Samsung’s current Android super phone, the Samsung Galaxy S, has been more or less selling like hotcakes. SK Telecom in South Korea has already sold over 500,000 units of the Galaxy S in one month. The Galay S offers a big 800×480 pixel 4.0 inch display that uses Samsung’s Super AMOLED technology. It also uses Samsung’s fast ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor.
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.
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.
Nokia’s performance as a global mobile leader has been going under fire these days. Recently, Rick Cadden, the founder of the Symbian Guru web site has decided to stop updating the site out of frustration. Rick decided to buy an Android based Nexus One. Nokia’s Symbian platform hasn’t been evolving up to speed in comparison to it’s competitors like Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. A Twitter conversation between Eldar Murtazin and Jan Ole Suhr thinks mismanagement may be the reason for Nokia’s problems.
Wow! This is a shocker. Nokia has bought Symbian several months back with the intent of open sourcing the mobile operating system and using it in its next generation of touch screen based mobile phones. The acquisition cost about 400 million USD and from what I’ve read Nokia is considering to dump the mobile platform in favor of it’s Linux based Maemo open mobile platform. Maybe it’s the reason that leaked info about the next generation N900 Rover tablet is getting a 3.5 radio chip built-in. Continue reading …
One great thing about open source is that creativity of people are unhindered. A lot of upcoming Android based mobile phones will be available in the market pretty soon. Some of these well connected phones will sport a user interface that has been enhanced to provide a better user experience. Of the several planned UI enhancements I’ve seen on the web so far, one of them is really sleek and stands out. Continue reading …
