how much developer are interested in platforms?

recent study conducted on 2760 developers show the results given above in the picture,nothing in the survey found out something interesting or surprising except few people complaining about wp7 having less interest in the minds of develops, but what my point on the situation is that wp7 is still relatively new Ecosystem, and its growing at rapid speed faster then what Android or IOS was on its initial stages and the recent nokia deal will be also very much beneficial for  wp7 after nokia releases its first windows powered smartphone, which according to Stephen elop is going to be an 2011 Q4 even, and around time mango will also be released so it means all good for microsoft during that time.

Blackberry Playbook Unboxing!

After so many rumors so many speculations, so much wait for blackberry to announce, the wait to blackberry to launch this baby is Going to be released in 4-5 days In US, will be launched in other countries shortly after US launch, And The Lovely Folks at Phonearena Got their hands on 1 of these and decided to unbox it

I Haven't had my hands on one of these but from what i see and have heard The web browsing experience on the device is a pleasure, And Maybe the best Flash-Enabled Browsing experience on a Tablet

LG interested in Meego

LG had shown interest in Meego in early 2010, And now LG has joined a working group looking to develop handsets that run the OS.That means that LG seems to be interested in Meego.


"At this point in time LG has no definitive plans to mass produce devices with MeeGo other than car infotainment systems," the spokesman said.


Well, At least Right now they don't have any plans for Meego on a smartphone,Lets see what future Holds for Meego.


What it means for Meego


Meego seems to be picking up momentum These days, Firstly,  announced a deal with Chinese online company Tencentto port games and apps to MeeGo tablets. Now now LG is interested in Meego


"It's opening opportunities for the others to come in," said Valtteri Halla, a member of technical steering group for MeeGo.


And he also said "Discussions are taking place. You'll see things coming out this year, pretty soon."

Nokia E6,X7 and symbian Anna

Today E6 and X7 were finally announced after being leaked several Times before

Nokia E6

E6 is Nokia's 5th New symbian powered Device featuring A Updated Operating system "Symbian Anna"(i hate the name :D) The E6 features a 8 megapixel EDoF camera, with the ability to record 720p (HD) videos, 8GB of mass memory, a microSD card slot, (the very popular) 1500 mAh BP-4L battery, integrated GPS and comprehensive connectivity options (pentaband 3G, Bluetooth, microUSB and b/g/n WiFi). It will be available, in three colour variants (Black, Silver and White) this quarter (Q2), at a cost of €340 (£300/$490) before taxes and subsidies. We just hope that What stephen Elop Talks That Their should Not be delay between the Announcement and Launch of a Device,He keeps to it.Typical Symbian^3 Power, the same 680MHz ARM 11 processor and Broadcomm GPU  with 256MB Ram.The key Feature is The DPI of the device which stands at 326 Pixels per inch.Dpi Equivalent to IPhone 4 Screen.

Key hardware features

• 115.5 x 59 x 10.5 mm in dimensions, 133g in weight; monoblock touch with QWERTY keyboard form factor.
    
• Glass and metal materials (Gorilla Glass front screen, stainless steel back and bezel, hard plastics for the main keyboard)
    
• 2.4 inch, TFT LCD touchscreen; 640x 480 pixels resolution (VGA)
    
• 8 megapixel full focus (EDoF) camera with dual LED flash; video recording at 720p resolution (1280×720) and 25 frames per second.
    
• Integrated GPS with location support for GPS, A-GPS, WLAN and Cell-ID location techniques.
    
• 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector for audio in/out and TV-out
    
• FM Radio (with RDS)
    
• microUSB (USB 2.0) for file transfers, charging and USB On-the-Go
   
• BP-4L (1500mAh) battery with easy access battery cover (standby by time of 31 days and talk time of 14.8 hours (GSM) and 7.5 hours (WCDMA). Charging via microUSB port.
    
• WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100 and GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 (HSDPA Cat 9 - 10.2 MBps, HSUPA Cat 5 - 2.0 Mbps)
    
• WiFi: WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0
   
• Processor: Broadcom BCM2727 - ARM 11 at 680MHz with 3D Graphics HW Accelerator with OpenGL-ES 2.0 support (i.e. graphics co-processor).
    
• 8GB mass memory and microSD card slot (supports sizes upto 32GB)
    
• 256MB RAM; 1024MB ROM
  
• Initially available in three colours: White, Silver and Black
     
• In box contents: Nokia E6-00, Nokia Battery BP-4L battery, Nokia Connectivity Cable CA-179, Nokia Stereo Headset WH-207, Nokia High Efficiency Charger AC-15

Nokia X7

Key hardware features

• 119.7 x 62.8 x 11.9 mm in dimensions, 146g in weight; monoblock touch form-factor.
    
• Glass and metal materials (Gorilla Glass front screen, curved stainless steel back) with a 'premium design'.
    
• 4 inch, AMOLED touchscreen; 640x 360 pixels resolution (nHD)
    
• 8 megapixel full focus (EDoF) camera with dual LED flash; video recording at 720p resolution (1280×720) and 25 frames per second.
    
• Integrated GPS with location support for GPS, A-GPS, WLAN and Cell-ID location techniques.
    
• 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector for audio in/out and TV-out
    
• FM Radio (with RDS)
    
• microUSB (USB 2.0) for file transfers, charging and USB On-the-Go
   
• Integral (non user-removable) BL-5K (1200mAh) battery (standby by time of 18.75 days, talk time of 9.5 hours (GSM) and 4.8 hours (WCDMA), music playback up to 50 hours, video playback upto 6 hours. Charging via microUSB port.
    
• WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100 and GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 (HSDPA Cat 9 - 10.2 MBps, HSUPA Cat 5 - 2.0 Mbps)
    
• WiFi: WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0
   
• Processor: Broadcom BCM2727 - ARM 11 at 680MHz with 3D Graphics HW Accelerator with OpenGL-ES 2.0 support (i.e. graphics co-processor).
    
• microSD card slot (comes with 8GB card, supports sizes upto 32GB)
    
• Up to 350MB Internal Memory, 256MB RAM
  
• Initially available in two colours: Dark Steel and Light Steel
     

Box contents: Nokia X7-00, Nokia Battery BL-5K battery (built in), Nokia Connectivity Cable CA-179, 8GB microSD card, Nokia Stereo Headset WH-701, Nokia Fast Micro USB Charger AC-10

   

Everything to say about this device is being given above in Key features(Thanks to folks at Allaboutsymbian for summing it up)And Their isnt much more to say about this device Except its design which you can see in the Image given.]

Videos

  

Sources : Allaboutsymbian,Engadget.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc Review

This my friends is a Quick post reporting you guys about The review of the Most beautiful Smartphone i have ever seen, The folks at Phonearena got their hands On Xperia Arc and what they did was what anyone will do when they get their hands on such a sleek and sexy mobile phone, Yes they reviewed it. 

student project use smartphone camera to cure malaria

This year’s Imagine Cup 2011, a student contest sponsored by Microsoft, asked student entrants to "imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems."
Few problems come tougher than Malaria, which kills 1 million children a year, mostly in developing countries with little infrastructure and few resources.
Tristan Gibeau and Wilson To ‘s LifeLens app hopes to help reduce this number by speeding diagnosis of the disease by reducing the need for an expensive and often unavailable laboratory to spot the parasite in blood.
"It's going to make a difference in trying to contain the outbreak of malaria," said Gibeau, the project's software designer. "In the big picture, it'll hopefully help in the fight against most diseases out there and make everybody's life a little easier."
Gibeau said the software application, which runs on a Windows Phone 7 handset with a special lens attached to the phone camera, can take a picture of a blood sample, process the data to detect malaria parasites, quantify how much malaria is in the sample and point the parasites out to the phone user. "It actually draws a red box around the clusters of malaria, and it actually notifies you how many it found," Gibeau said.
Gibeau is planning to expand the technology to allow the diagnosis of sickle cell disease and other diseases, and the student also hopes to eventually make a living out of developing the concept further.
“From different conversations we've had with investors, we feel that this definitely is a money-maker," he said.

Read more: http://technorati.com/technology/article/student-project-use-smartphone-camera-to/#ixzz1J8ssHNOj

Opera Mini Bags 100 Million Users

The world's most prolific mobile browser Opera Mini has found home in 100 million mobile devices according to Opera's statistics recorded in March. The number of monthly Opera Mini users, a browser available for 3,000 devices,  across the globe has grown by 11 million since February 2011 and doubled from the 50 million mark celebrated in February 2010. That's a lot of numbers, which pale in comparison to the two billion daily pageviews claimed by Opera 

Opera had made a similar 100 million announcement two months ago, but that was for a combination of Opera Mini and Mobile numbers, but this landmark was achieved by Opera Mini on its own accord. "Sweeeet!" said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software at the achievement.










In other news :

The Techy Blog is On Ovi store, If you happen to own a Symbian device, Go to this link and download it : http://store.ovi.com/content/110317

BlackBerry Messenger 6.0 Images Leaked

BlackBerry Messenger 6.0 is expected to be available with the BlackBerry OS 6.1 update when RIM releases it. The new BBM 6.0 will have new icons and users will be able to assign colors to contacts as well as chat. So that means you can assign specific colors to specific contacts. Check out the screenshots below that mostly show profile related stuff

Angry Birds Rio : 10 million downloads in 10 days (we say WHAT?)

Nobody had any doubt on their minds that Angry Birds Rio is going to be successful and going to be Downloaded by lot's of  People, And today Rovio Confirmed that the game which was released just 10 days ago Has hit 10 million downloads,And it is Just the downloads from IOS and Android as RIO is not yet available on Symbian

Whats new with Symbian Smartphones?

On April 12 Nokia is holding an event In london, As there have been rumors of many new Symbian Smartphones Manufactured by Nokia have been appearing Recently, In my opinion this is going to be the event for Release of E6-00, T7 and 1-2 other Symbian smartphones that have been Rumored And maybe even it will mark for the announcement Of PR 2.0?Whatever it will be you should be sure of that it will be reported On THE TECHY BLOG!

Android Fragmentation a problem for 86% of Devs

Baird Research Asked 250 Developers If android fragmentation was a problem for them, and here is what they thought about it

This comes in as Not a big surprise that most of devs of android have problem with the confusing Android fragmentation,But Google should really Look into this problem seriously and Improve Its fragmentation Procedure.

windows phone 7 marketplace statistics

These were Extensive Details of Applications and games Available at Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Which currently Have About 12800 Applications and is gaining about 150 apps a day recently, All the other statistics you can see in the Pics given Above

Xperia PLAY Review

The Much rumored PlayStation formed was rumored since forever and recently it was announced as the Xperia Play and now it has been released, So the folks At Phonearena posted a Video reviewing the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play,The Xperia Play comes with few pre-installed games like Sims 3, crash etc.

Windows Phone 7 : Pre-NoDo VS NoDo

Recently, Windows Phone 7 Was updated top NoDo which Brought the much awaited Copy and Paste But also some performance enhancements, Which can be clearly seen in the Video given Above, Not many thought that WP7 could get any snappier than it is right now, but in The video We can see there are some Performance Enhancements as you could see in the start the boot-up time was faster By Upto 8 seconds which is considerably a Good enhancement over previous version.