AndroidCentral reports that T-Mobile G1 is accounting for 20% sales in UK for T-Mobile. Read the complete report here. So good news for Androiders is that the market is picking up for Android based smart phones in Europe. With rise in sales for Android, we should see more and more cool applications developed on the platform.
By the way, we have been completely busy with few client projects and hence blog took a backseat for almost a month. But good news is we are back!
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Its official! Opera Mini is not available for Android phones. Check this out for more information. This is the power having an open source platform for your mobile. Cool softwares are easily available.
One of the most important things to note is, how fast Opera Mini has been made available for Android users. This reaffirms our faith, as users, that Android market place will move much faster than any other competitors.
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Samsung is also launching an Android based smartphone. The phone is expected to be released in mid 2009. All the device features are not known yet but the phone will be touch-screen based with minimum buttons and design similar to Omnia (see image).
After Sony Ericsson and Motorola, Samsung is now the third major phone manufacturer to have announced Android based phones. Android market is getting hot.
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The new year has already been splendid for Android. Lot of companies, enterprises are already building apps for Android instead of iPhone, which has been said to be the biggest competition for Android.
Telecom companies and players are already shifting focus to Android as per our blog posts 1, 2.
Now this news, Android has opened up market place for applications in Europe for selected countries. So we should see a launch of phone there in coming weeks. Google it seems has done all the required home work to take on giants like Blackberry, Symbian, iPhone and Windows mobiles.
It now seems that coming one is really going to change the mobile market, one way or the other.
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As per latest news, Sony Ericsson has taken a hit in its yearly revenues and filed losses of more than 70 million Euros. With this news the rumours of split between Sony Ericsson and its parent company Sony starts to grow even stronger. But for Android community, there is that silver lining around all these bad news coming in. We already talked here, about how Motorola is going to focus on Android to help itself come out of these negative results and same will happen with Sony Ericsson too.
Essentially companies are looking to cut costs by using Android open operating system and save costs of licensing costly proprietary solutions avaialble. It will be interesting to see how Windows Mobile and Symbian tackle this contuning shift by handset manufacturers in year 2009. If the way things are going, and industry experts believes things to get even worse for mobile manufacturers, we might see a altogether different market situation by end of this year.
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Chicago Tribune has confirmed the rumours that have been flying about Motorola and its focus on Android going forward. Moto has trimmed staffs by 4000 and most hit area is mobile development with around 3000 people being laid off from that division.
This essentially means that Moto’s smart phones will be powered with Android, through which company is hoping to give boost to its positioning in smartphone market.
Though laying off people is always a bad news, but for Android developers and enthusiast there is some thing to look forward to in this. We should see similar moves by other biggies in the field given the current economic situation. Working on open source technologies will catch momentum in mobile markets too.
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