FOX Business has some shocking news about the smartphone market. It turns out there are other phones out there other than the Apple iPhone. Last Thursday, Microsoft Mobile Communications Group Manager Scott Rockfield appeared with BusinessWeek writer Arik Hesseldahl to show off a variety of upcoming and existing Windows Mobile 6.1 devices in the six-minute segment. The segment also references some smartphone market share figures from Nielsen Mobile which show BlackBerry at number 1 with …
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iPhone’s Enterprise Ready Security = Non Existent
The new iPhone 2.0 and iPhone 3G have been advertised as being enterprise ready and all, but it turns out there’s a major security flaw in the iPhone operating system. Check out this article on Gizmodo to see how easy it is to bypass the iPhone’s password protection. Windows Mobile’s security on the other hand is a lot more advanced. Originally published on Pocketnow on August 28, 2008. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow …
Continue readingRosario Uses Windows Mobile 10?
In the very beginning of the first episode of The Gemini Division, an online-only web television series produced by NBC, we see the main character, played by Rosario Dawson, using an ultra-thin widescreen Windows Mobile device to record and send her video messages to a friend via Windows Live Messenger. I’m not sure why she wasn’t using full duplex video calling. Perhaps her friend wasn’t online at the time and she had to send an …
Continue readingFictional Smartphone Market Share Numbers Are Fun
Michael Mace of Mobile Opportunity has posted an interesting article called “Does anybody really know what smartphone market share is?” The first surprise is that Nielsen shows Apple in fourth place in smartphone share. That’s wildly different from what Canalys, the source usually reported, has been saying (link). Canalys shows Apple’s market share as 28% in Q3 2007 while Nielsen shows it at 8% at the same time. The conflict in the numbers underlines how …
Continue readingRunning the 2008 Olympics with Windows Mobile
Samsung, the “official Olympic sponsor for wireless communications equipment,” has provided Olympic officials with a number of mobile devices designed to connect to the “Wireless Olympic Works” (WOW) network developed in conjunction with Atos Origin. WOW offers real-time schedules, results, weather information, email, and instant messaging to Olympic officials. One of these devices (used by VIPs), is the Samsung SGH-i688 running Windows Mobile 6. As reported by WindowsForDevices, While Samsung provided relatively few details of …
Continue readingLondon IMAX Theater Becomes Giant Touch Diamond Ad
As posted on Modaco, we see a photo of the London IMAX theater with huge banner prints of the HTC Touch Diamond marketing graphics surrounding the building. For a larger photo, see here. I wonder how many people have tried to call Grace Fuller in New York with her picture up all over the place. Good thing it’s a fake 555 number. Originally published on Pocketnow on August 6, 2008. More Smartphone News articles from …
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