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Verizon BlackBerry Storm Review

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone

It’s always hard to find the truth when there is so much hype.  Reviewers tend to put down devices if they get too much media and start niggling over problems. Since the touch screen is new, they find that it takes time to get used to it, while one notes that he loves it. One reviewer lost patience and said that although he was excited about the BlackBerry Storm, it has too many bugs and buyers should "wait out the storm."

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Early spied BlackBerry Thunder photo

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone

Enough with the iPhone frenzy news? Blackberry answer to iPhone maybe your next choice.

And, to make sure the world isn’t so caught up in iPhone hype that they forget about the rest of the smartphone industry’s touchscreen offerings, it seems that RIM has let a few pictures of their highly anticipated BlackBerry Thunder handset.

A quick refresher - the BlackBerry Thunder will be toting RIM’s new BlackBerry OS - BlackBerry OS 4.7 - and a localized haptic feedback system that vibrates a specific region of touch-input rather than vibrating the entirely device. 

via IntoMobile

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Choosing the best Smartphones going to hard

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, PDA, Smartphone, Trend Watch & News, Windows Mobile

The 3G iPhone is nearly with us - but will its touchscreen technology make it the smartphone market leader?

It’s three weeks until the 3G iPhone is available - and rivals are already pointing to their own advantages over it. If you’re looking to buy a smartphone, how do you choose between them? The first question is not so much whether you need or want a particular smartphone, but whether the word “smartphone” is itself a red herring. Manufacturers are very particular: a smartphone, they’ll tell you, has an open operating system that lets you add applications. If a phone doesn’t have that, but has email, a touchscreen and other bells and whistles, then it’s a “feature phone”. (Quite where the iPhone, which can only add applications that Apple has approved, fits isn’t obvious.)

Still, what’s definitely coming this summer is a battle of the touchscreen phones. Apple, through marketing if nothing else, is leading the charge but Samsung, RIM (the BlackBerry people) and HTC are there as well. LG is keen not to be seen competing with smartphones, but its Secret model has a perfectly good touchscreen and media player capability.

Consumer demand

But do people want touchscreens? The launch of the original iPhone, at least in the UK, must cast some doubt on that - on the launch day the queues didn’t stretch around the streets as they did in the US, although the initial order did sell out. Tony Cripps, an analyst with the consultants Ovum, cautiously believes there’s a demand. “What people want is an easier way of interacting with their phones and devices generally. As long as a touchscreen is allied to a well-designed user interface, they can go a long way to making this happen.”

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Blackberry Thunder a touch spied

Posted by admin | Category: Mobile Phone, Smartphone

According to Boy Genius Report - which seems to get all the good leads, the brand new Touche-screen Blackberry will look like this.

It will be available in the US on Verizon and possibly on Vodafone sometimes in the future; the keypad is gone - either love it or hate it - but the screen is what possibly sets it apart from others (as well as the lack of any visible distraction).
The Thunder will have a camera, a USB port and hopefully a 3.5-inch Headset jack; No confirmed release dates although Q3 availability will be a safe bet.
How will Blackberry aficionados react to the absent of the keyboard? Will RIM do some compromises when it comes to adapting its User Interface to a Touchscreen environment? Will there be a version with a slide-out / slider keyboard? Stay tune for more…

Source [ itportal & BGR ]

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Blackberry Bold, iPhone-like with 3G

Posted by admin | Category: Mobile Phone

Research in Motion’s (RIMM) new BlackBerry Bold should be a big hit with IT operations professionals convinced the iPhone isn’t an enterprise-class mobile device but driven to near-aneurysm by discontented employees demanding them.

The device is largely as expected–an iPhonish-looking thing with both GPS and Wi-Fi, 1GB of permanent flash memory, a 2-megapixel camera, full HTML browsing, 3G support on GSM networks with HSDPA access and, of course, the BlackBerry’s one-trick killer app: instant, secure email. That’s a compelling combination for business users and casual ones not easily swayed by the iPhone’s hype juggernaut as well. Indeed, Citigroup analyst Jim Suva says it could boost RIM’s quarterly shipments by 200,000 to 400,000.

But perhaps not without a bit of struggle. The BlackBerry Bold won’t ship until as late as August, which means Apple (AAPL) could beat it to market with the enterprise-friendly 3G iPhone it’s rumored to be uncrating at its Worldwide Developer’s Conference in June. Which has got to worry RIM. After all, the first-generation iPhone had claimed a 28% market share by the fourth quarter of 2007. That’s still less than the BlackBerry, which holds about a 41% market share, but the iPhone hasn’t even been on the market a year.

[digitaldaily.allthingsd]

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Palm OS is going history?

Posted by admin | Category: Smartphone, Trend Watch & News

Recently, an editor from pcworld James A. Martin was talking to an executive at a smart phone software developer. The company had recently released new versions of its software for RIM BlackBerrys, Windows Mobile Smartphones, and other devices–but not for Palm OS smart phones. he asked why.

"It’s a dying platform," she replied, matter-of-factly.

Her reaction wasn’t surprising, given Palm’s long, slow slide from top PDA maker to third-tier smart phone vendor. There’s been uncertainty about the Palm OS’s future for years. Palm Treos running  Windows Mobile became available in January 2006. And Palm has been developing a new, as-of-this-writing-unreleased Linux-based OS for what feels like an eternity.

Still, the software executive’s comment aroused mixed feelings.

In short, he got a strong urge to stray from my Treo  and no doubt many of you have felt similar urges–and even acted upon them.

What You Get

Does that mean it’s time to ditch our Palm devices? Not necessarily. Here are four reasons why Palm OS smart phones are still worth owning.

1. The Treo Touch Screen Isn’t Too ‘Touchy.’ The iPhone/iPod Touch screen is gorgeous, bright, and big, by smart phone standards. But it can be a bit too "touchy." For instance, on my iPod Touch I’ve often clicked accidentally on an e-mail and opened it when I was simply trying to scroll through the list of messages. The more I use the iPod Touch for e-mail, the less it happens, but still, it’s annoying. The iPhone/iPod Touch screen also makes it a bit too easy to accidentally click a link on a Web page. I’ve rarely had these problems with the Treo’s touch screen.

By the way, current BlackBerrys don’t have touch screens, though there have been rumors that a touch-screen BlackBerry is on the way.

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