It is not really surprising to note that the iPhone is one of the most used mobile gadgets in the world today. Aside from being the most popular phone preferred by consumers today, selling over 17 million phones (as reported last week) seemingly justifies this claim.

The iPhone now accounts for 50 percent of mobile Web traffic from smartphones in the U.S., according to an AdMob Mobile Metrics report released this morning. Over the past six months, the iPhone has taken share from Blackberry and Windows Mobile. In August 2008, the iPhone made up only 10 percent of mobile Web traffic from smartphones. During the same time, Blackberry’s share has gone from 32 percent to 21 percent (with the Curve and the Pearl coming in stronger than the Storm), while Windows Mobile has taken an even bigger hit, declining from 30 percent to 13 percent. Palm is also down to 7 percent from 19 percent six months ago.

The only other smartphone operating system that is showing gains in mobile Web usage is Android, which has captured a strong 5 percent share just three months after launch. And that is up from 3 percent in January. The gains shown by the iPhone and Android show what is possible when phones are built with fully capable browsers and support a rich array of Web apps.

(Source) TechCrunch

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Verizon Wireless has three new applications and a new site ready. The applications will interact with the voice recording feature on various phones and they will allow subscribers to create new content. The content will be available on the phone itself and it could be shared with other Verizon subscribers. (more…)

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The 3G iPhone would surely lose some of its appeal without all that applications developed especially for it. And the Apple App Store has been created to store, read sell, all those fun apps. Apple’s App Store has been launched today, a day before the iPhone will be available for retail.

There are more then 500 native applications available for download. Some of them are going to be free while others will sell for just a couple of bucks.

Do you need numbers? Over 125 applications will be offered for free while 90% of the rest will sell for less than $10. Not to bad right? I bet Apple will make a lot of money out of those apps.

There are a bunch of categories to choose from and you will certainly find the applications you need to install. I’m sure Apple’s App Store will get lots of hits once the iPhone will be finally sold.

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I was wondering when this would happen, but well, it happened today. Nokia will support Microsoft’s Silverlight platform (a competitor to Adobe’s Flash technology) with a view to deliver rich web applications on the S60 (Symbian OS) series of devices.

You may already know that Flash is available for S60 in the form of Flash Lite, but now Microsoft is aiming for a piece of the pie. Lee Williams, Senior VP for Nokia’s Devices software org claimed “Nokia aims to support market leading and content rich internet application environments and to embrace and encourage open innovation. By working with Microsoft, we are creating terrific opportunities and additional choices for the development community, S60 licensees and the industry as a whole.”

Like Flash, Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in and is used on such websites as NBA.com and NBC Universal. With a mobile phone, the reach will be much higher. For a demo, check out the MIX08 conference on March 5 in Las Vegas. Developers can get their hands on Silverlight for S60 later this year.

(Via press)

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