Posts Tagged ‘research in motion’

RumourMill: Expansys springs another leak

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

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Once again, that favourite online leaker, sorry online reseller has done it again by pre-announcing yet another phone by opening up its ordering. This time around it’s Samsung, with their BlackBerry-esque C6625 and way before it’s even been confirmed as an actual phone by the vendor.

It’s as if they’re not even trying anymore or not even caring, either way it’s still amusing that they’re still in business and are still being spoken to by phone manufacturers.

Pre-empting what’s going to be unveiled in Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress is apparently this new phone, looking rather like a BlackBerry of yesteryear. With Research In Motion seeming to be backing away from their bread and butter of decent, proven, established sole email devices and into a more consumer based model seen in their Storm and candy bar phones there’s now room for others to be moving in to that space.

The leak brought to our attention by WMPoweruser, has this tri-band, full QWERTY keyboard based handset with a 2.6-inch screen coming in at £249.99.

At this point in the lead up to MWC, we’ll have written up all the product announcements by this time next week if the amount of leaks coming out thick and fast stay at the same pace. All we’ll have to do then for three days is just eat Tapas and then wait for what’s to be announced at CTIA Wireless 2009, in Las Vegas in April.

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BlackBerry sell 50 million handsets

Friday, February 6th, 2009

In news we almost missed this week, Research In Motion came out with their figures from the last quarter with some other interesting stats that we thought we’d bring you.

An email wandered past our already massively cluttered desk this week with a mammoth of Mobile World Congress invites. This was on the subject of those Blackest of Berry handset people, just rounding up what’s been happening of late. We’re expecting not a great deal of news from them at Mobile World Congress this year, so whatever bones they’re throwing out right now we’re happy to bark over.

Last month, with this month being February of course, those Canadian phone makers shipped their 50th million email device. A milestone that did take 25 years to reach, since they were founded that long long ago and have really only been in the BlackBerry business for the last 10 of those. Can others make so bolder claim to that larger number? We think not, so the belittling and humour shall endeth here.

Other stats they presented that we weren’t aware of and made us utter the words ‘really?’ and ‘cool’ are as follows; there’s around 21million active BlackBerry users in the world right now with RIM’s backend handling around 3 petabytes of data a month. That’s a lot of data, a lot of a lot of data, about 3072 terabytes of information. Quite a vast number, when you think that Google handles around 20 petabytes of data each and every day.

During the last quarter alone RIM shipped close to the princely figure of 6.7 million devices. A nice sum, but we’re wondering if the Storm really did tipped those scales or not as the case may be *cough*

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RIM announces its first ever Flip

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the popular mobile phone brand BlackBerry, have today announced their first flip-open phone, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone. The phone has been in the news for quite a while now, with all the publications dubbing it as the ‘kickstart 8220‘. 

The phone is a quad-band EDGE based smartphone that boasts two color displays - the internal with a 240 x 320 LCD screen while the external LCD is capable of previewing incoming emails, text messages and phone calls. The Pearl Flip is Wi-Fi enabled for faster browsing and comes with an interesting feature - Speaker Independent Voice Recognition (SIVR) for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD). Like most other smartphones in the market, the phone has the usual features built into it.

USA’s T-Mobile will be the exclusive carrier of the phone, with other carriers around the globe getting the phone soon.

Personally, I’d prefer the bold than the flip.

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India counting down to BlackBerry ban?

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

If you’ve got a BlackBerry, you might want to hold off taking it on holiday to India for a while. According to Reuters, representatives from the country’s mobile operators are meeting with government officials to discuss the possible security implications around RIM’s mobile email service. Apparently, the government is so concerned, the idea of a BlackBerry ban has been floated.

Reuters add that Indian security agencies want RIM to provide the government with all the necessary algorithms to break the encryption used by the BlackBerry, while The Business Standard suggests that if the algorithms aren’t delivered, RIM could find itself cut off from the end of March.

It’s not the first time RIM has found itself under the microscope over security concerns and even threatened with a ban, but this is thought to be the first time that it’s been asked to hand over its encryption keys. It’ll be interesting to see whether RIM would rather hand over the goods or keep its crown jewels safe and face being locked out of a massive market.

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