by dave on May 10th, 2010 /
Category: News
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.
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by dave on October 15th, 2009 /
Category: News
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I just found this video of a new web browser called uZard for Windows Mobile. It has a few nice features, like a touch-and-hold trick to help screen out ads and stuff. The LogicPlant website lists off the browser’s features:
- shows same screen as you see in your PC’s.
- is the fastest mobile web browser.
- supports cross platform.
- works independently of chipset and technologies.
- doesn’t require high processing power.
- takes smallest data traffic.
- is a small size application.
- is easy to customize and converge.
It looks like it is only available in a few European countries, so if anyone out there has it please let me know how it works!!
by dave on September 10th, 2009 /
Category: News
Skyfire, possibly the most capable web browser on any mobile platform, has just put out Skyfire 1.1 with a few updates and tweaks.
Major talking points of this new update are:
- Improved page load times: updated algorithm to bring you the content much quicker.
- Improved scrolling and zooming on Symbian: a much faster and smoother experience now.
- Improved reconnect: Skyfire will show clearly when you can start interacting with the web page
- Improved mobile website support, WML support
- Navigation via short-key: You can use now ‘2’ and ‘8’ to easily navigate the page
- Updated Plug-ins for Flash, Silverlight and QuickTime
If you hadn’t tried Skyfire before, you should go check out the Skyfire site and download a copy.
