Mobile Whack Has an Interesting article about the 2nd quarter results of mobile phone sales. Turns out that blackberries RIM Operating system has beaten windows mobile operating system as far as market share is concerned. Blackberry have doubled their market share inside of a year but more impressively the iPhones operating system has trebled it’s market Share within the same amount of time. The biggest looser seems to be Symbian which has lost about 10% from 65.6% to 57.1%.

Android Community has an excellent group of videos up showcasing googles mobile phone platform with the android 1.0 firmware. I must say that it has really come on. This firmware version has not yet been seen in the wild, Some of the applications have only been seen in pictures. Other videos featuring; browser, IM client, video player, and Quake which is now playable and very fast on the handset are available here

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So who do you find to be the most annoying fanboys and why?

Tesco is soon to add mobile VoIP to their list of services making them a more attractive supplier of mobile service, Currently only a few providers offer this service and it has been very successful as it attracts people with the promise of cheap and sometime even free phone calls. The service, provided in partnership with Freshtel, can be downloaded to N95,N81,E65 and E51 handsets, and should be available on other models by the end of next year. This service relies on access to open wireless networks and is very cheap. It would cost just 1.5p per minute to call a contact in Australia, and calls to other TalkWifi customers are free of charge, even international calls.

The Peek is a handset that is only used for e-mail only, so if you mostly use your smartphone for e-mail. Then this could cut down the cost of the contract. You could carry a pre-pay mobile for texts and phone calls and pay only $10 a month for unlimited email access. The handset it’s self will cost $99, but I think that’s a fair price and for someone like me who prefers E-Mail to phone calls and texts, this could really cut my mobile phone bill down to size. The handheld its self is about the same size as a blackberry and slightly slimmer. In reviews this device is said to have a very simple and effective operating system with a decent GUI, which enables you to send E-Mails very easily.

 http://www.gadling.com/2008/09/02/product-review-peek-mobile-email-device-part-2/

Nice video of the blackberry kickstart;

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More details about the blackberry kickstart have been leaked, the Kickstart flip phone. Oh, and there’s the first picture we’ve seen of the front 160 x 128 LCD display and 2 megapixel camera. Yeah, it looks like just every other flip phone with an external display and a camera, there’s a couple more shots at the read link to keep you warm until this thing finally hits.

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I recently got the blackberry 8800 mobile phone for myself and so far it has been the best phone that I have ever owned, it has lots and lots of features but you can’t take advantage of all of them on PAYG (Pay As You Go). Which was what I was using, so I wanted to replicate the normal features such as push email but with a PAYG contract. To replace the email I used googles gmail program for mobiles and forwarded all of my existing email addresses to my gmail address and it has worked very well so far.

Some other changes that I made was to install opera mini and a new theme, as the t-mobile theme that it came with was less than inspiring, did look into making my own themes for it but installing the software developers kit was impossible and then some (I would have done it but they had dependencies on software that wasn’t free).

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The Nokia E71 a mobile phone with a QWERTY keyboard is soon to be released, this is nokia’s first USA 3G network compatible business phone and it’s getting great reviews so far we’ll be keeping out eye on this one.

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