The Wave’s touchscreen device has a 3.3-inch Super AMOLED display, a 1GHz processor, 5MP camera, 2GB internal memory, and 802.11n Wi-Fi. The display is said to be “incredibly” vibrant and removes all outdoor visibility issues.Samsung also announced plans to release variations of its Bada OS for tablet PCs and TV set-top boxes. The Bada OS [...]
GPS Tech Review: Could you elaborate on the demand for your GPS applications and give us the trends that you are seeing in the market place? Mr. Bertagna: There is a greater awareness for GPS apps as demonstrated by the increase in downloads and inquiries LOCiMOBILE receives daily. The demand for personal location apps is [...]
Samsung’s Bada OS may become a retail tsunami if its Wave smartphone does its thing … It has apps, it has widgets, it has a great touch-screen with a Super AMOLED display and it multitasks…all in addition to being a phone. Multitasking isn’t one of the leading features that Samsung is promoting with Bada, but [...]
No contest is not the swan song for the South Korean appliance giant. The company may be a bit late to the smartphone party, but it also might be the one that gets the prize on the way home. The Samsung S8500 Wave is the first bada OS powered smartphone to hit the market. It takes Samsung’s TouchWiz [...]
The BlackBerry operating system now accounts for 19.4 percent of the worldwide smartphone market, with sales of 10.5 million units in Q1, according to research firm Gartner. BlackBerry trails Symbian (24.0 million units in Q1/44.3 percent market share) but still leads Apple’s iPhone (8.3 million units/15.4 percent share) and Google’s Android (5.2 million units/9.6 percent [...]
Google’s Android smartphones outsold the iPhone in the first quarter of 2010. The shift was attributed to the growing sales of the Motorola Droid models. The fourth-generation iPhone is expected to debut next month. Rumors that the iPhone will soon come to Verizon also continue to intensify, but the exit price of an ATT contract [...]
With your participation, Foursquare and Gowalla along with other apps like Loopt and Lattitude, share your location with their advertisers fusing the once distinct disciplines of editorial, advertising and promotion into one engagement. The value of this fusion is that marketers are now invited to push advertising cloaked as an editorial game which in reality [...]
Top 10 Highest Grossing and number 6 on the top 25 List! Yankee Group: “Nearly one-third of apps downloaded are purchased, up from 18% a year ago. Further, individual app prices have risen. The average paid app costs $2.85, compared with $1.99 last year.” According to the analysts at research firm Gartner, mobile application stores [...]
