Samsung S5 Exynos Version Lollipop update now rolling out in India

I am writing to confirm the roll out of Lollipop update for Samsung S5 model in India which has Exynos processor. I got the update on 20th March 2015 at 9:00pm IST.

The update size is 874.21 MB and as expected is an OTA update. The entire process was very quick and the update after downloading took 20-25 minutes to get the phone running on Lollipop.

Thank you Samsung for such a delayed roll out! (Saturday is sarcasm day).

The phone feels faster even with the same amount of RAM utlization.

Apps and their availibility across different mobile OSes - iOS, Android, Windows Phone & Windows 8

I was looking to get a summary of which apps are available on which mobile OS and what are the glaring missing ones. The reason is, now that my company doesnot officially support Blackberry, i need to look to a new platform (read OS) so that i can sync emails and contacts, etc etc.

During my search i reached the page which in a nice, clear, concise manner lists this compariosn. Here it is:

Top 100 Apps Availability on iOS, Android, Windows Phone & Windows 8  

This page clearly shows that although there are a lot of apps available on iOS and  Android platforms, but the required and necessary ones are available in Windows platforms well. yes, there are quite a lot of apps on the Windows platform that are paid, but, likewise is the case with iOS. Also, the iOS platform is tightly controlled by Apple, where as Windows is slightly more open as a platform, though Microsoft still calls the shots. Android on the other hand is another story of too many and lack of control.

BBM for Android and iPhone – will it affect BB sales?

I wonder how soundly thought the strategy of launching BBM (Black Berry Messenger) on non BB phones is. Apart from the few remaining BB loyalists (like me) who swear by a type phone with a physical QWERTY keypad, most of the others have already moved on to either an android phone or an iPhone or a Windows phone or to anything but a Blackberry.

In today’s less than ideal world there are few of us who are still deciding on whether to move on from BB. For such people one sticky factor apart from the keyboard is BBM and the tons of groups and friend lists one has made. Isn’t launching BBM on other phone platforms equal to showing the path to walk on for most undecided BB users as well as few BB loyalists?

I understand that for BB ‘services’ such as BBM will be a big business driver. Also with the launch of numerous similar messaging platforms especially WhatsApp, WeChat, etc and their growing popularity does signify future challenge for the BBM’s. However, since such ‘services’ revenue is very small for BB;It ,may have chosen to ignore that. In this case BB has not ignored it. I can only speculate that it will lead to more people moving away from BB platform to others.

Lets see what happens!