Although it’s behind in terms of release and technology, RIM (Research In Motion) is seemingly catching up, and some new perusing has netted two new patents for the BlackBerry line.
An analyst hinted at the release of two new devices, one of which features a touch screen, much like the iPhone. Of the two devices, one is titled ‘Touchscreen 1.0′, which obviously features a touch screen, and it was said that it features a rollaway keyboard featuring the BlackBerry’s usual QWERTY interface.
The other device, Pearl 2.0 (note: these are not official names, just notes on the patents) is noted to be much like the original Pearl, but with a numeric keyboard that can rotate 90 degrees.
“We believe that the next two generation BlackBerry devices will offer some interesting hardware enhancements that are positioned to target two markets; the touch screen and feature phone segment of the handset market,” says Ray Sharma, Analyst at GMP Securities.
Since these are patents, there is no scheduled release date, but signs would likely point to mid-2008 — just in time to take on the 3G iPhone.
Thanks: Globe and Mail
Written by patrick on December 20th, 2007 with no comments.
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Mobile advertising marketplace AdMob released some new stats of the ads its network has shown in November 2007. AdMob only deals with mobile ads, so these stats do give a rough idea of how popular the iPhone is as a mobile internet browsing platform.
In the US iPhone took 0.9% of shown ads inventory marketshare. These are some really good results, considering that there’s not that many iPhones around — yet.
And in the UK iPhone took a respectable 0.3%, despite having been launched there very recently.
At the same time the leaders when it comes to shown ads impressions in each of AdMob’s top markets are: Motorola KRZR in the USA, Nokia 6030 in India, Motorola v360 in South Africa, and Sony Ericsson K800i in the UK. And the iPhone still has a long way catching up to them.
Although, considering how fast the process is going for iPhone’s Safari browser’s global market share, we could just see the iPhone leading these charts soon enough.
Thanks: Mobile Entertainment
Written by dennis on December 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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Mobile advertising marketplace AdMob released some new stats of the ads its network has shown in November 2007. AdMob only deals with mobile ads, so these stats do give a rough idea of how popular the iPhone is as a mobile internet browsing platform.
In the US iPhone took 0.9% of shown ads inventory marketshare. These are some really good results, considering that there’s not that many iPhones around — yet.
And in the UK iPhone took a respectable 0.3%, despite having been launched there very recently.
At the same time the leaders when it comes to shown ads impressions in each of AdMob’s top markets are: Motorola KRZR in the USA, Nokia 6030 in India, Motorola v360 in South Africa, and Sony Ericsson K800i in the UK. And the iPhone still has a long way catching up to them.
Although, considering how fast the process is going for iPhone’s Safari browser’s global market share, we could just see the iPhone leading these charts soon enough.
Thanks: Mobile Entertainment
Written by dennis on December 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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In just four months since its release Apple’s iPhone became the #2 most sold handheld platform in North America, according to stats collected by Canalys and (surprisingly) released by one of Apple’s rivals, Symbian.
According to the stats, Apple is currently selling more mobiles than the whole Windows Mobile platform combined. Additionally it beats Symbian, Linux, and Palm OS operated phones, but is still lagging behind RIM’s BlackBerry that is currently holding the #1 spot.
It needs to be noted that Canalys evaluated sales figures across whole North America — including such countries as Canada and Mexico where the iPhone is not officialy out yet, and such USA states as Vermont, Alaska, and the Dakotas where the iPhone is not available either. And a recent NDP retail sales report since to collaborate this information, placing iPhone’s share at 27% of all sold handsets.
Thanks: Roughly Drafted
Written by dennis on December 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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A new unnamed Chinese sort-of-iPhone-fake is a combination of the Apple iPhone and Sony Ericsson P1i. The touchscreen’s resolution (400×240) is a little bit lower than that of an iPhone. The Chinese product also offers Bluetooth connectivity.
Under the screen there are four control buttons that make it look similar to a SonyEricsson product.
It has got a 1.3 Megapixel camera, whose resolution is not any more impressive than that of the touch screen, although it it has also got a secondary camera.
The arrangement of icons makes it look similar to the genuine Apple’s product.
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Thans: www.itechnews.net
Written by Krzysztof on December 16th, 2007 with no comments.
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