Rapidsoft Technologies

We are excited to announce our participation in 18^th Convergence India 2010 Conference and Exhibition, the Largest ICT event of South Asia. This is to be held from 23 to 25 of March, 2010 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. We would like to encourage you to stop by Booth C 214 in the Exhibit Hall of Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

18^th Convergence India 2010 Conference and Exhibition is going to be organized by Exhibitions India Pvt. Ltd., one of the important Expo for Information and Communication technology Industries in South Asia.

We hope this event would play a vital role once we will meet global leading ICT companies and that can be the base for business negotiations for all ICT industries. This event would offer us a myriad of opportunities when we are going to exhibit how businesses from diverse industrial background can leverage the mobile application space to enhance business reach and achieve business objectives better and faster. We are really glad to participate in the event where we can establish new business relationships with the audience from the influential market.

Google Earth Application at last arrived at Android market, although it seems weird that it did not happen earlier. But Google Earth would only work on the handsets which have Android 2.1 OS or later versions.

Android 2.1 is obviously a beefed up version Android. And it effectively limits Google Earth to the Nexus One. The enthusiast mobile users had seen the glimpse of Google since Nexus One was unveiled into the market. Right after that, Google released Google Earth (Mobile version) along with Road Layer, a feature of the desktop version of the Google earth.

The good news is those of users with Nexus One and some older HTC handsets can head to Google Earth along with layers including Places, Businesses, Panoramio, Wikipedia, Roads, Borders and Labels, and Terrain etc. Multi-touch, and double tap are also enabled in the app, and its rendering time is quite snappy.

The rest of the users will have to wait for update till v 2.1 come to all Android phones. So keep an eye out for an update!

The experts say, the market of smartphones applications would grow by more than either timesignificantly in the next three years. As per predictions, The market could grow as much as over 807 percent, to almost $15.65 billion.

According to a recent report of Research2 Guidance, 2010, last year’s revenue has reached about $1.94 billion. They haves predicted about the future of the market of smart phones on a which is expected to see a major push into smart phones around the world. They claim that the audience is on the way of tripling this year, reaching about 300 million while it may result in 970 million smart phones being in use by 2013.

If we think about two leading smart phones like Apple’s iPhone  and RIM’s Blackberry, they enjoyed the rapidest sales growth among all smartphones manufacturers. BlackBerry is currently the smartphone to beat. The meteoric rise of Apple’s iPhone spurs the increase of Blackberry’s market share. In 2007, iPhone growth sat 0.3%, and in 2009, they were at 2%, while RIM went from 1% to 3% in the same period. Starting with only 500 apps since July 2008, iPhone now have over 150,000 applications. Apple gained 6.2 percentage points of market share while Google won 3.5 percentage points of the market share, although Android is new comer into the market just in a year and a half old.

BlackBerry App World and Windows Marketplace have had success hugely in last two years. Analysts expect, Apple may show us continued sales growth this year, too, especially if the company introduces a new version of its iPhone operating system at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, 2010.

The more new app development opportunities emerge, the more various smartphones become popular year by year. So it is expected, smartphones will continue to be used to capitalize its buttoned-down image and win the dead hearts and vacant minds of the masses.

At first glance, one would be unlikely to overlook differences between iPhone 3G and 3GS as both are identical from the front. Apple says, the ‘S’ stands for Speed, although there is almost nothing different between the two.

Apple’s iPhone is the most sought after mobile phone with each unique release. So added ‘S’ to 3G seems to come up with new thing.

Let’s compare both two.

The 3GS has a much faster processor than the 3G. The 3GS comes equipped with a 600 MHz ARM processor which is better than the 412 MHz processor of the 3G. This added processing power allows users to run applications without any noticeable lags or freezes. These blazing internet speeds obviously mean faster browsing and downloading for users.

