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Chinavasion, one of the leading sellers of cheap Chinese electronics, says that they will soon have cheap phones running some of the smartphone OSes. These will include phones running Symbian OS, Android, and Windows CE.
The operating system that many of these cheap phones had in common was called Nucleus RTOS. Ms. Li states, “The Nucleus RTOS is a very capable OS but it doesn’t have the same potential that Windows, or Android or Symbian has. This could potentially be the most exciting development in the cheap mobile phone sector in years.”
She continues, “Cheap mobile buyers can now get a mobile offices for the price of a cheap China phone.”
It is unclear why this announcement comes now, as Symbian has been open-source and available since April 2009. Android has been around since the release of the G1 in October 2008.
Chinavasion currently has four Androids available: Robot (2.8 inch resistive screen, Android 1.5), Excalibur (3G, 3.2 inch screen, Android 2.1), Cyborg (3G, 3.2 inch resistive screen, Android 1.6), and Prodigy (Quadband GSM, 3G, 3.2 capacitive screen, Android 1.6).
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http://androidheadlines.com/2010/08/android-to-appear-on-cheap-smartphones-via-china.html
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Gartner Research has unveiled their Q2 2010 numbers, and the chart shows that Android is showing unprecedented growth. Overall, the world’s “mobile communication” market grew by 13.8 percent, but the competition drove the average price of a handset down.
Some of the notable points from Gartner’s report include:
Sources:
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1421013
http://www.androidcentral.com/gartners-q2-numbers-are-androids-huge
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The first real Symbian^4 screen shots have emerged. Nokia is expecting to use Symbian^4 in a few of its devices by early 2011. The Symbian Foundation has posted the first handful of home screen UI shots on its developer wiki recently showing redesigned widgets, app categories and search, pop-up menus, and a standard-issue numeric touchscreen keypad. Unlike previous Nokia’s concept videos, these are from a real emulator running real and actual codes.
Source:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/17/first-real-symbian-4-screen-shots-emerge/
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Nokia is trying to defend its top position in the competitive smartphone market, by pushing the development of its mobile applications and services. This includes a new integrated Web TV service and roping in companies to provide localized content. They believe that applications and services will drive future sales of smartphones.
Vlasta Berka, GM of Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei, Nokia said: “Content, as people always say, is the king. We are engagaing developers directly to help them with the development keys, with the development tool kit. We are looking at areas such as helping them with consumer segmentation, to understand what are the behaviors and what is that customer using mobile devices for.”
Nokia is also counting on the Symbian OS for competitive advantage. It believes that the open source nature and dominance of the platform will allow it to reach the mass market more effectively and affordably.
Source:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/1063161/1/.html
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The M1 AppStore, which allows the telco’s customers to access many applications ranging from games to social networking, makes its debut.
These applications will be available on various operating platforms including iPhone, Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Java. M1 customers will also be able to access applications previously restricted to specific mobile platforms on their devices. There is a mix of free and chargeable content. Customers’ purchases will be reflected on their monthly bills. Prepaid customers will have the charges deducted from their card balances.
Source:
http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100512-0000109/M1-rolls-out-multi-OS-AppStore
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The world’s top mobile phone maker Nokia released details of its first smartphone based on Symbian 3, the much-awaited updated version of its aging operating system.
The company’s shares took a hit when the group reported weaker-than-expected first quarter profits and gave a weak outlook, but said it had managed to boost its smartphone market share to 41 percent.
Source:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100427/ttc-finland-telecom-equip-nokia-0de2eff.html
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Smaato, a mobile advertising and ad optimization company has released its figures on mobile ad click-through rates around the world for March. According to them, Symbian still leads in its global OS click through rate index, outshining feature phones and others such as Windows Phones, Apple iPhone and iPod touch devices.
Meanwhile, Android, at the number 2 spot for the past 2 months, has dropped by around 50% and into fifth place.
The index consists of the average click-through rates across all devices (set to 100). Smaato’s metrics are based upon 36 mobile ad networks and over 4 billion ad requests served in the Smaato Network of more than 3,300 registered mobile publishers in March 2010.
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Admob has released its Feb 2010 Mobile Metrics Report, according to it, smartphones accounted for 48 percent of its worldwide traffic last month, up from 35 percent in February 2009. The iPhone OS is still dominant, which has increased its share of smartphone requests on the AdMob network from 33 percent in February 2009 to 50 percent in February 2010.
However, Android is the fastest-growing these day while Symbian is the big loser. For Symbian, it accounted for 43% of AdMob’s smartphone requests in February 2009, it only reached a 18% share last month.
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