Developing for Windows Mobile?

If you develop applications for the smartphone market share, that (besides web applications) applications for smartphones. Smartphones are having a system that allows for a self-written software to install. There are different types of operating systems, like ordinary computer market. And, just as in ordinary computer market, you can develop your software is best for the most popular operating system.

The question that every mobile developer so now is: "For what operating system we must develop mobile applications?

The answer is simple: "Ask yourself the difficult question, but building a web application." A web application is platform independent and future-oriented. Is a web application for performance reasons is not an option, then you'd agree to look at the global smartphone sales by operating system.

Click image to enlarge (Source: Canalys)

These figures show that Symbian's market leader in the mobile operating system and Apple with its iPhone, recently has claimed a piece of market share. Based on these data it seems logical to choose the Symbian platform to develop software for the mobile market. But is it the best choice? That depends on what your target audience.

Mid-range or high end

Unlike its competitors, Symbian is also installed on one major type of mid-range smartphones. These are products with a huge turnover, a small color screen, no GPS and no touch screen. Approximately 85% of all Symbian phones in Europe are offered falls into this category.Some critics say:

"Nokia does somehow fake just by giving the Smartphone Sells Nearly All Their mid-to upper-class S60 phones." DanielW

Such critics refer to the market for high-end smartphones. A market with smaller numbers, but higher margins. In that market, also called the market of "mobile computer", is Symbian which is much less well represented.

To illustrate, here are a random selection from the range of Symbian.The "Nokia N95 is a high-end smartphone, while the rest clear mid-range smartphones.

Nokia 5500 Sport Nokia 6290 Nokia E50 Nokia N93i

Nokia N95

The mid-range smartphones do not usually have built-in GPS. Still, we expect that before too long these mid-range phones also have this functionality. So you develop location-based software for mid-range smartphones, Symbian has over a large potential market, especially over time. Symbian is because almost every ruler in the mid-range smartphone market.

But you develop a complex application, you can not handle the small screen and lack of a touchscreen and you must focus on the high-end smartphones.

America = high-end

Of course it is interesting to see the figures by area. We have estimated that 85% of Symbian products in Europe mid-range, while the competition almost exclusively high-end products aanbeidt. For convenience, we assume that all Symbian products are equally popular (probably actually the mid-range products is much more popular than the high end). This results in the graph where EMEA [1] the overall smartphone market in Europe. EMEA [2] is the estimated high-end market in Europe, questioned the size of the Symbian market share can be put.

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ROW to the rest of the world. We see that the iPhone market share is entirely due to the huge success in North America. We also see that Symbian with many mid-range products is not got a foothold in America, while high-end iPhone is doing very well there.

If we take America and Europe we see the following estimated distribution in the high-end smartphone market:

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They remain speculations, but I see the high-end market is favorable for Windows Mobile. Of course there are strong product concepts, like the iPhone and Blackberry, but the question is whether their breath long enough.

The year 2008

It is expected that 2008 will be running Google launched Android.These analysts could well become the new star in the sky and can share their sovereignty. In addition, the iPhone in 2008 available to the general European public. This means even more success for Apple?Who knows. 2008 is at least an exciting year.

Conclusion

Develop your mid-range smartphone, then you should opt for Symbian.They are market leader and virtually no competition.

However comlexe Develop your applications for high-end smartphones for Europe and North America, then it is different. Windows Mobile currently seem to have the eennagrootste share. Strong product concepts, like the iPhone and Blackberry, albeit currently have a large market share, but the question is whether their breath long enough.Windows Mobile seems this is a solid choice.

During 2008, Google and Apple, however, their strengths. This may shed new light on the matter. I'm curious. 

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Samsung smartphones market share rises sharply by Omnia

Samsung smartphones market share rises sharply by Omnia

Samsung saw its market share in the global smartphone market last year to grow more than Apple. The manufacturer sold in the last quarter of 2008 138 percent more smartphones than one year earlier, Apple grew by 111 percent.

The large growth in the smartphone market, Samsung is due to the sales success of its touchscreen Omnia i900 phone, concludes research firm Gartner, which has compiled the figures. Gartner defines smartphones phones equipped with a "smartphone OS ', ie Symbian, Windows Mobile, Blackberry OS, Palm OS, a Linux distro or Mac OS X.

