Mobile bar code scanning applications have been used by 28 percent of smartphone owners, according to the third-quarter 2010 Smartphone Intelligence survey by Kantar Media’s Compete.

A quarterly study by Compete found that 37 percent of 1,959 smartphone owners have purchased something non-mobile with their handset in the past six months.

While actual mobile payments are still nascent, more consumers shopped on Black Friday using their mobile phone than ever before.