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Category: Mobile OS

On Google's move in navigation

It's been announced a couple of days ago that turn-by-turn GPS navigation would be supported soon on devices based on Android 2.0 platform. Free of charge. The new Google Maps Navigation offers free turn-by-turn navigation garnished with Google's core business (search by...

Enterprise Mobility Development

Some of you might have read one of my previous posts in which I wrote that I had had to choose between mobile and enterprise development mostly for personal reasons. I was sorry to realize this because mobile is my passion, but I thought the change was inevitable. Now I don't....

Smartphone OS market share - 2012

Yes, you read it right: it's 2012. Gartner published a report (link: Computerworld ) in which they forecast the following smartphone OS market share for 2012: We could all see the trend which players remain, disappear or gain strong foothold for a while by now. Nokia has always...

Smartphone statistics, 2008

Gartner released their statistics about worldwide smartphone sales, which contains useful information not only the previous quarter (Q4 2008), but the whole past year. I'd like to share the following two figures with you: Comments: Nokia is still #1, but...

Transforming mobile industry

I read the following quote from Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia CEO, in InformationWeek : "The industry as whole is in the middle of a transformation, and it's a very exciting time," said Kallasvuo. "It's moving from a device industry to an experience industry, and we're...

Silicon Valley doesn't respect Nokia

In response to the article I found on Forbes.com , Nokia Software Problem , let me collect my remarks on the statements in a single post. The list of statements below simply follows the same order as they appeared in the original article. " Nokia sells close to half of all smart...

Brief status report about smartphone market, mid-2008

Having followed the news of mobile industry in the past week, I thought it would be worth collecting some articles in a single post to see things from a bird's view, thus having a better overview on what's been going on lately on smartphone market. RIM has been getting stronger in US...

Collection of great materials on Symbian going open-source

My regular readers may wonder why I've been silent on the great news of the mobile industry: Symbian is going open-source . The reason is simple: I was so shocked to hear it in the news that I just sat back watching the flood of new blogs and comments trying to digest this new information....

Browser as an application platform

I've read the following analysis from ARCchart with great interest. I'm already familiar with the idea of writing applications for mobile browsers and that it can be considered as a real alternative for mobile software development. WidSets and Widgets are all around us, not to mention...

Nokia stirs water with mobile Linux

It seems it's time for another round to discuss about whether Nokia will abandon Symbian OS in favour of (mobile) Linux. All About Symbian has reported that " Nokia's Chief Financial Officer said Nokia is considering manufacturing Linux-based mobile phones ". This information is...

Symbian and Windows on the same device - what the hell?

I've just finished knitting the brows after reading it in the news that IBM launches an initiative that has something to do with the mobile world. "It seems", I thought, "that there's so much money in mobile business that even the Big Blue could not resist". ...

Another hack for Symbian Platform Security

One of my articles that has gained lots of attention was written about hacking Symbian Platform Security . Although it turned out that reproducing the workaround found by Symbiaali is laborous, requires strong technical knowledge and its wide-spread use is very unlikely, it clearly showed...

iPhone SDK and Business Model - only kids get too excited

I think it's a good idea to wait a bit with commenting the announement of big things. You might not be as fast as others, but at least will have a broader view to the whole picture. At least that's what I did with Steve Jobs' announcement about the iPhone SDK (official press release is...

Nokia to acquire Trolltech

Of course, I read the press release from Nokia. I even noticed that my fellow FN Champion, Paul Todd , was faster than me to write about it. Never mind, I knew it in advance that I can't be faster than AAS , nor Simon Judge , either. What comes as a surprise to me, though, that...

Touch(less) UI + Accelerometer

We all know iPhone . Even though it's not available in Hungary as of yet, I've already had the chance to hold it in my hands and play with it. It's simply great . People say that it's because of the touch UI, but I don't believe that. It's not that simple. Lots of...