Piggybacking on the announcement that it already has a commercially available Windows 6.5 handset available, China's ZTE emphasized how it ends to make smartphones genuinely affordable.Figures like 22 per cent of all handsets in 2010 being smartphones and raising that to 40 per cent in 2012.
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Rating: It´s all about social networking apparently
I was extremely puzzled when I learnt that Microsoft was going to
acquire (for an undisclosed sum) the mobile software specialist firm,
Danger.
Microsoft´s Robbie Bach muttered something about social networking at
the press conference and the press release which arrived today spells
it out more succinctly.
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Rating: What’s the point? We really like Symbian
With Motorola, Sony Ericsson and UIQ all sitting at the same table
here at the MWC, I had to ask the inevitable question, “Is UIQ going to
develop for the Windows Mobile environment?”
UIQ CEO Johan Sandberg’s reply summed it all up. “What and get out of the UI business?” he asked.
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Rating: Didn’t he just present @ MWC?
When the news came through that Vodafone has stolen a key employee from Microsoft, his name – Pieter Knook
– sounded awfully familiar. It didn’t take me long to recall that
Pieter had played major part in presenting Microsoft’s strategy at MWC.
That’s a mere two days before he jumped
ship for Vodafone.
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Symbian's recent announcement that it has
sold a total of 30 million handsets in Japan was aimed at shoring up its
sales performance. However, it also casts light on how an entrenched mobile OS
supplier – like Symbian – will cope with the pressure from the likes of Google
Android.
Symbian quoted figures from Techno Systems
Research which show
growth from 50 to 65 per cent of all NTT DoCoMo's 3G sales in 2007. Symbian
achieved this figure even though it is competing against a version of Linux.
That version of Linux comes from Montavista
and is not only specified by NTT DoCoMo but the operator has invested
in Montavista, too.
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