Apart from that, 3GS specs twice faster speed than Iphone 3G. It features 3 Mega Pixel Auto-Focus Camera and enables Video Recording. Its Voice control allows you to call or start music with the sound of your voice. 3GS comes with 16GB and 32 GB of storage!!!

At the same time both 3G and 3GS offer all the common features like Cut, Copy, and Paste, Voice memos, Spotlight search, MMS, Landscape Keyboard as both the devices  got  the new OS 3.0.

In the conclusion, 3G is good for speed, but 3GS loads Web pages around twice as fast. So there is no doubt that iPhone 3GS is the current king of touchscreen smartphones.

Can Linux-based phone go mainstream? Yes, we are talking about open source platform of Android OS. Google’s Android is the first Linux-based software for mobile devices. Some people say, Android can be the killer of any smartphone. Others say, it is just another failed attempt at taking Linux mainstream on a mobile phone.

We have seen, iPhone has been big for the past couple of years. Blackberry is also a steady staple among business users; although Blackberry is facing hard challenge from iPhone as the mobile market has been impacted by iPhone. There is an impassioned debate both two market leading devices. But the question is where does the scenario leave new comer Android?

Android runs atop Linux Kernel with a layered subsystem providing core computing services. Process and memory management are provided by Linux. The web browser available in Android is based on the open-source WebKit application framework. At the same time it is also popular among developers as its Plug in – Tools that provide a host of helpful tools for aiding the development and debugging of Android applications. It’s by far the easiest platform to do OS level changes. The popularity of the Operating System is growing by leaps and bounds.

The popularity of Android has no doubt grown very quickly in uptime months. If we find the analysis of ChangeWave in December, 2009, 4% of users are using a smartphone with Android which is a 3pt jump since their survey in September. The figure is significant, because it is a marked increase of 200% compared to the previous month of September.

The Android mobile software has a chance of dethroning other smartphones but it will take time, effort, ingenuity, and a mountain of Google cash to make it happen. Bur from the developer’s point, we can say, Android is platform that deserve to stay.

Application Development for smartphones

If yes, we have to say Good Bye to PC. Mobile computing has already knocked the door. PC’s dominance is almost over. Now we crossed into the era of mobile computing. Microsoft’s announcement of its new mobile-phone platform indicates the signals of a clear end to the old PC era and an epic shift in computing.

A PC, at its heart, is about information creation. The keyboard, mouse or track pad, large screen, and large memory, whatever a PC has, are all there because they’re needed to manipulate words and images and numbers – spreadsheets, written documents, presentations, graphics, and databases.

Now the question is do people really need a PC? Even if they never actually create spreadsheets or presentations or documents, are they willing to give up the capability of doing so? Where does it leave smartphone? The smartphone are all about information and communication access while you’re on the go.

Smartphones are the latest must-haves for many people. Now it is not only for voice communication. Users can access e-mail, organizers, touch-screen with high resolution, camera, global positioning system, calendar, contact database, music player, image viewer, video player etc. The modern smartphones facilitate accessing web at great speeds owing to the 3G data networks development, besides the Wi-Fi support addition. The more it continues to grow in popularity, customer satisfaction increases despite of higher cost of device.

But the question is will Smartphones replace PC? Smartphones are high-end technical gadgets with improved features and greater capacity that continues to emerge. But it probably won’t replace laptops or home computers, though. We think, they are not practical for long-term usage. Smartphones are great supplemental tools for business, home office and entertainment purposes. But spending eight hours in front of a tiny screen, reading, texting, copying or any other tasks is quite impossible for the users who normally do work on their PC. It would not be a pleasant experience.

On the other hand, the Smartphone needs increased battery power, larger memory capacity, the ability to watch TV and movies on the phone and the ability to be connected anytime, anywhere. Aside from better functionality, smartphones will be available in a variety of versions to appeal to a wider audience.

So we can say, smartphones have a promising future where we as users would find all-in-one solutions. Let’s wait and see who can be smart choice for you?