During the 2010 Mobile World Congress, a company called Distimo gave a presentation, showing off their findings when comparing the top 6 mobile app stores. These include the Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog, and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Distimo compared numerous aspects, including number of [...]
What baffles me the most when I read mobile opinions from North American and European journalists is how clueless they are regarding the situation in the rest of the world, and how can they deem a product a success or a failure while limiting themselves to their region and without considering its impact on the [...]
While doing my research for my Context Awareness on Symbian article yesterday, I stumbled upon two interesting facts. The first one is that context-aware applications are now available on a lot of platforms, like Locale on Android which happens to offer a very similar experience to Best Profiles (with a few bonuses and minus the [...]
In case you’re not a geek, yesterday Apple gave more details on iPhone OS v3.0, and announced its new iPhone 3G S. Lame name aside, this new iPhone offers some new hardware updates that allow it to compete closely with the Nokia N97 – it now includes a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera (no flash) with [...]
With the demise of Mobile Industry Review, many of us were saddened, and wondered just what James Whatley, Ben Smith, and Dan Lane were going to do next. Then, up popped a cryptic landing page, with the above logo. If you know these guys at all, you’d know that was James Whatley’s precious N95 8GB, [...]
David Wood recently posted an interesting thought on the Symbian Foundation blog, positioning Symbian as a consumer brand. This is different than simply being present on consumer electronics – a consumer brand is something that consumers are aware of, and actively seek (or seek to avoid), and is something that Symbian needs badly, if they’re [...]
In a world of smartphones, technical specifications, powerful processors and crazy megapixel wars, one question has been haunting me continuously for a few months: how much do style and color matter? If I rephrase this, I’d say: should manufacturers improve their handset’s style and offer more funky color variants, especially for their high-end devices in [...]
Have you ever wondered what would happen if Nokia admitted defeat, and put the iPhone’s user interface over its S60-powered smartphones? Well, so did Dave Zhi and the rest of the team at mmmooo.com, and thus they created MyPhone for S60. This Flash-based application can replace your standby and gives you an iPhone-esque interface, complete [...]
AllAboutSymbian has a great piece today, as Ewan recently had a chance to sit down with Symbian CEO Nigel Clifford to talk about what’s on his device. As we get more and more comfortable with our S60-powered smartphones, we typically will customize the snot out of them, with themes, and our own applications. The Active [...]
