when the iPhone first launched. The Finland based company’s complacence has been the reason of its decline, which showed in its
. The company posted losses of nearly $700 million and almost every sector witnessed a decline. With these results,
 achieved an important landmark of being the world’s top smartphone vendor.
Last quarter Nokia’s smartphone shipments went down by 34% to 16.7 million smartphone units compared to Apple ‘s 20.3 million
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According to Square Trade, only 2.1% of iPhone 4's would fail after 12 months of usage. Note that this is an extrapolated figure based on current trends because it has not been a year yet since the iPhone 4 arrived.
This figure turns out to be the best in the industry with the iPhone 3GS and Motorola having a malfunction rate of 2.3%. In third position was HTC with a 3.7% malfunction rate in the first year of ownership. BlackBerry scored the (more…)

David Katz, Yahoo’s VP of Mobile for the Americas region has revealed the following details:
“The free app, will be available for both iPhone and Android phones and will allow smartphone users to not only conduct video calls with each other, but with anyone that currently uses Yahoo Messenger for video calls on their PCs.”
The ability to make voice calls with users on the iPhone , Android smartphones and anyone using Yahoo messenger on the PC (more…)

Here are some of the new features introduced in Yahoo Messenger 2.0:
• Video calls: Use Yahoo! Messenger to make video calls and stream live video one-to-one
• Voice calls: Make free voice calls to your Yahoo! Messenger friends
• Low cost voice calls: Talk to your friends on their landline or mobile phone, and make low cost international calls with Yahoo! Voice Phone Out account.
• Multitasking: Work with other iPhone apps while Yahoo! (more…)

One such application that launched last week is Tango; a cross-platform software developed by a Palo Alto based startup by the same name. The application presently works on iOS as well as Android platforms. Unlike FaceTime, Tango can be used to communicate with friends who do not own an
.
Tango also comes with a number of other advantages over FaceTime. The application can work over Wi-Fi as well as 3G and also works over phones that do not come (more…)

The results are without doubt a shot in the arm for Google as the search engine giant works towards consolidating its position in the mobile search business. The results are also a vindication of Google's open source strategy against Apple 's closed ecosystem model.
However, as MG Seigler from
points out, there are two reasons why it may not be entirely fair to compare the sale of
at this point. Firstly, Android is available on all the (more…)

, Sony's tablet is expected to replicate the
, which includes applications to read ebooks, play games, watch movies and surf the internet. The report also claims that Sony's new smartphone could be capable of downloading and playing video games.
The new line of handheld devices are expected to be connected to Sony's new online media platform, tentatively named the Sony Online Service. This platform is similar to Apple 's iTunes (more…)

Last week,
“I can tell you that we don't ship Flash with any known crash bugs, and if there was such a widespread problem historically Flash could not have achieved its wide use today.”
Based on Lynch’s comments in the interview, it does look like Adobe is making a sincere effort to improve flash for Mac and smartphones. He had this to say:
“Well, there's a lot of Flash content on the Web, and so, right now about 85% of the top websites (more…)

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona yesterday, HTC unveiled two of its upcoming Android 2.1 handsets – Desire and Legend.
HTC Desire is primarily a Nexus One with additional features. The device replaces Nexus One's trackball with an optical trackpad. Also, the Desire runs Sense; HTC's TouchFLO 3D based UI.
HTC Legend on the other hand comes with a 3.2 inch AMOLED screen, 600 MHz processor, 384MB RAM and a 5MP camera equipped with (more…)

So how is it different from typing on a QWERTY keyboard? Well, the letters of the alphabet are aligned in pretty much the same way as in a QWERTY keyboard. But instead of pressing the letters one by one while typing a message, swyping lets you to simply touch and drag your finger across the screen to the various letters to input the text.
This new technology has been developed by Cliff Kushler who is also well known for developing the T9 predictive (more…)