October, 2009
N-Gage is dead, long live the Ovi Store – full of Symbian games
Posted on October 31, 2009 |
Nokia plans to shut down the N-Gage platform. It's all going down in September 2010 but the publishing of new games has stopped as we speak. The gaming on Nokia phones will continue evolving under...
Sony Ericsson tease the crowds with an XPERIA X10 video
Posted on October 30, 2009 |
Heating up the expectations for the XPERIA X10 announcement next Tuesday (3 November), Sony Ericsson have just published a teaser video of their upcoming Android uber smartphone. If you've lived on...
Samsung B7300 OmniaLITE review: The light side of life
Posted on October 30, 2009 |
It's business as usual on the WinMo front and all the action seems to be around the upper end of the pricing scale. Impressive as those top PocketPCs may be, they are hardly the stuff that makes the sales meters tick and bring the profits that fuel the R D machine...
Droid & iPhone: Platform vs. Integration
Posted on October 30, 2009 |
A couple of weeks ago, I sat down with Andrew Lees, senior vice-president for Microsoft's Mobile Communications Business unit to talk about Windows Mobile and the future of smartphones. Lees was passionate in defending the Microsoft approach, where the company supplies the software and general specifications, then leaves it to the handset makers to design and build the phones.
"People want choice," Lees said, defending Windows Mobile against my assertion that the success of both Apple's iPhone and Research In Motion's BlackBerry was due to the fact that they are vertically integrated products, controlled from top to bottom by a single company. "Part of what we bring is the ability to have a stylus, a keyboard, or a touchscreen."
The introduction of version 2.0 of Google's Android software on the Motorola/Verizon Droid this week raises the possibility that Lees may be philosophically correct, but he may be riding the wrong horse. The arrival of a much more mature Android means we are going to see a fair fight for the future of smartphones between the models of vertical integration and open platforms.
Motorola posts Q3 earnings, things looking pretty grim
Posted on October 30, 2009 |
It now came turn for Motorola to announce their financial results for Q3 of the year. While the company as a whole looks healthy enough, given the tough market conditions, the mobile division is still lagging...
