Android – Iphone – Applications

Last week, the research firm Gartner released some figures that show that Windows mobile is rapidly loosing its market share due to Apple’s iPhone, RIM’s Blackberry and Google’s Android.

From Q3 2008 to Q3 2009,the Microsoft’s mobile platform lost 28% of its global smartphone market share. It previously had 11 % share in the world’s smartphones, which fell to 7.9%.

At the same time, Apple’s iPhone share rose from 12.9% to 17.1%, whereas BlackBerry’s rose to 20.8% from 16%.

However, the Google’s Android OS has been far more impressive. According to Gartner, it already makes up for almost 4% of all global smartphone sales.

The reason behind Windows Mobile phones failing popularity appears to be their reputation as devices for work, not play in the consumer’s mind.

The good thing is that Microsoft is aware of the fact that it has a problem, and is working to overcome it. In order to do this, it is re-branding the entire mobile phone ecosystem as ‘Windows Phone’, by introducing an innovative range of mobile services that are more consumer-focused.

One of the first phones introduced is the HTC HD2, which is no doubt, a great set.

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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: Android, App, Apple, Application, Free, Google, Iphone, OS

Tomorrow T-Mobile is selling the BlackBerry Bold 9700 for $199.99. This is great news for T-Mo since it is their first 3G BlackBerry phone that they are selling. The specs of the phone include a 480×360 display and a 3.2 megapixel camera.

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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: 3G

Apple recently filed a patent for “Advertisement in Operating System.” The patent date was October 22 and the abstract of the patent is as follows:
“Among other disclosures, an operating system presents one or more advertisements to a user and disables one or more functions while the advertisement is being presented. At the end of the advertisement, the operating system again enables the function(s). The advertisement can be visual or audible. The presentation of the advertisement(s) can be made as part of an approach where the user obtains a good or service, such as the operating system, for free or at reduced cost.”

Apple has $34 billion in cash and the company has been doing very well financially. However their operating system market share is not very large when compared to Microsoft Windows. And Google is expected to launch an open source operating system in the near future. Apple is also competing with the Ubuntu operating system as it continues to spread on netbook devices. It may be in Apple’s interest to make their devices and operating systems more affordable given that the operating market is starting to get saturated and consumers are getting more options.

This patent indicates that Apple is interested in selling computers with a low cost operating system sometime in the future. The user may be forced to watch an advertisement before continuing an operation. Apple products have carried a premium price for a very long time. Perhaps it is time to for them to make more money from those who were not willing to buy Apple’s products based on today’s prices.

The inventors of the patent include CEO Steve Jobs, Freddy Anzures, Mike Matas, Gregory Christie, and Patrick Coffman.

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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: App, Apple, Free, Google, OS

Galactic Gunner is on sale for free – normally $.99-$2.99

I’ve only played a little bit of this game and it’s pretty good, especially if you can get it for nothing! You play the part of the gunner on a fighter ship in some kind of epic struggle against bad aliens called Trepidoids. The game mostly involves a lot of frantic tapping as you try to shoot down the enemy, and Ezone did a nice job on the 3D graphics.

Galactic Gunner went on sale two days ago so it could start costing $$$ anytime now. Hurry up and grab it while it’s still free!

iTunes Link – Galactic Gunner

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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: App, Apple, Application, Download, Free, Game, Iphone, ITunes, Mac, OS

Archibald’s Adventures Lite 1.7

Category: Games
Price: Free (iTunes)
Version: 1.6 -> 1.7

Description:

Help Archie to overcome all of the pitfalls of a mad scientist’s mansion in this funny action puzzle game! Archie and crazy professor Klumpfus are stuck in the professor’s mansion. The latest experiment of the goofy scientist went all wrong, and weird lifeforms escaped from their containment. Now a paranoid central computer locked both heroes up!

Archibald’s Adventures offers gameplay mixed of action and puzzle elements with gradually rising complexity. The player starts as a boy on skateboard, but soon he will roll in robotic vehicle capable of riding on walls and ceilings, and remotely control mysterious floating bubble able to switch distant mechanism or transport objects in many tricky puzzles.

This LITE version presents 40 levels of the game for free, but the adventure does not end here!

TEST YOUR SKILLS AND WIT IN MORE THAN 170 UNCANNY LEVELS IN THE FULL VERSION!

* 4th place in Game Tunnel’s 2008 Puzzle Game of the Year!

* Available in English, French, German, Russian and Czech language.

You can find collection of walkthrough videos at http://archibald.rakeingrass.com/help.php

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What’s New

- changes corresponding to the new free addon of 12 levels in the full version

- added two new bonus levels in the first chapter

- link to all games from Rake in Grass
Archibald’s Adventures Lite

Popularity: 2% [?]

written by Duy Phong \\ tags: Android, App, Free, Game, Iphone, ITunes, OS