A recent report published by comScore shows the top five mobile manufacturers for mobile subscribers and not only is there no sign of Windows Mobile devices or Windows Phones, but Apple, HTC and other Android device makers are nowhere to be found. Moreover, feature phones have 4 of the top 5 spots, with BlackBerry being the only smartphone maker to crack that list.
Samsung, Motorola, LG, RIM and Nokia round out the top 5 OEMs for the first quarter of 2010.
The report found that SMS still reigns supreme in mobile content, with 63.7 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers using text messaging on their mobile device, up a hair from last quarter. Mobile web browsing was used by 30.1% of U.S. mobile subscribers (up 2.6 percent), while subscribers who used downloaded applications made up 28.6% of the mobile audience (also up 2.6 percentage points).
Access of social networking sites or blogs continued to increase, posting gains of 2.8 percentage points to 18.7 percent of mobile subscribers, showing the most improvement over any other type of mobile content.
So it looks like Palm IS for sale, after all. Rumors started swirling last week that Palm had been looking for a buyer, but CEO Jon Rubinstein denied it, full stop. Now Bloomberg news is reporting that Palm has, indeed, asked Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst Partners to find an eligible buyer.
Interestingly, HTC has been sniffing around and kicking the tires… wouldn’t that be something? HTC already makes solid devices, but with their own OS they could be deadly! Other potential suitors are China’s Lenovo and Nokia, but nobody’s confirming anything, of course.
UPDATE: Some folks have suggested that Apple might be interested in scooping up Palm, just to keep HTC away from Palm’s patents…
AT&T has provided us all with its own hands-on video of three of its most anticipated phones of their spring line up – one of which is the Samsung Propel Pro – a Windows Mobile 6.1 device featuring a full QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, and enterprise applications. The Samsung Propel Pro will be on sale for an expected $149.99 in April (customer’s pay $199.99 and after mail-in rebate, receive $50 AT&T promotion card).
The other two phones featured in the above video are both Symbian devices (Nokia’s E71x along with Samsung’s Impression) and will also be released as part of AT&T’s spring lineup.
As a musician and music fan, I can definitely see myself using the new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Just check out the picture… how sleek is that? We got our first glimpse at this phone during The Dark Knight movie – who wouldn’t love a phone that they can associate to Batman? Cool!
This device is Nokia’s first ever touchscreen device – a 3.2″ one, at that. Check out some of its other awesome specs right here.
There’s much buzz in the air this week about Fennec alpha – Mozilla’s version of Firefox for mobile. Now, before you get to excited (like I did) this alpha release was made to be used on the N800 or the N810 Internet Tablet from Nokia. But good news: You can check it out from the comfort of your Windows, OS X, or Linux based computers and patiently await the beta release which will hopefully be available for your handset soon!
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