Gartner released their market research on worldwide smartphone sales today. Needless to say Nokia, is still the runaway market leader with a whopping 441 million devices sold, garnering a respectable 36.4%. But that’s down 2 percentage points over 2008. Samsung came next with 236 million devices sold, followed by LG (122m), Motorola (58m), Sony (55m) [...]
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Video: Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki on N97 issues: “I can put my sleepless nights behind me”
Here is the first in a series of videos of the interview that Rafe and I filmed at Mobile World Congress last week featuring Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President of Markets. And he means business. Part 1 below is all about the N97. Anssi specifically wanted to deal with that first before we got on [...]
Video: Lee Williams talks to DeviceAnywhere’s Faraz Syed
Before we took a stroll around Mobile World Congress with Lee Williams, Symbian‘s Executive Director, Rafe and I took Lee over to meet DeviceAnywhere’s top man, Faraz Syed, to discuss their recently launched Virtual Developer Lab for Symbian: Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video
Video: Lee Williams of Symbian challenges Google’s Andy Rubin: Show Us Your Android Code!
In the third part of our interview with Lee Williams of the Symbian Foundation, we turned to the subject of Android. I had expected Lee to give us one or two sentences about Android along the lines of ‘we see it, it’s not a focus for us’ but no — he got stuck right in, [...]
Lee Williams video fest coming up!
From the feedback I’ve been getting I know that many readers are thoroughly enjoying the opportunity to see Lee Williams, the Executive Director of Symbian, riffing on the future of Symbian on video over the past few weeks. I’m pleased to say we’ve a lot more where those came from. In the next few minutes [...]
Video: Rafe introduces our MWC coverage
Here’s Rafe standing by the fountains at the Barcelona Fira introducing our Mobile World Congress coverage. Note: I’ve decided to use Vimeo to host the footage so that it’s easily embeddable (as apposed to the proprietary Mobile Developer TV format). Do lift it if you’d like to use it.
Swype, the new text-input method is looking very good
Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video At MobileFocus this evening, we popped by the Swype stand and had a look. We first saw the Swype founder Cliff Kushler demonstrate a really alpha version of the text input system back at CTIA in 2008 (See the end of this video). Fast forward [...]
Video: Stefan Constantinescu on Sony Ericsson’s launch
What did Stefan, one of the key contributors over at IntoMobile.com, make of the Sony Ericsson launch event and their news? Stefan’s never one to hold back or keep his thoughts to himself, so enjoy… Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video
Video: Dan Carter and Kinny Cheng on Sony Ericsson’s launch
We caught up with Dan Carter of CoolSmartPhone and Kinny Cheng of Mobique.com to give us their perspective on Sony Ericsson’s ‘fab five’ (i.e. 5 devices) launch. Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video
Video: Symbian’s sensor framework used by Sony Ericsson Vivaz
We were pleasantly surprised to see the Symbian sensor framework being used on the all new Sony Ericsson Vivaz. In this video, we should you how the Sony Ericsson team have integrated it into the background display to brilliant effect. Have a look! Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video
Video: Lee Williams announces Symbianˆ3
The Symbian Foundation’s Executive Director, Lee Williams, tells us about the launch of Symbianˆ3. You can find out more details of this version at Symbian.org. Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video
Video: Hands-on with the Symbian Sony Ericsson Vivaz
Rafe and I caught Dan Carter with an all new shiny Sony Ericsson Vivaz at the Sony Ericsson launch party this evening. Dan is normally blogging over at CoolSmartPhone, but has been helping out with the official Sony Ericsson blog. Which is why he came to have the Vivaz about his person this evening. We [...]
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