A Tale Of Two BlackBerrys: How The Bold & The Storm Are Faring So Far
By Susan Nunziata
This month saw two prominent BlackBerry product launches, the BlackBerry Bold from AT&T -- which uses a traditional QWERTY keypad -- and the touchscreen BlackBerry Storm from Verizon.
Both phones garnered a good deal of excitement when announced.
The Bold was premiered back in May 2008 but didn't go on sale in the U.S. until Election Day, Nov. 4. In the interim, reports surfaced about delays and products being pulled off the shelves in other markets.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
RIM Shares drop last week!
Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) was last week’s loss leader down 5.2 percent. While MySpace and RIM shattered download records with 400,000 downloads of Blackberry smart phone applications, little could be down to settle analysts concerns regarding OS problems on the new Blackberry Storm.
Nortel (NYSE: NT) saw the week’s biggest gain of 35.7 percent, but also the months biggest loss at 1.3 percent. The stock is trading well below a dollar and is still listed as a hold by many analysts.
State of the smart
With 2008 drawing to a close, Icon's experts recap an eventful and entertaining year in technology.
MOBILE PHONES
iPhone. That's just about all you need to say about mobile phones in 2008 because almost every newsworthy development seemed to hinge on Apple's sexy smartphone.
There was the local launch of the device itself, which saw queues stretching around the blocks on a chilly mid-winter morning in July. There was the subsequent meltdown of Optus's 3G network, as iPhone users attracted by the carrier's best-in-class deals swarmed onto the airwaves and choked the 3G channels with their browsing and downloading.
Even the launch of other mobile phones was often seen through the iPhone filter. Did it have a touchscreen? Was it an "iPhone killer"? Nokia, Samsung, LG and HTC all lined up to release their own touchphones.
This month we'll even see a touchscreen BlackBerry in the shape of the BlackBerry Storm, although the August launch of the more conventional BlackBerry Bold created plenty of excitement among the mobile email community.
But the real game-changer will be the next generation of mobile phones powered by Google's Android operating system. The first of these touched down in November in the US, and plenty are sure to follow next year. The reason? Android is freely available to any mobile phone manufacturer and leverages Google's free suite of internet services, such as email, news, searching and maps.
LAPTOPS
The computing tables turned in 2008 as laptops outsold desktop PCs for the first time. Driven by the lure of portability and go-anywhere computing, and buoyed by wireless access to the internet through public Wi-Fi hotspots and high-speed 3G networks, laptops are expected to eventually hold two-thirds of the overall computer market.
Most of the action is happening at the smaller and slimmer end of the scale, with Intel cooking up tiny superchips to suit. The aptly named Atom processor, for example, can pack two million transistors into the full stop at the end of this line.
The Atom is the powerplant of "netbooks" - those compact Lilliputian laptops with screens about 23 centimetres and price tags hovering at the $700 mark. This year saw almost every major notebook manufacturer release at least one netbook model and already the range is diversifying to include models with larger screens (now up to 30 centimetres, in the case of Dell's Inspiron Mini 12) and stylishly thin designs (such as Asus's Eee PC S101).
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MOBILE PHONES
iPhone. That's just about all you need to say about mobile phones in 2008 because almost every newsworthy development seemed to hinge on Apple's sexy smartphone.
There was the local launch of the device itself, which saw queues stretching around the blocks on a chilly mid-winter morning in July. There was the subsequent meltdown of Optus's 3G network, as iPhone users attracted by the carrier's best-in-class deals swarmed onto the airwaves and choked the 3G channels with their browsing and downloading.
Even the launch of other mobile phones was often seen through the iPhone filter. Did it have a touchscreen? Was it an "iPhone killer"? Nokia, Samsung, LG and HTC all lined up to release their own touchphones.
This month we'll even see a touchscreen BlackBerry in the shape of the BlackBerry Storm, although the August launch of the more conventional BlackBerry Bold created plenty of excitement among the mobile email community.
But the real game-changer will be the next generation of mobile phones powered by Google's Android operating system. The first of these touched down in November in the US, and plenty are sure to follow next year. The reason? Android is freely available to any mobile phone manufacturer and leverages Google's free suite of internet services, such as email, news, searching and maps.
LAPTOPS
The computing tables turned in 2008 as laptops outsold desktop PCs for the first time. Driven by the lure of portability and go-anywhere computing, and buoyed by wireless access to the internet through public Wi-Fi hotspots and high-speed 3G networks, laptops are expected to eventually hold two-thirds of the overall computer market.
Most of the action is happening at the smaller and slimmer end of the scale, with Intel cooking up tiny superchips to suit. The aptly named Atom processor, for example, can pack two million transistors into the full stop at the end of this line.
The Atom is the powerplant of "netbooks" - those compact Lilliputian laptops with screens about 23 centimetres and price tags hovering at the $700 mark. This year saw almost every major notebook manufacturer release at least one netbook model and already the range is diversifying to include models with larger screens (now up to 30 centimetres, in the case of Dell's Inspiron Mini 12) and stylishly thin designs (such as Asus's Eee PC S101).
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
OBAMA TRYING TO KEEP HIS BLACKBERRY
IN THE NEWS: OBAMA TRYING TO KEEP HIS BLACKBERRY
CHICAGO (AP) - Not so fast on the idea that President-elect Barack Obama will have to give up his BlackBerry once he takes the oath as president. In his TV interview yesterday with Barbara Walters, Obama says he is still trying to find a way to hang on to his mobile communications device. Some security experts have noted that any e-mail sent to or from Obama would be subject to public scrutiny or even a subpoena. And there's concern that having celluar contact might be subject to snooping -- or having his whereabouts tracked. For Obama, his biggest concern is to keep from being isolated from everyone except those in his inner circle. He says "1 of the worst things" that can happen to a president is to lose touch with what people are going through in their day-to-day lives.
CHICAGO (AP) - Not so fast on the idea that President-elect Barack Obama will have to give up his BlackBerry once he takes the oath as president. In his TV interview yesterday with Barbara Walters, Obama says he is still trying to find a way to hang on to his mobile communications device. Some security experts have noted that any e-mail sent to or from Obama would be subject to public scrutiny or even a subpoena. And there's concern that having celluar contact might be subject to snooping -- or having his whereabouts tracked. For Obama, his biggest concern is to keep from being isolated from everyone except those in his inner circle. He says "1 of the worst things" that can happen to a president is to lose touch with what people are going through in their day-to-day lives.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
TiVo and Blackberry
By the end of the year, a TiVo suite will be released that will allow Blackberry users to view electronic program guides (EPGs) and schedule recordings.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
How to install MySpace for Blackberry
More than 400,000 users downloaded the MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application so far!
Of course these instructions assume that you already have a MySpace account.
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Of course these instructions assume that you already have a MySpace account.
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