HELSINKI-Nokia and Samsung have just launched a new smart phone, to rival Apple's starting to get prestige since the emergence of the iPhone.
Nokia, quoted by Yahoo Tech, Wednesday (11/11), now depends on the N900 series smart phones, while Samsung only poured phone platform based on open source with Bada name that can be used by all players in the smart phone market.
Nokia N900 is the first Linux-based Maemo, a trusted operating system technology, Nokia has power over Apple and Blackberry. Meanwhile, Bada is the latest operating system made by Samsung themselves are also believed to be able to match capacity iPhone and Blackberry OS.
The two companies, if combined, have managed to control approximately 60 percent market share. But in the realm of smart phones, they have lost the prestige Apple and RIM, Blackberry manufacturer. However, although Nokia has started to lose prestige in the smart phone market, for that matter the number of units scattered, Nokia is still the number one mobile phone. While Samsung is still behind Apple, RIM and HTC.
Unfortunately not for profit business. In the third quarter of this year Nokia has lost a percentage of profits, while Apple just increased. iPhone able to contribute Apple profits of 1.6 billion U.S. dollars while the Nokia is only able to reach 1.1 billion U.S. dollars.
Apple itself has managed to sell approximately 7.4 million iPhone units during July to September with the results of approximately $ 4, 5 billion. Meanwhile, Nokia sold approximately 108.5 million in the same quarter results of $ 10, 36 billion.
Overall, the mobile phone market is expected to increase approximately 3 percent in the last quarter.
BlackBerry did not stay silent. Research In Motion (RIM) announced a new initiative to create a more friendly BlackBerry devices with gaming applications. If all this as the BlackBerry pernagkat oriented business, the entertainment will be highlighted on the devices the next generation.
As reported by AFP, mobile phone manufacturers based in Canada that are improving the BlackBerry software to more easily accommodate the game. The developer will be easy to create 3D games and entertainment programs more intuitive type.
"We're making it easier for developers, penghobi, and content providers to build graphics-rich experience for BlackBerry smartphones," said senior vice president of RIM's platform, Alan Brenner.
Such a move is issued as RIM's answer to the competition with Apple's iPhone smartphone and ranking using software made by Google's Android. iPhone has been featured multimedia platform to accommodate as many applications as possible to give the freedom of improvisation Android to third parties to use an open platform based on open source.
RIM is also central to the latest operating system upgrade of the BlackBerry OS 5.0 which is rumored to be coming soon for the Storm.
Some improvement is the addition of the Flick feature scrolling browsing. In addition, the loading time when opening the application also called faster than previous versions.
Unlike the usual updates, this update is not through the OTA (Over The Air). So, for Storm users who want to upgrade their OS, make sure there is a nearby PC.