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Mobile analytics company bought by Nokia for improving application quality

Published on: 24th August, 2010

On August 20, 2010, Nokia declared that it has bought out Motally in a bid in order to improve its mobile applications experience. The eight-person company’s technology is able to show usage patterns on both websites and in native applications in order to identify where these could be optimized. The plan is to keep supporting [...]

Fring for iPhone 4 allows video calling with Android and Symbian

Published on: 14th July, 2010

On July 8, 2010, Fring updated its namesake iPhone application (available for free in the App Store) to facilitate some of the first multi-platform video calling on Apple’s iPhone 4. This new addition is using the front camera, even over 3G, for two-way video and is able to support it with any device which can [...]

Nokia’s new N9 to have 4-inch display and MeeGo

Published on: 8th July, 2010

A recent look at the future Nokia flagship, the N9, comes to confirm the company’s promise concerning the Symbian S60 OS, which will apparently not be the default operating system, but only a placeholder for the MeeGo software. The news put to a rest a previous report, confirming some of the new specs too. The [...]

The iPhone hurts Nokia and grows to 18 percent of the European market of smartphones

Published on: 27th June, 2010

Recent data from comScore show Apple ranked second in the European market of smartphones in a period shorter than three years. The company has grown to 18 percent of the core European countries, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain, starting from scratch. It has maintained Microsoft at 13 percent, Research in Motion at [...]

Nokia N8 – the last Symbian-powered Nseries

Published on: 25th June, 2010

Nokia has recently presented the company’s new flagship N8 smartphone, at an Australian event which took place on June 23. Nokia’s spokespeople seem to have declared that this will be the last Nseries smartphone based on the company’s platform, Symbian. They also said that MeeGo will be the platform to accompany all future Nokia [...]

The iPhone aims to lead the top three in the United States

Published on: 11th June, 2010

The iPhone has slightly gained smartphone market share in the United States, according to a Nielsen study. This rise seems to be at the expense of Windows Mobile and BlackBerry phones. Data for the fourth quarter 2009 and the first quarter 2010 shows a rise of two percent, reaching 28 percent. BlackBerry has kept its [...]

Accusations of excessive restrictions against Apple, launched by Adobe official

Published on: 13th April, 2010

Lee Brimelow from Adobe has launched accusations of excessive restrictions against Apple for its eventual decision of banning cross-compiling tools in the iPhone 4.0 SDK. He said there was no real reason to make this move other than to tyrannically exert control. Brimelow added that this was part of a veritable crusade against Adobe and [...]

Owners of iPhone most eager to recommend their phones

Published on: 2nd March, 2010

It seems iPhone and iPod owners are the most inclined to recommend their devices to friends, as latest researches reveal. A high number of iPhone users, about 91 percent, and 88 percent of iPod touch owners would gladly tell their friends to buy such devices, as January information says. At the same time, only 84 [...]

Multi-touch and visual multitasking for Symbian^3

Published on: 23rd February, 2010

Symbian has opened its Mobile World Congress introductions with the presentation of Symbian^3. The new operating system, as expected from its previews, includes multi-touch, single-tap actions where they are possible and a set of home screens with widgets. A unique feature is a visual multitasking system allowing users to bring up views of active applications [...]

Skype for Symbian beta early next year

Published on: 23rd December, 2009

There was an original idea that Skype could only be used while being at home. People could use VoIP services with their computers or purchase dedicated phones to do that. However, users are more interested in Skype service on their mobile phones and if iPhone users are already able to do it, Symbian users will [...]

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