By Editor on February 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Software aiming to try and solve some of the bigger issues like handsets not playing Flash videos came to fore at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Despite the majority of video, animation, and many games on the net being Flash based, the system is not yet fully supported on handsets.
Android and Palm Pre handsets will offer mobile download of Flash 10.1 and with other manufacturers to follow. Out of the 20 manufacturers, 19 have signed up to support the video and animation platform. However, iPhones would not carry the update as Apple has decided not to support the software.
Apart from this, other software that generated talks were- Firefox has finally brought its popular browser to the mobile, Microsoft launched new mobile platform Windows Phone 7 and Israeli-designed Else phone to reach any contact, document, or application with a single touch.
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Tagged with Android, Apple, Barcelona, Europe, Firefox, iPhone, Israel, Launch, Microsoft, Mobile Platform, Mobile World Congress, MWC2010, Palm, Windows phone 7
By Editor on February 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The issue of platform proliferation was confronted by the mobile operators at the mobile World Congress in Barcelona but without much success. The divide was highlighted by BBC executive who complained about OS madnessâ€, while a carrier CTO urged operators to accept the fragmented landscape.
Erik Huggers, director of BBC Future Media & Technology felt that twenty-one flavors of iPlayer is complete madness and as a broadcaster, the burden falls on them to reformat and repurpose their programming and content for every new device that happens to come to the market every six months.
However, according to Telstra CTO Hugh Bradlow, there were too many smartphone environments and that unification efforts like OneAPI would only go so far. He also predicted that six to ten mobile platforms would be around three years from now and the operators would have to deal with it and work with whoever wants to come in
By Editor on November 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Samsung hopes to extend its app store offering to a wider range of handsets, including less sophisticated feature phones and entry level smartphones.
The Korean
technology giant said Bada — which means “ocean” — was a new addition to the company’s mobile ecosystem and would give users a “fun and diverse mobile experience”.
Samsung said it chose the name to “convey the limitless variety of potential applications” that can be created using the new platform, and to demonstrate the company’s commitment to “a variety of open platforms in the mobile industry”.
It also offers
mobile operators an easy-to-integrate platform that can be used to provide “unique and differentiated services to their customers”, said Samsung.
By opening Samsung’s mobile platforms we will be able to provide rich mobile experiences on an increasing number of accessible smartphones,†said Dr Hosoo Lee, an
executive vice president at Samsung. “Bada will be Samsung’s landmark, iconic new platform that brings an unprecedented opportunity for operators, developers and Samsung mobile phone users around the world.â€
Samsung’s current smartphone range runs the open-source
Symbian operating system and the Google-backed
Android platform. Carolina Milanesi, a research director at Gartner, said Samsung’s decision to develop and use its own platform for entry-level smartphones was its attempt to “differentiate its products from the competition.”
But Geoff Blaber, an analyst with CCS Insight, questioned Samsung’s thinking: “The big question is, does the mobile phone world need yet another operating system?,” he said.
Samsung hopes to give users a ”fun and diverse mobile experience” on a wider range of handsets, including less sophisticated feature phones and entry level smartphones via its newly created mobile platform dubbed “Bada”. Bada means Ocean in Korean.
Samsung said it chose the name to “convey the limitless variety of potential applications” that can be created using the new platform, and to demonstrate the company’s commitment to “a variety of open platforms in the mobile industry”.
It also offers mobile operators an easy-to-integrate platform that can be used to provide “unique and differentiated services to their customers”, said Samsung.
By opening Samsung’s mobile platforms we will be able to provide rich mobile experiences on an increasing number of accessible smartphones,†said Dr Hosoo Lee, executive vice president at Samsung. ”Bada will be Samsung’s landmark, iconic new platform that brings an unprecedented opportunity for operators, developers and Samsung mobile phone users around the world.â€
One can’t help but ask – Does the world need another mobile operating system?
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Tagged with Android, Android Platform, App Store, CTO, Ecosystem, Google, handset, Handsets, Korea, Mobile Industry, Mobile Operating System, mobile operator, Mobile Operators, Mobile Phone, Mobile Platform, Operating System, operator, phone, Phones, Research, Samsung, Samsung Mobile, smartphone, Symbian, Technology
By Editor on August 15, 2006 · Leave a Comment
Taipei, Sept. 11, 2006 (CENS)–Ericsson Mobile Platforms (EMP) recently decided to open its Greater China headquarters in Taiwan as the first step of its plan to shoot for shares of Chinese markets for mobile phones, according to the company’s chief- executive-officer, Carl-Henric Svanberg.
Executives of the company’s
Taiwan
branch pointed out that Taiwan-designed mobile phones account for 15% of the phones shipped worldwide. They said expanding world market share through
Taiwan
‘s ODM (original design manufacturing) capability is a good approach. They noted that opening the headquarters in
Taiwan
instead of in mainland
China
was based on the consideration that Taiwan-made mobile phones go global whereas China-made phones are mostly for domestic sales.
The executives added that Ericsson’s WCDMA chips are used in 30% of third-generation (3G) mobile phones shipped worldwide. EMP has signed an agreement to license its 3G technology to
Taiwan
mobile-phone makers Compal Communications Inc. and Arima Communication Corp.
EMP has transformed itself from an in-house technology development group into a leading supplier of 3G mobile system technology for mobile phones.
Svanberg pointed out that 3G had emerged as the focal point of the world telecommunications industry and his company is laying ultra-speedy 3G networks called HSDPA for customers including the cellular provider Far Eastone Telecom in
Taiwan
.
He noted that his company began offering commercialized HSDPA last year. The system pumps data at 3.6 megabits per second. His company supports telecomm providers in 19 countries with a total number of 23 HSDPA systems.
Source- http://news.cens.com
Technorati : 3G, Ericsson, Far Eastone, Mobile, Taiwan
Ice Rocket : 3G, Ericsson, Far Eastone, Mobile, Taiwan
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Tagged with 3G technology, Arima Communication, China, Compal Communication, Compal Communications, Easton, EasTone, Far Eastone, Mobile Platform, Taipei, Taiwan
