Over 55 million smartphones were shipped 1st quarter of 2010

The world’s smartphone markets continued to build on their strong 4Q-2009 performance in the first three months of 2010. According to the latest ABI Research data, a little more than 55 million smartphones shipped during the quarter.

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Mozilla takes Fennec mobile browser from alpha to beta

Posted on March 20th, 2009 by Cezanne Huq in Mobile Applications, Mobile Browsers, Mobile Content, Mobile Entertainment, Mobile Web

Mozilla’s dev team announced Fennec 1.0 beta mobile browser. Fennec has been in alpha for sometime now and the team at Mozilla are comfortable with it’s feature set and performance to move the highly anticipated mobile browser to beta.

Main areas of improvement from what I’ve gathered are some speed enhancements during the start up phase. I particularly interested in the plugin functionality that will be native to Fennec along with TraceMonkey which will also be released with Firefox 3.5 in the coming weeks and is available in Firefox 3.1 beta. TraceMonkey brought huge JavaScript speed improvements which should see the same efficiencies on the mobile browsing side.

Source: blog.mozilla.com