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- Q3 Smartphone Market Share - it’s heating up!December 23 2008
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Canalys and Gartner have posted their Q3 market share numbers for open operating systems. The numbers differ slightly based on how some manufacturers were counted and whether the numbers represented actual sell-thru, or sell-in to the channel, but both provide an interesting look into how this market is evolving. The Android open mobile operating system is not included in the analysis.
Perhaps the biggest surprise is that Apple, who remember wasn’t even a phone manufacturer two years ago, has been blazing a trail past the 50+ Windows Mobile OEM device maker partners, RIM and its lineup of business and consumer devices, and is nestling in behind Symbian, who lost market share overall at the expense of the growth primarily from Apple and RIM. Nokia and Symbian could see a bump in Q4 with the phones they have shipped, but most were late arriving in market for holiday and may not see uptick until Q1 (N79, N85, 5800, E63, and E71 still isn’t shipping for North American operator, though hope is AT&T will launch in Q1 09). The Symbian Foundation is just gearing up,
- IDC sees open OS phone market growing 9% in 2009, back to double digits growth in 2010December 18 2008
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U.S. and Worldwide Mobile Phone Shipment Growth by Device Type, 2008–2010 Region Device Type2008
2009
2010
USA Converged Mobile Device (Smartphone)75.7%
3.1%
28.2%
Traditional Mobile Phone-9.8%
-11.6%
-8.8%
Total Market-0.3%
-8.7%
-0.7%
Worldwide Converged Mobile Device (Smartphone)26.9%
8.9%
24.0%
Traditional Mobile Phone4.6%
-3.5%
5.0%
Total Market - Is Apple bringing web based iTunes Music and Apps to Mobile Me?December 17 2008
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Apple is continuing to refine its mobile-web connected service, Mobile Me, with a number of new updates posted today. What is more interesting is a European trademark filing from last week which could indicate that Apple plans to add a web-based version of iTunes for Music, Videos and Apps to its Mobile Me services for iPhone/iPod Touch users. With Nokia Music as part of OVI, and Amazon MP3 making inroads with Android, the potential move by Apple seems logical in building out its connected service offering.
- THE MOBILE SOCIAL GRAPH - Where Software Companies are GoingDecember 17 2008
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The emerging trend from software companies focused on open mobile operating systems is to capture network value from the phone address book, with cloud offerings accessible from the PC web and mobile phone. The address book on the phone has traditionally been a place to input and access contacts and phone numbers for dialing while on the go. It wasn’t a destination, but a useful resource that once accessed, would allow a user to launch a communication channel. With the growth of social networks, it was realized that the mobile phone address book was perhaps more accurately described as a user’s real social network, and there was huge opportunity to monetize that if you could build out the largest mobile social graph.
Windows Live gets credit for being one of the first in the market to integrate presence and link to photos from within the native address book application on a mobile phone, but Jaiku was the first to make popular. The Jaiku experience brought in presence and required a user to access from a separate, connected address book application on the phone. Many people believe the Jaiku acquisition by Google was to get its own version of Twitter for a fraction of the cost, but I wouldn’t dismiss the power of the mobile network address book and how Google could leverage as it looks to further enhance Android and its cloud services in v2 and v3. Even Jaiku founder, Jyri Engeström, may be
- Dashwire and Sony Ericsson Xperia X1November 25 2008
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What is quickly becoming one of the most talked about phones of the year, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is starting to make itself available around the world. The sleek touch-screen, slider keyboard device has a cool multimedia panel interface allowing users to interact with their content in exciting new ways. This phone has picked up a ton of coverage, but one aspect about it that still seems to be flying under-the-radar is the great camera (3.2 MP, records 30 fps video, and takes some really great shots!).
Naturally, there was a strong mutual interest between our two teams to collaborate on delivering seamlessly connected, multimedia experiences for X1 users.
To do so, we optimized our Dashwire Mobile client for the Xperia and built out a custom panel interface as well using their developer kit. We worked on supporting the high-resolution, wide-screen display both in portrait and landscape, and built out a multimedia panel that helps users more easily interact with their content and that of other Xperia users around the world. The Dashwire panel and client are available for download at the Sony Ericsson Fun & Downloads page or via the on-device X1 panel downloader.
