With all of the buzz circulating regarding mobile application stores from companies like Apple and Google with their App Store and Android Market, respectively, a huge push has been made by developers towards creating the next best app. While Apple’s App Store is currently dominating thanks to their early start, Android’s massive marketshare is helping the platform flourish.
If you’re a developer (or just someone interested) who is looking for the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G source code you will be happy to hear that HTC has released them today. To grab them just head over to HP’s developer website here.
written by husain
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I have seen the Nokia’s simple phones been eclipsed by the smartphone market, but a recent factoid has leaked out. Apparently, the Nokia N8 has the most pre-orders of any phone. Seriously, of any phone? This beats out the iPhone, and other Android phones? Oddly enough, the company has not released the official number of [...]
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Apple is rumored to be hosting a top secret iOS developer conference in California this week. The event is supposed to start on Tuesday and run through Thursday.
Could this meeting of the minds be Apple’s attempt to counteract the rise of Google’s Android platform in the smartphone market? There’s plenty to speculate about…
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LG Electronics CEO Nam Young has resigned on Friday due to the struggle the company was having in the smartphone market. Young is being replaced by Koo Bon-joon, a member of the founding family at LG.
This move is similar to Nokia, whose CEO recently decided to step down and whose chairman announced that he is leaving in 2012. Between 2005 and 2008, LG went from sixth to third place in cellphone sales. LG Electronics is the world’s second largest TV manufacturing company. LG was able to attain this ranking during Young’s tenure, which started in 2007.
[WSJ]
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Garmin has released several smartphones over the past few years, but hasn’t been able to achieve a reasonable market share. According to company CFO Kevin Raukman, the company will decide in the next few quarters whether to continue investing in the smartphone business. He said, “We have to make a decision within the next couple of quarters whether to continue to invest or whether to pull back.”. Pull back doesn’t mean “retreat”, but rather, shut down the smartphone division.
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\\ tags: australia, garmin, garmin-approach, handheld-system, Iphone, kevin-raukman, nyc, permanent-link, smartphone, the-smartphone, train
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