Google’s latest addition to the Android and Chrome browser family is an add-on to the Chrome browser that allows you to quickly and easily send links and other information from your desktop or laptop to your phone to view on the go? The new Chrome to Phone extension adds a button to your Google Chrome…
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Smartphone sales accounted for 19% of worldwide mobile device sales
According to new figures from Gartner, mobile sales and smartphones sales continue to grow in the second quarter of 2010. Gartner’s latest figures show smartphone sales to end users accounted for 19% of worldwide mobile device sales, an increase of 50.5% from the second quarter of 2009, while worldwide mobile sales to end users totaled…
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Android registrations top 200,000 a day
Back in the heady days of January when Google launched the Nexus One – remember that? it was a kind of phone with a Google logo on it – Google announced that they were activating 60,000 new Android phones each day? Then in May, Google’s VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra announced it was up to…
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Mobile app market to be a two(ish) horse race by 2011
We love analysts reports at Bmob, but sometimes we just don’t agree, and the latest report from analysts ABI Research is a case in point. According to ABI Research they expect mobile application downloads from iOS and Android to account for 78% of all application downloads in 2010, with iOS taking the lion’s share of…
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Smartphones now 25% of US market
Android shows rapid growth as smartphone market grows to 25% in the US. Smartphones are really taking off in the US where they now represent 25% of the US mobile market, up from 23% in the last quarter according to recent data from The Nielsen Company. Not only are Smartphones growing they’re also predicted to…
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Android phones now 13% of UK phone market
Android’s share of the UK mobile contract market has grown from 3% in Q1 2010 to reach 13.2% in Q2 2010, GfK Retail and Technology’s latest figures have revealed. During this period, while contract market sales grew by less than 1%, sales of Android phones increased by a staggering 350%. Phones with an advanced Operating…
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Android App Market downloads pass 1 billion
According to the best estimates of web site Androlib the Android market has passed the 1 billion download mark and it’s growing exponentially, and Google announce 160,000 Android activations a day in their 2nd Quarter results. Less than two years after Google opened its Android Market application users have already passed the 1 billion downloads…
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Time to revenue for app developers is 36 days on average
A new report on app stores by VisionMobile should be required reading for any apps developers and publishers out there, especially those looking for revenue from their apps. According to VisionMobile’s Developer Economics 2010 report we are now in the industrial revolution era (2010-2014) of app development having gone through the difficult Dark Ages (2000-2004),…
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iPhone app download dominance under threat
The dominance of Apple’s iPhone in the mobile app download market will be eroded over the coming years as rivals make inroads. A new report by telecoms analyst Ovum states that mobile application downloads generated by non-operator application stores will grow by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 41% globally over the next…
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Opera Mini 5.1 for Android released
Opera has launched it’s successful Opera Mini 5.1 browser on to the Android platform. Opera Mini 5.1 improvements include allowing users to set Opera as the default browser for more convenient Internet access, and improved page layout on high-end Android handsets with large screens. Additionally, Android users get all the other updates from the Opera…
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Google makes Android app creation simple
Google has launched the Android App Inventor, it’s intended as a quick way of producing Android phone apps for non-technical and non-programmers ie 99.9% of the population, and from what we can see it’s really quite easy to use. The app is aimed at schools but there’s no reason why it can’t be used by…
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Distimo releases the first Apple iPad app data
Distimo have launched their latest report on app usage for May 2010 and it now includes Apple iPad App store usage as well as the usual list of usual suspects. The average price of all paid applications and the 100 most popular paid applications in the Apple App Store for iPad ($4.65) is higher than…
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Google Docs goes mobile
Google has launched via their Googlemobile blog a mobile website version of its Google Docs viewer, which lets people read PDFs, PowerPoint presentations and Word docs in their browser. The site works for Android, iPhone and iPad, and lets people pan and zoom within pages, and use pinch-to-zoom on the iPhone and iPad. This is…
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Android catching up on iPhone lead
Mobile data analysts Quantcast have released their monthly figures for vendor and operating systems and once again Apple is on top of the vendors, but when it comes to operating systems Google’s Android is starting to fight back. Quantcast’s May figures for operating systems show Apple’s IOS at 72.6% with RIM at 10% and Android…
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Editorial – Android just doesn’t work
Last night I spent three hours in an extremely hot room in the name of research. The research was for a mobile company, who will remain nameless, but I can reveal the research was all about smartphone interfaces and how they compared. Each phone in the research was subjected to the same against the clock…
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Apple beware, Android and Ovi are getting big
A couple of new snippets of info on the apps market released this week show that you’d be silly – nay stupid – just to concentrate all your efforts on building apps for the Apple platforms. There was plenty of big news for Android developers released at this week’s Google I/O jamboree in San Francisco’s…
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PayPal adds Android to it’s iPhone developer toolkit
Payments giant PayPal have added Android to their list of devices, with their latest update of their Mobile Payments Library. The library enables Android developers to add a PayPal payments system to their applications with a library of standard functions that can be added quickly and simply. The Mobile Payments Library allows developers to add…
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Mobile phone sales grew 17% in first quarter 2010
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the first quarter of 2010, a 17% increase from the same period in 2009, according to Gartner. Smartphone sales to end users reached 54.3 million units, an increase of 48.7% from the first quarter of 2009. With Android phones seeing a 707% growth…
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UK spends £422 million on mobile software applications each year
LG have released a survey on Android apps ahead of the release of their new Android phone – the LG Optimus GT540 handset, and the app of choice for UK users from the 50,000 Android apps available is a money saving app rather than a gaming or lifestyle app. LG estimates that the UK spends…
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Twitter to launch it’s own iPhone app today
If you’re looking for the Atebits Tweetie 2 app today then don’t bother, it’s been removed to allow for the new official Twitter app If you go to iTunes US and UK Tweetie no longer shows up. Links to Tweetie 2 on itunes also now return error messages. However according to Mobile Entertainment site people…