Symbian phones

Industry analyst Gartner has announced in a report that in the first quarter of 2012, Android smartphones held a 56% market share, easily beating the 22.9% held by the Apple iPhone. The data from Gartner also showed that Samsung were by far the most popular manufacturer of Android devices, generating nearly 44% of that market share. Other manufacturers of Android devices, including HTC and Motorola, were all at less than 10%. Combined figures showed that one in every two smartphone sales was either a Samsung device or the iPhone. Competition is tough in the smartphone market, and right now it is RIM, the...

According to a report from analysts Kantar WorldPanel, sales of Windows Phone 7 devices in the UK have overtaken those of the old Nokia smartphone OS, Symbian. From a market share in the UK last year of 12.4 percent, Symbian sales now account for 2.4 percent, whilst Windows Phone has reached a share of 2.5 percent. The Nokia Lumia 800 is a main driver behind Windows Phone sales, accounting for almost 90 percent of sales across Europe. The sales of Windows Phone devices may still be far behind those of Android handsets and the iPhone, however the news should be of some encouragement...

Nokia may have been going through a lean time of late, but they still know how to steal a headline or two, and they managed just that at the recent Mobile World Congress with the announcement of the Nokia 808 PureView. Boasting an amazing 41 Megapixel camera, the Nokia PureView delivers never before seen imaging capabilities on a cameraphone, with some pretty impressive technology. Using a new technology called oversampling, the PureView handset has a high resolution 41 Megapixel sensor, with a Carl Zeiss lens, that together combine to allow the 808 capture images never before seen on a mobile phone. When...