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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...

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...

What is the world's most recognized song?

Thanks to the Carnival of Mobilists and more importantly the great analysis from Tomi Ahonen I learnt where the original Nokia tune is from. I'm not a tune-addict, still I can't stop listening to this one. Enjoy! Tote ...

Predictions for 2009

I'm only a little bit more experienced in predicting future trends than I was last year , still I'd like to continue what I started a year ago. Who knows, maybe I'll be at least as right as I was last year? Let's start with reviewing what I wrote previously and what really...

Nokia should buy Yahoo?

It's already known to most people that Yahoo! is in big financial trouble. Even worse, they were tried to be bought by a company ( Microsoft ) they didn't want to sell themselves to. They successfully fought against that attempt, however, their value was much higher at that time...

Mobile Monday in Hungary

I don't know if you've ever heard of the event, Mobile Monday , but if you visit their site you can see that it's a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influentials fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual...

Random thoughts on recent news

Hi, So many things have happened in mobile world recently that I can hardly cope with their sheer volume. This time I would just add my quick thoughts to some of them, one-line comments that I would like you to comment, too. Let's start with VirusGuard Coming to Android Market...

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...

Symbian and Nokia wrestling about voting rights?

It's obvious that it's not in everybody's interest to let Nokia gain more control over Symbian - not the OS, but Foundation this time. It's a fact that Symbian was (or still is?) owned ~48% by Nokia . As part of the announcement of making Symbian OS open-source it also came to light that...