This Week in Mobile: January 28th – February 4th
Woody Zantzinger
This Week in Mobile January 28th to February 4th – Our weekly post on mobile news. You can expect a new post every Monday morning giving a brief summary of what happened the previous week in the mobile space along with links for more information. If you think we missed anything important, leave a comment or send us a tweet @willowtreeapps. Here’s what happened this week…
- Comscore released it’s newest mobile market share numbers this week. Apple’s share grew, while Android remained the same. Microsoft and BlackBerry continued to decline.
- TechCrunch has an interesting article on the mobile games that received the most playtime this month.
BlackBerry
- Research in Motion is now officially known as BlackBerry. The company announced the official name change this week.
- BlackBerry announced the Z10, a touchscreen BB 10 phone launching in March, along with the Q10, full qwerty keyboard phone launching the year with BB 10 OS.
The BlackBerry Z10 is BlackBerry’s latest attempt to entice users back to the platform
- BlackBerry 10 launched with 70,000 3rd party apps, The Verge provides some coverage of what to expect, and what big names are absent.
Apple:
- US Appeals Court denied Apple’s appeal to ban Galaxy Nexus sales in the US.
- The US Court also ruled that Samsung did not knowingly violate Apple’s patents. This prevents a potential tripling of the fines Samsung must pay to Apple.
Windows Phone:
- Nokia rolled out updates to last generation Windows Phones, updating them to the promised Windows Phone 7.8 this week.
Android
- Leaked Qualcomm documents point to an Android Key Lime Pie release sometime this Spring.
New and Notable Apps:
Twitters new service Vine is struggling with censoring videos to keep in line with Apple’s App Guidelines
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