Tag Archives: smartphone

This must be regarded as the low point for Nokia as the company deals with plummeting legacy device sales before the new WinPho era begins. Today’s Q2 financial report reveals the depth of the Finnish firm’s current plight. Year on year revenue fell 11 per cent from €1bn to €927m, …

European games rating body PEGI has released a Windows Phone 7 version of its smartphone app. The download allows users to access the 16k+ strong database of game ratings for PAL titles. It supports 11 languages and, as well as consumer advice, review content syndicated from Eurogamer. The PEGI app …

E3 is approaching fast, but can the biggest games show on earth cover the emerging game markets?

Zynga’s has made a significant extension into the smartphone games space by hiring key contributors of open-source mobile tools. In a delicately arranged acquisition, Zynga has essentially taken some control of the open-source iPhone tool Cocos2d. It has achieved the feat, however, whilst keeping Cocos2d open and free to all …

New smartphone game outfit 'will remain agile with minimal overheads'

Mobile phone platform Google Android has been hit by over 50 apps with viruses buried within them. The malicious applications – now removed from the Android Marketplace – were duplicates of legitimate apps which had been modified to include viruses. They had been downloaded between 50,000 and 200,000 times. BBC …

The next Apple iPhone will have a larger screen than its predecessors, reports suggest. The iPhone 5’s screen will apparently measure four inches diagonally – up half an inch from the iPhone 4’s screen which is 3.5 inches. This is to ensure it competes with rival Google Android smartphones which …

A new study from Canalys claims that in the final quarter of 2010 Google mobile OS Android overtook Nokia’s Symbian platform to become the best selling smartphone OS in the world. Shipment of Android-based devices hit 33.3m worldwide in the period. By comparison, Symbian device sales hit 31m. Apple iOS …

The PlayStation brand could branch out to tablet devices and smartphones in the future. That’s according to Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai, who dropped heavy hints that the firm will bring the PlayStation Network to other Sony devices. During his keynote at CES 2011, he said: Strategy encompasses driving …

Several key inclusions for the 'game-focused' OS