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Monday 01 November 2010

Samsung: Nexus S/Two Rumour Isn't True [ 01-11-2010 18:20 ]

Author: Ivanov Konstantin Source: BGR Translation by: Paul Smith

Samsung have stepped in with their rumour squelching boots and put an end to the, brief, speculation that it was cooking up a successor to the Google Nexus One, apaprently originally titled the Nexus S or Nexus 2.

A mock-up of the Nexus S (Nexus Two) appeared just last week and bearing a striking resemblance to the existing Galaxy S it lent some credence to the notion that it was real. Add in to the mix the fact that it isn't beyond the realms of of believability that there should actually be a successor to the Nexus One and you had yourself a tasty little rumour cooking there. Well as mentioned Samsung have firmly put that one to bed saying that the rumour was 'simply not true'. Awwww.

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VLC Player Getting Pulled From App Store? [ 01-11-2010 18:07 ]

Author: Ivanov Konstantin Source: macstories Translation by: Paul Smith

The release of VLC player in Apple's App Store was greeted pretty much positively by everyone ... well not quite everyone. The chaps at Videolan, the devs who built VLC, are not exactly cheering, in fact they're hitting Apple with a lawsuit.

Why the animosity? Well basically it comes down to copyright infringement because VLC is distributed under the GPL, which the devs say is incompatible with Apple's DRM based app store. So why did the devs submit their app to the app store in the first place? They didn't. The app was ported to iOS by a third party, Applidium. There's precedent for this too, with a chess game that was covered by the GPL having been removed from the app store earlier in the year so that would seem to set the stage for the outcome with the VLC dispute.

The bottom line is that the future is not a rosy one for VLC on the iPhone so if you want it get it now before it's pulled.

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X10 Android 2.1 - Rooted! [ 01-11-2010 17:31 ]

Author: Ivanov Konstantin Source: XDA Developers Translation by: Paul Smith

X10 owners had reason to rejoice yesterday as the long awaited Eclair (Android 2.1) update was finally released and started to roll out across Europe. They have even more reason to cheer today as the boffins at, where else, XDA Developers, have released a root for the update. The speed of the root belies the months of waiting that X10 owners endured for the update.

It's not perfect at the moment though as there is apparently a bug that causes continous loops in programmes. The advice given is that should a loop appear you should switch between USB Debugging whilst the programme is running. Happy rooting folks!

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Android Q3 Growth: 1,309% [ 01-11-2010 17:07 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: Canalys Translation by: Paul Smith

Research firm Canalys released some very impressive numbers for Android back in Q2, showing growth of 886%. It was always going to be hard for Android to beat that and some wondered how sustainable that pace of growth really was. Well it seems that it is sustainable for another quarter at least as the latest Canalys figures show that Android's growth was measured in four figures during Q3: 1,309%.

That astonishing figure translates into a 43.6% share of the U.S. market. It wasn't doom and gloom for the rest of the pack though, well not all of them anyway, as Apple managed to secure 26.2% of the U.S. market, which made it the number one hardware choice for smartphones ahead of RIM, which slipped to 24.2%.

Globally Apple also overtook RIM, with 17% versus 15%. Even so Apple pales in comparison with the continuing market leadership of Nokia and Symbian, with a still hefty 33% share of the market. Down from 38% in Q2 it has to be said though. Microsoft only managed to scrape up a 3% market share in these figures, but of course their new Windows Phone platform has yet to make a splash so the next round of figures will be most interesting to see how much of an inroad they manage to make.

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