Distmo Reports on Costs and Proliferation of GPS and LBS in Mobile

Distimo (never heard of them) released a report focusing on “location-based apps across the smartphone markets, looking at the costs and proliferation of GPS and location-based mobile software.” Teaser findings:

- More than half the navigation and maps, news and weather, and social apps are “premium” (fee-based).

- The iPhone has the most LBS apps, with the largest percentage of paid apps (over Blackberry and Android). Seventy-nine percent of Android LBS apps are free.

- BlackBerry has the biggest cost jump in LBS apps: the average application cost ($14.37) is almost twice that of the iPhone App Store ($7.34).

- PocketGamer and GigaOm shares more from the report titled “Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World & Android Market ” published with Skyhook, available here.