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== Insights  ==
== Insights  ==


Summary below, full update [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Insights/2011_Week19 here]  
Summary below, full update [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Insights/2011_Week20 here]  


Android 3.1 was launched. User features: resizable widgets, USB accessories support, Adobe Flash 10.2. Dev features: Open Accessory API, USB host API, Media Transfer Protocol, Real-Time Transport Protocol API.  
Dolphin HD 5.0 beta was released, featuring a new "Speed Dial-style" New Tab with Google search, Facebook, Twitter and Most Visited integration. Dolphin HD has also made a partnership to come preinstalled on the Notion Adam Ink tablets.  


The Android 3.1 browser updates: UI improvements, CSS 3D support, animations, CSS fixed positioning, save page locally, support for hardware accelerated plugins
The next Nexus device expected this year and featuring Ice Cream Sandwich is likely to be running on a chipset of the NVidia Tegra 3 series. Other OEMs have also showed interest for the chipsets, which are expected to be shipped in devices this fall.


New Android numbers: 100 million activated devices, 400,000 activations/day, 200,000 apps, 310 device models
Yet another security exploit has been exposed concerning Android's ClientLogin protocol when using open WiFi networks.


Android strategy updates: support for launched devices to be 18 months, phone and tablet versions to be merged in Ice Cream Sandwhich, Android@home was presented, a project to bring the OS to household appliances.
Intel is pushing further to penetrate the smartphone chipset market for their x86 architecture


The smartphone market has grown ~80% year over year in with 99.6 million units shipped in 1Q2011. Apple is about to become the biggest smartphone vendor with only 6 million shipped units behind Nokia, who is in the first place.<br>
Nokia is developing their mobile location service for the Indian market.  


*Devices:  
*Devices:  
**Samsung Galaxy S II pre-ordered 3 million times.
**The Dell Streak 10/Pro to be launched in June. Specs: 1GHz Tegra 2 dual-core chip and 1GB of RAM [http://androidcommunity.com/dell-streak-pro-detailed-10-inch-honeycomb-tablet-for-june-20110518/ 1]
**[http://www.slashphone.com/motorola-droid-x2-official-specs-sheet-revealed-0917404 Motorola Droid X2 specs]: dual-core 1GHz Tegra 2 processor, 512MB RAM  
**The Motorola Droid X2 to be available on pre-order May 26th from Verizon. Specs: Dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 proccessor, ULP GeForce GPU, Tegra 2 chipset, 512 MB RAM. Priority 1 [http://mashable.com/2011/05/18/droid-x2-may-26/ , http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_droid_x2-3959.php 2]
**[http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i997_infuse_4g-3705.php Samsung Infuse] (from AT&amp;T)
**Motorola Droid 3 to be released in Q3 2011, rumoured specs: dual core 1 GHz OMAP 4 Texas Instruments processor, PowerVR SGX 540 GPU. Priority: 1 [http://androidandme.com/2011/05/carriers/verizon/motorola-droid-3-benchmarks-appear-with-omap-4-processor-gingerbread/ 3]
**HTC ChaCha and Salsa to be launched June 26th in the UK from Amazon
**Samsung Exhibit 4G, HTC Sensation 4G and the Samsung Gravity Touch 2 launch on June 8th on T-Mobile. [http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2011/05/17/samsung-hawk-exhibit-4g-landing-in-t-mobile-territory-june-8/ 4]
**[http://androidandme.com/2011/05/news/pictured-htcs-upcoming-honeycomb-tablet-headed-to-att/ HTC Puccini]  
**HTC Lead specs: dual-core 1.2GHz processor (MSM8660), 768 RAM [http://www.androidcentral.com/htc-lead-headed-att-system-dump-leaked 5]
**HTC Verdi
**Toshiba Regza T-01C, Sharp LYNX 3D SH-03C, Toshiba IS04 (1 GHz CPU), Sony Ericsson Xperia arc SO-01C (specs needed) - if supported, P2


== Other  ==
== Other  ==


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