Mar 03

Blackberry users must have been feeling left out because as smartphones got more and more applications, the Blackberry seemed to be in danger in missing out on some of the good stuff available to other phones.

However, the BBC is never likely to miss out on a great opportunity, and this seemed to be an ideal chance to offer Blackberry owners the BBC iPlayer.

Therefore, it now seems that Blackberry owners will not just be sitting there checking emails, they may be catching up with last night’s television programmes via the latest BBC iPlayer web portal, especially designed for them.

This new, free-to-use service allows Blackberry users to access the BBC catch-up service for TV shows and Radio programmes, provided that a decent Wi-Fi service is available.

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Mar 01

It’s no surprise that BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) (RIM) has up its sleeve a successor to the popular BlackBerry Tour 9630 smartphone; images and details on the as-of-yet unannounced device, codenamed “Essex,” hit the Web late last year.

This new BlackBerry, initially thought to be the “BlackBerry 9650″ or “Tour2,” is an upgraded version of the original Tour 9630, and it replaces the first device’s problematic trackball with RIM’s new optical trackpad. It also will reportedly sport Wi-Fi and a beefed-up processor.

And today is looks as though that new Tour just may be RIM’s next BlackBerry Bold 96xx/97xx smartphone…and I think that’s a much better idea than releasing another BlackBerry Tour. I’ll get to an explanation shortly, but first, some background.

I started hearing rumblings about the Tour2 being officially named “Bold” a number of weeks ago from BlackBerry-sources on Twitter. (There are currently two models of BlackBerry Bold: the BlackBerry Bold 9000 and the Bold 9700.) At first, I blew the rumors off like dust on my smartphone’s LCD. Why, I thought, would RIM want to further confuse BlackBerry users by introducing the Tour name and then doing away with it so quickly? (The original Tour was released in the United States last July.)

But sure enough, those same rumors kept popping up. I began to consider reasons why it might make sense for RIM to add this new device to its Bold lineup. And everything clicked into place.

I’ve written about RIM’s confusing device naming-conventions before–think: Curve 83xx, Curve 85xx and Curve 89xx. And I even blasted the title “Tour” as soon as it became known it would be the name of RIM’s 9630 device.

But despite RIM’s strange device-naming strategy, it’s actually quite simple to look at any of the company’s “new” handhelds and determine which model-line they belong to. That’s due to one single device characteristic: The BlackBerry keyboard.

All BlackBerry Curve devices have the exact same keyboard-style regardless of their model numbers; every BlackBerry Pearl handheld has the same style keyboard; RIM’s Storm and Storm2 devices both use on-screen “SurePress” keyboards; and RIM’s two Bold devices both have very similar, “fretted” keyboards.

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Mar 01

Apple could lower the price of its next version of the iPhone in order to better compete in a mobile marketplace increasingly crowded by Google Android, Microsoft and BlackBerry devices, according to a Morgan Stanley analyst.

In a note to investors, reported widely on sites such as Apple Insider, analyst Katy Huberty said she expected Apple to launch a new generation of smartphones in June “that offer both a lower total cost of ownership and new functionality, potentially including gesture-based technology.”

Apple’s iPhone 3G S currently retails on the company’s Website for $199 and up, while the price for the iPhone 3G starts at $99.

Apple has noted some recent successes in the mobile space, including its 10 billionth song sold through its iTunes Store, but faces an increasingly competitive environment from other manufacturers and mobile software makers, including Google, Research In Motion and Microsoft.

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Feb 26

Speaking at the Mobile and Wireless Healthcare conference in Birmingham yesterday, Morrison-Gardiner explained to his audience of NHS professionals that community-based services can reap many benefits from the use of smartphones.

Services such as auditable mileage claims by staff – using data from on-phone global positioning system technology – and the ability to manage workflows on the move, without having to return to the office or power up a laptop, can all improve the level of patient service, he explained.

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Feb 10

Several market research outfits released a bevy of interesting smartphone data this week, highlighted by the Canalys research group’s finding that a majority of smartphones being shipped now have touchscreens.

According to Canalys’ latest report, touchscreen phones accounted for 55% of the 54.5 million smartphone units that shipped in the fourth quarter. Touchscreen smartphone shipments for all of 2009 totaled 75 million, or 45% of the 166 million smartphones shipped throughout the year.

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Feb 09

Lacking 3G in modern smart phones may be seen as a no-no, but there is a large market for mobile phone users who prefer to do bandwidth intensive activities through WiFi access instead of 3G. Considering how often 3G networks get criticized for being slow and congested, it does pay off to just rely on WiFi access.