Samsung sold in the fourth quarter, according to Gartner, 1.6 million smartphones, while Apple managed to sell 4.1 million. This latter had a market share of ten percent in the smartphone segment. Besides Samsung and Apple Blackberry maker RIM saw its market share rise sharply, by 85 percent. RIM continues with a market share of 19.5 percent the number two behind leader Nokia: still has four of the ten selling a Nokia smartphones. That is considerably less than the end of 2007, when half of the Finnish-made devices were sold.

HTC grew not as hard as Apple, Samsung and RIM. This manufacturer sold in the last quarter according to Gartner, 1.6 million smartphones. That draws the analyst firm, however, that only devices which count not the name of a state provider. The devices that HTC T-Mobile sells, for example, do not count for these figures.

Gartner estimates that until the end of 2008 approximately 775,000 Android phones are sold. The total sales of smartphones in 2008, according to research firm 139 million. That is considerably less than that provided by analyst firm ABI Research has published , stating that in 2008 approximately 171 million smartphones were sold.

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Microsoft Windows Phone Saves share?

Microsoft recently launched Windows Phone, a new version of its mobile operating system Windows Mobile. That was none too soon. The market share of Windows Mobile last year because it fell down. 

Microsoft has success with its new mobile operating system, Windows Phone, badly. This can be derived from research by Canalys. In the second quarter of 2008 was over 14 percent of all mobile phones sold with Windows Mobile. A year later, was only 9 percent. Apple over the same period from 2.1 to 5.2. Also, Android, Google's mobile operating system, did well, out of nothing by 2.8 percent of the market. The undisputed leader in the meantime continues Symbian (among others supplied by Nokia), with a market share of less than 50.3 percent.

Experts were also critical of the alleged overwhelming success of Apple. Commentator Joe Wilcox suggests , based on figures that Apple with its iPhone seriously fails in the four BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), which together account for 40 percent of the world. In Russia the iPhone has a market share of 1 percent (second quarter 2009), the other three countries, the iPhone will not even statistics.

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Android smartphones market

Google's Android mobile OS's third-quarter global market share of 25 percent, seven times as large as last year. The number of smartphones sold doubled as quantified Gartner.

Where in the third quarter of 2009 approximately 1.4 million Android phones sold in the same quarter there were 20.5 million this year, estimates Gartner. This is the second largest Android mobile OS world, it simply sold more smart phones with Symbian, which has a market share of 36 percent. The market shares of IOS, BlackBerry OS and Windows Mobile decreased. In IOS, the first four months of the iPhone was sold by the sales included in Windows Mobile are the first sales of Windows 7 Phone is not listed as devices with the new OS until the fourth quarter came on the market.

The increased share of Android is not unexpected. A year ago, only a handful Android smartphones for sale, in the third quarter of this year there were dozens. Moreover, there were many attractive devices to it, like the Samsung S Galaxy and Desire.

The number of smartphones sold rose by Gartner in one year from 41 million to 80 million, an increase of 96 percent. Thus, the share of smartphones in the phone market significantly. Nevertheless, there are across the board again sold more mobile phones.With over 417 million phones sold, the number of new mobile phones by about 35 percent.

Nokia remains market leader but saw its share of the phone market fall from 36 to 28 percent. This is mainly due to white label manufacturers, unknown phone makers who sell large quantities of equipment including China, India, Russia and on the African continent. Almost all manufacturers saw their market shares decline, except Apple and HTC. Apple sells 3.2 percent of mobile phones sold worldwide, HTC almost doubled its market share, to 1.6 percent.

OS	Several Q3 '10	'10 Market Share	Several Q3 '09	'09 Market Share
Symbian	29.5 million	36.6%	18.3 million	44.6%
Android	20.5 million	25.5%	1.4 million	3.5%
IOS	13.5 million	16.7%	7.0 million	17.1%
Bb OS	11.9 million	14.8%	8.5 million	20.7%
Windows Mobile	2.2 million	2.8%	3.3 million	7.9%
Linux / other	2.9 million	3.6%	2.5 million	6.2%
Total	80.5 million	100%	41.0 million	100%

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Android Market share increased tenfold in one year

Devices with mobile operating system Android, from Google's case, the iPhone displaced as number three on the smartphone market.

