Smartphones are very popular these days, but because of the high prices, few can afford them. Analysts at Deloitte claim that because of this, devices with reduced functionality at a price of $ 100 and below will be especially popular on the market.

Which projects are becoming the most successful on the App Store and why, why you need a feature, and what is a “jackpot” game – about all this in our new material.

Intel and Samsung are joining forces to work on a new mobile platform. The new brainchild will be a synthesis of the bada and Tizen operating systems.

The Android Market service is unlikely to appear on the Chinese market in the near future. The “censorship issue” interferes.

In the future, we are waiting for a reduction in the range of smartphones: most manufacturers want to follow the path of Apple.

Mobile advertising brought Google $2.5 billion in 2011. Analysts from Piper Jaffray claim that next year it will bring one and a half times more. Apple is still in flight.

While everyone was resting, the analysts worked and counted, tirelessly using calculators. A few statistics on the number of downloads on iOS and Android, data on the sales of the devices themselves and valuable information about what users are doing.

How projects get to the App Store showcase, why iPhone development is not cheap and not fast, why updates are needed and much more is told by one of the authors of the SQUIDS role–playing game.

About a month ago, the seventh conference of developers and publishers of flash, social and mobile games Flash GAMM Kyiv 2011 was held in Kiev. We offer a video from the presentation of Maxim Grynev aka Mokus, the creator of the game Contre Jour, which has collected many international awards.

Users of Windows tablets will be able to run applications written for Android.

The revenues of mobile app developers are three times higher than the revenue from the total sales of these applications. We are talking about the income of companies that create custom applications. Salaries differ significantly from region to region, although in Russia and India they are about the same level.

Razer, a company engaged in the creation of professional gaming equipment, announced its own tablet: its main feature is that it is designed for modern PC games. Other tablet manufacturers are entering a price war with the Kindle Fire, and Apple’s new tablet may be called the iPad 2S.

An hour and a half a day is about how much an American user spends on working with mobile applications. And half of this time falls on games.

American analytical companies have shared information about some of the trends of last fall in the mobile systems market. Among them: the growth of the share of the iOS platform, the victory of smartphones over conventional mobile phones, as well as something about the high popularity of the iPhone.  

In 2011, about 73 million tablets were shipped. This is 256% more than in 2010. Analysts are confident that by 2017, tablets will almost catch up with laptops in terms of supplies.

A three-dimensional role-playing action for iOS brought $ 30 million to its creators in a year of sales.

In a year and a half, the number of downloads of applications for the Apple tablet has reached three billion. Android indicators are lagging far behind, but analysts are confident that the situation will radically change in the future.

During the last week of 2011, iOS and Android users made a record number of downloads.

According to the results of last December, Apple products accounted for more than 52.1% of mobile traffic. Android gadgets have only 16.2%.