Friday 04 March 2011

MeeGo Coming To N900 Says Nokia    [ 04-03-2011 19:28 ]

Author: Irina Turina   Source: Techie Buzz     Translation by: Paul Smith     

Nokia is to bring it's Linux based MeeGo operating system to the N900 in an effort to allow for it to be "... really usable as your daily development device" according to Jukka Eklund, developer edition product manager.

He went on to say that "Basic handset UX should work, phone calls, SMS, web browsing. So we are concentrating on a few selected features and polish those to be 'perfect'. It might mean that we leave out some things in MeeGo 1.2 trunk for this edition, but that is not the default intention. We are doing this fully in the open, and I hope this is an interesting project where we all in the community work towards the same goal: have a great MeeGo edition in the N900".

MeeGo has pretty much been relegated to the sidelines ever since the announcement that Nokia would be partnering with Microsoft to use Windows Phone 7 so I guess it is nice to see that there is still some life left in it.

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Smartphones ... It's A Long Way To Tipperarry    [ 04-03-2011 19:12 ]

Author: Ivanov Konstantin   Source: Business Insider     Translation by: Paul Smith     

In this crazy world of augmented reality, apps galore and silly handset names it may seem that smartphones are ubiquitous. It's not hard to see why if you follow any of the tech blogs, it's pretty much all we talk about i.e. Android, iOS, Google, HTC, etc. However, the mighty smartphone is in fact a lightweight when compared to other heavy hitting consumer devices ...

A new data set from RBC Capital Markets paints a picture of smartphone & tablet users compared with the consumer penetration of other major devices and services and quite frankly smartphones & tablets are dwarfed.

Take the total mobile subscriber base, for example, it stands at approximately 5.1 billion, out of a total human population of 6.9 billion. There are somewhere around 2 billion internet users and some 1.2 billion PCs in the world.

So how do smartphones and tablets compare?

There are 394 million smartphones and tablet users out there.

It's a relatively paltry figure when compared with the 'big boys and underscores just how far smartphones (and tablets) have yet to go before they become truly ubiquitous. There is a whole world awaiting them and they've only scratched the surface.

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