Finally today morning I managed to listen the conference call (see the end of the press release for a link to listen to it) about Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Nothing very special was reveaded, but it was interesting to hear Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page and mobility chief Andy Rubin argue many times [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Apple’
Will Android remain open?
Posted in Android, Smartphones, Tablets, tagged Android, Apple, Google, GPL, Microsoft, Motorola, open source, patents on August 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Samsung plans to sell Galaxy Tab 10,1 regardless of the court ban
Posted in Android, Tablets, tagged Android, Apple, argument, patents, Samsung on August 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Patent and trademark disputes are nasty, and often it feels they are against consumers’ best interest anyway. The latest case is between Apple and Samsung, and a German court that has banned the sales of the new Galaxy Tab 10,1 tablet in Europe. Check the news reports on Google News if you don’t know about this yet. [...]
Cool mobile phone vendor infographics
Posted in Smartphones, tagged Apple, infographics, mobile phones, Nokia, Samsung on July 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick post today. There are very nice infographics on Asymco.com demonstrating lively with animation how operation profits, revenues and volumes of mobile phone vendors have changed from 2007 to the summer of 2011. You can select which vendors to follow, and the most dramatic changes can be visualised by selecting Apple, Nokia and Samsung. [...]
SA: Samsung overtakes Nokia in smartphones, but not yet Apple
Posted in Smartphones, tagged Android, Apple, Bada, Nokia, Samsung, smartphones, Strategy Analytics on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Already before we learnt Apple overtook Nokia in smartphone sales during Q2 2011 (from April to June), with about 20 million shipments against Nokia’s a little less than 17 million. But it was not yet known how the South Korean vendor Samsung did. Samsung has just reported its Q2 2011 results. I won’t go into [...]
How Elop did not kill Symbian
Posted in Smartphones, Symbian, Windows Phone, tagged Apple, Nokia, Samsung, smartphones, Stephen Elop, Symbian on July 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Since Nokia released its Q2 2011 results and figures of rapidly declining smartphone market share, there’s been fierce debate on mobile blogs whether Stephen Elop‘s ”Burning Platform memo” and the February 11th announcement to move to Windows Phone are to be blamed. There’s an interesting argument against this on the personal blog of Stasys Bielinis (aka [...]
Google+ app for iPhone, but not yet iPad or iPod touch
Posted in Android, iOS, Media, Smartphones, Symbian, Tablets, tagged Android, Apple, Google, iOS, Symbian on July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday Google released a Google+ app for iPhone 3G/3GS and iPhone 4. It’s in early beta, and Google+ developers have admited there still are many bugs. I tried it immediately on iPhone 4 with a recent iOS 4.x release, but for some reason I can’t even get in. The login says I “appear to be offline”. I [...]
