1）韩国手机游戏公司Gamevil日前宣布旗下游戏下载量已突破5000万次。该公司主要采用付费下载与IAP功能相结合的盈利模式，计划在2011年在韩国发布21款游戏，向海外市场推出20款游戏。

Gamevil(from iphone.tgbus)

2）据GetJar最新的调查结果显示（游戏邦注：调查截止时间是8月1日，为期14天），尽管Gingerbread（Android 2.3）版本问世已经9个月，但大多数用户仍在运行Froyo（Android 2.2）版本。

Andorid OS share(from pocketgamer)

仅有24.3%用户采用了Gingerbread，仅比上个月上升3%，而运行Froyo的用户比例高达55.9%。

平板电脑操作系统Honeycomb（3.x）在同一时期的安装率，已经从原来的0.4%上升至1.3%。

3）据pocketgamer报道，Facebook游戏《Crime City》将于本月底推出iPhone版本。这款由Funzio开发的黑帮游戏支持玩家在游戏中作恶，例如偷盗车子，抢劫财物等，另外还可以通过建造高楼扩展自己的势力范围。

crime-city(from blog.games.com)

该游戏含有200多项单独任务和目标，但最有趣的环节是多人模式，它支持玩家在游戏中组队行走江湖。

4）广告公司Ogilvy & Mather最新调查报告指出，在手机支付方式中，用户对苹果、Facebook或谷歌服务的信任度都很低。信任Facebook的受访者仅占12.1%，谷歌排在微软（支持率占22.3%)之后，其信任支持率仅占19.5%，苹果的信任比例为22.9%，但仍落后于美国Postal Service，后者的信任度为24.6%。公众信任度最高的则是Visa（39.6%)、万事达卡（35.9%）、美国运通（35.8%)，PayPal的支持率为34.3%。

most trusted brands(from intomobile)

5）据彭博社报道，EA和Rovio日前向联邦法院提交文件，要求法院允许苹果介入Lodsys专利权案件，理由是苹果可提供重要证据以说明开发商究竟是否侵仅。苹果之前坚称公司有权介入此事，因为它已获得Lodsys的IAP使用权，该服务可覆盖其iOS生态圈的所有开发者。

apple_lodsys(from all-phones.sc-pulse-media)

Lodsys专利侵权案所涉开发商还包括雅达利、Square Enix、Take-Two、Iconfactory（Twitteriffic开发商）、Illusion Labs、Michael G. Karr、Quickoffice、Richard Shinderman和Wulven Games等公司。

6）用户体验分析公司ClickFox最近发布报告表明，iPhone客服电话成本比Android或黑莓手机更低（游戏邦注：该调查主要基于北美移动电话运营商数据），用户经常要通过多个代理，经过多次电话转接才能找到解决Android或黑莓手机问题的工作人员。

mobile phone OS(from venturebeat)

哈佛大学也曾展开关于iPhone 4、三星的WP7手机、RIM的黑莓Storm手机、HTC Thunderbolt Android手机的可用性调查研究，初级用户执行拨打电话、添加联系人、发送短信等一系列操作的情况，发现最具可用性的设备是iPhone 4G和Windows Phone 7手机。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，如需转载请联系：游戏邦）

1）Gamevil hits accumulative total of 50 million mobile game downloads

by Jon Jordan

Having just posted Q2 2011 sales of $9 million, up 46 percent year-on-year, things are going well at Korean mobile publisher Gamevil as it builds out its external development business.

Indeed, Korean games website This is Game is reporting the company has now passed the total of 50 million mobile downloads.

As it generally operates using a paid download with in-app purchase model rather than a straight free-to-play model, this makes the total more impressive, although it will stretch back to the company’s creation in 2000, and the majority of sales will be Java games for feature phone.

Big guns

Gamevil generally doesn’t break out download totals in its financials, but it did point out it planned to release 21 games in Korea during 2011 and 20 games overseas.

As part of this drive to increase the number of games it releases, it recently set up a $10 million development fund.（source:pocketgamer）

2）55.9% of Android owners still use Froyo, only 24.3% now running Gingerbread

by Matt Gilman

Despite Gingerbread (Android 2.3) having been out in the wild for 9 months now, the majority of Android owners still run their devices on Froyo (2.2).

According to a recent survey posted on GetJar for the 14 days ending 1 August, Gingerbread (2.3) is being used by 24.3 percent of devices. That’s only a 3 percent rise since last month’s report. It’s a far cry from Froyo (2.2) which currently runs on 55.9 percent of Android devices.

Tablet OS Honeycomb (3.x) has a 1.3% install rate up from 0.4 percent.（source:pocketgamer)

3）Immersive mafia-based Facebook game Crime City heading to iPhone later this month

by Alex Taylor

Crime City, a game that strikes this writer as a cross between Grand Theft Auto and Habbo Hotel (there’s a sentence I never thought I’d say), is expanding its horizons, moving into an iPhone neighbourhood near you later in August.

