When we talk about top smart-phone operating systems in US market, we think of RIM, iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile (Windows Phone 7) and Palm. We all know, how Apple’s iPhone OS and Google’s Android OS are growing.
Looking at the report provided by ComScore, RIM is still holding the top spot followed by, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Palm. But, when we look the growth from the last three month starting from November 2009, Google had a tremendous growth compare to the other smart-phone operating systems. Google captured 7.1% of US smart-phone …

We all been talking a lot about Flash. We learned that Apple’s iPad will not support Flash and it will be the same for 4th Gen iPhone. When we talk about Windows Phone 7 Series, a lot of people who are familiar with Silverlight will come to an assumption that the it will be heavily based on Silverlight. And few of them may think that Flash would be unlikely to ever be available on the phone.

Recently, Adobe had also declared that, no plans to have Flash 10.1 for Windows Mobile …

Microsoft’s very impressive Courier details are revealed. The Courier will contain two multi-touch screens that face each other in a book form factor, and will utilize both stylus and finger touch for input. We can confirm that the device is running on the Tegra 2 Chip series. Microsoft is aiming to launch Courier by 2nd half of 2010 (May be early 2011).

We are still unclear on the pricing. But, sources confirmed that it will be the most affordable device. To get more details on Microsoft’s Courier watch the demo video …

If you are planning to developer an App or a Game for Windows Phone 7 Series, I bet you are waiting for the MIX10 event to get more detailed information. For folks who are planning to get a Windows Phone 7 Series powered phone you may be interested in knowing what kind of Apps and Games will it be loaded with. Here are few videos that kind of gives us a glimpse of what Windows Phone 7 Series Apps and Games.

In the following video Microsoft’s Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd …

Let me first start with Congratulating Steve Jobs and his team for taking the First Spot for being the worlds most admired companies. The “Worlds Most Admired Companies” list that Fortune prepares every year. Its a ranking of corporate reputation. In other words, its not what consumers thinks of Corporate America, its what Corporate America thinks of Corporate America.
Fortune picked 4,200 Executives, Directors and Industry Analysts and asked them what are the companies you admire the most? Result of that is the list of TOP 50 Worlds Most Admired Companies.

As …

I must say this “Non touchscreen devices are out dated. We all prefer a smart-phone with a touchscreen and has a great user interface“. Now-a-days, having a touchscreen on a device is not considered as a high-end device. As touchscreens are getting more affordable, companies are including touchscreens in mid-range phones.

Gartner Inc believes that, “worldwide market for touchscreen mobile devices will surpass 362.7 million units in 2010, 96.8 % increase from 2009 sales of 184.3 million units“. Basically doubling last year numbers. In a matter of 2+ year, touchscreen (capacitive …

According to Microsoft Executive, all existing smart-phone’s will not be getting Windows Phone 7 Series upgrade, including HTC HD2! Most of you will be surprised becuase, all these day we have been thinking that, Only HTC HD2 meet the Windows Phone 7 Series hardware requirements.

Unfortunately, HTC HD2 not only meet the specs its over exceeds with few hardware buttons on the phone. Just because HTC HD2 has 5 buttons instead of the 3 mandated for all Windows Phone 7 series phones the phone has been ruled out.
Natasha Kwan, General …

If you are a regular reader of this blog you might have already learned worldwide smartphone numbers of 2009 which were provided by Canalys, which we have published back on 11th Feb, 2010. If you missed that article you can find it here – On a worldwide level Apple’s iPhone OS beats Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS.
Now, lets learn some worldwide smartphone annual number of 2009 from Gartner an information technology research and advisory firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.
If you look at Canalys and Gartner annual number they looks pretty similar. …

By now we all have heard about Windows Phone 7 Series which was announced by Steve Ballmer at Mobile World Congress 2010, Barcelona. Microsoft really impress and surprised us with the new mobile operating system. Here come one more interesting video which shows how Bing Maps integrated into Windows Phone 7 Series.

Following video was shoot-ed behind the Windows Phone 7 Series Booth. – Demo Presented by Ian Todd Program Manager, Windows Phone Engineering Team.

Note for Developers: You could even integrate Bing Maps into your own applications (WP7). You will learn …

Yesterday folks at PDA.pl took an interview with Alfredo Patron, Microsoft Mobility Executive for EMEA, on Windows Phone 7 Series. Mr. Patron mentioned the following..

The phones are expected to arrive in October to December time frame
Working with Top OEM’s companies to get a nice looking and powerful phones
All Phone will have the same UI – Because Microsoft don’t want to confuse the end users with different different UI’s
Some hardware spec’s may be different from company to company. Like QWERTY Keyboard, different different megapixel cameras, GPS, different different color.
When the phone …

Steve Ballmer announced Windows Phone 7 Series at Mobile World Congress 2010, Barcelona and mentioned that Windows Phone 7 will arrive by the holidays season – That is by the end of this year. Microsoft is working with AsusTek to build its own phone. For folks who are not familiar with AsusTek – It is a Taiwanese multinational corporation which produces motherboards, laptops, servers, mobile phones and other computer products. AsusTek is commonly called by its brand name ASUS.

Our Source who have spoken to Microsoft suppliers and design partners mentioned …