Saturday, February 13, 2010

Android Mobile phone storming the market ??

Lately I gotten the Samsung Galaxy and dumped the HP912C with small touch screen and keypad that makes reading and texting a bit difficult for me. The Galaxy with “faster and more powerful performance” comes with some handy features, including being the first Android phone with built-in DivX support.
For an initial rundown, the Galaxy comes with an 800 MHZ application processor, 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen, Bluetooth 2.1 and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Phone Scoop also reports that the 13.2mm device also has quad-band GSM/EDGE and 900/2100MHz HSDPA 3G at 3.6Mbps. Then, of course, there will be the usual Google features like GMail, YouTube, Maps, Search, etc. The speed is well fast and easy to use with lots of applications to be downloaded from the store. This phone needs to sign with Iphone plan with 12G of dataplan limit per month at $30plus should be enough for usage including surfing the net,etc.

The Google Android mobile operating system seems to be catching the market by storm though currently runs on less than 2 percent of the world’s smartphones, but research firm Gartner predicts the platform will grow to 14 percent of the global smartphone market in 2012 — beating Apple’s iPhone, Windows Mobile and RIM’s BlackBerry platforms. I think partly the reason being the amount of applications available and the ease of downloading with fast speed is pulling the crowd.

Android will pale only to the Symbian OS, installed mostly on Nokia devices. Nokia is the world’s No. 1 phone manufacturer worldwide, and Symbian runs on about half of all smartphones.

Symbian’s share will fall to 39 percent by 2012, Gartner predicts.

Some reasons why Android will probably beat iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile on the global stage :

Google backs Android, a major pipeline for its cloud services. Android is improving rapidly. The Cupcake 1.5 release was well-received, and Donut 1.6 has already been sent over the air to handset owners. [ Though I have not downloaded this latest version ]

Android is open, making it easier to quickly gain developers’ support. Android will run on phones from several manufacturers, which will help it quickly spread through the marketplace. HTC ( first model the Tattoo ), Motorola ( first model the DEXT ) and Samsung are already supporting handsets.

Android combines the best of what’s out there. It’s open, but it offers iPhone-like menus and apps, with Windows Mobile-esque icons, with Palm Pre-like multitasking. There’s another arms race afoot — the battle among Android handset makers as to which company can squeeze the most out of the OS.

Gartner forecasts the following market share in 2012:

Symbian: 203 million handsets, 39 percent of the market;
Google Android: 76 million handsets, 14.5 percent of the market;
Apple iPhone OS: 71.5 million handsets, 13.7 percent of the market;
Windows Mobile: 66.8 million handsets, 12.8 percent of the market;
RIM BlackBerry OS: 65.25 million handsets, 12.5 percent of the market;
Linux variants: 28 million handsets, 5.4 percent of the market;
Palm webOS: 11 million handsets, 2.1 percent of the market.

The main takeaway: Android’s the biggest gainer of the bunch, at the expense of RIM’s BlackBerry OS.

WATCH OUT, Mr NOKIA, Your Symbian platform maybe outdated ! !


The HP 912C which I had regretfully dumped recently, though quite useful and fast, but screen size too small for me and keypad with one or two keys starting to act insensitive to pressing. China assembled product ........ compared to what the Koreans can do........ read further below..........







Latest News :   The Samsung Wave was unveiled in Barcelona ahead of Mobile World Congress - the world's largest mobile phone trade show.

The Korean manufacturer is currently the world's second largest producer of mobile phones - behind Nokia - but wants a larger share of the rapidly expanding smartphone market, which is dominated by Apple's iPhone.Samsung's latest smartphone is packed with a specification to impress. Featuring a hi-tech organic LED screen (AMOLED) which is thinner, less reflective and more energy efficient than traditional LED displays which require back-lighting.
The Wave is also the first handset to run Samsung's new open source operating system (OS) Bada and features an iTunes-style apps store for downloading games, mapping, eBooks and lifestyle applications.
Bada, which means ocean in Korean, is the latest mobile phone OS to be launched in an increasingly congested market - joining Apple's iPhone OS, Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows Mobile, Blackberry's RIM and the class leading open-source Symbian OS.

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