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 April 5th, 2011 by lhaas
Android is King.
69.5 million people in the US owned smartphones during the three months ending in February 2011, up 13 percent from the preceding three-month period. For the first time, more Americans are using phones running Google’s Android operating system than Research In Motion’s BlackBerry, according to comScore. Having passed the iPhone [...]
April 1st, 2011 by lhaas
The IDC’s Mobile Devices Technology and Trends team predicts that Android will end up on top in 2011, but will be overtaken by Microsoft’s WP7 platform by 2015. The author of this article (below) begs to differ: “In the close to six months that WP7 has been available, it has failed to set [...]
January 19th, 2011 by lhaas
In the first update to Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is planning to block ChevronWP7, which allowed users to unlock any retail Windows Phone 7 device for application side-loading without having to pay $99 per year for a WP7 marketplace account. The update, which is slated for release this month, will also introduce copy [...]
January 4th, 2011 by lhaas
This article provides an interesting history of the development of brands and operating systems and poses the question: Will people “start the buying process with ‘I want an Android phone’, and then choose based on features, price and brand, probably in that order?”
Once the idea of an operating system being independent of [...]
October 28th, 2010 by lhaas
Nokia ignores calls to ditch MeeGo in favor of an Android or Windows platform. Never underestimate how difficult it is to swallow one’s pride.
If the mobile market were a hospital, Nokia would be in the ICU right now, a stubborn patient insisting for too long that leeches were the best cure for [...]
July 14th, 2010 by lhaas
Attention Android Forensics Wiki subscribers!
Our Android Forensics Physical wiki (subscription required) now includes a comprehensive list of Android devices including in depth details about each device. We will be updating this list as we test our viaForensics’ apps — AFLogical and AFPhysical — on each device.
February 23rd, 2010 by ahoog
This will be a pivotal year for Windows Mobile…the trend is not on their side but with it still sitting at #4, as the article says, they have a footing. Personally, I think the mindset of trying to adopt the desktop OS/GUI to a hand held phone put Microsoft at a disadvantage for [...]
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