Came back from Barcelona yesterday while I was attending the Mobile World Congress 2011, here some pictures:
It was a great event with more than 60000 attendees. I went to several developers related events from Nokia, RIM, Windows Mobile, Intel and HP. Got couple of gifts, Nokia E7 and an Intel MeeGo tablet ! Will post [...]
Before heading to Mobile World Congress, I am reading a lot of the blogs and comments after the announcement made by Nokia to shift to WP7 OS.
Yesterday was also a moment in history, Egypt revolution. Can be compared to the Berlin wall coming down. Well here is picture from repubblica.it that puts the two news [...]
Via AllAboutSymbian, AAS Insight #153 podcast is available:
Textual information about what was announced is in the main story from 11 Feb 2011 here.
Please note that this podcast is a joint one with All About Meego (Rafe and David normally handle this), since Nokia’s decisions affect both platforms and both sites.
You can be sure that the [...]
Yeap the unthinkable happened, Nokia moves smartphone OS to Windows Phone, Symbian and MeeGo gone!
Let me be clear, this deal is strange on many levels. If you listened the conference event between the two CEOs, seems that everything happened not so long ago. What does it mean? It means that everything is on paper and [...]
Via ReadWriteWeb Mobile, some information about mobile application stores with Flash Mobile apps statistics:
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Via afterdawn.com, an interesting data about global smartphone market:
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Via Adobe, today Adobe announce the availability of Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile.
“Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the release of Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 to mobile platform partners. Redesigned from the ground up with new performance and mobile specific features, Flash Player 10.1 is the first release that brings the full Web across desktops [...]
Via EngadgetMobile, looks like Adobe is claiming to reach Flash on 250M smartphones by end of 2012.
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Mark has release the entire code for the Helisso packager which allows to create Symbian and Windows Mobile installer for Flash Lite applications
A packaging utility that can produce SIS packages for S60 devices
This new version supports Windows Mobile 5/6 devices
It targets the Flash Lite 3.x runtime
It runs on Windows and Mac OS, all versions
This is [...]
After my previous post, Mobile App Stores 70/30 revenue split too little, is it a cartel?, Andrea posted a message on twitter which is a very well known issue for long time for anyone in the mobile space. Before there were carriers/operators that were the gate to get mobile content now OEM have been added [...]
Here is a new award for mobile applications organized by GetJar: Getties Award
What: The first annual Getties Award
Why it’s cool: This is the first cross platform mobile app award program of its kind
Who: The Getties Award is put on by GetJar, the world’s second largest app store by downloads, after Apple. GetJar is also the [...]
This interesting post at IntoMobile is saying that 70/30 % revenue split is too low. The strange thing is that there is little to no competition between all mobile Application Stores on revenue share. Really strange, no? It’s very unusual that this is not discussed widely in the mobile industry. It would be normal to [...]
I signed up for the first WhyMCA Spring 2010 Mobile Developer Conference. It will be interesting to meet Italian mobile developers and meet again Andrea and Luca who are going to speak at the conference, .
Adobe Flash ed Air 2 per il cross-content e il mobile gaming
Adobe Flash Platform per iPhone
Here are the conference’s sessions.
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Via AllAboutSymbian, the AAS Insight 110 is now podcast available.
Ovi Maps with free Navigation now available for N86
Navteq True discussion
Samsung i8910 firmware from the community
Silverlight for Symbian
Wayfinder thoughts
Windows Phone 7 Series thoughts
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Mark posted some information regarding the Flash 10.1 installations/updates for mobile phones. The method seems very similar to the distributable player method that was created last year.
Now about the detection of the player version, looks the same as the web plugin, which lift us from keeping track of Flash player versions in WURFL. I asked [...]
Via Tomi, here are the latest mobile phones market share:
Mobile phone sales:
1 – Nokia . . . . . . . 432 Million 38 %
2 – Samsung . . . . 227 Million 20 %
3 – LG . . . . . . . . . . 117 Million 10 %
4 – SonyEricsson . . [...]
