Category Archives: RIM

News bites – summary of some news tech news in the last 24 hours

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Oppo N1 announced a 5.9 inch android phone with custom rom of the of the box option and a camera that is able to swivel.

Microsoft update the Surface to the Surface 2 and Surface 2 Pro tablet, a tablet nobody wants. Also, lasts year tablet is still being offered for sale. Maybe they have some old stock to clear.

BlackBerry is getting sold. This is probably the real reason BBM got pulled by them.

Tesco launches its own shockingly cheap plastic tablet called Hudl. It is using the same approach as Google and Amazon to learn more about you and your purchasing habits.

LG launched the LG VU 3. A 4:3 screen aspect ratio, 5.2-inch IPS display with a 1280 x 960 resolution, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, and a 13-megapixel camera. This phone is too wide to hold comfortably.

Blackberry has been sold – breaking info

RIM, Tech News

Blackberry has agreed in principle to be bought by a consortium led by Fairfax Financial for $4.7bn (£3bn).

Blackberry said in statement that Fairfax, its largest shareholder with about 10% of the stock, had offered $9 a share in cash to buy the company.

Trading in Blackberry shares was temporarily halted in New York pending the announcement.

BlackBerry in trouble

RIM, Tech News

40% of its staff to be laid off. Sale rumours rampant.

BlackBerry Messenger for iOS and android gets released. Then demand for android too great for its network so pulls app and service. 

Blackberry may end up in different owners hands in a few months. In may survive. It may get asset stripped.

But if hardware is no longer a viable option it’s software could be it’s saviour. Having capacity issues though does not help along with pulling the android app. 

What will the future be? 

BlackBerry BBM Inc

RIM, Tech News

BlackBerry is on the verge of finally releasing BlackBerry Messenger for the iPhone and Android devices acording to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. The Journal on Tuesday reported that BlackBerry is considering spinning its BlackBerry Messenger division off into a separate company called “BBM Inc.” that would operate as a BlackBerry subsidiary with more independence than it currently has.

The company is also once again considering expanding BBM beyond BlackBerry, iOS and Android devices to desktop computers, according to the report.

Seems like software services is the future for BlackBerry instead of hardware. Especially after the poor sales of the Q10.

Less than 7 days to go for the next huge wave of new phone announcements

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Get ready for the start of silly season. Within the next 7 days, the amount of new smartphone announcements is going to explode. Expect every manufacturer to reveal their lineup for the last quarter of the year, and then on 10th September, Apple will reveal all its new iPhones. Later on in September, Nokia and Google will reveal their hands too with new phones. And don’t forget Amazon. New Kindle tablets, but will they launch their first smartphone this year!

What I will try to do is consolidate the new phones releases into concise readable chunks, with my view on each new phone. Who knows, I might even review a few of them too.

Rumours of the new range of Nokia smartphones including a Phablet

RIM, Windows

Nokia is rumoured to be releasing a range of new handsets, that are quad core 1080p screens.

First up is a six-inch phablet with a 1080p display. Code name is Bandit but likely to be called Lumia 1520. This will be launched end of September and feature a 20mp camera to combat Sony’s new Z1 (Homami) which will also have a 20mp camera.

So apart from Bandit, Nokia is reportedly developing hardware bearing the names Lanai, Orion, Pegasus, Rivendell, Shorty, and Siruis.

Your guess is as good as mine as to what these other phones will feature.