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Press-Release. SPB Software Sums Up for 2009, Delivers Results for the Survey, Celebrates with a Big Sale

SPB Software, a leading maker of mobile applications, announces the results of the sixth annual SPB Survey. This year the survey was held from November 17th till December 4th, and was meant to capture user preferences and build up a combined report that would identify the changing user profiles, mobile device expectations, brand loyalty and the handset use cases.
Some of the figures we’ve found and the trends we’ve discovered were of particular interest, with some of them being really curious. For instance, 45% of respondents their current smartphone is at least the sixth smart handheld they’ve ever owned. Another surprising thing for us is respondents’ age. Last year’s survey was mainly taken by people aged under 30 while this year the focus had somewhat shifted – 45% of the respondents were between 31 and 45. Much less surprising is the Top-10 of the most popular devices: it includes 6 HTC smartphones, 2 Apple devices and the popular Samsung Omnia.

Vodafone drops the HTC HD2

Those folks who are annoyed that the HTC HD2 is not hitting Stateside, we feel your pain. It’s getting harder to get the HTC HD2 in the UK. Have a read at this:

Sources believe the operator is preparing to focus on the Apple iPhone

Microsoft release Bing for iPhone

Microsoft have continued with their strategy of releasing applications for the iPhone, this time they have released a mobile version of the Bing search engine.

It looks pretty but when I was taking a few screenshots and playing with the application it crashed quite a few times, especially using the voice search, typical!

You can try it out for yourself as it is available now for free in the App Store via this link.

SPB Weather 2.0 blows in for Symbian

SPB Software, a leading maker of mobile applications, announces the release of SPB Weather 2.0 for Symbian, an important addition to its quickly expanding line-up of software for the world’s most popular smartphone platform – Symbian. SPB Weather is the most powerful Symbian weather forecast program. It combines the detailed everyday forecasts for more than 10,000 cities worldwide with the beauty and friendliness of up-to-date satellite images on a 3D Globe. With all these and many other attractive features, the Windows Mobile version of SPB Weather currently holds the status of WM’s best-selling weather app.
SPB Weather 2.0 has been mainly designed with the latest touchscreen-enabled S60 smartphones in mind as those are rapidly gaining customer attention. However, it is compatible with any non-touchscreen Symbian smartphone based on S60 3rd edition FP1 and later. To support the touchscreen trend, SPB Weather for Symbian offers users a striking finger-friendly interface, as well as a home screen widgets for Nokia Symbian-based smartphones.

Vodafone simplifying overseas charges

From 14 January 2010 Vodafone UK is simplifying country call zones and standardising zone pricing, making it easy for business customers to understand call costs when they are overseas.

Business customers who are not on one of Vodafone’s specific roaming price plans will soon benefit from a simpler regional structure of just three zones instead of the current six, and a standard price per minute rate on calls which is not dependent on the network on which they are roaming. The new zones are now Europe, USA/Canada and Rest of World.

“Our business customers tell us that when working overseas, staying in touch with colleagues and customers is essential. But if they do not travel often enough to justify a roaming package on their price plan, the current zone structure can be confusing”, says Peter Kelly, Enterprise Director, Vodafone UK. “With these changes, businesses without a roaming package will be able to budget for voice calls more effectively.”

HD2 gets ROM update

Today the UK HTC website has added a new ROM (1.48.405.2). It adds several improvements – Opera now switches easily from portrait to landscape mode, flipping back and forth through songs on the HTCmedia player is now easier plus there’s enhanced audio quality in calls.
This is a generic update, so we’ve got the usual wait for owners of network-supplied HD2’s, but hopefully we’ll be seeing the appropriate update online soon.

Source Coolsmartphone

Link – HTC HD2 ROM Update

iVideoCamera – video recording comes to non-jailbroken iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G

Rejoice owners of old iPhones! – iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G – now also you can do the same what iPhone 3GS owners could do for a long time: record videos!

The most important feature of iVideoCamera app that makes it possible is ability to export videos to camera roll (“Photos” app; YES, WE HAVE TESTED IT AND IT WORKS SUPERBLY):

Most ridiculous peripheral of the year goes to…

Honestly!

PhatWare PhatNotes for iPhone – review

Previously available for Windows Mobile (yuk! yuk!) now this app has been released for iPhone (yummy!) but is it any good? Has it any chance to stand out among 110,000 of iPhone apps? Read on!