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.
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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Notable fact for mobile apps developers: LG believes in Android!
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Windows Mobile and iPhone OS: results of the year 2009
Monday, January 11th, 2010Summing up results of the year 2009, it will be quite reasonable to choose the best operating system for successful mobile apps development. So, what operating systems did we have at the turn of the year? Of course, there were Windows Mobile, iPhone OS, Symbian OS, Symbian UIQ, Linux Mobile, Palm OS and BlackBerry OS. Let’s try to investigate which of them has all chances to be called the best one.
Ah, this “old woman” still holds the largest market share. It has relatively out-of-date interface, nevertheless Microsoft delays the release of Windows Mobile 7 with touch-screen interface (as they promise) and complete compatibility with older apps versions. Though this OS has undoubted plus (a large number of good and stable mobile applications with rich functionality that was accumulated over the years), it’s not a permanent advantage. It can be lost soon as new operating systems are constantly adding new applications, offering new features and up-to-date interface. In general, if the next version of Microsoft Windows Mobile does not have any pleasant surprises for its users, the company will lose its market share under pressure of other mobile operating systems.
Yes, it’s beautiful, yes, it’s quite functional and it has already accumulated a lot of good features and high-quality applications. Due to the fact that iPhone has taken a considerable market share its application are relatively cheap (it’s an important bonus for those who choose a platform for a mobile device). But it has the main drawback: only Apple can produce hardware and iPhone source code is closed for mobile development companies. Nevertheless it’s not an obstacle for numerous Apple fans, Mac + MacOS + iPod + iPhone can be considered as a modern religion, it’s a way of live, no doubt.
Why should I use PHP for web development?
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009Looking for a proper web programming language focus your special attention on PHP. Why? Here we have listed some reasons for such a decision:
1. Start, learn and develop PHP-applications FREE OF CHARGE
Members of more than thousand communities will be glad to help you with php. Great number of PHP forums and web projects provide all the necessary information, be sure that you’ll find answers for some standard questions even before you will have time to ask them.
Of course, you will pay nothing starting your work with php (unlike Microsoft’s aspx language and others). No paid php software is needed; open source editing tools allow to develop web applications based on php without any investments.
2. Hundreds of php code examples and frameworks
You will find great number of php code examples, that will help you to learn this language and use it for successful web development. Frameworks will save your time and will allow to do the most of repetitive programming tasks. Just use Google to get some more new php code examples and frameworks.
3. The best choice for web 2.0 applications and hosting companies
Create with PHP web 2.0 applications with rich user interfaces and impressive functionality. Remember that php works with javascripts!
Also web hosting based on Linux or Windows will be glad to take care of your php web site. 
4. The most of content management systems use PHP
Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress, some of the most popular open source CMS, written in php. It means that your php web development will be based on the following formula: free CMS + site functionality based on php + usability + qualitative design.
