Tag: Symbian
And the hottest mobile phone platform for next year is… Windows Mobile
It predicts that by 2013, 67.9 million smart phones will use the Windows Mobile operating system, which will give Windows Mobile a 15.3 percent share of the global market. Symbian will stay in top place second with 47.6 percent.
Sony Ericsson confirms imminent launch of Aino and Satio
The two handsets are among the first from Sony Ericsson that combine both the high-end camera phones of its Cybershot mobile range with the music playing facilities of its Walkman handsets.
Nokia to announce Android smartphone
Nokia is reportedly developing an Android-based handset that will be announced in September at the Nokia World Conference.
If the reports are accurate it would mean a massive change of direction for the Finnish giant who took full control of Symbian last year – in what was thought to be a direct response to the threat of Android to its huge market share.
Although Nokia are the world’s most successful company in terms of mobile handsets sold – their dominance in the smartphone market appears to be waning. A global share of 47% in 2007 was down to 31% at the end of 2008.
Nokia’s partnership with Intel, which we reported last month, and the possibility of Android-based handsets could spell exciting times for Nokia. We really like their latest smartphone offering, the N97, although it still doesn’t really come close to threatening the iPhone 3GS’s dominance. A Nokia smartphone with Android could really give Apple something to worry about though.
What this means for the much berated Ovi store is anybody’s guess.
(via The Guardian)
VIDEO: Spotify iPhone application in action
Digital Buzzard’s managed to get hold of a video of a Spotify iPhone application in action. We’ve been aware of the iPhone app being in development for a while, as well as an S60 app, and presumably an Android one, but we haven’t seen it running before now.
As you can imagine, it looks fantastic. It promises to give you access to over-the-air streaming of Spotify’s entire music library, as well as playlist access. Best of all, you’ll be able to cache playlists while in Wi-Fi areas so that you’ll be able to play them back when you’re on the go. Initially it’ll only be available to Premium users (presumably because it’s tricky to work out how to serve ads in cached mode).
But the big question here is “will Apple let them do it?”. This service completely replaces everything that the iTunes store does on the device, offering on-demand access to songs. We’ve seen what happens when companies try to improve existing iPhone functionality.
That said, Last.fm exists happily on the device. The difference might be that the Last.fm application won’t let you listen to tracks on-demand, just offers you various radio stations based on your listening habits. It won’t cache songs, either.
Proper streaming mobile music is the holy grail for a lot of people. Already I barely listen to my MP3 collection on my PC any more, relying almost totally on Spotify. If I could get it on my mobile phone, too, reliably, then my Zune might end up totally retired.
(via Digital Buzzard)
Skyfire is a very capable little mobile internet browser
Those among you who access the web on your mobile device will know the value of a good internet browsing application. Most standard phone browsers (iPhone excepted) are rubbish at rendering the web on a tiny screen. I’m secretly quite a fan of the bog-standard N95 browser, but if I wasn’t, then I’d try Skyfire, which launched today.
It’s simple enough – just an application which you download and install on your S60 phone, but then it offers a very ‘full’ browsing experience, which renders pages like they would on a PC and lets you zoom in and out of them. It’s powerful, though – it’ll happily render Flash, Silverlight, Ajax and Java.
Mobile GMail version 2.0 released – a billion times better than before
Like many people, I use GMail almost exclusively for my email. I run Mobile GMail on my N95, but the application is one of the least functional that I’ve ever seen. Luckily, Mobile GMail 2.0 is here to save the day. It adds better performance, offline support, multiple account support and lets you save more than one draft email at a time…
Nokia to acquire the rest of Symbian and make it open source too
Nokia has announced its intention to buy the remaining 52% of the mobile platform Symbian which it doesn’t already own.
The $410 million deal has been okayed by the majority of the other shareholders..
Symbian turns 10 years old, launches amazing time capsule website
This year, Symbian turns 10 years old! That’s an excuse to crack open the bottle of vodka hidden in my desk draw, right? Right?!
To celebrate, they’ve hired a Las Vegas club and a bunch of models launched a website, which details their past, present and future. It’s one of the nicest flash sites I’ve seen…
Samsung L870 with Apple's Safari browser
I find it hard to leap with excitement when people talk about the Safari browser but I suppose when it’s on a mobile phone I should show some appreciation. Hurray. Was that enough?
It seems that Samsung has struck a deal with them at Apple to launch phones with Safari for easier surfing on the infoblob and this has been heralded by the announcement of the Samsung L870…
MWC 2008: LG unveils GPS-enabled LG-KT610 Symbian mobile
The internet is due to collapse tomorrow under the weight of press releases being issued at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, so some companies are being smart and getting in early. Like LG, which has revealed a new GPS-enabled smartphone, the LG-KT610.
