Nokia Windows Phones

Looking forward to seeing the first Nokia Windows Phones

Apparently the first will be here by the end of this year.......and released in Europe first , according to a Nokia BigWig

Told 'em

We said that Palm's WebOS wasn't going to be the greatest....certainly not for a Tablet.....

....and the seems to be borne out here

Symbian (not) in the US

Symbian smartphones were never great sellers in the good old US of A.

Th Register reports that sales of the Nokia staple OS has fallen to ....err....0.2% of the US market

Stunning

Microsoft winning the war

Microsoft may have lost some tactical battles in mobile, but here is an article by veteran reporter Jack Gold, describing how they might be winning the war , certainly financially anyway

Developer interest in mobile platforms

Interesting to see the article on ZD regarding the developer's view of the mobile platforms available. I think the WP7 figure is quite creditable. Obviously iOS is still top dog in this rewpect - I'd be very concerned if I were RIM .

The article is here

Windows Phone 7 (no) database update

So, no database integration is coming in the update that Microsoft is launching "soon"

I wonder whether we'll get one in the major update which wil come "later in 2011"

:-(

Smartphone profit share

This is a very revealing graph..........as Iphone is officially very expensive, Apple should be making a mint......and they are

And Android takes the lead

According to researchers Canalys, Android is now the number one smartphone platform, taking over the slot from Nokia. See here http://bit.ly/g2BZJ8

Happy New Year

Here's to a successful 2011 for you all.

A nice list of excellent Windows Phone 7 Apps can be found here