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Smartphones global market share

Sheuli — Sun, 02 May 2010 08:28:04 +0000

Global sales of smartphones surged by 50% from 35.9 million units in 2009 to 54 million units in the first quarter of 2010. Smartphones now make up 18% of all mobile phone sales globally.Nokia has 40% global market share among all mobile phone makers, RIM has 20%, Apple with its iPhone 16% and Motorola has 4%.

Google TV

Sheuli — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:35:04 +0000

Samsung executive announced in The Korea Herald (an English-language newspaper in South Korea) that Samsung is considering Google TVs. The television sets would use Google?s Android operating system.

Samsung just after Nokia, is nowadays the world?s second-largest mobile phone maker. Samsung claims to have the world?s slimmest TV set which will be launch in the United States this week.

Nokia in USA

Sheuli — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:49:31 +0000

Nokia do not sell mobile phones to Americans. Even if Nokia is the world’s largest mobile maker (2 of every 5 cell phones bought last year were Nokias), the brand is almost undetectable in the United States. According to the article about that issue from NYTimes, Nokia cut itself out of the American market through two bad decisions. First, Nokia doesn’t make phones that work on American wireless networks. Second, Nokia uses a sales strategy for America that failed. Also the company demanded too much from U.S. operators.

Source: NYTimes

Symbian Operating System

Sheuli — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:34:16 +0000

The source code of the ten-year old Symbian platform (which powers most of Nokia’s phones) will be open source.