Articles Tagged “Windows Mobile”
Google Play vs. Windows Phone Marketplace
by Matthew Sabatini on May 09, 2012 9 Comments">9
Apps, apps, and more apps! It takes more than just a fancy device sporting an incredible HD display, a great camera, and amazing processing capabilities to make a phone truly “smart”. Honestly, it’s all about the apps. An “app market” is a one-stop shop for getting games and other Internet applications such as Google+, Angry Birds, and more. It’s easy to say that without app markets, your smartphone might as well just be called a dumbphone. Here’s the rub: The Android Market (Google Play) entered the game after Apple did, and the Windows App Market was not even released until …
Comscore: Android Continues to Lead in US by a Large Margin And Is Still the Fastest Growing OS
by Lucian Armasu on Feb 02, 2012 1 Comments">1
Market research reports appear all too often, but some of them seem very different or contracting. It’s important you know what type of market share the new chart represents and what the numbers show. Some of them show market share based on last quarter alone, which is all about *new* sales market share. Others, like this one here, show how many subscribers in *total* the main platforms have, while others are simply being misleading by combining data that doesn’t make sense. Also, some are for US while others are for global market share, so that’s always good to recognize, too, …
Tizen to Merge with Bada. Is This a Threat to Android or WP7?
by Lucian Armasu on Jan 17, 2012 7 Comments">7
Remember Meego? Poor ol’ Meego has gone through a lot of transitions, from the original Maemo, to being merged with Intel’s Moblin, to now being merged once again with Samsung’s own OS, Bada, which will be made open source when it will be merged with Meego, and form Tizen. All Bada applications will work in Tizen, and if developers know how to make Bada apps, they should be able to make Tizen apps, too. But why does Samsung want to support yet another OS? Or better yet, what are they trying to achieve by pushing Bada/Tizen even harder into …
The Numbers are in: Android is Still Number One
by Christine Torralba on Jan 05, 2012 0 Comments">0
According to data gathered by comScore, Android was able to maintain its current top spot as the number one smartphone OS in the United States. Ever since November 2011, almost 46.9% of smartphone users in the US were using Android operating systems. This is a 3.1% improvement from its earlier rating from three months before. Indeed, this goes to show that Android has overtaken the popularity of Apple’s iOS in the smartphone industry, having only 28.7%. Third on the spot was Microsoft’s Windows Phone (5.2%) and followed by Symbian (1.5%). After device activations surging over 300% during the holidays, it …
Android and the Mobile OS Showdown
by Edmund Apostol on Sep 17, 2011 1 Comments">1
The continuous advancements of smartphones and tablets have led some to say that we are now in a post-PC era. Just like in the popular debates about which desktop or laptop computer operating system was better, the same question is being asked by users about mobile devices today. Nokia and Blackberry jump started mobile industry advancements around a decade ago but Apple’s introduction of the iPhone easily superseded these to gain a major presence in the consumer market. Then Google came up with Android and iOS superiority was no longer a given. According to how market experts analyze it, there …
Android Gains in the Last 3 Months as Much Market Share as Microsoft Has Left in Total
by Lucian Armasu on Aug 31, 2011 1 Comments">1
Android doesn’t seem to show any sign of slow-down, and the total subscribers base in USA has gained another 5.4% market share in the last 3 months alone, which is almost as much market share as Microsoft has left (5.7%) with both Windows Mobile 6 and WP7 – combined. Not only that, but that number is decreasing fast, even after the launch of WP7. Can Microsoft recover? Disappointing launch Although, I figured Android would continue to grow and that Microsoft was too late to the game to actually “beat” Android when Windows Phone 7 launched late last year, I still …
LG to convert half of its smartphone portfolio to Android in 2010
by Susan Ellery on Jan 14, 2010 0 Comments">0
It was nary a year ago when LG announced that it was adopting Windows Mobile as it primary OS of choice for it smartphones. The Korean handset manufacturer projected that it would launch a whopping 50 Windows Mobile handsets in three years. That figure may have to revised as LG confirmed today that half of the smartphones that it has on tap for 2010 will be powered by Android. Of the twenty smartphones planned for 2010, ten will run some flavor of Android and the rest will be a combination of Windows Mobile and Linux handsets. LG’s first Android handset, …
Acer to cut back on Windows Mobile, beef up Android lineup in 2010
by Susan Ellery on Nov 28, 2009 0 Comments">0
Acer jumped head first into the smartphone market in 2009, releasing close to 10 handsets with only one, the A1 Liquid, running the Android OS. The A1′s status as Acer’s only Android handset in the midst of a a plethora of Windows Mobile handsets may soon change. According to Aymar de Lencquesaing, head of Acer’s mobile phone division, Acer will be offering a “much more balanced” portfolio in 2010, citing the momentum behind Android as the reason for this shift away from Windows Mobile. Doing the math, we can expect to see an additional 4-5 Acer-branded Android handsets in the …
Adobe Flash 10 for Android not coming this month – or anytime soon
by Michael Oryl on Oct 05, 2009 2 Comments">2
Today Adobe announced that it plans on releasing developer versions and, later, open beta versions of its Flash Player 10.1 for Windows Mobile and Palm webOS smartphones by the end of this year, but that Android won’t even get a beta until sometime next year – 2010. That’s a far cry from what we heard from the company in June, which led folks to believe that we’d see the Open Screen Project’s Flash 10 player for smartphones, including Android, this month. Heck, now it is saying that it won’t be until next year when Android gets even a beta version …
HTC Touch HD 2 to run Android?
