VisionMobile has an excellent presentation on Mobile Megatrends. It provides a current view of the mobile industry. After scanning through all the information I came away thinking how much the industry has changed over the last few years.
Only a few years ago, Vision Mobile was saying…
"We believe that 2006 marks a turning point in the […]

Forward Concepts have a new report on "Smartphone & Chip Market Opportunities". It shows 2008 smartphone market share as follows…

Findings include…

Smartphone shipments worldwide are projected to grow 13% in 2009 to 164 million units

A compound annual growth rate of 21.7% to the 387 million unit level in 2013

Symbian continues to be the leading Smartphone operating […]

Yesterday, I mentioned that the presentations from the Symbian Smartphone were now online. Taking a look at them, I’d single out at least two that are particularly worth looking at if you are interested in market statistics…
Mr Adolfo Galindo González’s Senior Expert, Handsets and Smartcards, Telefonica.  The role of applications in the network operator business. […]

I have been talking to Rhomobile about their new cross platform Ruby-based mobile application framework. Rhomobile is different in that it’s open source.  As I will explain later in this post, being open source solves some problems associated with mobile cross platform frameworks.
I tend to assess cross platform frameworks (and widget frameworks) against the following […]

There are some interesting figures in the latest Gartner Q208 Smartphone sales statistics. It seems smartphone growth (as measured by its proportion of the market) is stalled at 11 per cent. This is due to…
"the current economic environment"and
"compelling touch technology mainly available on enhanced phones (based on proprietary operating systems)"

At first sight, it’s disappointing that […]

Now that a significant number of third party applications are running on iPhones, it’s inevitable that the iPhone has become less stable. Phone lockups can occur and reboots are required. I have also heard from several developers that they are getting ‘low memory’ messages in their applications when the phone should, in fact, have lots […]

There’s an interesting article at MobileInternetTrends reporting on Arun Sarin’s challenge to the mobile industry to whittle down the number of operating systems currently supported for mobile phones.
"We have 30 or 40 operating systems right now, if we had three or five operating systems, then that would be a good thing."
While I can see […]