The understatement site has an enlightening survey on how (US) phones have (or haven’t) been able to be updated to later versions of Android.
Last May, I covered the same topic and concluded that consumers have expectations that probably aren’t viable. I also mooted the idea that maybe OEMs might abandon major upgrades and only provide […]

Microsoft has a new post bragging how they now have license agreements accounting for over half of all Android devices. The comments in the Microsoft post make entertaining reading, particularly the one that shows the patents are very generic such as implementing both long and short file names in the same file system.
My thoughts are similar […]

As the mobile development market matures, will will start to see commercial ideas more normal on the desktop/server applied to mobile. One such idea is Verious which comes across as a ComponentSource for mobile… with a twist. The twist being that potential buyers can request and vote on components
Verious lists iOS and Android components and […]

Xyologic have released a huge amount of data on app downloads across Android, iPhone, iPad and WP7. The data is further split across 29 countries.
This is valuable information for anyone thinking of creating a mobile app. It shows what types of app are most popular in particular countries and allows you to evaluate the competition […]

I followed Apple’s ‘Let’s Talk iPhone’ keynote and have a few thoughts. First of all, the mobile market share slide was very misleading…
 
While I can’t find these numbers on ComScore, they are certainly showing US only which gives a very skewed version of reality.
Apple’s device strategy is very clever. It’s like someone said "What can […]

NPD Group’s ConnectedIntelligence unit has new research that shows ‘Android On Top For Now But Consumers Also Eyeing Windows Phone 7 for the Future‘.

However, the part that interested me was…
 "Among the 50 percent of consumers who plan to purchase a smartphone in the next six months, but who are not interested in Windows Phone 7, […]

An article at Smartcompany describes a phenomenon I have been seeing for the last few months. 
"There is definitely more demand for Android development. It just used to be iOS, but now it’s more Android. We just got so many emails asking where the Android versions are."
More companies are starting to expect to develop an Android […]