Posts Tagged ‘Nokia’

90% of Dutch Apps Paid Through operator Billing

January 20th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

On an average day, Dutch consumers download 40.000 apps from Nokia’s Ovi Store. 90% of the paid apps are charged over the phone bill of the consumer proofing the importance of easy billing in this territory.

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Ovi at 3.5 Million Daily Downloads

December 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Ovi’s growth keeps progressing as the store is currently generating 3.5 million downloads a day according to Distimo. 92 Ovi publishers generated over one million downloads right now.

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HTC and Nokia to Support Dualcore CPU’s

December 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

As phones become more advances, they become more like PC’s in our pockets. It is a rather old way of looking at things, but both Nokia and HTC prove it is still right as both start supporting dualcore CPU’s in their phones in 2011.

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Herocraft Passes 12.345.678 Downloads on Ovi

December 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Talking about big numbers, Herocraft announced the company has passed the joyfull number of 12.345.678 downloads on Nokia’s Ovi Store.

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AMD Joins MeeGo

November 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo | No Comments »

It seems MeeGo is getting support from an unexpected side. Intel’s competitor AMD has announced it will help develop the mobile operating system, probably to help selling its new line of APU’s.

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PlaySpan Enters the Mobile Payments Arena

November 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

If PayPal doesn’t offer enough in-app purchase opportunities, you might want to check out PlaySpan’s new UltimatePay Mobile system. The system allows billing on Android and Nokia phones.

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AppCon: The Future of Apps with Nokia and QT

November 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo, Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Andreas Jekl explained the OS strategy of Nokia. While many expect Series 40 to be replaced with Symbian, Nokia will remain building S40 devices for the low-end markets.

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SEE: Nokia Takes Back Symbian

November 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

The rumors are true, the Symbian Foundation is winding down, but symbian itself won’t. In fact, Nokia has announced it will be taking Symbian back in-house, not long after the EU funded it.

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MeeGo 1.1 Ready for Developers

November 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo | No Comments »

Nokia and Intel have set loose MeeGo 1.1 for the development community. Nokia does warn consumers not to install it as MeeGo 1.1 is still a work-in-progress operating system.

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Forum Nokia at AppCon

October 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

The guys over at AppCon/AppJam have announced that Nokia will be participating. Forum Nokia will be the first keynote speaker at the event and will be discussing development and challenges on global app stores.