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Category Archives: smartphones
New Nokia Asha platform for developers
This is a very throroughly designed platform with carefully defined Nokia Asha Design Guidelines providing all the details as well as a comprehensive set of tools supporting that. From Series 40 to Nokia Asha is giving advice about migrating earlier … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, Cloud client SW platforms, smartphones
Tagged Asha Design Guidelines, Java applications, LCDUI, LWUIT, Nokia, Nokia Asha platform, Nokia Asha SDK 1.0 (beta), Nokia Asha UI, Nokia Asha web app tools 3.0, Nokia Asha web apps, Nokia IDE 2.0 for Java ME (beta), Nokia In-App Payment, Nokia Xpress Web App Builder, User Experience, UX, WDE, Web Developer Environment
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New Asha platform and ecosystem to deliver a breakthrough category of affordable smartphone from Nokia
… by bringing premium experience to the entry-level smartphone market: Peter Skillman (Head of Ux Design for Mobile Phones & HERE at Nokia) demonstratingSwipe and Fastlane experiences on a greatly enlarged touchscreen, actually from a ladder, at the launch in … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, consumer computing, consumer devices, design, Geopolitics, smartphones
Tagged affordable smartphones, Facebook, Fastlane, India, intelligent multitasking, Lumia, NAX, Nokia, Nokia Advertising Exchange, Nokia Asha 501, Nokia Asha ecosystem, Nokia Asha family, Nokia Asha platform, Nokia HERE, Nokia In-App Payment, Nokia N9, Nokia Xpress browser, Nokia Xpress Now, Nokia's operator billing network, Series 40, smarter Internet, Smarterphone, swipe, User Experience, UX
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Nokia’s non-Windows crossroad
Update: 3” display with 240 x 320 pixels, not AMOLED screen, 3.2 MP camera. More information:- New Asha platform and ecosystem to deliver a breakthrough category of affordable smartphone from Nokia [‘Experiencing the Cloud’, May 9, 2013] my composite post … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing strategy, Cloud SW engineering, consumer computing, consumer devices, design, smartphones, tablets
Tagged Android, Asha, Asha 501, Blackberry, C#, Codename One, Codename One development kit, Codename One UI, cross-platform development, J2ME, Java developers, LCDUI, lightweight architecture, Lightweight component, Lightweight User Interface Toolkit, LWUIT, LWUIT 2.0, Metro, Metro design, Modern design, Modern UI, Nokia, Nokia Asha, Nokia Premium Developer Program for Asha, Nokia S40, Nokia SDK 2.0 for Java, Nokia Series 40, non-Windows platforms, platforms co-development, porting Android apps, porting Blackberry apps, S40, Swing, Tantalum, Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8, XAML
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China: Entry-level dual core IPS WVGA (480×800) smartphones $65+ now, quad-core $70+ in June
China market: Qualcomm, Spreadtrum cutting quad-core processor prices [DIGITIMES, April 25, 2013] Qualcomm and Spreadtrum Communications have both cut prices for their quad-core products to better compete against MediaTek, which controls half of the smartphone-chip market in China, according to … Continue reading
Posted in consumer computing, consumer devices, Geopolitics, smartphones, SoC
Tagged 2.5G, Android, China, China Mobile, dual core, entry level, 蘑菇手机, HSPA+, HSUPA, IPS, MediaTek, MOGO OS, Mogu, Mogu Phone, MOGU蘑菇手机, Qualcomm, SC6825, SC8825, smartphones, Spreadtrum, TD-SCDMA, WVGA
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Temporary Nokia setback in India
According to “Samsung Nokia India GfK-Nielsen” search from April 25 to April 28, 2013: Samsung beats Nokia to become largest Mobile Phone seller in Urban India Samsung Leads In Phone Sales & Grabs Leadership Position From Nokia Samsung topples Nokia, … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, Geopolitics, smartphones
Tagged Asha, Asha Full Touch, entry-level smartphones, GfK-Nielsen, Idea Cellular, India, Java, Karbonn, Karbonn Mobiles, Micromax, mobile phones, Nokia, Nokia India, Samsung, Samsung Mobile, Samsung REX, Samsung REX 70, smartphones, urban India, Videocon
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Nokia: Continued moderate progress with Lumia, urgent Asha Touch refresh and new innovations to come against the onslaught of unbranded Android and forked Android players in China and India
Nokia Corporation’s CEO Discusses Q1 2013 Results – Earnings Call Transcript [Seeking Alpha, April 18, 2013] … At the highest level, I am pleased that in Q1 2013 Nokia Group achieved underlying operating profitability for the third quarter in a … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, consumer computing, consumer devices, Geopolitics, smartphones
Tagged Asha Touch, China, Competition, competitive industry dynamics, forked Android, India, Lumia, new industry dynamics, Nokia, Nokia competition, trends, unbranded Android
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The future of mobile gaming at GDC 2013 and elsewhere
Laszlo Kishonti at MWC 2013 (see the video embedded later, as well as the CLBenchmark data supporting the below statement): [1:20] Currently Mali T-600 is the first and only GPU which can run this desktop grade software. [1:27] The Great … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, consumer computing, consumer devices, smartphones, SoC, tablets
Tagged AAA Game, Arndale Board, CLBenchmark, CLBenchmark 1.1 Desktop Edition, console gaming, digital gaming, Exynos 5 Dual, Exynos 5250, F8000, GDC 2013, GLBenchmark, GLbenchmark 2.5, Glu Mobile, Google Nexus 10, Hisilicon K3V3, Image filter, Kishonti Informatics, Mali SeeMore Demo, Mali-T600 Series, Mali-T604, Mali-T624, Mali-T628, Mali-T658, Mali-T678, mobile gaming, OpenCL CPU Compute, OpenCL GPU Compute, Optical flow, PowerVR competition, Raytrace, Samsung Smart TV, SPH Fluid Simulation, Synopsis, Synthesis Super-Resolution Scaler Demo, Timbuktu2, triple-A game, WQXGA display
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New and successful “post feature phone” business of Nokia with a new set of risks and uncertainties
Nokia successfully got over the “post feature phone” situation described a year ago as: … many mid-range to high-end feature phones increasingly offer access to the Internet and applications and provide more smartphone-like features and design, blurring the distinction between … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, consumer computing, consumer devices, smartphones
Tagged affordability, Android-based smartphones, feature phones, higher-end, higher-end devices, Mobile Phones business, Nokia, post feature phone, QWERTY devices, risks, risks and uncertainties, uncertainties
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