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Articles tagged with: android and Symbian
New Mobile Platforms Drive Smartphone Growth Worldwide
While Symbian devices such as the Nokia N70 and N95 continue to be popular handsets, analysis from mobile advertisign agency, AdMob finds that the iPhone OS, android and webOS have gained marketshare over competing platforms in the last six months. more
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BlackBerry Becomes Dominant Platform on Handango Apps Store
Mobile applications retailer, Handango is reporting that for the first time ever, BlackBerry displaced Windows Mobile to become the dominant platform within the Handango content catalog, constituting 44% of all apps sold in the first half of 2009, up from its 31% share in 2008. more
Related Tags: handango, windows-mobile, blackberry, apps-store, palm, ea
Nokia Denies Reports it is Working on Android Based Smartphone
A report over the weekend that Nokia is working on a smartphone based on the android platform has been denied by the handset manufacturer. The UK Guardian newspaper, citing industry insiders reported that the new touchscreen device will be unveiled at the Nokia World conference in September. more
Related Tags: nokia, operating-system, linux
Apple and Android Devices See Strongest Relative Usage of Mobile Web Sites
Mobile advertising agency, AdMob, has compared smartphone market share to mobile Web usage to determine that smartphones accounted for nearly 3 times more usage than their relative market share in its April 2009 Mobile Metrics Report. The report also compares usage of mobile Web sites to usage of HTML sites on mobile devices, finding that relative usage of both is highest on Apple and android devices. more
Related Tags: admob, iphone, 3, operating-system
Sony Ericsson Inches Closer to Android Smartphone Launch
Sony Ericsson is reported to be closer to launching a smartphone running the Google backed android OS, according to Peter Ang, vice president of marketing, Asia Pacific at Sony Ericsson. He told Digitimes that the new android 2.0 based phone will also have more multimedia support than the previous versions currently on the market. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, google, open-handset-alliance, sony, testing
Fewer than 10% of LBS Developers Will Port Apps to Palm & Symbian
Developers of location aware applications are not interested in creating apps for the Palm WebOS or Symbian platforms, according to a survey conducted by Skyhook Wireless, provider of the hybrid location system XPS. High quality location results are key for these developers, who are using location to enable over 20 different types of applications. more
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Smartphone sales buck the recession
A report by Infonetics Research is forecasting an 8% drop in the total number of mobile phones sold in 2009, to 1.1 billion worldwide (down from 1.2 billion in 2008), in line with predictions from Nokia, among others. Smartphones were the best-performing segment of the mobile phones market in 2008 and the only segment to show unit and revenue growth in the second half of the year as the world economy entered recession. more
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Smartphone Market Share Increased Rapidly Worldwide According to AdMob
Mobile advertising agency, AdMob has reported that despite challenging economic conditions, smartphones continued to gain significant market share worldwide over the past six months, rising from 26 percent to 33 percent of hits to its adserver platform in February 2009. more
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CIOs Can Cut 50 to 80 Percent of Communications Costs
Yankee Group has demonstrated that CIOs and corporate IT departments of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can save more than 50 to 80 percent on costs related to corporate wireless, e-mail and messaging by moving to an Anywhere IT environment. more
Related Tags: windows-mobile, microsoft, iphone, apple, driving, wind, iden, blackberry, seven, yankee-group, windows
Smart Phones Ring in Healthy Growth in 2009 Despite Mobile Meltdown
Although the outlook for the overall mobile handset market continues to dim, smart phones remain a bright spot with global unit growth as high as 11.1 percent in 2009, iSuppli is predicting. iSuppli's optimistic forecast for global smart phone unit shipments calls for 192.3 million units in 2009, up 11.1 percent from 173.6 million in 2008. A more pessimistic outlook calls for growth of only 6 percent this year, reaching 183.9 million units. more
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