Nokia has announced another handset to launch in its Series 40-based Asha portfolio of low end phones. The Asha 210 is a full QWERTY device that comes in yellow, magenta, cyan, black, or white color options. For WhatsApp Messenger fans, though, the big news is a special hardware key that…
Windows Phone is still gaining ground despite increased competition from new OS launches in the last quarter according to analytics firm Kantar’s latest numbers obtained via WMPowerUser. These gains are coming largely at the expense of BlackBerry, who lost 3 million subscribers last quarter according to its most recent earnings…
Cross platform messaging app Nimbuzz has just announced cross-platform group chats for Android, iPhone, and Symbian in its latest update for all three platforms. For iPhone, users can now create & join up to 25 different group chats, so if you have a group for your family, one for your…
It’s no secret by now that Microsoft’s Skype and Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger) are coming together this April, and already some applications are beginning to experience changes as a result. Nimbuzz has just announced its own change today: its app will no longer be supporting Windows Live Messenger…
Viber has definitely been growing quickly over the past few months. At the beginning of February, the VoIP and Messaging app reached a grand total of 160 million users. In less than a month, 15 million users have been added, or an average of 750,000 users per day. Overall, the…
Fring has been in the midst of major upgrades recently. They’ve rolled out major updates and redesigns to their Android, iPhone and iPad, and Symbian apps, and are also working on an upcoming version for Windows Phone. Of course, with many major upgrades comes the expected drop in support for…
Symbian may no longer be getting new devices, but the good people at Fring are out to prove that the platform still has plenty of life left in it. Fring version 7.00 for Symbian adds the capability to communicate with Fring users on iOS and Android devices (and is likely…
New IDC numbers are showing (unsurprisingly) that Android and iOS are continuing to dominate the market, with Windows Phone gaining a larger portion of the market share as well. Google’s Android OS climbed from 49.2 percent of the smartphone space in 2011 to 68.8 percent in 2012. Many of those…
