Symbian Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Parent iPhones can track kids' non-iPhones with MobileKids

by Michael Rose (Jan 24th, 2013)

The delicate dance of independence, safety and personal boundaries between anxious parents and digital-generation kids is always tricky. Some apps and device usages are A-OK, some are a highly concentrated essence of bad choices (looking at you, Snapchat) -- but most fall into a gray area, ...

Net Market Share lists Safari as top mobile browser

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 1st, 2011)

The latest mobile browser metrics from NetMarketShare show that Safari continues to gain market share. Since December 2010, Safari's share of the mobile browser market has increased from 49.17% to its current level of 62.17%. Android has also increased, but its growth rate is much slower than ...

Report: Windows Phone to beat iPhone in market share by 2015

by Mike Schramm (Mar 29th, 2011)

IDC has released its latest report on the future of the smartphone market, and according to the predictions, there's a lot of growth in store for Windows Phone 7. By 2015, says the firm, Windows Phones should have over 20 percent of the smartphone market, placing it ahead of even Apple's iOS ...

iPhone owners uniquely loyal to Apple

by David Quilty (Nov 29th, 2010)

A survey of over 2,600 mobile phone users in Brazil, Germany, Spain, Britain, the United States and China shows that only about 25 percent of smartphone owners are loyal to their current operating system. The survey by German firm GfK found that 56 percent of smartphone owners were open to trying a ...

iPhone and Android shares rise while BlackBerry, Symbian fall

by David Quilty (Nov 10th, 2010)

It's definitely a good time to be an iPhone or an Android smartphone. Gartner is reporting that while the iPhone's total smartphone market share fell slightly from 17.1 percent to 16.7 percent (while still selling more total units than RIM) and Android's jumped from 3.5 percent to 25.5 percent in ...

Why Apple might want to buy ARM

by Sang Tang (Apr 22nd, 2010)

--- Last January, Apple COO Tim Cook stated, "We believe we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make." That motivation, backed by Apple's 41 billion cash on hand, makes its rumored acquisition of ARM Holdings so compelling. --- What would you do if you had ...

Report: iPhone is number three smartphone platform worldwide

by Mike Schramm (Feb 24th, 2010)

(Chart by Apple Insider) A new Gartner report puts the iPhone at number three on the list of smartphone platforms in use worldwide, right behind Nokia's Symbian OS and the RIM software used in Blackberry devices. More importantly, the report has Apple's device gaining market share -- its unit share ...

Apple is the third largest smartphone maker

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 9th, 2010)

Apple is now the world's third largest smartphone producer, coming in behind Nokia and Research in Motion. IDC's latest report from its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker cites continued interest in the iPhone and Apple starting to offer the device in China as major driving forces behind the ...

Windows Mobile, Android, Flash make headlines at Mobile World Congress

by Robert Palmer (Feb 17th, 2009)

Two of Apple's rival mobile platforms announced news this week at the 2009 Mobile World Congress, with Windows Mobile 6.5 on the way, and a new Android-based handset from HTC. Windows Mobile has updated its user interface to more closely resemble the iPhone's. I can imagine the brainstorming ...

Mark/Space ships Missing Sync for Symbian

by Steven Sande (Jul 29th, 2008)

Mac sync software developer Mark/Space has announced the release of The Missing Sync for Symbian. Designed to sync Mac apps to Symbian S60 and UIQ smartphones, the new $39.95 product (electronic download) has a unique feature -- Proximity Syncing. When your Mac and Symbian phone are within Bluetooth ...

Missing Sync for iPhone: Windows Version

by Steven Sande (Jun 26th, 2008)

The wizards of sync at Mark/Space have announced the availability of The Missing Sync for iPhone (for Windows). This is the Windows edition of the package that takes PIM data from your existing Palm OS, BlackBerry, Symbian OS, or Windows Mobile device and moves it to your sparkly new iPhone. ...