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Own mobile application store started by LG

Published on: 7th July, 2010

LG, like its smartphone rivals, has launched its own Application Store. The portal is made for its own phones but would also work with smartphones as well as with regular feature phones. Around half of this store is dedicated to those limited devices that LG considers as been neglected by the other stores.
The portal is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hopes for 30 million Windows Phone 7 devices to be sold by 2011

Published on: 2nd June, 2010

Microsoft has revealed its ambitious plans for Windows Phone 7 during a presentation at ReMIX in France. IDC data shows Microsoft shipping about 30 million Windows Phone 7 smartphones by the end of next year. Much of this increase is due to the rise of smartphones, which would account for about 40 percent of the [...]

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 [...]

BlackBerry stops iPhone’s ascension in the United States

Published on: 18th March, 2010

Research in Motion’s BlackBerry line succeeded to hold off Apple to reach the top place for United States smartphone market share at the beginning of this year. According to comScore data, the BlackBerry line only grew slightly but remained to exactly 43 percent of the industry. Apple reached a milestone and now it has more [...]

Sling Player Mobile for smartphones running Windows Mobile

Published on: 29th January, 2010

Sling Media has updated its Sling Player Mobile utility meant for smartphones that are using the Windows Mobile platform. The 2.0 version has a revamped interface and includes design elements geared for navigation using fingers rather than a stylus. The Windows Mobile version allows users to watch television through their 3G of Wi-Fi connections, while [...]

More than 50 percent of Acer handsets for next year will use Android

Published on: 24th December, 2009

A leak claims that more than 50 percent of the 8 or probably 10 smartphones scheduled by Acer to be released next year will not use Windows Mobile, but Android. The company has acknowledged that the mix of operating systems will be more balanced towards Android that has equipped only one phone in 2009. Next [...]

Verizon to hit the shelves with three new Android, Windows Mobile and Palm Pre smartphones

Published on: 23rd December, 2009

Verizon is likely to be committed to take the market by storm next year. Enthusiasm about Motorola’s Droid is still high, but the Big Red is already supposed to launch at least other three new smartphones in the very beginning of 2010: the Motorola Devour A555, the LG VS750 and the Palm Pre Plus.
The first [...]

Windows Marketplace available for Windows Mobile devices

Published on: 27th November, 2009

Microsoft has released the Windows Marketplace for Windows Mobile devices running the 60.0 and 6.1 versions of the operating system. Handsets powered by Windows Mobile 6.5 have already Windows Marketplace preloaded. The store for free-to-download applications is open to traditional and touchscreen handsets and users will be allowed to browse and download applications from the [...]

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