Fresh and Mobile

ALL HANDSET MAKERS TOP 10 :

1 – Nokia . . . . . . .   432 Million 38  %
2 – Samsung . . . .    227 Million 20  %
3 – LG . . . . . . . . . . 117 Million 10  %
4 – SonyEricsson . . . 57 Million   5  %
5 – Motorola . . . . . . . 55 Million   5  %
6 – ZTE . . . . . . . . . .  50 Million   4.5%
7 – Kyocera . . . . . . . 45 Million    4  %
8 – RIM  . . . . . . . . .  35 Million    3.5%
9 – Sharp . . . . . . . .  29 Million    2.6 %
10 – Apple . . . . . . . . 25 Million    2.2 %
Others . . . . . . . . . .  56 Million    5%
TOTAL . . . . . . . . 1,130 Million (1.13 Billion)

Smartphones sale:

1 – Nokia . . . .  68 Million    39%
2 – RIM . . . . .  35 Million    20%
3 – Apple . . . .  25 Milllion    15%
4 – HTC  . . . . .  8 Million    5%
5 – Others . . .  35 Million    21%
Total  . . . . . . 175 Million

Smartphones OS:

1 – Symbian . . . . . . .  45%
2 – RIM . . . . . . . . . . . 20%
3 – Apple . . . . . . . . .  15%
4 – Windows Mobile . .  6%
5 – Google Android . . .  4%
Others . . . . . . . . . . . 10%

Source

According to ChangeWave, Android Usage increased 200% Over Past 3 Months.
On the smart phone market, RIM is still #1 (39%), then Apple (31%), Palm (6%).
Since the release of Motorola Droid, the coming of Nexus One, Android has a strong fleet coming.
We can also count that major careers will also try to push Android phones as much as possible.

Source : RWW

Google Goggles is a brand new service that aim to make search on content using the camera of your android phone.
take a picture of a book and get some review. Take a snapshot of a business card and add contact info into your address book., etc.

The next Symbian version will be more augmented reality, more integrated with the main apps (facebook, Gmaps; twitter, etc.)

Bada is the new OS developped by Samsung for mobile phones.
So why Bada ?

• Samsung bada is a new open platform that enables a richer user experience in applications on Samsung mobile devices.
• Samsung design principles aim to deliver simple, intuitive, and innovative user experiences
  through innovative visual design. Samsung bada includes a next
  generation UI framework with feature sets and design elements that
  facilitate leading-edge user interfaces for every bada application.
• bada includes integrated support for service-oriented features to enable the development of connected applications
• Samsung is deeply committed to the developer community and the application store. With a series of developer days, the developer challenge, and the opening of the application store, Samsung is establishing an environment to encourage innovation and creativity among bada developers.
• The bada-powered devices will become a significant force in the market in 2010.
• Samsung Application Store starting in the first half of 2010

So nothing new under the sun..or not?

The Windows app store a.k.a Windows mobile marketplace is open. On the same line of iTunes appstore, Android store and Adobe market place.You can buy your app online and the you get a link for downloading it.

An interseting article on why we should design first an application for a mobile device.

1. Mobile is exploding
2. Mobile forces you to focus
3. Mobile extends your capabilities

Yes it’s done, In Flash CS5, you can export you as3 coded application into a native iPhone application. This is a great news from Adobe Max, and it will boost the number of new application for  iPhone. It’s great, remember how many flash developer and flash application exist compare to the specific iPhone SDK developer. So now, you can produce a RIA usinf flash/flex and distribute it to every devices (phones,desktops, browsers) you want.