
December	2.19 %	1.05 %	0.90 %	0.24 %
November	1.97 %	1.00 %	0.77 %	0.20 %
October	1.84 %	0.94 %	0.70 %	0.20 %
September	1.78 %	0.89 %	0.68 %	0.21 %
August	1.79 %	0.91 %	0.66 %	0.22 %
July	1.71 %	0.90 %	0.59 %	0.22 %
June	1.63 %	0.90 %	0.52 %	0.21 %
May	1.57 %	0.88 %	0.50 %	0.19 %
April	1.47 %	0.83 %	0.45 %	0.19 %
March	1.40 %	0.78 %	0.44 %	0.18 %
February	1.27 %	0.71 %	0.39 %	0.17 %
January	1.25 %	0.70 %	0.38 %	0.17 %

2011	Total	iPhone	iPad	iPod	Android	Others
December	1.17 %	0.20 %	0.39 %	0.04 %	0.35 %	0.19 %
November	1.02 %	0.19 %	0.36 %	0.04 %	0.30 %	0.13 %
October	0.96 %	0.19 %	0.33 %	0.04 %	0.28 %	0.12 %
September	0.89 %	0.17 %	0.30 %	0.04 %	0.25 %	0.13 %
August	0.91 %	0.19 %	0.30 %	0.05 %	0.24 %	0.13 %
July	0.95 %	0.20 %	0.31 %	0.06 %	0.24 %	0.14 %
June	0.87 %	0.19 %	0.30 %	0.05 %	0.21 %	0.12 %
May	0.80 %	0.20 %	0.25 %	0.05 %	0.19 %	0.11 %
April	0.78 %	0.20 %	0.25 %	0.05 %	0.18 %	0.10 %
March	0.70 %	0.18 %	0.21 %	0.06 %	0.16 %	0.09 %
February	0.66 %	0.18 %	0.19 %	0.06 %	0.14 %	0.09 %
January	0.65 %	0.18 %	0.20 %	0.06 %	0.13 %	0.08 %