Android phones have 17.2 percent of the smartphone market share, 14.2 percent iPhones.

It also appears that Nokia is still by far the largest is in smartphones, with 41.2 percent market share. The Finns, however, provide quarterly market share to Android and Apple manufacturers. Nokia lost last quarter, compared to last year, nearly 20 percent of the smartphone market.

This is evident from the figures that market researcher Gartner has just published . Looked at the operating system market as follows:

Striking but not surprising for many, is that the share of Windows Mobile almost halved.Microsoft is becoming a less significant player in the mobile market. It hopes the tide to the end of 2010 when corn Windows Phone appears.

Currently, 19 percent of all mobile phones sold a smart phone with an advanced operating system and Internet access. That's 50.5 percent over one year ago.

These new devices are important to manufacturers because they are both a replacement and also bring in more money. Smartphones are more expensive and are therefore more. The bottom of the phone market is held by Chinese manufacturers like ZTE and G'Five . These brands are now in the top 10 major vendors and have a combined 3 percent of the phone market.

Gartner also points out that tablet computers such as Apple iPad, no direct competitors for smartphones. They do not cannibalize sales on the phone. The reason is simple, says the researcher: a phone fits in your pocket.

The research report is also an explicit advice to Nokia: "Win more software developers and other players in the mobile ecosystem for you to change the platform strategy."

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Windows Phone: Acer divided its four new smartphones

The Taiwanese manufacturer Acer launches its Windows 'Phone' by proposing four smartphones for several market segments.

In contrast to the strategy of Apple, Acer announced that its line of smartphones with the iPhone band. 'We do not believe in the logic of the Swiss Army Knife' said Aymar de Lencquesaing, the Senior VP Corporate ZDNet contradicting with the idea of a fantasy of a single iphone killer who is multi-purpose & target.

Recall that Acer aims to reach 4-7% of VIPs in 2012 on a new market in which the actor has any Taiwanese to build.

So we dwell on the new range of 4 Acer smartphones that operate under the new Windows Mobile 6.5 from Microsoft and will be distributed in France by SFR and Bouygues Telecom only.

Why Orange, the leading mobile operator does not distribute Windows phones ACER?

The new range of segmented Windows phones ACER

The Phone is the first Windows BeTouch ACER E 100.
Smartphone with touch screen and keyboard that integrates natively social services with direct access to Facebook, Blogger and Flickr for a truly mobile internet 3G
It is destined for a target (rather) young.

ACER BeTouch the E 101 is more than cheap BeTouch E100 
The essential is replaced by the 3G EDGE to access their mail (B2B) anyway!
So the Windows phone input range ...

The midrange BeTouch ACER E 200
A 3G smartphone, a digital camera of 3.2 megapixel with a neat design and a touchpad and tools to social networks.
Target B2C/B2B

Acer newTouch or NeoTouch 

Design, performance, social media, Microsoft Office Mobile, GPS, 5 MP camera, processor at 1GHz!
Unsurprisingly, the high end rather dedicated to professionals

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Smartphone market share in Germany rises to 23 per cent

ComScore current numbers for development on the German Smartphone market out gave, those shows that in the 3-Monats-Durchschnitt ending in November 2010 Smartphone users in Germany already 23 per cent of all consumers constituted - and its portion grows rapidly. Last year their number with 5.1 million new Usern grew by 65 per cent. In November 2010 65 per cent all German Smartphone user at least one mark in the month the mobile Internet accessed.

From the press release:

With the Smartphone operating systems still plays in Germany of Nokia Symbian with a market share of 47,7 per cent the prominent role - of Apple iPhone OS follows with a portion of 19,5 per cent. Microsoft assumes third rank with 13,7 per cent. Googles Android operating system could itself establish within a short time with 10,6 per cent well on the market. On fifth rank is RIM/Blackberry with 4,8% market share.

While the user numbers for Symbian grew in Germany between November 2009 and 2010 more slowly than the average and they lost thus at market share, Android won 2009 9.2 per cent points market share for November in addition. Also Apple could develop its solid position further and won 4.3 per cent points market share in the course of the yearly.

