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Windows Phone gaining momentum in Finland at the expense of iPhone and Android ?

Saijo George — Sat, 05 May 2012 03:58:55 +0000

Finland_Windows_Phone_Growth

With the Microsoft Nokia partnership Windows Phone is slowly gaining momentum. In the US the Lumia 900 secured the best seller spot on amazon and the 2nd best seller on AT&T in April . The general buzz on the Lumia series is positive ( though the device seems to have its fair share of issues ). If we consider the home ground of Nokia ( it is Finland, for those who didn’t have a clue ) and try to see the marketshare , while there are no official numbers we can get our hands on. We can always go through sites like statcounter which tracks browser usage.

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Malicious apps on Android phones downloaded in the 100,000s

Saijo George — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:09:05 +0000

Android Malware

Malicious apps on Android are nothing new , we here a couple of stories about new ones every few months. According to ArsTechnica Android users who have downloaded these apps turn their smartphones into zombies that await commands from their attacker. Earlier this year Google launched some cloud-based vulnerability scanner that is supposed to scan Android apps hosted on Google servers to prevent these sort of things. Even with these security measures in place this is not the first time abusive apps have been discovered in the Android Market.

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Why users choose an operating system and what Windows Phone still needs

MSicc — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:05:09 +0000

About a month ago we were reporting about a survey that shows how satisfied Windows Phone users are. It turned out that the satisfaction index is head to head with iOS.

Within that survey there are more important bits. The tech site TNW also covered this survey. One of the big points they are reaching out was why users choose a platform. (more…)

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US Windows Phone sales in the last three months … :(

Saijo George — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:38:59 +0000

Smartphone-OS-share

In a recent article on PCWorld they ran a story ” Windows Phone Market Share is So Small, Nielsen Doesn’t Even List It ” which refers to the report by Nielsen where they said almost 50% of U.S. mobile subscribers are smartphones users. They break down smartphone ownership in the past 3 months where iOS won more users from the Blackberry and Others market and they commanded an ownership of 43% , while Android sat on a 48% ownership share. In the past 3 months Blackberry ownership was 5% and others which probably includes Windows Mobile, Windows Phone , etc sat at 4% , a number that has steadily been dropping down in the charts.

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Xbox Live games are being ported to iOS and Android

bAN01TgAZ — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:17:43 +0000

Xbox Live games coming to iOS and Android

Following the release of Kinectimals on iOS, there have been some rumours that other Xbox Live games are to be ported to iOS and Android, Microsoft have now officially announced that the rumours are true. InsideMobileApps have received the following statement from a Microsoft spokesperson…

“while the Xbox Live experiences and games always work best on the Windows platform, we understand that some Xbox fans may be using other types of devices. To satisfy that need, we are working to extend a few of our Xbox experiences and titles to other platforms.”

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Windows Phone Outperforms Android and iOS In Mobile Advertising

Siddhartha Kumar — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:23:33 +0000

Mobile Ad reports based on OS

Mobile ad optimization platform: Smaato, has released the ad reports for the smartphone OS market for Q3 of 2011, and Windows Phone leads the chart with an index score of 156 almost twice as that of Android and considerably higher than iOS. (more…)

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More than 50% Android devices now sold under Microsoft Licensing

Siddhartha Kumar — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:44:26 +0000

Microsoft licensing progress chart

Microsoft today announced that more than half of Android device OEM’s and ODM’s are now under licensing agreement with Microsoft for its Patents. Microsoft in its tenth license agreement provided coverage under patent portfolio for Android mobile phones and tablets. This marks Microsoft’s ninth Android agreement in the last four months and whats more important is that companies accounting for more than half of all Android devices have now entered into patent license agreements with Microsoft. (more…)

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HTC Mozart runs Android ?

Siddhartha Kumar — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:36:20 +0000

HTC Mozart on the O2 Webpage

Not sure what the graphic designers at O2 were smoking when they created the above image, but they surely seem high on something ! The above image is straight from the O2 webpage listing all their devices and specs. Some Android fanboy apparently though that the Mozart runs Android and hence has the logo at the bottom.Now on one side it surely is very misleading and offensive for some, it may be. However shall someone purchase this device thinking they receive Android, it wont be surprising if they like what they get ;). Head over to the O2 Website and see it for yourself before they fix it.

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Is that Zune on your Android ?

Saijo George — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:20:25 +0000

UberMusic Android

No its not but it looks a lot like the real deal. UberMusic is a new music player for Android. The UI for the app is what many Windows Phone users will be familiar with coz it looks a lot like the stock Zune player on Windows Phone. It’s said Android does not have a good music player ( I haven’t uses an Android device so I cant comment on that ) but a developer Federico Carnale, has decided to fix this by porting Windows Phone 7′s music player UI to Android under the name of UberMusic and comes with a price tag of AU$3.18 . Video after the break

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Windows Phone Mango shows Android and iOS5 how modern mobile browsers work

Saijo George — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:25:55 +0000

This is not the first time we have seen Microsoft using this particular test to show off the exciting hardware acceleration in IE9 on Windows Phone Mango. But since then Apple has released the beta of iOS and Microsoft has decided to run the test again. This time we have a BlackBerry Torch, the Samsung Droid Charge, the iPhone 4 ( beta 3 of iOS5 ), and what looks like the HTC Mozart running Mango. The frame-rates achieved by the devices were as below via WMPU

BlackBerry Torch only managed to pull off a pathetic 9FPS
iPhone 4 even with beta 3 of iOS5 managed only about 14-16FPS
The Android powered Samsung Droid Charge got around 20-22 ( something like that from what I can see)
But the Mango Powered HTC with graphics acceleration came out with an amazing 50FPS !!!

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