Gartner has released figures of global phone and smartphone sales for Q3 (July/Aug/Sep) 0f 2011. A few nuggets from Gartner’s report Worldwide sales of mobile devices totaled 440.5 million units in the third quarter of 2011, up 5.6 percent from the same period last year. Despite a drop in market share, Nokia continued to be [...]
This Infographic has been flying around the internet for some time now. It’s about mobile malware, it’s sources and how to protect your devices from being infected by them. I thought it’s worth sharing. Source: BullGuard
RIM has unveiled BlackBerry BBX, its next generation mobile platform that takes the best of the BlackBerry® platform and the best of the QNX® platform to connect people, devices, content and services. BlackBerry BBX is the next generation platform for BlackBerry smartphones and tablets. In other words, there will be only one OS for both [...]
I have been playing with the HTC HD 7 running Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) for about a week now. I am not ready to write any conclusions, but for those of you who are salivating, here are some of my impressions of Mango. Improved Live Tiles The Live Tiles on the homescreen have been improved. [...]
How many of you here remember Symbian UIQ, Symbian S60, and Symbian S80? These were the three branches of the Symbian OS some years back. While all Symbian at the core, they were different in capabilities and user interface. Oh, and Symbian S60 alone had some further fragments – S60 3rd Edition (feature pack 1, [...]
Progressively more people are adopting smartphones as their primary means of accessing the internet. These ’toys’ are getting embellished with gargantuan volumes of memory. They are no longer ‘playthings’. These devices are gradually performing lots of roles that our computers used to perform in the recent past. With increasing dependence on these devices, as well [...]
I thought it would be a good idea to present the status of the various mobile application stores at a glance for your convenience: Apple App Store: 425,000 applications Android Market: 250,000+ applications Nokia Store: 50,000 applications Blackberry App World: 38,000+ applications Windows Marketplace: 27,500 applications Bada apps in Samsung Store: 13,000+ applications WebOS Store: [...]
I have been using the Nokia 5800 ExpressMusic for close to two years now. This is one device that I have used to near destruction. It is packed full of really useful applications that I use on a day-to-day basis. Some of these applications I would not want to do without. It is the primary [...]
The above infographic should serve as a guide for developers targeting the African continent. Source: Afrographique
It is fast becoming the age of the smartphone. Smartphones are selling like hotcakes and taking more bites out of phone sales statistics. Still, one sore issue that is observed is that of battery life. What do we expect? 4-inch touchscreen displays, always-on data, multi-tasking, +1GHz processors and a host of other features all mean [...]
