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Symbian diventa open source

5 febbraio, 2010 Economia, Mobile 0 commenti

Nokia e Symbian decidono una mossa importante per difendersi dall’aggressività di Android e Iphone (via blog Symbian)

The announcement that the Symbian platform is now wholly open source represents a unique moment for the mobile industry as a whole. The most widely distributed smartphone platform, the biggest migration from proprietary to open source software in history; delivered 4 months ahead of schedule (go to here to navigate different aspects of the open sourcing). Symbian also represents the largest addressable market for developers in mobile.
The announcement that the Symbian platform is now wholly open source represents a unique moment for the mobile industry as a whole. The most widely distributed smartphone platform, the biggest migration from proprietary to open source software in history; delivered 4 months ahead of schedule (go to here to navigate different aspects of the open sourcing). Symbian also represents the largest addressable market for developers in mobile.

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Total cost of ownership for smartphones

6 gennaio, 2010 Computer, Economia, Mobile 0 commenti

In attesa del Nexus One di Google

30 dicembre, 2009 Computer, Mobile 0 commenti

Oramai è chiaro: il 5 gennaio sarà presentato il nuovo e vero Google fonino.

Nel frattempo vale la pena di leggere le anteprime di Gizmodo

A tipster just sent in these Nexus One screenshots that supposedly confirms two things: that Google will sell it unlocked and unsubsidized for $530, and that Google will sell it by themselves. Plus, some other very interesting details.

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Google Phone a uso interno o no

13 dicembre, 2009 Economia, Mobile 0 commenti

Techrunch trova tracce in rete del vero Google phone

Last night, we started seeing some Tweets from Google employees and others about a new Android-powered Google phone that was apparently handed out at an “all hands” meeting. Now Google is confirming that it is indeed “dogfood” testing a new Android device with employees around the world.

But this isn’t just another Android phone. Very trustworthy sources who have seen the phone say that it is the Google Phone we first wrote about last month (despite the uninformed saying we were dreaming). It will be branded Google and sold by Google as an unlocked phone, which could change everything. As we wrote in our original post:

Google is building their own branded phone that they’ll sell directly and through retailers. They were long planning to have the phone be available by the holidays, but it has now slipped to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding (Microsoft did the same thing with their first Zunes, which were built by Toshiba).

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Le dimensioni della iPhone App Economy

28 agosto, 2009 Economia, Mobile 0 commenti

Via GigaOm

If I were to tell you that Apple’s app economy was worth more than $2.5 $2.4 billion a year, you would laugh hysterically, shake your head and walk out of the room, yes? Surf on over to some other web site? But here I am telling you exactly that! According to mobile advertising startup AdMob, there are some $200 million worth of applications sold in Apple’s iPhone store every month, or about $2.4 billion a year. Just to put that in context, Apple says about 1.5 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store. In comparison, the Android marketplace brings in about $5 million a month or on a run rate to do $60 million in a year, AdMob says. I bet that number rises up sharply once more handsets come to market. As you know, Motorola is announcing its new Android handsets at our Mobilize 09 conference on September 10.

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Un eeepc con Android

1 giugno, 2009 Computer, Mobile 1 commenti

E ora Android arriva sui netbook …

L’Iphone fa il 50% del traffico mobile USA, Android il 5%

25 marzo, 2009 Internet, Mobile 0 commenti

Via Techcrunch

The iPhone now accounts for 50 percent of mobile Web traffic from smartphones in the U.S., according to an AdMob Mobile Metrics report released this morning. Over the past six months, the iPhone has taken share from Blackberry and Windows Mobile. In August 2008, the iPhone made up only 10 percent of mobile Web traffic from smartphones. During the same time, Blackberry’s share has gone from 32 percent to 21 percent (with the Curve and the Pearl coming in stronger than the Storm), while Windows Mobile has taken an even bigger hit, declining from 30 percent to 13 percent. Palm is also down to 7 percent from 19 percent six months ago.

The only other smartphone operating system that is showing gains in mobile Web usage is Android, which has captured a strong 5 percent share just three months after launch.

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Palm alla riscossa: ecco il Pre e Palm Web Os

9 gennaio, 2009 Computer, Economia, Mobile 0 commenti

Dopo delle anticipazioni parzialmente sbagliate, è arrivato il grande giorno del nuovo Palm Pre e del nuovo Palm Web Os presentati al Ces di Las Vegas

N.d.B il video ufficiale di presentazione del Pre ricorda il feel di una nota azienda di Cupertino

palm-pre Palm Pre, di cui per ora non si conosce il prezzo e che verrà per ora distribuito solo da Sprint negli Usa da metà anno, è un ottimo mix delle cose più interessanti del software e delle interfacce dell’ultimo periodo tanto per capirsi del mondo Iphone a Android.

Il device di colore nero e curvilineo ha un touch screen con schermo da 3,1″ con risoluzione di 320 x 480 pixel e una tastiera Qwerty a scomparsa. Pesa 135 grammi. Ha UMTS, antenna GPS, fotocamera integrata da 3 megapixel con flash a led, un lettore mp3, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, memoria di 8 GB

Tutta da esplorare l’interfaccia grafica e Palm webOS. MobileCrunch ha la “prova su strada” più interessante

Interessante notare che qualcuno parla di una seconda giovinezza di Palm. Occorre vedere che propone l’azienda dopo Pre, ora che Palm ha un prodotto ottimo per la fascia alta, mentre l’entry level è datato e ha un sistema operativo decisamente diverso …

Android anche su netbook nel 2010

2 gennaio, 2009 Computer, Economia, Internet, Mobile 0 commenti

La notizia è importante: Google sta portando il suo Android anche sui netbook sconfinando nel territorio di competenza di Microsoft, Linux e Apple.

Via Venturebeat

The image above shows a netbook Asus EEEPC 1000H running on Google’s mobile operating system Android. Huh? You thought Android was for mobile phones, right? Well, as we’ve written before, Google is planning to use Android for any device — not just the mobile phones.

Besides writing as freelancers for VentureBeat, we also run a start-up called Mobile-facts. It took us about four hours of work to compile Android for the netbook. Having done so, we (Daniel Hartmann, that is) got the netbook fully up and running on it, with nearly all of the necessary hardware you’d want (including graphics, sound and the wireless card for internet) running. See the images below for further impressions.

Here’s the significance: Imagine the billion dollar market at stake here if Google can make good on this vision. Netbooks are basically small-scale PCs. For Silicon Valley myriad of software companies, it means a well-backed, open operating system that is open and ripe for exploitation for building upon. Now think of Chrome, Google’s web browser, and the richness it allows developers to build into the browser’s relationship with the desktop — all of this could usher in a new wave of more sophisticated web applications, cheaper and more dynamic to use. Ramifications abound: What does it mean for the stock price of Microsoft? Microsoft currently owns the vast majority of the desktop operating system market share? In recent weeks, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer repeatedly dismissed Android as competition to Windows Mobile.