by James Tromans on Sep 07, 2009 1 Comments">1
Register Hardware are attending IFA and have apparently learned something rather interesting for us Android enthusiasts. The HTC Touch HD, released last year, is due for an upgrade, but it won’t ship with Windows Mobile. If we back up a moment, the Touch HD is still considered a high-end device, and packs a huge 3.8’’ touch-screen display and all the higher-end connectivity options, including a 3.5mm headphone jack. However, not one to hang about, HTC are readying the Touch HD 2. According to Register Hardware, HTC told them directly at the event that the new Touch HD 2 will run …
SPB TV provides streaming TV from around the world to Android
by Michael Oryl on Aug 27, 2009 0 Comments">0
I’ve been a fan of SPB TV on the Windows Mobile platform for some time now, so I was pleasantly surprised to hear from SPB that it has ported the application to the Android platform. The application provides streaming access to digital TV channels from all over the world. Not all channels, but a nice selection of channels from around the world in many different languages. The free version has some functionality removed and fewer channels, but is certainly a worthwhile download. The full version costs US$9.99 and offers many different channels. The best part? No subscription fees. You’ll need …
CompuLab shows off dual-booting Android powered Exeda
by Michael Oryl on Jan 13, 2009 0 Comments">0
Well, we certainly didn’t see this one while roaming the halls at CES, but CompuLab has announced the Exeda, a smartphone that the company claims can boot up into either Windows Mobile or Android, depending on the user’s preference. There’s all sorts of oddness going on in this design, as you can see. It features no d-pad, but separate up/down and left/right controls. There’s also a touchpad, of the type you’d find on laptops, for cursor control (like the optical joystick found on the Samsung Omnia, I’d wager). And while there is an obvious ‘back’ button, there are no ‘home’ …
Video of the Chinese market HKC Pearl running Android
by Michael Oryl on Dec 23, 2008 0 Comments">0
The Chinese version of Engadget has posted photos of a device called the HKC Pearl running the Android OS. The interesting thing? It also appears to run Windows Mobile as well. We’ve got photos and a video of the phone running Android after the jump. The device appears to feature a 2.8″ QVGA touchscreen display, a trackball for navigation, a 624MHz CPU, 256MB of ROM, and 128MB of RAM. It also appears to be a quad-band GSM/EDGE device, features WiFi and GPS support, sports a 1250mAh battery, and weighs 128g while measuring 109.1mm x 59mm x 15.5mm in size. A …
How to run Android on your HTC Touch
by James Tromans on Dec 11, 2008 4 Comments">4
Over at the xda-developers forum, someone has managed to get Android ‘ported’ to the HTC Touch, (before you get confused, know that the CDMA Touch is commonly referred to by its codename of Vogue). Obviously, this device was never designed to run Android, yet it appears to do so with little to no fuss. Sure, not everything is working right away – for example Bluetooth, GPS, and USB are still missing and the User Interface doesn’t fit 100% properly into the QVGA display – but overall it is a very successful application of Android and emphasizes how flexible the OS …
Flash Player on Android? Yes indeed.
by Nicholas Ahn on Nov 17, 2008 145 Comments">145
As if the title didn’t say it all: today Adobe announced a port of its Flash Player 10 for Android phones. In their demonstration at their MAX event, a T-Mobile G1 was said to have been shown running flash. The release of a flash player for Android marks the collapse of yet another barrier that marked the line between mobile and desktop grade browsing. In addition to announcing Flash Player for Android, Adobe announced the upcoming release of Flash Player 10 for Windows Mobile 7. You can already hear the iPhone users sighing. Update June 22, 2009: Adobe has confirmed …
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