Articles tagged with: Ofta and Windows

Worldwide Smartphone Sales Reached Its Lowest Growth Rate in Q3 '08

In the third quarter of 2008, the global smartphone market reached its weakest year-on-year growth since Gartner began tracking the industry. Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the third quarter of 2008, an 11.5 per cent increase from the same period in 2007.  more

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Nokia getting on top of handset media portability

Opinion by Tony Cripps, principal analyst at Ovum

Nokia has greatly extended the range of its multimedia codec support in the fifth edition of its S60 platform for Symbian OS, in an effort to overcome the problems of multimedia portability arising from codec proliferation. An important addition to the core is MicrosoftÃ's Windows Media Audio (WMA) format, which largely completes NokiaÃ's audio codec support. However, some gaps still remain, notably the DivX Internet video codec and the popular, and free, Ogg family.  more

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Pantech Offers Free Windows Mobile Upgrade to AT&T Subscribers

Pantech Wireless has announced the US availability of MicrosoftÃ's Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system on all new Pantech duo handsets running on AT&TÃ's network. The upgrade is also available free to existing AT&T customers owning a Pantech duo via an internet download.  more

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