This popular Facebook game takes place in New York, and follows your (hopefully) meteoric ascent to mob boss to end all mob bosses.

Not only does Funzio’s mafia-based sim provide you with the typical sandbox environment – allowing you to steal cars, rob civilians, or just perform menial tasks – it also encourages you to expand your empire by building and improving various structures around the city.

The story mode contains over 200 separate missions and objectives to complete, for those that prefer a more linear structure.

The strongest pull of Crime City, however, is liable to be found in the multiplayer. With the ability to both team up with, and steal everything from, friends in the game, there is a possibility for huge guilds, syndicates, and groups to form.

Crime City will launch on the App Store later this month. In the meantime, watch the the trailer below.（source:pocketgamer）

4）Survey says consumers don’t trust Apple, Google, or Facebook when it comes to mobile payments

By: Stefan Constantinescu

Findings from a survey conducted on 500 U.S. based “online shoppers” by Ogilvy & Mather, one of the world’s largest advertising firms, suggests that consumers don’t trust companies like Apple, Facebook, or Google when it comes to mobile payments. In fact, Facebook scored the worst, being trusted by only 12.1% of the people surveyed. Microsoft, at 22.3%, is trusted by more people than Google, at 19.5%. Apple is trusted by a little more than 1 out of every 5 consumers, 22.9%, but they’re still behind the United States Postal Service at 24.6% trust. Who is leading? It shouldn’t come as a surprise that it’s Visa, MasterCard, and American Express, with 39.6%, 35.9%, and 35.8% respectively. What’s shocking is how many people trust PayPal, at 34.3%. What does this mean for you? Not much since right now the current mobile payment landscape is a battlefield between card issuers such as Visa and MasterCard, operators, who actually teamed up to form Isis in an attempt to get the ball rolling on mobile payments, and the new kids on the block, like Apple, Google, Nokia, etc.（source:intomobile）

5）Rovio, EA Urge Court To Let Apple Join Lodsys Patent Suit

by Tom Curtis

Electronic Arts and Angry Birds developer Rovio have submitted a federal court filing insisting that Apple should be allowed to intervene in a patent-infringement lawsuit against developers of iPhone applications.

Texas-based Lodsys, LLC sued a number of iOS developers including EA, Rovio, Mega Poker Online developer Combay, Inc, and more back in June, on the grounds that these companies allegedly violated the company’s patent for an in-app upgrade model. Lodsys is demanding a percentage of the revenues made from this patent violation.

Apple previously insisted that it should be able to intervene on the legal proceedings, saying that its own license with Lodys covers the company’s partners and customers, including the accused developers.

In support of Apple, EA and Rovio said in its court filing, “The participation of Apple as a party in this lawsuit is critical to the development of the very evidence needed to establish what may prove to be a complete defense to the infringement claims in this action.”

According to Bloomberg, Lodsys has previously objected to Apple’s request, arguing that EA and Rovio both have the resources to handle their own defense, and that there is no evidence that the suit influences Apple’s relationship with developers.

Other developers affected by the lawsuit include Atari, Square Enix, Take-Two, Twitteriffic developer Iconfactory, Inc, Labyrinth developer Illusion Labs, as well as Michael G. Karr, Quickoffice, Inc., Richard Shinderman, and Wulven Games. （source:gamasutra）

6）Apple scores a couple of points against rivals in usability and support

Dean Takahashi

Apple, which is gunning to be the world’s most valuable public company this week, has scored a couple of points against its rivals in independent usability and support assessments.

Those are small victories for Apple, but they aren’t always obvious to people considering purchases based on sticker price or subscription plans alone.

ClickFox, a firm that analyzes customer experience data, said it found that iPhones cost less to support than Android or BlackBerry devices. The study was based on an examination of support calls received by North American mobile phone carriers. The reason is that it often takes multiple agents to resolve a BlackBerry or Android user’s problem, which means calls have to be transferred.

Harvard University also did a video usability study comparing the ease of use for tasks performed on the iPhone 4, a Samsung Focus running Windows Phone 7, a BlackBerry Storm from Research in Motion, and an HTC Thunderbolt Android phone. The study used novice consumers to perform various tasks and found that the winners in usability were the iPhone 4G and Windows Phone 7.

The study was conducted by a summer school class taught by Harvard professor Dennis Galleta, who is teaching a course on Human Factors in Information Systems Design. That’s not exactly a huge scientific research project, but it does show what the experience of neophyte users is like when performing tasks like making a call, adding a contact, and sending a text message. Check out the study in the video below. It’s quite amusing to watch what happens when a user runs into a complete brick wall on performing a task. Android didn’t do so hot, and BlackBerry appeared to be utterly inscrutable to the new users.（source:venturebeat）