Another update to
the 8910 is the use of the new BlackBerry Trackpad. While the original Trackball was pretty good, the Trackpad is significantly better. Compared to the analog trackball, the optical trackpad provides a much smoother user input system; the contact and stress free controls will also make it easier on your thumbs.

The 8910 also gets a new spiffy 624 MHz processor. Its fast, compared to the original 512 MHz processor for the old 8900. Judging from the performance of the BlackBerry Bold 9700, the 624 MHz CPU handles the BlackBerry OS quite easily and will deliver smooth visual transition and high refresh rates.

FFC Registration

Early in January this year, Research in Motion filed the registration of the new Curve 8910. The report showed that the Os will be version 5.2.0.25_5.0.0.360. While we all know that the phone would most certainly have Bluetooth, the filing clearly shows that the upcoming device is indeed the Curve 8910.

More About the Curve

The Curve series started out in 2007 with the BlackBerry Curve 8300 line. The original device lacked both 3G and WiFi, making it really hard for people to use –despite the high speed of EDGE networks. The phone got a few upgrades in the form of the 8310, 8320, 8330 and 8350i models (each with new functions such as GPS, WiFi and more). The only that was never added to the line is 3G. Two years after the 8300’s launch, the 8520/8530 and the 8900 models were released (2009). The BlackBerry Curve 8910 is the newest addition to the series.

Makers of the BlackBerry

Despite the Blackberry having been around for about eight years now, many people still remember the term Crackberry –coined after the email addiction got from having spent too much time on the original BlackBerry devices sending and receiving emails to their friends.

At a time when CDMA and GSM technology was still in its early to mid stages, Research in Motion has been taking advantage of the new data telecommunications technology. After introducing email to the mobile phone, the company began delivering products and services that mainly targeted the business industry.

Now, RIM is considered as the world leader in business phones. Despite steep competition from Palm and Windows Mobile phones, BlackBerry has always stayed one step ahead of the race with their ergonomic keyboards, stable operating system and business solution software.

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Feb 02

In a busy city life an ordinary white-collar employee also dream for a secretary, but sadly not everyone afford to. Better to chose something practical as smart phone can prove as your Secretary, BlackBerry handset Bold 9700 can prove to be a better choice. The new BlackBerry handset Bold 9700 high-speed processing factory with the launch of online store BlackBerry App World, and individual-based matching allows you to use this phone as a private Super Secretary to help you to handle your business.

The previous generation of the popular BlackBerry Bold 9000, the manufacturers decided to gain another victory to launch a more powerful Bold 9700. The strong new handset comes with a 624MHz processor, in dealing with images, photos and other data the handset posses a very high speed and can transfer anything smoothly.

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Jan 21

Dsstyles has released 2 new Swarovski product line, the Blackberry Swarovski Case and the Nokia Swarovski Case. Dsstyles believe that not only Apple iPhone users want to make their phone unique by carrying with DS. Crystal cases, but also other brand users like Nokia and Blackberry

More than 30% of mobile phone users are now using smart phones and this percentage is predicted to be 50% by year 2011. The internet giant Google is also taking part in the smart phone business by launching its Nexus One.

What we see nowadays is phone users tend to look for something unique and personalized when so many people are using the same phone model. The iPhone 3GS has been sold more than 20,000,000 pieces since launch. You can see this trend clearly by seeing the Google Nexus One mobile phone offering a free engraving service. With the Swarovski cases from Dsstyles, you can always make your phone different from others; you can always catch people’s attention for your bling Swarovski phone case.

As recognized by Swarovski with Crystallized ID: 1522109, each DS. Crystal phone case is featuring over 1,500 pieces of Crystallized Swarovski Elements, each pieces of crystals is hand crafted by our experienced craftsman.

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Jan 15

Dsstyles Announces High Quality LCD Screen Protectors for Various Types of Mobile Phones.

DSstyels’s high quality screen protectors offer the best protection for the LCD screen of your phones. The tough surface of the screen protectors can keep

the LCD screens from unscratched.

They are 100% transparent and allow high clarity of screen display.

Besides, you may face the problem like when you remove the old screen protector, some residue will leave on the screen. Our high quality LCD screen

protectors will remove this problem from your mind.

Every screen protector is designed perfectly to fit every model.
iPhone? BlackBerry? iPod? Nokia? Samsung? LG? Sony Ericsson? Whatever the phone you have, try to find your screen protector here!

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