Windows 7 Phone 2 Million Units Sold

Microsoft Corp. reported total sales of smart phones (smartphones) with Windows 7 Phone software that has been through the numbers more than 2 million units. This sale was a success because the new Windows 7 Phone launched in October 2010.

"The figure indicates good momentum for sales of Windows," said Al Hiwa, an analyst with market research firm IDC on Wednesday (26/01/2011). Manufacturers of smart phones that have been using Windows 7 Phone, among others, Samsung Electronics Ltd., LG Electronics Inc. and HTC Corp..

However, smartphone sales figures Phone Windows 7 is still below its competitors, namely the iPhone from Apple, BlackBerry made by Research in Motion (RIM), and the Android smartphone platform from Google.

Last week, Apple announced it had sold 16.2 million iPhones in the last quarter. RIM has sold 14.2 million phones BlackBerry. While Google was able to sell 300,000 units Android license every day or 9 million units per month.

RIM Open BlackBerry Messenger Platform

Research In Motion fulfill its promise to open the BlackBerry Messenger platform. Later, interactive communication not only be done through the fuel only, but also connect to a variety of applications on the BlackBerry smartphone.

That said Gregory Wade, Managing Director of SEA RIM, at the opening session keynote Asia BlackBerry Developer Conference 2011 in Bali International Convention Center, Westin, Nusa Dua. He said that from now on application developers can use it.

"Social Platform BBM has launched in San Francisco for the beta. We will open it in the next few months," said Gregory Wade in front of hundreds of application developers from various countries were present.

With fuel is connected with the application, the social networking experience through the BlackBerry will become even wider. For example, it is clear Gregory Wade, while playing games, users can communicate or share your scores and other information.

According to Wade, fuel is the largest mobile social networking platform in the world. There are currently more than 55 million BlackBerry users in the world and 35 million of whom have been using the fuel.

Apple Launch CDMA iPhoe version

Got a rumor for several months, Apple finally released the iPhone actually the CDMA version. As expected, Apple this time with Verizon in the U.S. as a partner network provider.

In its official statement on Tuesday (11/01/2011), Verizon confirmed the rumors. The operator will provide the iPhone with the same package as AT & T starting price of 199.99 U.S. dollars with a two-year subscription contract period.

The presence of an iPhone version of CDMA exclusive cooperation dismantle Apple and AT & T which has to be the only iPhone in the U.S. distribution partner.

In other countries outside the U.S., Apple also apply the same strategy by holding a service such as with Telkomsel in Indonesia. Rumors circulated that is not less warmth, Apple was rumored to be together with other operators to distribute the iPhone in Indonesia. Several times XL expressed interest, but as usual there is no certainty of Apple.

At the launch of the iPhone 4 in Indonesia, the end of 2010, Telkomsel in fact still be a single partner. If in the U.S., Apple took a different operator network technology to expand iPhone distribution.

AT & T is GSM while Verizon uses CDMA