Android still dominates mobile ad impressions with a commanding 61 percent market share, according to a recent report from mobile ad network Millennial Media on Wednesday.
In a post on its website, Millennial Media reported that Google’s Android mobile operating system jumped from a 54 percent foothold in June to 61 percent in July.
The dragged to the mud Apple iOS settled for second place at a distant 21 percent share of the mobile ad impressions market.
On a positive note for Steve Jobs’ …

The Nokia C7 (Astound in the US) (Photo Credit: Nokia USA)

Nokia will give up its S40 feature phones and Symbian smartphones in the US, in a last-ditch attempt to win the hearts of Americans using Windows Phone 7 (WP7).
In an interview with AllThingsD, Nokia’s president for US Chris Weber talked about the sad news that the company will drop Symbian and S40 phones after the launch of its WP7-based smartphones in the country, and will have to give up if the latter is unsuccessful.
Nokia has …

A new video posted on YouTube shows what could possibly be some Nokia Windows Phone 7 (WP7) phones which aren’t the first leaked Nokia Sea Ray smartphone.
The news comes via mynokiablog.com which picked up the video showing the purported Nokia WP7 devices.

According to Jay Montano of the said blog, he got “an email from someone claiming to be from microsoft (but using an ovi.com email).”
Montano mentions, however, that the “video looks like a mish mash of nokia and microsoft footage …

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The Android mobile operating system from search giant Google now makes up 48 percent of the global smartphone market, technology analytics firm Canalys reported.
Based on the report from Calanys, Google’s Android mobile operating system boosted market share points mainly attributed to strong sales of Android-based devices in Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries, including South Korea’s commanding 85 percent share and Taiwan’s 71 …

Toshiba-Fujitsu has announced the new IS12T smartphone, the world’s first Windows Phone 7 device with Mango update out of the box.
At a Japan-held event, Toshiba-Fujitsu launched the first Windows Phone 7 smartphone shipping with Mango in IS12T, a smartphone that will hit the shelves and offer several innovative features that will definitely fare well on high-end devices.
The Toshiba-Fujitsu IS12T touts dustproof, waterproof, and weatherproof certifications, delivering a tough contender in …

Microsoft revealed at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles that it expects that Windows Phones released in the future will be priced at $100 to $150.
“If you look even at the price of smartphones, a year ago all smartphones cost over $400 when they left their hardware manufacturer. Today, they’re down to about $200, and next year, a smartphone that can run something like Windows Phone 7 will actually be down to $100 to $150,” Microsoft’s Windows Phone division President …

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The ChevronWP7 team will soon release a tool to jailbreak Windows Phone 7 devices albeit with an important difference from the previous tool the team released.
According to the ChevronWP7 team, they will soon be releasing a service, with the blessing of Microsoft itself, to unlocks WP7 phones.
The catch, however, is that the ChevronWP7 jailbreak tool will only be available to those who …

US Cellular has offered a slider screen in landscape view to expose a QWERTY keyboard for the HTC 7 Pro smartphone.
The HTC 7 Pro runs on Windows Phone 7 (WP7), and like Sprint’s HTC Arrive, it includes hardware designed for a CDMA 3G network.
The phone sports a 3.6-inch WVGA resolution touchscreen, a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with 720p HD video recording capability, and 16 GB of internal storage memory.
Without a slot for expanding storage memory, …

According to a recent study from research firm Nielsen, Android-powered smartphone users are not more data hungry than their counterparts using different mobile operating systems.
The study conducted in just this April also revealed that Android has widened its lead in U.S. market share over Apple’s iOS, Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry OS, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7, HP’s WebOS, previously Nokia’s Symbian, and Palm OS.
The study reveals the following market …

Microsoft regrets to inform that the switch to use Nokia Maps to power Bing Maps will not happen anytime sooner than early 2012, even with its upcoming Windows Phone 7.1 Mango update.
In an interview with Phonescoop, Microsoft’s Greg Sullivan says that they require more work to integrate the two services, both of which use data from Navteq, a Nokia-owned mapping company.
At present, Bing Maps does not enable Windows Phone 7 to use voice-guided turn-by-turn GPS navigation, but Nokia Maps has …