Posts Tagged ‘LG’

Windows Phone 7 cracked

Sunday, November 28th, 2010

The tool for jailbreaking the smartphones on the platform Windows Phone 7 appeared on the net, reported the techblog IThinkDifferent. Using the program ChevronWP7, users will be able to crack their smartphones and install third-party applications on them. At present Windows applications can be downloaded only from the official store Marketplace. So far, the number of applications in the Marketplace is about 3,000. Windows application developers are not very happy with this news as now they have to think how to protect their apps.

chevron_wp7The mobile platform Microsoft which followed Windows Mobile 6.5 was introduced in October 2010. At present only nine models of smartphones based on this operating system have been introduced on the market. They are sold in 30 countries of the world including Europe and North America. Mobile application development companies have already working hard creating apps for Windows and other mobile platforms.

The models based on WP7 were launched by NTC, LG, Samsung, and Dell. In Russia Windows Phone 7 smartphones are expected to be on sale only in spring 2011.

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For the last year sales of smartphones doubled

Monday, November 15th, 2010

In the third quarter of 2010 the volume of smartphones sold has doubled in comparison with the same period of 2009. In general, in July – September about 80.5 mln smartphones were sold, reported the analytical company Gartner. videocallsfromiphone

The most popular mobile platforms became Symbian, Android and Apple iOS with the figures 36.6, 25.5 and 16.7 per cent correspondingly. At that, the market share of the Google OS Android has increased by seven times.

The analytics from Gartner have conducted the figures according to the general number of sold mobile phones. However, in the third quarter of 2010 about 417 mln new mobile devices were purchased. At this, this figure has increased by 35% for the last year.

The biggest mobile phone manufacturers are Nokia, Samsung and LG. The market share of the Finnish company was 28.2%. All together in July – September more than 117 mln Nokia mobile phones were sold around the world. The figure for Samsung was 71 mln mobile devices.

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Notable fact for mobile apps developers: LG believes in Android!

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

The South Korean LG Electronics Company has published its mobile strategy for the year 2010. It is going to sell more than ten million of cell phones and smartphones. Also LG plans to release about twenty new models of smartphones this year and more than a half of them will be running OS Google Android. The rest models will be based on Windows Mobile and different Linux versions.
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Meanwhile, LG will gradually reduce the number of mobile devices with Windows Mobile “on board”. It’s a notable fact for mobile application developers, because analytics couldn’t foresee such changes. Only in 2008 LG Electronics and Microsoft formed an alliance to join their efforts in mobile devices development. Even in 2009 an absolute majority of LG smartphones were developed on the Windows Mobile operating system, and LG Eve was the only phone on the Android platform. This year the situation has changed dramatically and it definitely will have action upon those companies who provide such services as mobile application development for Android and Windows Mobile.

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