Youssef Hawili

Mobile Developer’s Guide to the Galaxy http://www1.j2mepolish.org/downloads/MobileDevelopersGuideToTheGalaxy.pdf

AirPlay: http://www.airplaysdk.com/ Titanium: http://www.appcelerator.com/ Rhoads: http://rhomobile.com/ Celsius: http://www.mobile-distillery.com/ PhoneGap: http://www.phonegap.com/

Gartner (NYSE: IT) has predicted that Android will remain the No. 2 mobile operating system in the world behind not Apple, but Nokia's (NYSE: NOK) Symbian OS. Android will capture 29.6 percent of the market, compared to 30.2 for Symbian and 14.9 percent for iOS, Gartner predicted. http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1434613

Rumors have been bubbling for months that Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) will release a version of the iPhone on Verizon's network early next year. More recent speculation points toward a CDMA iPad as well.

Verizon's first 4G-LTE phone, an Android smartphone called "Thunderbolt," will reportedly make its first official public appearance at CES next week. It is expected to have a 4.3-inch touchscreen with WXGA resolution -- 1,280 by 800 pixels. If true, this could be the highest resolution screen on a smartphone. The iPad resolution is only XGA = 1024-by-768 http://www.droid-life.com/2010/12/29/verizon-focusing-on-4g-lte-android-devices-not-the-iphone-at-ces/