Tag: symbian

RIM to run Android apps on BlackBerry devices?

Even with the best will in the World, BlackBerry hasn’t a hope in hell of catching up with Android or the iPhone in the apps war, so if you can’t beat them join them. The constant criticism that the Blackberry is getting for its poor showing in the app department – 10+k apps and that’s…

31 percent of mobile usage is via wifi

David Harper CEO of PercentMobile has shared some mobile traffic figures with the people on Mobile Monday and we thought they were so good we’d share them with you. The PercentMobile figures come from analysis of the last 6 months aggregate UK mobile Web Usage from a sample of over 2.5 million UK uniques, over…

Nokia provides app developers with new tools for Ovi

There’s been some interesting news from Nokia World 2010 over Ovi that should make app developers very happy. The first bit of good news is the usage statistics for its Ovi Store. Liz Schimel, VP of music services & connected entertainment, stated that Ovi Store now has 130 million active users globally, with 2 million…

App figures round up – Android now number two

We’re just doing some work on applications here at Business Mobile for a business partner, and part of that is to try and see the size of the market, so we went hunting  for figures on the number of applications in the wild. Unfortunately we just couldn’t find a single place with good figures that…

Nokia accounts for 47% of mobile ad impressions

Research from mobile ad network InMobi shows Nokia accounts for 48% of mobile ad impressions Nokia  (including Symbian) accounts for 47.4% of global* consumer mobile ad impressions in July 2010, according to the first metrics report from mobile ad network InMobi. Global Manufacturer Share July 2010 Manufacturer Impressions %Share Change Nokia 9,661,872,987 47.4 -3.6 Samsung…

Android to be number one mobile platform by 2015

Figures from Gartner show Android will be the number two platform by the end of 2010 and should surpass the number one platform Symbian – Yes we said Symbian not Apple or RIM – by the end of 2014. The worldwide mobile operating system (OS) market will be dominated by Symbian and Android, as the…

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),…

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…

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…

UK leads Europe in Smartphone race

comScore released a study of the smartphone market in Europe showing that smartphone adoption in the EU5 (U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy) has grown 32 percent versus a year ago to 51.6 million subscribers. Whilst growth can be seen across the range of monthly subscription fees, the mid to low tier is growing faster than…