Good new for those who have invested in Samsung!
Samsung Electronics released their Q3 result, and it’s astonishing. They sold 60.2 million phones, with an average price of 81€. That’s 15% higher when compared to Q2, and a 16% higher than what it was last year.
This is also the first time that Samsung’s market share in phones climb over 20%. This makes Samsung worlds 2nd biggest player in mobile phones.
This is something that could come handy, an iPhone app that will translate text from a picture that you have taken. The app is priced at 1.59€.
The Nokia N97 mini will be released in Scandinavia next week.
The phone will come with a price-tag of 549€ for the standard edition, and the Comes With Music edition will be priced at 679€. Seems quite weird since the “real” N97 is priced at 579€ at the moment(in Finland).
Most of the mini’s will be of the CWM edition, and it will be harder to find stores that sell the phone without the service.
Guys from phandroid have gotten their hands on Motorola Droid running Android 2.0, and demos Google Maps Navigation in this video. The video itself is quite bad, but you can at least see small glimpses of the application. Enjoy!
Good new tho the HTC Hero users, HTC is working on bringing Android 2.0 to your phone! Don’t know if any other existing HTC phones will also be updated in the process, but at least the Hero will be.
Here is the quote from Engadget:
Yes, we are working on an Eclair update for the HTC Hero. Because Eclair is a significantly enhanced release, it will require some time to update Sense for this new version of the Android OS. Please be patient while we work to provide you with a tightly integrated experience like the one you are already enjoying on your Hero.
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A little correction to the post that I made yesterday, Google’s turn-by-turn navigation is first coming to Android 2.0, and after that possibly to the iPhone. Sorry about the mess-up in the last post :)
But what I didn’t write about in the last post, is that Google Maps Navigation will automatically jump when possible into street-view when arriving at the destination. This is what I call a nice feature!
Nokia today announced that it is now possible to re-download content from the Ovi Store.
Nokia started their transition phase with only selected phones and content first, but now they have made re-downloads possible in the whole Ovi Store.
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Google is possibly developing their own turn-by-turn navigation software for the iPhone. And the best part is, that this app would be totally free. The application would contain target specific ads, but that is only a minor con.
This would be a very big thing for iPhone users, since they would all have an own “real” navigator in their pocket, and without the cost of a normal navigator.
If this turns out to be true, all the other phone-makers needs to come up with something to compete with(except the Nokia Navigator phones with a life-time license to voice-navigation).
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So long the 1GHz Snapdragon, here comes a new powerhouse!
Together with the 3rd quarter earnings, P.A. Semi quietly spoke about the 2GHz beast in production. It will be a dual core Cortex-A9 CPU clocked at 2GHz.
What is also interesting, is the fact that they have already licensed this product to someone. They didn’t mention to whom it went, but it is to one of the following companies: Samsung, Apple, TI, Freescale or NVIDIA.
The following line came up when discussing about processor licensing:
Twenty-three of the licenses were for ARM’s advanced Cortex and Mali™ graphics processors of which eight licenses were signed for the Cortex-A family processors for use in consumer electronics and mobile computing applications, including a license for ARM’s 2GHz implementation of a dual core Cortex-A9 processor.
If this thing went to Apple, then it could mean a extremely powerful iPhone, or then the long rumored Apple Tablet.
I don’t actually care to whom it went, I just want to see the final product mobile size device that runs at 2GHz :)
Read the full press release here.
Google has today made the Android 2.0 parts available in their SDK. This means that developers can start testing their programs on the Android 2.0 OS, and also start implementing 2.0 specific code.
Read the Android 2.0 highlights here.
Video after the break.
In the video you can see Windows 3.11 running “inside” of the N900. It is achieved by running Windows 3.11 on a MS-DOS emulator, Dosbox in particular.
The “hacker” who did this is Toni Nikkanen, and if you understand Finnish you can read his blog here ;)
The long awaited firmware update to the Nokia N97 was just released!
This brings the version numbering to 20.0.019 /20.1.019 / 20.2.019:
This software release improves touch screen usability, allowing you to scroll smoothly through content by flicking the screen. Ovi Maps 3.1 brings 3-D maps, more accurate positioning, and improved search. Nokia e-mail (Nokia Messaging), Ovi Contacts, Ovi Store, and VoIP support have been added. This release also includes improvements in memory and battery performance, and in image and video stability. To get this software through your device, select Applications > SW Updates and choose the software you want to update. Alternatively, this software release is available through the Nokia Software Update.
