Mobile Industry News 10/16/09
Quattro Wireless' daily take on interesting and important news for the mobile industry. See something today that we missed? Post it in the comments or send it our way on twitter @intheq
Google's Android Ready To Explode Past The iPhone
from Silicon Alley Insider
Google's Android software is on the cusp of becoming a heavyweight in the smartphone world, says Gartner Research.
Gartner thinks Android will be the number two operating system for smart phones by 2012, going from 2% of share today to 14%. It will still lag behind Nokia's open software platform, Symbian, though.
Dell confirms Android phone for next year
from FierceWireless
The long, slow saga of Dell's march into the smartphone arena has come to an end. Or has it? Dell CEO Michael Dell confirmed that the company would be releasing smartphones next year in the United States based on Google's Android platform.
CBS Mobile Launches New App
from Mobile Marketing Watch
In an effort to fuse breaking news with social media, CBS Mobile is rolling out the CBS News application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. Unlike other news organizations that have either already debuted a paid mobile service or are still considering one, the CBS News app is free.
TVCatchup Now Pushing Live UK TV To iPhones
from mocoNews
It’s already proved a thorn in the side of broadcasters once; now TVCatchup is trying again. The UK startup, about which little is known, is streaming 11 live British channels (from BBC, ITV (LSE: ITV), C4 and Five) to iPhone’s Quicktime via a new web adjunct (iphone.tvcatchup.com).
Developers Welcome Apple's In-app Purchase Move
from Mobile Marketing Magazine
Application developers have welcomed Apple’s move to allow them to offer in-application purchases within free iPhone apps. Previously, Apple has only allowed in-app purchases in paid-for apps. Developers were informed of the news in an email yesterday.
CHART OF THE DAY: iPhone Has 30% Of Smartphone Market
from Silicon Alley Insider
RBC Capital Markets performed a survey of smartphone users, asking 4,200 people what kind of phone they owned.
According to their data, the iPhone is now at 30% marketshare, up from 25% in June. New iPhone buyers were "surprisingly strong at 81% of respondents."
from Mobile Marketing Magazine
Frost & Sullivan has released the results of an end-user study, ‘European CXOs’ Choice: Computing Products and Services’. The research measures European C-level executives’ preferences of mobile communications and computing products and services, focusing on laptop/notebooks, Smartphones, feature phones, web-based collaboration tools, mobile location-based applications, and mobile multimedia content applications.
The survey finds that Smartphone ownership/usage increased dramatically from 2008 to 2009, as nearly twice as many European CXOs now own a Smartphone
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