Those on board with Windows Phone 7 include...

Dell, Garmin-Asus, HTC Corp., LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba. Carriers such as AT&T, Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange, SFR, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telstra, T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone and , of course, Crimson Tide

Reality Distortion Field

Jobs tries it again !

Oh, so its just a case that's required to fix the Iphone4. Odd that, because the other day it was a software problem which, in my experience, has never been fixed by a case.

Now whay would RIM have wanted Palm?

I can understand why the following companies would have wanted to buy Palm -

HP - for WebOS, for decent mobile devices, for market share
Apple - For a device with a keyboard
Lenovo - As an entrypoint into mobile
Acer - for a bigger share of mobile, WebOS

One bidder (according to a lot of rumours) was RIM. Who have a keyboard device, an OS and market share in those markets

Why would RIM want Palm then? - an OS for a slate perhaps?

Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit

.....can be downloaded here

Windows Phone 7 Codecs

Thanks to PocketNow for informing us of all of the codecs that Windows Phone 7 will support....and I quote.....

WAV, MP3, WMA Lossless, WMA Pro, WMA Standard v9, AAC-LC, HE-AAC v1, HE-AAC v2, Adaptive Multi-Rate Narrow Band, Adaptive Multi-Rate ide Band, and Qcelp" in addition to video codecs "WMV (simple profile, main profile and advanced profile), WMV v9, MPEG-4 Part 2 (simple profile, advanced simple profile), MPEG-4 Part 10, H.263 and DivX (4.x, 5.x and 6.x)"

Try doing that lot on a Fruitphone

Samsung creeping up on Nokia

According to IDC

-Nokia’s Q1 2010 total mobile phone shipments fell 9% year on year
-Their total device market share, year on year, went from 39% to 33%
-Nokia’s smartphone market share fell 16% year on year, from 57% to 41%
-Nokia’s traditional feature phone shipments fell year on year by 18%
-Their feature phone market share fell from 35% to 30%
-Samsung now ships 40% of all feature phones in Europe, but their smartphone are not doing so well
-Nokia’s overall Q1 2010 market share is 32.8% versus Samsung’s 29.3%

Android market share reaches my expectations

According to comscore Android devices have achieved 13 % of the smartphone market, just behind Windows Mobile. I'll expect that position to change hands next quarter as WM phones in the shiny space continue to disappear whilst we await Windows phone 7 devices in "Holiday '10 "

Samsung Galaxys gt-i9000 review

Hmm, we're just going to have to post links to Android device reviews now as the wait for Windows Phone 7 is just too long.

PocketNow do a great job so do visit their review for the excellent Samsung GT I9000 here

HTC Sales up 63%

Mainly due to Android devices HTCs sales rose 63% in the second quarter of this year

And so the speculation begins

We are now into the second half of the year, and some of us are starting to get excited about their new Windows Phone 7 devices. Of course, part of the fun is the new names given out as codenames by the OEMS (or even speculated upon by bloggers)

The HTC Gold is the first name I have heard, although linked to AT&T so it may just be a US based name.

I did read that some OEMs might find it difficult to surpass their existing efforts (Incredible !)

Stand by for the HTC Ohmigosh and the Samsung Oursisbetter

No Nexus Two

Google's ill-advised entry into the smartphone market has come to an end with Mountain View stating that there will not be a successor to the Nexus One.
Some might say that the Nexus drew the world's attention to the Android OS , but the concept of Google competing with OEMs was never a good idea in my book.

More Windows Phone 7 Database News

Suddenly, World + Dog is on trek to find the answer to the Windows Phone 7 Database issue

See here for an independent firm's effort - now I wonder how it syncs?

Told you so

As you know I am a Windows Mobile evangelist, but Kin phones were officially a Really Bad Idea......and it has now been confirmed that they are going out of production.

We'll have to wait until "Holday '10" for Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 database

Yes, that's a phrase I thought we may never hear.

Ok, it's not SQL Server 2008, but it is, nonetheless, a database

See here for a description of the isolated storage possibilities linked to Silverlight controls on Windows phone 7 devices