Rumor | Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 8 - Development accelerates in anticipation of the launch later this year

After the presentation of the new major release of Windows Phone 8 and the confirmation of the top four producers who will support it (Nokia, HTC, and Samsung Huwaei), were widespread rumors that have attempted to define the time frame and the possible composition the line-up of the third generation of WP. Nokia, the leading partner of Microsoft for the development of the WP8 platform, do not let slip a detailed forecast, although the odds this year identified as a possible date for the arrival in to the market of the Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices. 

New rumor, the truth of which is still to be ascertained, would indicate a speeding up of development of devices for the launch by the end of 2012 and would establish China as the nation which will appear among the first to receive the device .

At this moment we presume that the recent rumors on credible road map prepared for the launch of Nokia Windows Phone 8. A rapid renewal of the current line-up, not upgradeable to the next release of WP, it is desirable and the importance of the Chinese market Nokia has been repeatedly highlighted.

The apparent verisimilitude of the picture just described will be refuted in practice in the weeks to come. The latest rumor, but from a source reliable enough, do not provide further details about technical specifications of the new device. The news of the possible release of Lumia WP8 by the end of 2012 is at least encouraging. A launch postponed to 2013 it could cripple a line-up, as is known, is potentially able to undergo the "Osborne effect" following the announcement of the new mobile platform from Microsoft.

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ComScore confirms the leadership of Android in USA

ComScore has released the final report for the market for producers and their piattafome for the period February to May in the U.S. market, photographing what was the situation of this first part of the year now coming to an end, which devotes more than a few surprises .Confirming the trend that has been dragging on for months, IOS and Android are now vying for the smartphone market with almost 80% market share with Apple off of almost 20 points compared to Google's system, for both regiostrando in the period under review a gain of between 0.8 and 1, 7%.

In free fall we find that RIM still no sign of giving positive signs for the past several months and after the last announcement for this year will not see anything new with respect to BlackBerry devices least until the beginning of 2013 with arrival of the new BB10 platform.Microsoft remains practically stable without being able to increase its stake in a particular market and finally to close as usual we find that Symbian is now relegated to its small market segment.

Analyzing the share of mobile subscriptions between your smartphone and smartphone in the second table, the producer who comes out better than Apple has recorded a positive sign with a gain of 1.5 points whilst following Samsung are stable in first place with 25% of share, in second place LG, which enjoys a great share in the territory to star in stripes, followed by Apple with just several points behind and breaking down the negative are Motorola and HTC have seen a fall fall within a percentage point.

The Korean manufacturer once again has not diminished his strong leadership of the success of the Android platform later this summer that will see a further boost thanks to the Galaxy S3 marketed in the U.S. market during this period.

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Nokia acquires Scalado to enhance its Lumia line of Windows Phones

Nokia, to cope with the media department of excellence offered by the competition (not that one of the Finnish is very bad), has decided to buy Scalado , a company that for nearly 10 years working with Nokia, HTC and BlackBerry.

Lately Scalado, just with BlackBerry, has worked to bring new multimedia functions to the department, in particular for what regards photos and videos. We all know that RIM is not going very well lately, so it is possible that Scalado has decided to surf safer waters (probably more profitable!) And rely to a world famous brand Nokia to enhance its brand.

In all probability, we see the first results of this acquisition with the new Windows Phone 8 devices. I'm curious to see the result of the new features offered by the excellent quality of PureView Scalado together, also on the line next Nokia Lumia smartphones.

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Intel says: Android is not ready for multi-core processors

The world's largest maker of microprocessors, Intel has made ​​some very interesting statements about the architecture of recent smartphones and tablet modern.

According to the American giant Android is a great operating system but is not yet ready to embrace processors consist of multiple cores.

The CPU usage with this structure, as well as not to bring tangible benefits , would result in reduced performance and excessive fuel consumption.

These statements were made after extensive testing conducted by Intel engineers, who are approaching a bit of time with Google operating system, seeing that the single-core solutions make this system better from all points of view.

Maybe that's why Intel is starting to market Android smartphone with single core solutions which, in their opinion, would enable significant energy savings for the same performance. Of course, such statements relate to future operating system Android, which, if properly optimized, can benefit from finding real solutions with multiple cores.

"I've taken a look at the multi-core implementations in the market, and frankly, in a thermal and / or power constrained environment - what has-been Implemented - It Is not Obvious to me, you really get the advantage for the size and the cost of What's Going Into that part. The way it's Implemented right now, Android does not make as effective use of multiple cores as it could, and I think - frankly - some of this work done by the vendors Could Be who created the SoC, but They Have not bothered to just do it.-Mike Bell, GM of Intel's Mobile and Communications Group

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Survey - Windows Phone is the third platform chosen by the game developers with 8.8%

The Game Developer Magazine has published the results of its latest survey for the developers of games on different mobile platforms.


