News for Saturday, 10 January 2009

Ever since the arrival of the steam roller Windows Mobile, Palm slowly has sunk, while seeking a route to decide what it is (pda, telephone) and an operating system (Palm OS, Windows Mobile) to adopt without really succeeding in reconquering its public. However, they believe that they are not beaten, and hope and count on the Pre (pronounced " Pri") to compete more seriously with Windows Mobile, Blackberry and the iPhone.
This new device is based on WebOS, and thought up under the direction of Jon Rubinstein, a former engineer at Apple at the origin of the design of the iMac and the iPod, and wants it to be directed towards the developers, a web navigator with full HTML, a fluid and pleasant interface, and applications to manage your social network connections etc…

It is necessary to acknowledge that this is the first time that an smartphone OS approaches close of that of the iPhone. It remain to be seen if this rather tempting device will arrive at its rather ambitious objective: anything less will not save Palm from bankruptcy…

Admob who tracks internet connections from mobile phones (and now from mp3 players) published their report on December 2008. They noted an explosion of the presence of the iPod Touch on the web whose volume was multiplied by 3,4 in one month (only 2,9x in France).

The iPhone also goes very well and now accounts for 32% of the smartphones on the Web on a world level and 48% for the United States, these are figures that do not take the iPod Touch into account.