The most interesting articles and materials of App2Top last week: mobile “Star Wars” with birds in the main roles, the project Molyneux was not ready for the revolution (again), the best day for the release of the application is Monday. 

The Chinese vendor ranked third in the global top manufacturers in terms of the number of deliveries of smart phones in the third quarter of this year. Finnish Nokia may drop out of the top by the new year. 

Apple sent out letters to developers warning about the departure of iTunes for the holidays on December 21.    

Sony’s portable console is no longer the most powerful mobile device: Apple’s fourth-generation tablet has overtaken the PS Vita in performance. 

According to RBC daily, MTS, the Russian mobile network operator, earned about 800 million rubles on mobile applications in the third quarter alone.

The creators of Tiny Village in September released a social project – a turn-based word game for iOS based on the popular tabletop Taboo. Her results were far from ideal.

I drove here recently on the bus for several hours and entertained an 8-year-old kid with my iPhone. More precisely, the beta version of one of our games. A couple of minutes later, the boy asked me a question: “Is there a store here?” The game provides in-app’s – both for in-game currency and for real money, but because

Sociality Rocks and Game Insight companies, organizers of Live Mobile! Russian Mobile Congress, approved the program of the congress.

Samsung Galaxy III became the best-selling smartphone in the third quarter of 2012, significantly surpassing the former market leader – iPhone 4S. 

Most of the profits from the mobile app market will come from advertising next year. 

Yesterday HTC sent out invitations to media representatives for a joint presentation with Verizon. The event will take place on November 13 in New York.

Yesterday, the share price of the Apple company reached its lowest level in the last 5 months. The reason is the constant shortage of iPhone5.

Chartboost presented the price dynamics for CPC campaigns, the number of views and the level of downloads by day of the week. Judging by their data, projects launched on the App Store on Sunday or Monday receive certain advantages over applications released on other days of the week. 

The analytical company AppBrain recently published statistics on the ecosystem of the Android platform. The report shows quantitative indicators of app downloads per month, their popularity by category and the top Android smartphones.

Less than an hour ago, Rovio, together with Lucasfilm, launched its new project in the Star Wars universe, Angry Birds Star Wars, on seven platforms at once.

The Millennial Media advertising network is suffering heavy losses, but since entering the market last March, they have been declining.   

Yesterday, November 7, a remake of the ancient 8-bit game Karateka appeared in Xbox Live Arcade. It is also expected to be released on the iOS platform this month. 

By the end of this year, 70% of PC sales will be on mobile devices, according to Gartner. This is largely due to the increasing interest in them from the business environment.

Peter Molyneux’s first mobile game, Curiosity: What’s Inside The Cube, was released on the App Store yesterday. Almost immediately, the project server collapsed from the influx of users. But this did not prevent the development team from publishing the first statistics on the project.