From the findings it is clear that the developers of games for mobile devices are more focused on the Apple platform with 94.6%, to follow with 70.7% of developers are dedicated to the Google platform and in the third position with 8, 8% of the developers interested in the Microsoft platform. 
The figure of Windows Phone is insignificant compared to the competition but keep in mind that the new system from Microsoft has a market share at the time, very small, about 2/3% worldwide. 
From the graph we can see that the developers have now left BlackBerry, Symbian and Bada platforms despite having a greater number of devices.


Recall that because of the impossibility of using native code in Windows Phone from developers porting this limitation makes the rather complicated and laborious. Microsoft should fix this problem with future updates, especially with Windows Phone 8 (Apollo).

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More positive Windows Phone sales news,Windows Phone market share started to go upwards

Although the Windows Phone OS still holds rates of diffusion rather low in recent months, the market share of Windows Phone has experiencing a significant growth in some markets . These results have certainly been achieved thanks to the massive advertising campaign carried out by Nokia to promote their Lumia organized with the initiative from Microsoft called "Smoked by Windows Phone" which as we have seen , has proved successful.

Through WordPanel Kantar , we learn that even Windows Phone has reached the quota of ' 6% share in Germany , marking an increase of 3% only in recent weeks. Another very positive news coming from Russia and in particular the operator MTS announced that the sales figures in Q1 of this year alone. According to the Russian company, sales of Windows Phone devices have outsold the iPhone, with a percentage of ' 8.2% of total sales , with three terminals in the top five best sellers, including the Nokia 800 Lumia, Lumia Nokia 710 and HTC Mozart.

Also yesterday, we have noted how Chris Weber, head of Nokia USA, is happy about the sales of Lumia 900 in the U.S.A. According to analysts at Canaccord Genuity, the new Windows Phone from Nokia is the second best selling smartphone through AT & T (preceded only by the iPhone, which still owns 70% of sales in America) the results are far greater than the HTC X-One, to hours, is considered the best Android device on the market.

We hope, therefore, that the spread and growth of Microsoft's operating system is stable, especially with the arrival of the Nokia Lumia 610 which should give an extra boost to the OS in emerging markets and considering also that the manufacturers do not should no longer submit new terminal until the arrival of Windows Phone 8.

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Galaxy S3 benchmarks compared with the current top range Android smartphones

The Samsung Galaxy SIII was involved in an interesting series of tests made by GSMArena using benchmarks by which we can compare on paper the Galaxy S III with the current top range Android smartphones. 

Benchmark Pi

Lower is better

Linpack

Higher is better

Quadrant

Higher is better

NenaMark 2

Higher is better

GLBenchmark Egypt (offscreen 720p)

Higher is better

SunSpider

Lower is better

BrowserMark

Higher is better

In addition to these data will also leave some tests related to the display, always with the various comparisons with the current top range Android phones:

Display test	50% brightness			100% brightness
	Black, cd / m2	White, cd / m2	Contrast ratio	Black, cd / m2	White, cd / m2	Contrast ratio
Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III	0	174	∞	0	330	∞
One HTC X	12:15	200	1375	00:39	550	1410
Samsung Galaxy Nexus	0	112	∞	0	247	∞
Motorola RAZR XT910	0	215	∞	0	361	∞
Samsung i9100 Galaxy S II	0	231	∞	0	362	∞
One HTC S	0	177	∞	0	386	∞
Samsung Galaxy Notes	0	287	∞	0	429	∞
HTC Sensation XE	12:23	172	761	0.64	484	752
Sony Xperia S	-	-	-	00:48	495	1038

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NPD - Android has 61% of U.S. smartphone market, iOS declining since the beginning of the year

NPD Group has published the latest data on the distribution of current operating systems for smartphones for the U.S. market and the report shows a system Android still in the midst of its growth at the expense of his arch rival iPhone OS since the beginning of the year shown a continuous decline, yielding market share to the Google platform.

The first quarter of 2012 saw a net gain by Android, which has risen from 49% to 61%, but iPhone has had the opposite effect down from 41% to 29%, percentage shares virtually ceded to the Android platform. With regard to systems of Microsoft and RIM have been recorded changes and both have maintained the same percentage stable.

Much more substantial changes we will have them in the second half of the year, with the announcement by Apple's new iPhone 5 , the launch of Galaxy S3 in the US and the arrival of all the other high-end handsets that are not available currently in USA,like the LG Optimus 4X, the Huawei Ascend or Sony Xperia GX. 

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