Mobile market is growing quickly. This allows for some space every for a new player to come and play the game of mobile OSes. In a rapidly changing market, we've passed from a strong Apple dominance (4 years ago) to an Apple-Android market split, where Windows Phone 7, Symbian OS and others fight for a share of the pie. What will we have in 4 years? It is hard to tell, but new systems are always welcome. Wether they'll remain or disappear, only time will tell. The new contestant? Fusion Garage's Grid OS
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Although the news of a new update for Symbian OS, called Belle, has come to our years since Monday, only today has officially been announced by Nokia. But with this announcement, has also come another one of three new smartphones that comes with OS: Nokia 600, Nokia 700 and Nokia 701. All three are scheduled to appear in the third quarter of this year, which means that we will find them in stores soon.
Samsung Electronics, the second mobile phones manufacturer worldwide, has announced that will launch in the upcoming period four new smartphones from the Galaxy series, all of them running on the powerful operating system Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
The company did not provide more accurate data about when the phones will sell, but they will be commercially available by the end of 2011.
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Skype has bought the messaging service for smartphones GroupMe. Even if the transaction amount was not officially disclosed, the international press writes that Skype paid 85 million dollars.
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Nexus Prime, the fourth smartphone from Google after HTC Dream, Nexus One and Nexus S, will be launched on market next month, with the Android 4.0 operating system (codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich).
HTC, the second largest Asian producer of mobile phones, filed a complaint against Apple, claiming the U.S. giant has infringed three patents.
The news came as a shock on Monday morning for the whole IT market in the world, Google will buy Motorola. It is not a joke from any blogger, but an official announcement of the Google boss, Larry Page. The "excuse" is that this acquisition will increase competitiveness in the telephony and operating systems market, and a great acquisition after the huge involvement Motorola has had with the Android project.
Nokia President Chris Weber has come up with a greatest insight into the Nokia’s latest strategy in an interview with VentureBeat. He made an astonishing comment saying that interfaces and app-based models such as Android and iOS will “outdate” soon.
Researcher Karsten Nohl, an expert in data security, started a campaign against the major mobile operators in order to determine the adoption of more stringent measures to secure data traffic created by the users of mobile internet services.
Just one day after Apple convinced the court in Düsseldorf, Germany, that Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 imitates the iPad and obtained a court order that prohibits the sale of the South Korean tablet in few European countries, here’s that Steve Jobs and his team from Cupertino launches a new lawsuit, this time against Motorola.