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Mobile & iPhone Wallpapers – Random Shot – Part 5
April 22nd, 2010 / 2 Comments » / by AF8AB
This April we bring you Hand-picked Exclusive Mobile Wallpapers. This release do not follow any theme so you can only expect Pure Random Awesomeness & Nothing Else.
This post includes 110 wallpapers in iPhone resolution that can also be used in Nokia S60v3 & v5 Phones, Google Android Phones like Nexus One, Motorola DROID & HTC Phones etc.
You can click on the preview to individually choose and download the wallpapers or click the Download link at the end of this post to get them all in a ZIP file.
Mobile OS wars: Symbian leads globally
March 17th, 2009 / 13 Comments » / by Faizan
Research firm Gartner has released the 2008 “Worldwide: Smartphone Sales to End Users by Operating System” stats. It shows that the reigning mobile OS champ, Symbian, remains the dominant mobile OS in the world with 52.4% market share. However the trend is not good for Symbian – its share is down by 11% from 2007. Symbian still maintains a healthy 35.8% lead over its nearest competitor, Research In Motion.
The statistics are a very relevant followup to my post on Wednesday trying to sort out what platforms developers will ultimately pick. After all, each of these platforms will have marketplaces and there are only so many developers. And all of these platforms will be vying for share in what is expected to be a down market. IDC said Thursday that it expects global mobile phone shipments to fall 8.3 percent in 2009. So-called converged device shipments are expected to increase 3.4 percent globally.
What’s notable is that our unscientific poll revealed that few people saw Symbian as an operating system worth betting on.
Based on market share it appears that developers should be focused on creating applications for Symbian, Research in Motion, Windows Mobile, and the iPhone and iPod Touch as a turbo charge for growth. Palm remains too much of a wild card.
However, that decision isn’t all that easy to make. Excluding Symbian, the mobile operating systems are bunched together in market share. For 2008, Mac OS X had growth of 245.7 percent, according to Gartner. The BlackBerry platform had the second best growth at 96.7 percent. Clearly, growth dictates focusing efforts on those two platforms.
Other notable points from Gartner’s tally:
*Fourth quarter global smartphone units were 38.1 million, up 3.7 percent from a year ago. For 2008, 139.3 million smartphones were sold, up 13.9 percent from a year ago.
*Nokia had market share of 40.8 percent in the smartphone market at the end of the fourth quarter with RIM second at 19.5 percent. Apple had 10.7 percent.
* In the fourth quarter, Linux-based smartphone sales were up 19 percent from a year ago due to Android-based T-Mobile phones.
From: cnet
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