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The market for smartphone apps could grow by eight times in three years

Published on: 9th March, 2010

According to a recent research2guidance estimate, in the next three years, the smartphone applications market could grow by more than eight times. Last year’s revenue has reached about $1.94 billion; by 2013, the market could grow over 807 percent, to almost $15.65 billion. The prediction has been based on a major push into smartphones around [...]

Verizon to offer slotRadio+ microSD memory cards to BlackBerry

Published on: 3rd February, 2010

Verizon has recently announced to begin offering slotRadio+ microSD memory cards. The cards come preloaded with music and will be compatible with most of the BalckBerry smartphones of the carrier. SanDisk has introduced the cards at the preceding CES. Such a card holds 1,000 songs with artists from the Billboard charts and belonging to various [...]

Android trying to catch up to iPhone

Published on: 12th January, 2010

A recent ChangeWave study reveals that smartphone buyers prefer Android phones as much as they prefer iPhones. The November launch of the Motorola Droid has lead to an increased demand in the United States for Android devices, from six percent in September to 21 percent in December, i.e. 15 percent in 90 days. The need [...]

BlackBerry’s outages – the third wave

Published on: 27th December, 2009

BlackBerry users, definitely not very fortunate lately, have reported another malfunction that affects the BlackBerry Information Service. The failure is broader than the mail-related delay already reported and also affects now the web browsing, BlackBerry Messenger and the third-party applications using Internet access. Research in Motion, even if contacted, has not commented this phenomenon. This [...]

Outages in e-mail system – real problem for BlackBerry

Published on: 23rd December, 2009

Research in Motion has recently confirmed a widespread failure in the e-mail system, that produced major postpones. A BIS (BlackBerry Information Service) outage is the cause of delayed e-mails for individual users at most North American carriers. Representatives from the company said that the problem is identified but there is no timeframe yet for the [...]

10.1 million BlackBerries shipments record from RIM

Published on: 20th December, 2009

On December 17, 2009, Research In Motion has declared that the company has had one of its best quarters in the history, thanks to a sheer expansion. RIM says to have shipped about 10.1 million BlackBerries in three months, from September through November, surpassing the previous 8.3-million record, 4.4 million of them being new to [...]

BlackBerry to be sold with China-based 3G and 4G

Published on: 13th December, 2009

Research in Motion has announced its intention to produce special versions of its devices to be sold in China by the China Mobile provider. This implies that RIM has to make its devices compatible with the Chinese unique TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE networks in order to enter a market where the products of the Canadian company [...]

Motorola overtakes Apple in brand loyalty report

Published on: 30th November, 2009

For a long period of time, Apple was ranked above Motorola in the brand loyalty reports. The Motorola Droid as well as Verizon’s aggressive ad campaign have pushed Motorola before Apple in YouGov’s BrandIndex latest edition. Motorola’s loyalty score among men has reached 29.3, while Apple has fallen from the initial 48.1 on the 9th [...]

New LG and BlackBerry handsets for AT&T: Shine II, Curve 8520 and Bold 9700

Published on: 26th November, 2009

Three new handsets from LG and Research in Motion will complete AT&T’s line-up in the near future: the Shine II, the BlackBerry Curve 8520 and the BlackBerry Bold 9700.
The LG Shine II comes as an update of the stainless steel fashion slider supporting 7.2Mbps 3G, as well as assisted GPS through the subscription Navigator service [...]

RIM to launch BlackBerry 9900 and new browser

Published on: 24th November, 2009

The rumoured BlackBerry 9900 and WebKit-based browser seem to confirm sayings of the analysts who were quoting contacts in the industry and parts suppliers. They say the touchscreen slider phone is in development and is like a bridge between the Storm2 and a non-touch QWERTY device. It is in prototype form and will be available [...]

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