High Tech Computer (HTC) was ranked the second largest vendor in the Taiwan smartphone market with a more than 10% share, followed by Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Asustek Computer each having single-digit shares, the data showed.

With regard to operating system, Symbian accounted for an over 70% market share, followed by Windows Mobile with a 20% share, and Linux with a single-digit market share, Canalys said.

In other news, global sales of smartphones increased by 38.2% on year to 32 million in the first quarter of this year, according to Rachel Lashford, head of Canalys, Asia Pacific.

Global sales of smart mobile devices are expected to top 243 million units by 2010, with unit sales in the Asia Pacific region accounting for 95.5 million units, Canalys estimated.

The acquisition of ZYB is a further advance in the implementation of Vodafone’s Total Communications strategy which is delivering new revenue growth around fixed broadband, mobile advertising and a rich set of internet services that integrate the mobile and PC customer experience. ZYB fits into this strategy by enhancing the range of communications services Vodafone can provide to its customers.

ZYB is unique amongst social networking sites as it is designed with the mobile device at its heart, allowing customers to share information and messages between their friends and colleagues who are held in their mobile phone’s address book.

ZYB increases communication choices for customers enabling them to send messages and images from their PC to multiple mobile devices in their mobile community, as well as taking advantage of the functionality of an instant messaging service.

Suppliers who help Google manufacture the Mini apparently have been told to reduce their shipment forecasts for the product because it will be shelved soon. The shift in strategy is also understood as a response to Microsoft’s gains in the appliance-based search market.

The Mini is a less powerful version of Google Search Appliance, which can index millions of documents and 220 file types. The Mini, by contrast, can only search up to 300,000 documents and is therefore meant for smaller businesses.

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“We are working with our OEMs to bring to market smartphones with full in-built HSDPA (advance version of 3G mobile functions) next year,” said Qualcomm India and SAARC President Kanwalinder Singh.

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To really goose adoption, text-based solutions may need more emphasis (see Chase screenshot below). According to M:Metrics, U.S. text users outnumbered mobile web users almost 4 to 1 in February, 110 million to 30 million.

When Eduardo Cachucho, a 23 year old architecture student, entered the 2008 Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards, he had no idea his film would be seen by millions of people around the world.  Cachucho shot the winning mobile short film “The Game” in his home base in South Africa.

“It was a huge surprise for me to win this awards. I couldn’t believe it was me when the winner was announced at the broadcast, ” says Cachucho. “With my film, I wanted to tell the world that children are children everywhere, no matter where they live, what their race is, or whether they are rich or poor. Children are the same all over and want to have fun and play.”

Enthusiastic filmmakers entered the 2008 Nokia Mobile Filmmaking awards through the Pangea Day Channel on Share on Ovi, a free media sharing service that makes it easy to upload, manage and share personal media through mobile, desktop and other connected devices. Nokia received more than 600 submissions from around the world.

“Its incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world,” says Jehane Noujaim, award-winning documentary filmmaker and judge. 

The Pangea Day broadcast on May 10 featured 24 short films along with internationally-known guest speakers and musicians, including Queen Noor of Jordan, Christiane Amanpour, Dave Stewart and Hypernova. Highlights from the event are featured on www.ovi.com/pangeaday. The live four-hour Pangea Day broadcast from six locations around the world was viewed by more than 1,600 “Friends of Pangea Day” events globally. Everyone who tuned in was encouraged to share photos and videos during and after the event at www.ovi.com/pangeaday.

Pangea Day was created by award-winning documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim after winning the prestigious 2006 TED Prize. Together, Noujaim and TED, with support from Nokia, have created Pangea Day to connect people by harnessing the power of film and encouraging people to view the world through someone else’s eyes.

More information on the Pangea Day event and the 2008 Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards is available at www.ovi.com/pangeaday.

If that’s not enough they’ve also found room for a 1.3 megapixel camera that can capture stills and movies, as well as a microSD card slot allowing you to use it as an MP3 or video player if you don’t mind squinting.

At the moment Chinavasion doesn’t list a price for the Special Edition Cellphone Watch, but I imagine it will fall between $150 to $200. And if you’re interested, just let me warn you that the site doesn’t exactly have the cheapest shipping rates. Unless maybe you’re planning to buy 100 of them.

The operating systems, such as the Linux one, or the one being developed by Google , or more established ones like Microsoft’s Windows Mobile or Symbian, are considered easier to develop applications for because they are open platforms. Most handsets today use proprietary software created by handset manufacturers that must be tweaked for specific applications for each operator, a slow and time-consuming process. In that way, adopting operating systems like Linux would further Verizon’s open-access efforts. For now, its mostly up to Verizon Wireless how open the handsets are, but going forward, a user, for instance, who has a Linux phone should be able to download Linux applications.

Other operators that have already come out in support of LiMo is NTT DoCoMo, Orange and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD). Google’s Android operating system has the support of more operators through its Open Handset Alliance, including China Mobile, KDDI, NTT DoCoMo, Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel, T-Mobile, Telecom Italia and Telefonica.

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Here is great theme for Nokia N82.Theme Also Includes A Startup 300 tone and a animated screen.

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[Source: SE-N-Se]