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IDC predict strong Windows Mobile growth, Windows Mobile 7 success

11 years

IDC has predicted that Windows Mobile will grow strongly between 2009 and 2013. Noting that 18.3 million Windows Mobile handsets were shipped last year (7% down on 2008), IDC predicted Windows Mobile will boost its "con...

Lies, damn lies and sensationalist headlines – Samsung and Windows Mobile

by Surur

11 years

The online news world was yesterday abuzz with news of Samsung dropping Windows Mobile, to such a degree that Samsung senior vice president Don Joo Lee had to actually come out and explicitly deny it. In an interview with Digitime...

Opera Mobile 10 beta now out for Symbian, will come to Windows Mobile soon too

by Surur

11 years

Symbian users have long been envious of the rapid release of Opera Mobile 9.5 on Windows Mobile, having seen their version stagnate in beta for quite some time. It seems now Windows Mobile users will have to wait, as Opera has jus...

Nokia Microsoft Alliance aims to kill RIM’s BES

by Surur

11 years

There has been a lot of people who really should know better decrying the Nokia Microsoft partnership as bringing no value to both parties while not representing any real threat to the main target RIM. They are of course very wron...

Why is Microsoft Not Winning the Smartphone War?

by Surur

11 years

Why is Microsoft Not Winning theÂ SmartphoneÂ War? Microsoft, the personal computer juggernaut, has long dominated the computer industry with their Windows Operating System. Windows has managed to stay dominant and ward off bo...

Windows Mobile, HTC rules the UK business smartphone roost

by Surur

11 years

UK is not USA, despite having more or less the same language, and one of the ways it shows is in the attitude towards Windows Mobile. While USA has a pretty big downer on the OS, UK is often chosen to launch a new Windows Mobile s...

Windows Mobile has 27% of US smartphone market

by Surur

11 years

Comscore has surveyed close to 40 000 US cell phone subscribers and, according to FierceDeveloper, published these February 2009 stats. Android Symbian PalmOS iPhone WM RIM 427914 888532 2398755 5258504 6807554 9668977 2% 3% 9% 21...

Gartner’s Q4 2008 results in – Windows Mobile doing OK, soundly outsells OSX

by Surur

11 years

Gartner doesnt report too well on Windows Mobile, but their results is still an occasion for some discussion, be it positive or negative. On this occasion the results could be interpreted rather positively. According to Gartner 4....

Despite the Windows Mobile rumours, it’s Symbian thats dying

by Surur

12 years

Canalys has published their latest Q3 2008 smartphone numbers, and despite wide-spread proclamations that Windows Mobile is not just dying but dead already, it was in fact Symbian which not only saw a 21.5% drop in marketshare, bu...

No Opera Mobile 9.5 for Symbian anytime soon

by Surur

12 years

Opera Mobile 9.5 is well recognized as the best mobile browser in the world. Opera, who has been developing the software for the last year, has been working on both a Windows Mobile and Symbian version. A Symbian version has even ...