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Articles tagged with: Blackberry and Touchscreen
BlackBerry Torch Carries $171.05 Bill of Materials, iSuppli Teardown Reveals
Research in Motion's new Torch 9800 smart phone carries a Bill of Materials (BOM) of $171.05, according to a dissection and cost model conducted by the Teardown Analysis service at market research firm iSuppli. more
Related Tags: research-in-motion, rim, blackberry-torch, droid-x, radio-frequency, kin, os, power-amplifier, samsung-mobile, qwerty, marvell-technology, renesas, touch-screen, marvell
Limited Awareness of Newest BlackBerry Phone Among Brits
Life for Research In Motion has not been very easy in the past few years since its two heavyweight rivals Apple and Google entered the scene with their increasingly popular iPhone and Android phones. The latest RIM version, the blackberry Torch, will be launched in the US on 12th Aug and rolled out in the UK in a few months. Will this new design help RIM reclaim some of its lost ground? more
Related Tags: research-in-motion, rim, blackberry-torch, os, touch-screen, UK
RIM Shows off New Smartphone - the BlackBerry Torch
Research In Motion (RIM) has shown off its latest phone - the blackberry Torch 9800 smartphone - and is the company's first smartphone to combine a blackberry keyboard with a full touch screen experience. more
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Research in Motion Working on Touchscreen BlackBerry Phone
Research in Motion is reported to be working on a range of new smartphones, including its first touchscreen models. One model is reported to have a slide out keyboard, and runs on a new version of the blackberry operating system and works much like an iPhone, letting users swipe through screens and expand images with their fingers, people close to the company told the Wall Street Journal. more
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Mobile Handset Market Stays Afloat with 258 Million Shipped in 1Q-2009
Despite tough corporate and unemployment news making the headlines, the mobile handset-buying public did not head to the hills during the first quarter of 2009. Handset vendors had shipped 258 million handsets by the end of the quarter. Although that represents an 11% year-over-year decline, the result significantly exceeded the previous forecast of 253.5 million. "Green shoots are sprouting," is how ABI Research vice president Jake Saunders describes the latest figures. more
Related Tags: abi-research, nokia, 3g, tim, , apple, samsung, smartphone, iphone, ericsson, iden, lg, rim, sharp, sonyericsson, feature-phones
Smartphone Market Share Increased Rapidly Worldwide According to AdMob
Mobile advertising agency, AdMob has reported that despite challenging economic conditions, smartphones continued to gain significant market share worldwide over the past six months, rising from 26 percent to 33 percent of hits to its adserver platform in February 2009. more
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Are Smartphones Immune to the Financial Crisis in Western Europe?
The market for Western European converged mobile devices (commonly referred to as smartphones) experienced a good performance in the last quarter of 2008. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 9.3 million units, 25.9% higher than the 7.4 million shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 31.9 million units, 36.1% higher than the 23.5 million units shipped in 2007. more
Related Tags: android, google, t-mobile, 3g, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, sim, iphone, smartphone, samsung, eu, cisco, cisco, apple, itu, vodafone, smartphones, gps, ibm, wind, ericsson, idc, lg, htc, compete, rim, blackberry-storm, blackberry-bold, oem, omnia, operating-system, windows, storm, wave, os, feature-phones, barcelona
Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Down by 5% in Q4 '08
The global economic downturn had a significant impact on the mobile phone industry as worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008, a 4.6 per cent decline from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Manufacturers continued to struggle against low consumer confidence in both emerging and mature markets. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, t-mobile, 3g, nokia, smartphone, samsung, motorola, eu, ict, smartphones, gps, driving, lte, verizon-wireless, ericsson, verizon, gartner, iden, lg, rim, blackberry-storm, reliance, sony, 3, oem, omnia, walkman, storm, music, africa, motorola,
Western European Mobile Phone Market now in Recession
Three consecutive quarters of negative growth have led the Western European mobile phone market into recession. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 53.6 million units in 4Q08, 13.5% lower than the 62 million units shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 190.5 million units in Western Europe, 5.9% lower than the 202.5 million units shipped in 2007. more
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Qualcomm Chips Powering the BlackBerry Storm Smartphone
It isn't a shock that the new blackberry Storm smart phone from Research in Motion (RIM) offers features comparable to Apple's iPhone 3G - including the use of a touchscreen - a first for a RIM product. However, the Storm brings some interesting developments on the inside, such as the inclusion of a Qualcomm baseband chip, according to a teardown conducted by iSuppli. more
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