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BlackBerry stops iPhone’s ascension in the United States

Published on: 18th March, 2010

Research in Motion’s BlackBerry line succeeded to hold off Apple to reach the top place for United States smartphone market share at the beginning of this year. According to comScore data, the BlackBerry line only grew slightly but remained to exactly 43 percent of the industry. Apple reached a milestone and now it has more [...]

RIM could show a new handset at MWC

Published on: 15th February, 2010

On February 11, 2010, Research In Motion (RIM), the BlackBerry manufacturer, has posted a Twitter update saying that the company is expected to make “a big announcement” somewhere next week, during the Mobile World Congress show, which will take place in Barcelona. The only detail shown is that users should watch closely the company’s blog [...]

Nokia hopes to catch up and beat Research in Motion and Apple by next year

Published on: 9th January, 2010

Rick Simonson, the mobile division chief of Nokia, is optimistic and says that Nokia will catch up and even beat Apple and Research in Motion by 2011. Acknowledging that there is a gap that has lead to some loss in market share, Nokia’s official claims that the losses have already stabilized and the company is [...]

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 [...]

RIM will lead the phone sales through 2014

Published on: 26th November, 2009

A recent report regarding the sales in the third quarter of 2009 issued by Pyramid Research reveals a significant change in the handset sales in the United States. According to this report, the smartphone demand has increased and has reached 31 percent of the new handsets sold in the United States in 2009. This is [...]

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 [...]

The iPhone is comfortably leading over smaller rivals

Published on: 20th November, 2009

Recent data regarding the summer sales of cell phones reveal interesting tendencies of this industry. The influence of Apple on the smartphone market has increased, as data for this summer confirmed. The iPhone platform has reach 17.1 percent compared to 12.9 percent at the beginning of this time frame. This means the iPhone is on [...]

BlackBerry surprising Customers with 3D Gaming

Published on: 13th November, 2009

Research in Motion revealed the first innovative 3D support for its smartphones at the BlackBerry Developers Conference. RIM has made OpenGL ES graphics available to develop 3D games and other applications by those using new Java SDK for BlackBerry OS 5.0. RIM offers better support for developers who will have the possibility of quickly creating [...]

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