We read a great many US-American sources and are inclined sometimes to take over the theses and estimates unreflected in particular with the discussion around mobile operating systems, their market shares and thus their influence on the market tendencies.

From there here once the likewise current numbers of comScore from the USA to the comparison.

If thus again someone writes from the USA over the fact that Symbian would not play a role, then is this statement nevertheless much with caution to enjoy. Because with us in Germany the market share of Symbian amounts to despite strong losses still 47.7 per cent.

The current numbers for Germany becomes Jeremy Copp, Vice President mobile Europe of comScore generation network NEXT in the opening panel „“on the second day on the M-Days, of 27. - 28 take place January 2011 in Frankfurt/Main in the Congress center, present.

Smartphone market share 1st quarter 2010 - Android before Windows Mobile

The market research firm Gartner published new numbers for the 1st quarter 2010 for the distribution of the Smartphone market, Googles Android Windows Mobile left for the first time behind itself and on the 4th place advanced.

In the 1st quarter 2009 Android lay still at 1,6% and Windows Mobile with 10,2%, in the 1st quarter 2010 shifted conditions on 9,6% for Android and 6.8% for Windows Mobile.

Also Apple could with that iPhone OS of 10,5% to 15,4% clearly add, Android however further in such a way develop it the iPhone OS in the 1st quarter 2011 would have overhauled.
Nokia and RIM adhere further to the front positions and sell still most devices, with falling market share.

According to refining he analyst Carolina Milanesi in the 1st quarter 2010 with 54.3 million as much Smartphones were not sold as since 2006 no more.

HTC 2010 Windows Mobile, Android Smartphones Leaked Google Android

The roofridge helped OF 2010 wants fuel element A busy time for HTC if newly leaked document prove genuine (and incoming goods believe they acres).  The document lay out the company's Android and Windows Mobile smartphone roadmap through June OF NEXT year.

In the Windows Mobile space, HTC is apparently readying three Handhelds: the Trophy, the Tera and the photon. 

The HTC Trophy (due in May) is A Messenger class smartphone with A front facing QWERTY key board and A 3-inch capacitive VGA touchscreen.  The HTC Tera (April) is A sort OF miniaturized Touch Pro2 with A 3.2-inch tilting resistive screen and sliding key board. Load, but emergency leases, the photon (April) looks like A of smaller HD2 with A touch only interface, A 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen, and at FM radio.  Each OF thesis DEVICE of run Windows Mobile 6,5, has A 600MHz agony COMM CCU, and of includes 512MB OF flash ROM, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS.

On the Android side, HTC has five new googlepowered smartphones planned: the putting, the Salsa, the Buzz, the Tide and the Bravo. 

The HTC putting (March) looks A plumb bob like the roofridge Hero, complete with the “chin,” and feature A 3.2-inch AMOLED capacitive display and on optical mouse.  The Salsa (June) is A Messenger class DEVICEs with A 2.6-inch touchscreen.  The HTC Buzz (May) has A 3.2-inch capacitive QVGA touchscreen, A rounded, slab Design and A 528MHz CCU.  HTC Tide (April) looks more like A dumb phone with its alphanumeric key PADs and 2.68-inch touchscreen.  Finally, the HTC Bravo (April) looks tons of fuel element the most interesting OF the bunch with A 1GHz CCU, A 3.7-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 720p video capture and on “optical joystick.”  Each new Android smartphone wants presumably run Android 2.x RK release.

None OF the information posted above has been confirmed by HTC, and even if true, some models May more never reach the market and/or May emergency fuel element pay into the U.S. incoming goods want, OF course, bring you more about each DEVICEs as to new information of surfaces.

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28 per cent market share: iPhone OS catches up on Blackberry

The iPhone OS could win in the last quarter on the market of the mobile operating systems further at portions. The iPhone operating system is to the market researchers of Nielsen according to with 28 per cent on place two behind Blackberry the OS with 35 per cent, Googles Android holds 9 per cent.

Blackberry OS and Windows Mobile, which lies with 19 per cent behind Apple, had both in the comparison to the last quarter around two per cent points giving way, Apple and google could by in each case two per cent points increase. The numbers do not consider iPad, since it concerns to Nielsen only Smartphone sales figures. PadGadget believes however in one “iPad Effect”, which makes the iPhone OS more attractive.

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