Aren’t game companies sulking Androïd ?
French mobile phone games company Gameloft said it and other software developers were cutting back investment in developing games and other applications for Google’s Android platform.
Alexandre de Rochefort, Gameloft finance director, said the company has cut back on investment mostly due to weaknesses of Android’s application store.
“It is not as neatly done as on the [...]
No Surprise: according to Gartner: “Windows Mobile & Symbian going down, iPhone & BlackBerry at the Top”
Selon le Gartner: Windows Mobile et Symbian chutent, iPhone et BlackBerry au top
Sans surprise finalement
The donut has come
Android 1.6 SDK is available for developers. But what is the news in it? The main new feature is the “quick search” function, located at the top of the screen. It gives users an easy access to Google Web searches, even without opening the mobile browsers. But the very interesting thing is the use in [...]
AppsLib : bigger applications for bigger devices
On next September 15th in Paris, Archos, the French multimedia-player builder will talk about the co-venture with Google, to make an alternative development platform for applications, already available, called AppsLib, and more specifically about their probably new tablet (before the Apple one?). So what is this new “feature”? Google Android is possibly setup not [...]
1 million HTC Magic sold
HTC CEO, Peter Chou, announced that the Magic surpassed one million units since the launch in April 2009. Only a few months to reach that aim, it is clearly a success for HTC. Maybe their 6% Smartphone market share will grow up in few months in the next report. Android is a locomotive for HTC. [...]
The fight goes on, but Apple is growing even more
In the latest Gartner review of mobile phone and Smartphone sales, director Carolina Milanesi announces that Apple sold 5.4 million iPhones in the second quarter of 2009.
It is the largest growth of any Smartphone brand. Apple is jumping from a 2.8 percent market share to a 13.3 percent. “Apple’s expansion into a larger number of [...]
From iPhone to Android and Back
Is Androïd an iPhone killer ?
Here is an interesting feedback about an user iPhone VS Androïd experience.
From iPhone to G1 and Back (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
Did you switched from an iPhone to an Androïd powered phone ?
SMS are no longer vulnerable
Let’s breathe again, Apple just fixed the SMS security fail this weekend within a new update to the iPhone OS: the 3.0.1.
“We appreciate the information provided to us about SMS vulnerabilities that affect several mobile phone platforms. This morning, less than 24 hours after a demonstration of this exploit, we’ve issued a free software update [...]
No future for app stores?
In the debate about which technologic system will be interesting to develop for, Google takes a little bit schizoid position. In an interview, Vic Gundotra, Google’s engineering vice president, says that the web had already won, because smart phones users would get their information and entertainment from browsers in future. “What we clearly see happening [...]
Does App Stores affect Smartphone’s sales?
Like the eternal question to know which one of the chicken or the egg comes first, there is a question where the answer is missing: Is the iPhone a success because of the 65 000 apps available? Or the 1 500 000 000 downloads are due to the Apple’s Smartphone?
Some years ago, the classic iPod [...]
