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Symbian Anna’s Update Announced For N8, E7, C7, C6 Nokia Smartphones

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The days are fixed for the shipping and update release of Symbian^3 Anna software from Nokia. This is largely for the current devices, including the Nokia N8, E7, C7, and C6 smartphones. Nokia has since discontinued shipment of new Symbian driven devices in some countries, including U.S. They are merely supporting already products in the market.

 

While the software is pre-loaded on newer devices that have just begun to ship–like the Nokia X7 and Nokia E6–current flagships have to wait for Anna to hit. The N8, E7, C7, and C6 will officially ship with Anna pre-loaded out of the box in July, according to Nokia, and current owners who have bought devices without Anna will have to wait until the end of August for a software update to roll out.

 

Symbian Anna brings a new visual look to the operating system with new bubbly icons, which are reminiscent of Samsung’s TouchWiz icons. Additionally, beyond the skinning, there are also a number of new improvements to Anna, including a portrait-oriented full QWERTY keyboard, better browser, updates to Ovi Maps, and a new social messaging client:

One of the most anticipated enhancements in Symbian Anna is split screen view while typing, so users can see their message thread. There is also virtual portrait QWERTY for quick, one handed typing. And the web browser is faster and easier to use, delivering quicker page loads and improved navigation.

 

Ovi Maps has been refreshed with simpler and quicker search, new public transportation routes and check-in to Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare or local social networks. You can also share places via email and SMS, even with friends using non-Nokia phones.

 

Business users will benefit from instant messaging with Microsoft Communicator Mobile, email enhancements including full meeting request support, and true business grade security with hardware accelerated encryption. There is also easy and secure intranet access for people who want to get on their company intranet.

 

Though Nokia will be shifting to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform as its mainstream platform of choice for mobile, the company is still dedicated to Symbian and will be releasing up to 10 new Symbian devices in the next 12 months.

The Race For Developer Mindshare, Key Facts From Developer Economics

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The race for developer mindshare is just starting and many players are juggling to get the minds of the developers. Who will win? Apple or Google or even Microsoft. There is this consensus that the best days of Blackberry are behind it.
So, in a new report (actually June 2011), Developer Economics notes these facts after extensive study, interviews and market research:
  • Use of mobile web accelerates. The last year has seen many twists and turns in the race of mobile platforms to capture developer mindshare. Mobile web as a platform has seen an impressive upturn in usage, and is now in third position in our Developer Mindshare Index. Android and iOS continue to lead with 67% of developers currently using Android and 59% using iOS.
  •  Windows is not yet the third horse in the three-horse mobile race. Use of  Windows Mobile has dropped among developers in the last year, while Windows Phoneis not yet seen by developers as a commercially viable platform. Yet Windows Phone 7has managed to establish itself in the number two spot after Android in our DeveloperIntentshare Index, among platforms where developers plan to invest. Microsoft’sadvantage comes from the influx of PC and Xbox developers, Microsoft’s best-in-classtools and the promise of a substantial user base with the Nokia deal.
  •  Symbian, Java abandoned: Symbian and Java ME are the two platforms with thehighest developer abandonment rates; nearly 40% of developers currently usingSymbian and 35% of developers currently using Java ME are planning to drop theplatforms. Java ME is suffering from negative hype despite having been embedded onmore than three billion handsets. Symbian is now officially a platform with an expiry date, with the Nokia Symbian handset line-up set to be discontinued.
  •  Experimentation on the rise: Developers are increasingly experimenting with more and more platforms and transitioning to new ones. Developers use on average 3.2platforms concurrently based on our sample of 850+ online respondents, representing a 15% increase from last year’s figure.
For complete study, please click here to read June Developer Economics.

Ultra Low-Cost Handsets (ULCH) To Peak In 2012, Smartphone To Grow 55% In Few Years, Says iSuppli

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Ultra Low-Cost Handsets (ULCH) continues to be in high demand, driven by the unstoppable subscriber growth in the emerging market. But this growth is fleeting, says IHS iSuppli, a market research firm.

 

While estimated shipment volumes are expected to reach 191 million units in 2011, with an impressive growth rate of 22.1 percent over shipments in 2010, ULCH shipments will reach its peak in 2012 with 207 million units as first-time buyers contribute 17.8 percent of the total volume.

 

However, ULCHs could see a reprieve coming from the gray market. In 2011, gray market handsets are competing directly with ULCHs. But we believe that the gray market will begin to decline in 2012 and consumers will start to upgrade with branded ULCHs in the beginning of the replacement cycle.

 

Beginning in 2013, shipments of ULCH will begin to decline until they fall to 175 million units by 2015, managing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.3 percent through the forecast period.

 

By comparison, the smartphone segment is expected to continue to grow heartedly in the next few years reaching a 54.4 percent share of the overall mobile handset shipment volume with 1.03 billion units.

