Archive for March 21st, 2009

Sony Ericsson sales drop by almost half in one quarter

Sony Ericsson, the world’s 4th biggest handset maker, has reported a titanic sales decrease of almost 50% in just a few months. This is a bad thing, you see.

Reuters slapped a scary headline on this story, but it couldn’t really be described as sensational. As much a terrifying portent of electronics companies’ coming year as it is an indicator of the company’s especially sorry state, this announcement is particularly gruesome when you consider that, unlike Palm, they don’t even have an escape plan in place, or even a substantive Smartphone line—one of the few areas that is expected

[Via Gizmodo]

New Youtube client for Windows Mobiles and Symbian S60

Google have released a new dedicated Youtube client for Windows Mobile and the S60 platform. While the YouTube blog only said that the new Windows Mobile client is available now, it had forgotten to mention that – at the moment – it’s only available in English for Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK and USA. Thanks to the language detection if you try to download the client from another country, the download page says that the download isn’t available for your smartphone. Nevertheless, instead of pointing Internet Explorer Mobile to http://m.youtube.com go to http://m.google.com/youtube/download?hl=en allows to download the YouTube client from anywhere. Furthermore it’s recommended to use Internet Explorer Mobile instead of Opera Mobile (if installed) to download the app.

[Source The Unwired]