Microsoft outed developer details for its Windows Mobile application store this morning. Much like Apple’s, developers will earn 70 percent of the proceeds earned from selling software. Redmond is charging $99 annually for the developer program and each software submission will cost an additio...

After two years of gloating over the iPhone, we finally might have something else to talk about: the Palm Pre, which is to be launched by Sprint on March 15. Both Palm and Sprint have been hit hard by the iPhone, or the lack of a good enough iPhone challenger. There are a lot of [...] .....

The quarterly worldwide smartphone market share numbers are in from Gartner and, depending on who you’re rooting for, they aren’t pretty. Nokia’s trend of struggling continues, while Apple, Research in Motion, HTC, and Samsung continue to show gains. Here in the U.S., Nokia isnR...

Pledge your smartphone loyalty to whatever brand you wish, but the fact of the matter remains that more and more people are leaving the Finnish juggernaut Nokia in favor of devices from RIM and Apple. During Q4 2008, Nokia’s overall market share fell from 50.9 percent to 40.8 percent and smart...

Section: Communications, Cellphones, Smartphones, Mobile I am still blown away by these images.  These purported prototypes are currently for sale on eBay, currently at $940.  They are said to be models produced 6 months before the release of the phone and while the hardware looks pretty s...

I test a lot of phones.  Sometimes it seems like I have used every phone in existence, although the reality is far from it.  Right now I actively use three different smartphones, all with different strengths and weaknesses.  Each time I use a particular phone I find myself thinking how I would ch...

Another timely snapshot from The Economist  Makers of handsets, which consumers are replacing more slowly, will be hard hit: unit sales are expected to fall by at least 10% this year, having increased by 6% in 2008 to 1.2 billion. But at the same time the industry is going through a transformat...

Official app store price tiers It seems that phone app stores are on everyone’s mind, at least that’s the impression you get when you see all the buzz that accompanies the announcement of yet another one.  RIM went live last night with the announcement of their upcoming BlackBerry App W...

http://www.smartphonethoughts.com [John Sanders and I bring the house down in our animal battle garb] It has been a slow week here at SPT and the reason being was because I was at the recent MVP Global Summit with Jon Westfall, Jason Dunn, and a slew of other Windows Mobile MVPs that I had the pleas...

Monitoring web traffic is a dicey thing and sometimes it’s hard to determine if traffic statistics are meaningful.  Traffic monitor Net Applications has released their mobile web traffic numbers for February and they are surprising to say the least. It’s pretty much a given that iPhone ...