Research firm Gartner has predicted that by the end of 2012, Google’s Android Operating System is likely to monopolise half of the smartphone market, with Windows Phone 7 increasing their stake in partnership with Nokia, who have opted to utilise the Windows mobile platform for their higher-end models.   (more…)

Mobile giants O2 have confirmed that they will soon be launching a free wireless service across the UK, which they intend will increase the number of existing networks for customers by fifty percent again, by the year 2013. (more…)

Fans of the Apple iPad could find themselves becoming disloyal, following an announcement by mobile phone manufacturing giants Samsung that they will be launching a new product which looks set to rival sales of the popular iPad. (more…)

An application which has the ability to steal funds from smartphones running the Google Android operating system has been discovered in operation. (more…)

Mark Papermaster, the Apple executive who was responsible for overseeing the development of iPhone 4 has announced that he will be quitting the company. Papermaster has been head of the iPhone and iPad engineering department since 2009, when he moved across from IBM. (more…)

Following last week’s announcement that the United Arab Emirates government is planning to ban some Blackberry smartphone services from being used in the country, further regions have voiced concerns about the security of the devices. (more…)

In these days of iPhones, Blackberries, Palm Pres, etc., it can be easy to forget that the mobile phone market is not actually dominated by RIM, Apple or in fact any Smartphone maker. Yes, it’s still the case that, in a world where most people cannot afford the upper end devices, the company that makes the more affordable phones reigns supreme – that’s why Finnish company Nokia are still number one in the mobile phone market. (more…)

Today Vodafone is closing in on  a deal with mobile phone manufacturer, HTC. If successful, HTC will construct the latest version of the ‘Google phone,’ for Vodafone – the device will run on the Android operating system and is provisionally known as the G2. The companies hope to have a deal in place in time for an announcement at the Mobile World Congress. The industry’s annual trade show opened in Barcelona on Monday and now looks likely to be the phone’s launch-pad.
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The Smartphone market has seen huge growth over the last few years though the sector remains fiercely competitive, with the Apple iPhone, the RIM Blackberry, the G1 and others involved in a brutal battle for every customer. This might, you’d think, deter new entries to the market from even trying, but not so according to the blogs. Rumour has it that Dell is contemplating a late entry into the market very soon.
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Adobe Flash is a pretty ubiquitous programme, used to view documents and graphics on macs, PCs, pretty much any system actually. For this reason the almighty hoo-hah made about developing the thing to work on the iPhone has surprised many. The work to get the system up and running for iPhone users has been going on, and on, for some time now and doesn’t seem like reaching a conclusion any time soon, especially after CEO Shantanu Narayen acknowledged the difficulties at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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We’ve spoken on this blog at length about how important the latest Palm SmartPhone is for its manufacturer. The struggling company has essentially put all its eggs in one basket with the new Pre, with most analysts predicting that the company doesn’t have another failure in them. This, by all accounts, is their last roll of the dice.
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