Mobile continues strong growth
It is happening everywhere. Mobile growth continues to explode. Looking at data from the University of Washington’s Wi-Fi network, we find that handheld devices are up sharply (26%) to nearly 50,000 unique devices since May 2011. iPads make up the largest growth segment and are up 60% since May. This is followed by growth in Android (39%), iPhone (34%) and Macs (6%). Windows is down slightly with a drop of 5.5%. iPod touches (-9.9%), Windows Mobile (-33%) and virtually all others in the handheld category were down. Windows Phone is up to 718 devices seen on wifi.

Overall there are more iOS devices than there are traditional Windows machines on the University of Washington Wi-Fi network. If you add mobile Windows flavors to the mix, the story is slightly reversed. In all it is nearly a tie. It will be interesting to see if this trend continues over the coming months.

This fall saw a total of 112,639 unique devices on the campus Wi-Fi network. This excludes the new clinical and guest services at the hospitals.

During this time we saw 65,000 users. This equates for an average of 1.7 devices per user.

Check out the detailed counts for handhelds here and all devices here.

[Updated statistics. Original numbers had incorrectly reported Windows Phone in the Windows count. Windows Phone OS now accounts for 718 devices for a total of 919 Mobile Windows devices.