The headlines just keep coming in; this is one very busy week in the mobile phone industry and keeping up with all the new updates is going to be quite hard. So here’s a quick list of the new highlights over the past 24 hours.
First up, the Garmin-Asus team up seems to heading straight for splitsville. Garmin has been keen on developing sat nav based devices but the current dominance of Nokia’s Ovi Maps and Google Maps (thanks to the fact that both are free services), means that Asus seems to be better off working on their own. With no significant devices out on the market (the Nuvifone hardly made a difference), it is likely that we will not be seeing anything from Garmin Asus anymore.
Flash 10.1 is officially WP7 bound. This new update will be launched for all WP7 devices; this means that the entirety of the internet will be available on the browser for Microsoft’s latest mobile platform. The Google Android OS was the first to receive support for Flash 10.1 on the 2.2 Froyo version of the open source mobile platform. According to Adobe, the Flash player will also be adapted to other operating systems –except for Apple.
Lastly, a recent study held by 3 UK has shown that the mobile web usage patterns of people has not changed much over the past few months. While the overall ranking positions seem to be swapped, the fact is that Facebook is still the number one site to be accessed. While some note that Google has been offset by Zynga and the Apple iTunes, Zynga is basically a second count for Facebook users who play the games. Apple’s iTunes on the other hand is enjoying plenty of use and traffic from all the new users of the iPad and the iPhone 4.
Tags: Adobe-Flash, Apple, Asus, Facebook, Garmin, Window-Phone-7, zynga