Posts Tagged ‘Symbian’

  • 15 Jun

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    joesonic


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    Market Share of mobile AppStores by number of Applications

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    I have tried out to compare mobile application stores by their number of available applications. Starting with Apple mobile application stores have become very popular to download programs and games directly to the users smartphone. Now nearly every big player has launched a platform where different applications are hosted. I have compared platforms of the 5 major players in case of application variety:

    Name of the Store       Platform Company
    Apple AppStore iPhone OS Apple
    Android Market Android Google
    Palm AppStore Palm OS Palm
    Ovi Store Symbian Nokia
    AppWorld Blackberry OS Research in Motion (RIM)

    All in all it is not so easy to compare the total number of applications, because there are no official or correct information available. Most headlines give the impression platforms start with 10000+ applications, but if you take a closer look at different applications you find out that these numbers are utopian. By June 2009 there are good numbers about Apples AppStore. They provide about 50000 applications and games, where 11000 of these are free (~87 % Market Share). Android Market has nearly 6000 applications which is about 10 % Market Share. Palm claims to have about 3000 applications available, which is about 5 % Market Share. But I get the impression this number include also Windows mobile applications. Nokia has only about 250 application available for their Symbian S60 v5 phones (0.5 % Market Share). And Blackberry has only 15 featured applications listed in their online platform. I could not verify the total number of BlackBerry applications because therefore you need a BackBerry phone.

    Market Share by total number of Applications

    Market Share by total number of Applications

    In conclusion it can be said that the success of a mobile platform or operation system depends on the variety and number of application. It is a very easy equation that allows you to predict the success of an application:

    • The higher the amount of applications the higher the success of a platform!

    In my opinion big players in the smartphone market will be the iPhone OS and Android. It is difficult to say what will happen to Palm and the big looser will be Nokia (See also following article: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/26/nokia-ovi-store-launch-is-a-complete-disaster/).

  • 02 Dec

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    joesonic


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    Nokia N97 a new LBS phone…

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    The new Nokia N97 Symbian smartphone combines a touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, GPS and 32 GByte memory. It connects to the internet with HSDPA or WiFi. With Nokia Maps it is possible to find your contacts near your actual location and the GUI can be customized using widgets.

    The touch screen in the N97 has a 3.5 inch screen diagonal and displays up to 16 million colors at a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels. If you touch the screen, there is feedback through vibration, which should simplify the operations. According to the position of the phone the visualisation is in landscape or portrait mode. A sliding QWERTY keyboard allows easy text entry, although the display is slanted so that it is good to see.

    The N97 is the first device from Nokia, which offeres the function of “social site”. For this function the integrated GPS receiver is used. The function “social location” is connected with the software Nokia Maps and displays the location of friends and acquaintances on the map in real time. Of course friends have to activate this feature first. The data arrives over a cellular connection on the device, so that a matching data plan should be posted. It is also possible to share photos or videos, with this new feature.

    As you already know from other Nokia smartphones, the newcomer is equipped with Nokia Maps and there is a compass function to orient yourself. As a further innovation in Nokia Maps there is an electronic guide containing information about known buildings. This requires that the user photograph the object. The image is then detected by a server that provides buidling caracteristics. A photo of a movie poster for example, brings a trailer of the film and shows how the film runs movie theaters. The map software can be used free of charge, the full navigation functions can be used additional by paying a fee.

    The 5-megapixel camera in 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm measured N97 has a Carl Zeiss lens. For a darker environment a dual LED light will be activated. The camera can record videos with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels at up to 30 frames per second. The integrated media player plays music in formats like MP3, WMA, AAC, eAAC and eAAC and video files of type MPEG4, WMV, Real Video and Flash. The N97 includes 32 GByte of internal memory and provides a slot for Micro SD cards as well.

    The UMTS mobile phone operates in GSM networks 850, 900, 1,800 and 1,900 MHz and supports GPRS, EDGE and HSDPA. Wireless technologies like WLAN 802.11b/g and Bluetooth 2.0 are on board. The smartphone is equipped Symbian S60′5th Edition, which is designed  for touch-screen interactions.

    Battery time: 5 hours UMTS/talk, 6.5 hours GSM/talk, 1 week standby and 37 hours of music playback. The Nokia N97 will be available in the first half of 2009 at a price of approximately 660 euros.

    [via golem.de]

  • 21 Aug

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    joesonic


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    MyPhoneExplorer 1.7 – SonyEricsson PC Suite now with Symbian Support

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    With this blog entry I’d like to introduce a new version of a great piece of software: MyPhoneExplorer. It is an alternative to SonyErricssons offical PC Suite and has a lot of functionality. The actual version (1.7) comes with Symbian support. And the best of all – its a freeware

    The changes (from the offical homepage):

    • full compatibility to UIQ3-Phones (P990i, P1i, M600i, W950i, W960i, G700, G900)
    • read/write access to notes on the phone
    • SMS-Chatfeature
    • universal filesync with filteroptions
    • its now possible to add exceptions in ruled events
    • its possible to create a backup also if the phone is not connected (Offlinebackup)
    • besides this there were alot of other changes and bugfixes which do not have enought space here

    Link: http://www.fjsoft.at