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Ovi Store downloads rise by 70%

Bill Perry, one of the senior services managers for Forum Nokia, has blogged about the Ovi Store and some of the numbers driving the growth. Over 100 devices, in 20 countries, with the N97 and the 5800 being the top devices. The average user has downloaded 8 items and there's been 70% growth in October's downloads compared to September.

Posted by Ewan Spence at 14:37 UTC, November 19th || 7 Comments

Move over Apple - Nokia, App Stores need to get FAR more draconian

I've now used most of the major smartphone application stores now and have, at last, worked out where they're all going wrong. You see, Apple get stick for applying a little editorial censure and not allowing every app submitted to make it into the live App Store. But what we need is for Apple - and Nokia - and Google - and Microsoft - and Samsung, Sony Ericsson and the other pretenders - to get dramatically more heavy handed. Read on.

Posted by Steve Litchfield at 11:38 UTC, November 19th || 17 Comments

2015 is the new 1984 as Nokia plan to take over The Way We Live Next

In which Ewan Spence takes a slightly light hearted look at the infrastructure and privacy implications of Nokia's latest Device/Services concept video, introduced at The Way We Live Next event in Espoo. Rafe responds, having been in attendance, pointing out that the future will always contain challenges and changes to The Way We Currently Live(!). Your comments most welcome, of course - this one could run and run!

Posted by Steve Litchfield at 14:20 UTC, November 12th || 11 Comments

Rafe's SEE 2009 walkabout (part 2)

SEE 2009 (Symbian Exchange and Exposium) is Symbian's annual big show. In part 2 of my walkabout video you can join me on a amble around the show floor at SEE 2009. I share my impressions and analysis in an unscripted, one-take, walk and talk. Part 2 covers the remaining stands and concludes with some general thoughts on SEE 2009.

Posted by Rafe Blandford at 14:20 UTC, November 12th || 1 Comment

Gartner Q3 2009 Smartphone Sales Figures

We've already had the Canalys figures, listed below are Gartner's reports/estimates for the same period, Q3 2009, worldwide. The numbers are very similar (though not for the year-on-year figures, with Q3 2008 looking different, oddly enough), showing Nokia's world smartphone market share at 39%, RIM (Blackberry) at 21%, Apple at 17% and with HTC (50% Android, 50% Windows Mobile) at 6%.

Posted by Steve Litchfield at 9:45 UTC, November 12th || 9 Comments

If you build it (so it's sexy) will they come?

Roy Tanck hits the nail on the head with his observations on both Opera and Gravity. In his thoughts on Opera Mobile (which we reviewed here) he says that "the Norwegian company has made browsing fun again". This follows on from the "much needed sexiness" that Gravity added. The question is whether manufacturers realise this is just as important as an environmentally friendly box or a new wallpaper?

Posted by Ewan Spence at 11:13 UTC, November 11th || 8 Comments

Lee Williams on the upcoming fight against Android

There's an interesting two-part interview, by The Register, with Symbian Foundation CEO Lee Williams in San Francisco, talking with him partly about the possible peaking of the iPhone ecosystem, but mainly about the impending battle between Symbian and Android. There are some nice insights, though you have to overlook a few silly spelling errors by el Reg.

Posted by Steve Litchfield at 11:30 UTC, November 10th || 16 Comments

Live from Nokia's The Way We Live Next 3.0

Over the next two day I'm at Nokia's The Way We Live Next event, which 'features presentations and demonstrations from Nokia and our ecosystem partners, showing how Nokia are connecting and building the communities of the future'. You can follow along via our live coverage below or via @aas.

Posted by Rafe Blandford at 8:37 UTC, November 10th || 1 Comment

Google buys mobile ad network Admob for $750 million

Started in 2006 by Omar Hamoui, Admob has grown to be one of the leading platforms for advertising to mobile websites. And now it belongs to Google. In a move that costs the Mountain View company some $750 million, they now have acquired a company that is both profitable and has a significant share of the mobile advertising market. The benefits to Google are pretty clear, especially as their advertising operations is one of their key income streams.

Posted by Ewan Spence at 20:21 UTC, November 9th || 0 Comments

AAS Insight 93 - SEE 2009, Q3 Canalys, N-Gage

In All About Symbian Insight 93 (AAS Podcast 157) we discuss the Q3 smartphone figures from Canalys and Rafe explains that Fujitsu and Quic have joined the board of the Symbian Foundation. We move on to a retrospective of SEE 2009 with discussion of the media reaction (which send Rafe into rant mode). We finish with thoughts on N97 PR 2.0 and the closure of N-Gage (sniff). You can listen to AAS Insight 93 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.

Posted by Rafe Blandford at 18:13 UTC, November 7th || 12 Comments
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