Opera has announced a “turbo” version of its Opera Desktop, Opera Mobile and Opera Devices SDK. Turbo Opera is geared towards business customers which allow for savings in bandwidth consumption. According to Opera, up to 80% decreased in bandwidth consumption can be attained using Opera Turbo.
Imagine this, “You come into a coffee shop as a “mobile guest“, you order something. You check if you have enough electronic cash on your mobile phone. Pay for it with your cell phone using secure short range wireless communications meant for transactions.”
The Android development team has just made available version 1.1 release 1 of the Android SDK. This is inline with the recent updates to Android devices providing new features and functionality. API changes are quite minor. Several items have been fixed, some new features for the Map and dialer have been added, plus several API changes. You can check out the release notes.
It looks like Qualcomm is positioning itself to become a leader in the growing mobile graphics market with it’s current acquisition of AMD’s handheld business that includes several graphics and multimedia technology assets.
Skype, a VOIP and instant messaging application, has just released J2ME versions of their software application for several mobile phones. Skype for your mobile is currently under beta and available for several Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and Sony Ericsson mobile phones. I’ve downloaded and tried it on my Nokia phone.
The coming months in the world mobile market will be very (VERY) exciting! 2005 estimates put the number of mobile phone users at 2 billion. That amount is probably safe to put at 3 billion today. This figure is expected to grow more in the coming year and everyone is watching as things unfold.
