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Articles tagged with: Symbian and Windows
Smartphones: the silver lining of the declining handset market
Opinion by Ovum's Adam Leach, Devices principal analyst
Smartphone shipments will reach 406.7 million by 2014
During 2008, in a first for the mobile industry, consumer demand for third-party
applications started driving both handset sales and revenues for developers and
OEMs. Apple’s success with the App Store has prompted other players to focus
on devices that can enable third-party developers to easily bring applications
and services to mobile phones.
more
Related Tags: app-store, ovum, smartphone, nokia, google, microsoft, sony, google-android, nokia,, os, cagr, 2g
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
Related Tags: android, , windows-mobile, sim, iphone, smartphone, smartphones, wind, ovi, skyhook, palm, play, apps, planning, webos
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
Related Tags: android, windows-mobile, nokia, iphone, smartphone, samsung, smartphones, wind, verizon, palm, htc, blackberry, rim, htc-dream, admob, blackberry-storm, touchscreen, sprint, operating-system, storm, os
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: android, windows-mobile, microsoft, iphone, apple, driving, wind, iden, blackberry, seven, yankee-group, cell-phone, the-cloud, cloud
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
Related Tags: android, google, orange, 3g, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, sim, social-networking, samsung, apple, qualcomm, isuppli, ict, huawei, wind, ovi, lg, rim, personal, smart, operating-system, widgets, google-android, churn, os
Qualcomm Targets Sub-$150 Smartphones with Lower Cost Chipset
Qualcomm has announced a new Mobile Station Modem MSM7227 chipset designed to lead towards sub-$150 smartphones. The MSM7227 solution will offer advanced processing and rich multimedia while utilizing HSDPA/HSUPA for broadband data speeds over 3G networks. It also can support all leading mobile operating systems including Android, symbian S60, Windows Mobile and BREW Mobile Platform. more
Related Tags: android, 3g, windows-mobile, sim, smartphone, qualcomm, bluetooth, smartphones, gps, wind, cdma, hsupa, chipsets, modem, chipset, brew, display, 3d
Mobile software retailer, Handango hss announced the promotion of Alex Bloom from vice president of content and international to CEO and president, succeeding current CEO and president Bill Stone, effective from next month. more
Related Tags: android, windows-mobile, smartphone, qualcomm, itu, wind, verizon, blackberry, personal, handango, wap, true
Smartphones Take a Third of Mobile Advertising Impressions
Mobile advertising agency, AdMob has highlighted explosive iPod Touch growth and smartphone Operating System (OS) market share in its December 2008 Mobile Metrics Report. more
Related Tags: android, windows-mobile, iphone, smartphone, ipod, smartphones, wind, palm, rim, admob, operating-system, latin-america, os, africa
Mobile security market to hit $889M in 2011, driven by backhaul and data center upgrades
Security appliances and software sold to service providers to protect their mobile networks will total $889 million in worldwide sales by 2011, says a new report from market research firm Infonetics Research. more
Related Tags: android, asia-pacific, windows-mobile, iphone, smartphone, smartphones, driving, wind, capex, os
Vodafone, Sony Ericsson Join Google Phone Alliance
The Open Handset Alliance - which develops the Google backed Android operating system for smartphones - has announced fourteen new members, including Sony Ericsson and Vodafone. more
Related Tags: android, google, sony-ericsson, windows-mobile, semiconductor, smartphone, huawei, vodafone, smartphones, wind, open-handset-alliance, ericsson, toshiba, softbank, garmin, sony, open-source, walkman, asustek, os
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