The Samsung application store has been in beta for seven months. The store has been available only in the UK and Germany, and has seen little promotion. We have been tracking the content since its launch, see more here. Today, Samsung announced that its application store will go live on September 14 in the UK, France and [...]
Research in Motion is continuing the worldwide roll-out of BlackBerry App World. Initially, App World was only available in the US, UK and Canada. At the end of last month, 10 European countries got access as well. Now App World has also launched in five Latin American countries, with more to follow soon. The first [...]
Micorosft’s Zune HD media player, that is coming to the market on September 15, has a marketplace, with apps. Nokia is launching a Windows based netbook and a new phone based on the Maemo platform, with an app store called Maemo Select. Motorola is launching it’s first phones with Android and will announce their Android [...]
With Nokia World around the corner (September 2 in Germany), a lot of news has come out in the last days. This week Nokia announced the launch of a netbook and now also presented their first mobile phone based on the Maemo platform. Nokia already offers an internet tablet based on Maemo, which is an [...]
The news is spreading that China Unicom finally signed a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to China. This will significantly increase the installed base of the iPhone OS, enlarging the opportunities for iPhone developers. Unlike some might expect, the App Store was already accessible in China. So was the iPhone, in a way: [...]
On time as announced earlier, the Palm App Catalog is now available in the first country following the US. As of today, the Palm Pre is on sale with Bell in Canada. Palm is continuing it’s worldwide App Catalog roll-out in October, when the Pre comes to Europe. Right now a small selection of free [...]
Update: The launch of their first Android phone is confirmed by Motorola. On GigaOm’s Mobilize conference September 10, Motorola’s CEO will announce their Android portfolio during his keynote: We wanted to provide some additional details so you’re aware of what to expect for September 10. Motorola Mobile Devices CEO Sanjay Jha will be making an [...]
There has been a lot of response on Nokia’s announced entrance into the netbook market, which was announced yesterday. Nokia will launch a netbook, called Booklet 3G. Launch date and more details will be announced on Nokia World on September 2. The Nokia netbook is rumoured to run on Windows 7. We wonder if it [...]
Micorsoft’s Zune HD Portable Media Player will be on the market this September 15. As mentioned earlier, the Zune will have a Marketplace for buying content for the device. Microsoft already does this for the Xbox. During a Zune HD preview this weekend, a very interesting item appeared on its Marketplace screen (see screenshot below): “apps”. [...]
We previously reported on the launch of China Mobile Market. The launch did not go entirely as planned, but the web version seems to be up now. A status update: Applications are offered for six brands: Ophone, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, Lenovo, Dopod, Panasonic and Dell. Five types of applications are offered: games, [...]