 

Time For Fashion Phone Show With Samsung Diva Or Samsung Wave

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Things are hard. But that hasn’t deterred mobile phone maverick Samsung from letting go a new line-up of fashion-centric mobile phones targeting the feminine sector of its markets. One of them is the Samsung S5150 Diva, a basic clamshell handset that oozes with femininity that has few rivals out there. Another is the Samsung Wave. And who’s going to buy one now after most people have already purchased their dream HTC or Android phones? Well, Samsung made sure the new phones are affordable enough that it can settle for loose change this  season. It can serve as a second handset you won’t mind losing.

 

At a Glance

The Samsung lady handset is your basic tri band GSM/GPRS/EDGR mobile phone that comes housed in sleek clamshell body pockmarked with 3D sculpted cube pattern that that gives it a novel feel in your hands. It measures a compact 94.0 x 47.0 x 17.4 mm weighing 82.8 grams that makes it friendly to the pocket or handbag. You won’t get 3G and WiFi and this is understandable on a budget phone like this. You can surf the net on GPRS/EDGE speeds and you get wireless data connectivity with Bluetooth devices with its Bluetooth 2.1 support.

 

There’s capable 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with QVGA video recording. It has Beauty Effect for beautifying portrait shots and a Lomo Effect for getting that clear old style shots. Its 2.2-inch QVGA TFT LCD display supports 16 million colors. When the clamshell is shut closed, there’s a small monochromatic display hidden under the sculpted textured body. It gets illuminated to show date and time, battery status and flashes alerts for scheduled appointments, incoming calls and text messages.

 

On the road entertainment starts with capable media players that plays all your popular audio and video file formats and sports an FM radio. There’s Bluetooth A2DP capability for supporting wireless stereo Bluetooth earphones. Internal memory is quite modest and thanks to its microSD slot, your media files can be stored using a microSDHC card of up to 32 GB. Talk time is a decent 7 hours and standby time is 7.8 hours from its 800 mAh lithium-ion battery.

 

Like recent Samsung mobile phones, this one uses the TouchWiz user interface which gets some nifty enhancement to five it a feminine look and feel. In addition, your get an application called Wish List that keeps track of your must-have items in a shopping list.

 

There’s also an “etiquette mode” that can silence the handset when you’re in a social gathering or business meeting. You also get the usual browser and email client application with customizable homescreen for icons that can instantly access your IM and social networking accounts.

You can visit Moby1 to compare all the best mobile phone contracts. You can find the best Samsung S5150 Diva contracts being offered.

The Financial Model Behind Tekedia Broad Industrial Average (TBIA)

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TBIA Calculation

As noted in a white paper, there are two divisors for TBIA calculation and it is by no means a simple mathematical average. To obtain the daily value of TBIA, the sum of the prices of all 30 stocks is divided by two divisors. The divisors are adjusted in case of stock adjustments like splits, spinoffs, etc. The goal is to ensure that none of such events distort or alter the numerical value of TBIA. We categorized the stocks into two groups:  A and B (more on the classification later). All chosen stocks in the index have fair market cap in the exchange. The equation for TBIA calculation is as follows:

 

Tekedia Broad Industrial Average (TBIA)

In the equation above, p represents the prices of the component stocks and d is the divisor. Any stock with price of N85 was included in Category B. The value of da is 0.1343330 while db is 0.5064900. With these numbers, the Index will not be overly affected by one stock movement. It is also important to emphasis that for Category A, one Naira stock movement contributes N7.50 while for Category B, it will have an effect of about N2. Heavy hitters like Nestle and Guinness are in Category B and we have statistically adjusted for their influence in the index.

 

For TBIA to remain undistorted despite structural changes like splits, spinoffs, etc which ideally can change the sum of the component prices, it will be updated whenever Nigerian Stock Exchange announces a change. The optimization goal is for value of TBIA before and after the event to coincide:

 

Tekedia Broad Industrial Average (TBIA)

Components Stocks

There are many standards we put in place before a stock could make it into TBIA. It must have an appreciable market capitalization, at least N10 price, among other factors. By the close of business on Friday, August 12, 2011, we cutoff and qualified those with above N10 and respectable cap. We now apportioned so that most of the industries could be included.  So, there are some industries you will not see in the Index and what that means those industries may not be having huge impacts in the stock exchange All Share Index. Insurance has no representative and only three banks made it. To ensure a technology company is included, we qualified NCR despite not meeting our price criterion, an exception.

 

Now with the selection of the stocks, we moved any stock that is more than N85 into the high price Category B. Others went into Category B.  Using the formula explained above, we automated the process. Daily updates will be done.

 

For more on TBIA or TBIA 20, click here.

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