Analyst Gene Munster surveyed 216 mobile phone users in Minneapolis, MN about smartphones. While this is not a very reliable report (due to the low number of users surveyed), this does put a picture in our minds what the average mobile phone users might be thinking.
PRNewswire conducted a survey in the U.S., and concluded Apple iOS to be the most popular operating system in the smartphone market.
Permalink: iOS Most Popular Operating System, Android Still Behind, Windows Phone Beats BlackBerry [Report]
Here’s a pleasant surprise for all the optimistic BlackBerry PlayBook owners out there. A beta build of Android App Player for PlayBook has been leaked and is now available for download. It was found inside the Desktop Manager update and is reported to be working just as it supposed it. Go ahead, download and put it on your beloved PlayBook via the following links.
Permalink: Download Android App Player For BlackBerry PlayBook [Leaked]
The telecommunications company Nortel’s patents have now been sold to the Rockstar Consortium which includes Apple, Microsoft, Sony and Research In Motion after U.S. and Canada courts approved the transaction.
Permalink: Nortel Patents Now Officialy Sold To Apple, Microsoft, Sony and RIM
Recently, we were given the opportunity to get our hands on a BlackBerry Torch, white model, thanks to HomeShopping.pk. Since we are all iPhone and Android users here at iTD, it was a completely new and exciting experience to try out the device and the OS which was completely alien to us. While we wont go deep down into the OS because a lot of things need BlackBerry services to work, you can read our impressions after the break.
Permalink: BlackBerry Torch (white) Review
Research In Motion (RIM) has made it official that they will be releasing their first tablet called the BlackBerry PlayBook on April 19th with a price tag starting at $499 in United States and Canada. It features a brilliant 7″ high-res capacitative mulit-touch display with a highly responsive fluid touch screen experience. It also offers unmatched web browsing on any mobile platform with full support for Flash 10.1 as well as true multitasking, HD multimedia content, advanced security features and much more. It is now available for pre-order at Best Buy.
Permalink: BlackBerry PlayBook Releasing On April 19th For $499, Available For Pre-Order Now!
Smartphone Coasters are a simple yet very useful idea. Smartphone Coasters are stainless steel stands that support your phone, no matter which brand it is, in both vertical and horizontal positions. Rarely do phones come with kickstands so these stands come in handy when you want to use your Smartphone as a large clock or with any app that has a dashboard UI. But the best use for these stands is when you want to watch videos. These stands are way better than holding your phone in a certain position for an hour or so.
Permalink: Smartphone Coasters Make Great Stands for your Phone
RIM’s 7-inch PlayBook is due to arrive in the first quarter of 2011 for under $500 putting it at a competitive price to fight against the iPad. For how long the PlayBook will remain at that price is still unknown.
Permalink: BlackBerry PlayBook to cost less than $500 – Should iPad be worried?
New data from Canalys shows that iPhone was the best selling smartphone in the third quarter of 2010, controlling 26.2 percent of the market, but with the amount of phones now running Google’s Android, it represents a combined 43.6 percent.
Permalink: iPhone tops US smartphone sales but Android controls 44%
Yesterday at BlackBerry’s Annual Developers Conference, Research in Motion CEO Mike Lazaridis announced the company’s new tablet — the PlayBook.
The tablet is set to run a new OS called QNX which offers full OpenGL and POSIX support alongside web standards such as HTML5. Lazaridis was joined on stage by the company’s founder, Dan Dodge, who said that “QNX is going to enable things that you have never seen before,” and added that the PlayBook would be “an incredible gaming platform for publishers and the players.” RIM also touted the PlayBook’s ability to handle Flash content via Flash 10.1, as well as Adobe AIR apps.
Permalink: Introducing BlackBerry PlayBook – BlackBerry’s Attempt at beating the iPad
