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10 Essential Smartphone Features for 2011 Models

As the year comes to a close and it becomes time to evaluate exactly what happened in 2010, the mobility market stands out as the tech industry sector that got the most attention from consumers and business users. Rapid advances in mobile operating systems and smartphone features have given consumers a huge array of models and options to choose from. That space has been led by major tech players, Google and Apple. Both companies have proven over the past few years that they know what features they need to deliver to catch customers attention. With each year, they deliver something fresh and exciting that consumers and even enterprise customers are willing to get behind. However, smartphone makers cant rest on their laurels. In 2011 they must continue to innovate. Its clearer now than ever that consumers expect certain features from hardware vendors and software developers. And if they dont get what theyre seeking, they will go elsewhere for their mobile needs. Considering where the smartphone market stands now, here is a look at what every smartphone should offer in 2011. – …


Apple iPhone, Google Android Devices: 11 Notable Smartphones of 2010

The best smartphone is in the hand of the beholder. During 2010, however, the 11 pictured here were all notable competitors for the title, highlighting emerging technologies and managing to stand out during a year that saw a flood of devices, all competing for consumer and enterprise attention. This year also saw smartphone adoption blaze upward even as the economy continued to keep many down. Subsidies from carriers were partly to thank, but so were features such as 4G compatibility, dual cameras, gorgeous displays, high-end cameras, super-fast processors, HDMI support, the ability to act as a hotspot to a handful of other devices, NFC (near-field communications) technology, and the arrival of new mobile operating systems that finally got people as excited as theyve been about Apples iOS namely, Googles Android, Microsofts Windows Phone 7 and even Samsungs Bada. – …


Window Phone 7 To Set A New Era In Smartphones – The Best Phone Operating System Posted By : Karln Luke

RIM, Google and Android have enjoyed the Smartphone world as the major mobile operating systems in the U.S. Microsoft has unveiled a unique operating system, Window Phone 7 that is going to change the world of Smartphone. What makes Window phone 7 so unique? Read this article to find out

Windows Phone 7 Sacrifices Business Features for Consumer Appeal

Windows Phone 7 delivers more business-class features than expected at first glance, but enterprise IT shouldn’t expect to deploy the forthcoming OS, only support it. –

The funniest thing I heard at TechEd 2010 was uttered by an
earnest Microsoft employee who took other mobile operating systems to task for
their user interface designs held back by their adherence to old models.
Paul Bryan,
Microsofts senior director of Business Experience Product…


McAfee to Buy Trust Digital for Mobile Security

McAfee announces an agreement to buy Trust Digital in a mobile security play. Trust Digital designs security and management solutions for smartphones, including the iPhone and Android. – McAfee May 25 announced plans to acquire mobile security provider Trust
Digital to bolster its ability to address the iPhone OS, Google Android and
other mobile operating systems.
quot;The acquisition is expected to close by June 30, quot; McAfee said.
Trust Digital quot;provides a Web service…


RIM’s Missed Opportunities

Version 5 of RIMs BlackBerry Mobile Voice System is both new and late.
– Research In Motions comparatively glacial development pace for the
BlackBerry OS left significant opportunity for upstart mobile operating systems
and devices to gain consumer mind and market share. The use of these devices on
corporate networks gradually being permitted by many IT departments a…


Opera brings Opera Mini 5 Beta for Android

Opera has recently implemented the iPhone platform and now it has launched the Opera Mini 5 beta mobile browser for the Android Platform. Not only this but the Opera Mini 5 Beta mobile web browser now operates on all key mobile operating systems like Symbian, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and now the Android.
The Opera Mini [...]

Android Will Be No. 2 Smartphone OS by 2013, Says Study

Worldwide shipments of smartphones will surpass 390 million units by 2013, predicts IDC, with the two most popular mobile operating systems being Symbian and the Android platform.
– Market research company IDC projects that
by 2013, worldwide shipments of smartphones will surpass 390 million units,
with the Android platform moving into the No. 2 spot behind the Symbian OS.
According to a recent IDC study, the smartphone
market will experience a compound annual growth rate o…


Accenture Completes Acquisition of Nokia Services Unit

Accenture completes its acquisition of the professional services unit of Nokia, a move that will help take Accenture more directly into the business of servicing embedded and mobile operating systems.
– Accenture announced Oct. 16 that it has completed its acquisition of Nokia’s
Symbian Professional Services unit, a move that will help take Accenture more
directly into the business of servicing embedded and mobile operating systems.
The former Nokia unit that Accenture has acquired is quot;resp…


Google Makes Android 1.6 SDK Available

Google is making Android, its open-source mobile operating system, sweeter still. Code-named Donut, Android 1.6′s updates include CDMA connectivity, better search capabilities, voice dialing and a quicker camera.
– Never have mobile operating systems so roused the appetite.
Google announced Sept. 15 that the
SDK for Android 1.6, the newest version of its open-source mobile operating
system, known as quot;Donut, quot; is now available for download.

(Version
1.5 was known as quot;Cupcake, quot; and f…


Analysts Torn on Whether Google-Apple Competition Is Heating Up

Analysts debate the growing rivalry between Google and Apple in the wake of Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s exit from Apple’s board. Google and Apple compete in mobile operating systems with Android and iPhone, Web browsers with Chrome and Safari, and soon computer operating systems with Chrome OS and Mac OS X. How can the competition not be heating up? Maybe Apple should launch a search engine.
– When Google CEO Eric Schmidt stepped down from Apple’s board of directors Aug. 3, it
touched off a wellspring of questions.
How did it happen? Did Apple CEO Steve
Jobs boot Schmidt, or was it a mutual decision to alleviate regulatory
concerns? Maybe it was the Federal Communications Commission’s…



Apple says it’s fixed iPhone SMS vulnerability

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Apple Inc. says it has fixed an iPhone vulnerability that lets hackers knock people offline – and possibly take over the phones – by sending them specially crafted text messages.
Apple says it issued a software fix Friday after the vulnerability was exposed this week at the Black Hat security conference [...]