Tag Archives : Symbian

Android and Apple smartphones wiped the floor with rivals and captured a whopping 92 per cent of global sales in the fourth quarter of last year according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics. During the same period global smartphone shipments grew 38 percent annually to reach 217 million units. Neil Shah, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, said, “Global smartphone shipments grew 38 [...]

Credit : Macobserver.com Android dominance of the smartphone market continued during the second quarter, majorly powered by Samsung’s Galaxy 3’s success.  Apple in contrast struggled somewhat as consumers unexpectedly held out for the next version of the iPhone according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached 419 million units in the second quarter of 2012, [...]

Image Credit : talkandroidphones.com iPhone User? –  You’re in the minority. Smartphones powered by Android accounted for 68% of all smartphones shipped in Q2 2012, Apple iPhone came in at a in a distant second  with a 17% share of the global market. IDC analysts traced Android’s success in the market directly to South Korean personal electronics giant Samsung, which so far this year [...]

 Nokia N8 All you Nokia enthusiasts – rejoice. Nokia’s highly anticipated Nokia N8 smartphone has started shipping. Customers who have placed a pre-order for the Nokia N8 in Nokia Online Shops and Nokia retail stores will be the first to receive their Nokia N8.  Nokia’s N8 with its significantly enhanced Symbian^3 OS is without a doubt the best you can do if you’re one [...]

Foursquare on Symbian OS Nokia unveiled Foursquare application for mobile OS Symbian^3 based phones at Nokia World in London yesterday . The mobile app will debut at the revamped Ovi Store as a featured application early next week. Foursquare for Nokia is nicely integrated with Ovi Maps with the style and function similar to the Foursquare apps  on other mobile Operating Systems.

Nokia C6 Nokia announced C6 and C7  running Symbian3 handsets at Nokia World event at London.  The Nokia C6-01 features an 8 megapixel camera and a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen with all-new ClearBlack Display (CBD) technology  touted to deliver better outdoor visibility.  The 3.5-inch (also AMOLED) C7 gets more memory than its family mate and a stainless steel body. Both handsets can record pixel-heavy [...]

Earlier Nokia handsets Ansii Vanjokki, Nokia’s new chief of Mobile Solutions  candidly wrote on Nokia Conversations that Nokia is “under no illusions” that the job to ensure Nokia occupies its premier position in the future is no small task. He has promised that Nokia is on its way to simplify the way it functions and the results would be seen in the months to come. This [...]

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday, Orange and Intel announced their strategic partnership to develop Orange multimedia services for Intel’s MeeGo platform. MeeGo is a joint venture between Nokia and Intel where both companies decided to develop a new hybrid mobile platform based on Nokia’s Maemo platform and Intel’s Mobilin platform. The announcement from Orange gives a great boost to the future [...]

Image via Wikipedia Skype is no longer a beta app for Nokia Symbian OS. Yesterday, the free Skype service for Nokia Symbian phones was moved to the Nokia Ovi Store. It is also available for download through the Skype website. The timing of this announcement is very interesting to say the least. Yesterday, Skype had made a huge announcement to shelve its application for Windows and Java based mobile [...]

Palm has just announced that its smartphone sales for 2010 are likely to fall short of the projected targets. Palm has been under severe pressure since last year and has not been able to withstand the growing competition posed by Blackberry and iPhone. Similarly, webOS which was touted by Palm to be a game changing mobile operating system has rather fallen flat at its back when compared to iPhone [...]