Tag Archives : Windows Mobile

Android and iOS once again dominated the smartphone market with 91.1 percent of all global smartphone shipments for the fourth quarter of 2012. Android and Apple shipped and landed 87.6 percent of the 722.4 million smartphones shipped worldwide in 2012 according to a report by IDC. “The dominance of Android and Apple reached a new watermark in the fourth quarter,” said Ramon Llamas, research [...]

Apple and Samsung accountes for 52 percent of all global smartphone sales in fourth quarter of 2012 according to a report by Gartner. Overall, mobile phone sales declined across the globe by 1.7 percent last year, the last time when sales fell were in 2009. Below is the report : “The last time the worldwide mobile phone market declined was in 2009,” said Anshul Gupta, principal research analyst [...]

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 [...]

source : JustinAngel Twitpic According to a tweet image by Justin Angel who is  former Microsoft program manager with access to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, Microsoft has already started to populated the yet unreleased Windows Phone 7 Marketplace with a couple of third party applications along with in house apps. The images reveals  that there are at least placeholders for a variety of games [...]

Samsung Wave Samsung was earlier confirmed as one of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 launch partner. Samsung’s first Windows Phone 7 device news in now in open  thanks to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group which is a Bluetooth specifications group. The handset named Cetus has a 4-inch OLED screen, 5MP camera, front facing camera, GPS, Bluetooth and all the other gubbins you have come to expect [...]

HTC Desire HTC is working on a version of their Sense UI for Windows Phone 7. Microsoft has taken steps to standardize the Windows Phone 7 user interface to the core level, they had earlier revealed that handset manufacturers couldn’t reskin Windows Phone 7 devices wholesale,it was  a bid to exert more control over the phones that use its upcoming mobile software. Drew Bamford, who heads [...]

ComScore, which is an Internet marketing research company has released a report, which shows key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry from February to May 2010.  According to the report, 234 million Americans age 13 and older used mobile devices. Device manufacturer Samsung ranked as the top OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) with 22.4 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers, up one percentage [...]

Image via CrunchBase With Developers, users and product companies preferring Android, iPhone and even Blackberry OS, Windows Mobile software is getting royally ignored, even in its updated and glorified revision – Windows Phone 7.  The latest to join this list is Skype who has  revealed that they don’t have any development plans for bringing their popular Skype Mobile  service to [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Microsoft has recently unveiled the Windows Phone 7 Series at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. So, what does Windows Phone 7 Series have in store for users and developers? Will it revive Microsoft’s sagging fortunes in Mobile Operating System Marketplace? Perhaps, it’s too early to answer those questions. However, the good part is Windows Phone [...]