Mobile phone sales based on Android open mobile platform has been growing steadily. With phone manufacturers such as Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson churning out Android phones in full force, more and more people are getting aware of the power of an Android based phones.

Of course all these powerful Android mobile phones become more useful because of their ability to run different types of mobile apps much like our desktop computers. Google has created the Android Market to allow Android users to centrally find mobile apps. One of the hindrances to the current state of the Android Market is its limited ability allow users to buy mobile apps. Most countries are limited to downloading and installing only FREE apps. It looks like that will be changing soon…

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RIM has been putting in a lot of work into its upcoming BlackBerry 6 OS and also updating everyone about the work being done. Today RIM has announced some of the very cool multimedia features that will be available on BlackBerry 6 which includes an integrated YouTube video uploader.

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If you’re one of those who remember or use Palm’s PDA (personal digital assistant), you know about Graffiti. It’s Palm’s input method. Back then, the use of a virtual keyboard as an input method is not something popular.

Well, Graffiti is now available as an alternative input method for Android mobile phones. Access Inc., who has rights to the technology, has created an mobile app that you can install on your Android phone. The app provides Graffiti as an alternative input to Android devices.

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The Blackberry is currently the most widely used mobile phone by business people because of it’s great messaging features. It is also slowly becoming a must have cell phone for the teen generation because of it’s messaging features and teenagers simply love to send SMS. But RIM, the makers of Blackberry, isn’t going to stop on its tracks. If fact they’re full blast into developing the next iteration of their BlackBerry platform — version 6.

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I’ve finally gotten a replacement Nokia N900 mobile phone from WomWorld / Nokia yesterday. The first thing I tried out on the N900 when I got it up and running yesterday was the web browser. I tried browsing the Connected Phone site to see if it will render properly on the N900 and it did. Before starting off several articles about the Nokia N900, I thought I’d post something about syncing the Mac OS X addressbook and calendar with the Maemo based Nokia N900.

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If you have some 1st generation iPhone that happens to be lying around and gathering dust. You can try running the Android open mobile platform on the iPhone. A known as planetbeing has apparently been hard at work porting Android to the iPhone. Now he has finally posted the youtube video below of Android running on the iPhone.

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After having been able to sync my Contacts with my Mac notebook using iSync, I was surprised that I could actually also sync the music on my Symbian based Nokia 5800 ExpressMusic mobile phone with my iTunes music library in Mac OSX. Being a long time Linux user, I had always find it easy to sync my phone’s music files with Ubuntu’s Rhythmbox. It’s was just a matter of being able to mount my Nokia mobile phone as a USB storage device in Ubuntu.

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I’ve recently started using Mac OSX. One of the mobile phones I use is the Symbian based Nokia 5800 ExpressMusic. And I’ve found out that Nokia doesn’t actually ship a Mac OSX version of their PC Suite / Ovi Suite. After scourging thru the Internet, I’ve actually found a solution to sync my contacts and calendar to my Mac notebook — using the Mac OSX iSync tool.

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In June of 2008, Nokia has announced that it is acquiring full ownership of Symbian to make the operating system open source. Symbian a leading mobile phone operating system in the world is used not only by Nokia mobile phones but by other phone manufacturers such as Samsung, Sharp, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Sendo and Sony Ericsson. The decision to take the open source route is one of the biggest if not the biggest open source conversion project. It was a bold move on the part of Nokia. I could just imagine the amount of license agreements that needs to be ironed out in order to open source all of the source code in the mobile operating system.

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With the continued growth of the mobile space, Samsung has announced it’s foray into the mobile operating system space. Samsung has announced it’s own open mobile platform called Bada (means “Ocean” in Korean). Bada joins the already existing mobile OS such as Android, Blackberry OS, iPhone OS, Maemo, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile to name some.

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