By altering the name to BlackBerry, the company formerly known as RIM shows greater brand-awareness. The average person on the street doesn’t know what RIM is, but even with the market loss to iPhones and Android devices, BlackBerry is still a household term. While the name change does little to help with the image of BlackBerry […]
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On The Cheap: Amazon’s Annual Wireless Sale Disappoints
For the last two years, Amazon Wireless has been the best place to go to score cutting edge cellphones during the big holiday shopping season. A few years ago,the online retailing giant had every single smartphone for a penny, including then-$199 top of the line devices. Amazon has gone live with a “4G phones for […]
What’s With All The Doubting Thomases In The Church Of Steve?
Anyone who’s been following Apple events for a while is familiar with the concept of the “Reality Distortion Field“. For the uninitiated, the term referred to celebrity CEO Steve Jobs’s ability to make you believe what he wanted you to. The phrase has been used to praise Jobs’s charisma and equally used to imply something […]
RIM And The BlackBerry Dying, BB10 Not Sweet Enough For Developers
RIM (Research in Motion) is dying. That’s been evident since the release of the iPhone by Apple all the way back in 2007. Instead of immediately going to work on a new platform to compete with the iOS enemy, RIM insisted physical keyboards were the way to go and that touchscreens were a fad. Even […]
When Choosing A New Phone, What’s A WebOS User To Do?
I’m a diehard webOS user. My TouchPad is my daily workhorse, and I love the thing. Until a few weeks ago, I was still using my Palm Pre+ (hacked to run on Sprint). However, a recent contract change added Sprint’s $10 data access fee. As much as I love my Pre, I am not not […]
Bad Day For Blackberry Lovers (Updated)
Some people have accused this blog of being a bit unfair to RIM. This could not be further from the truth. I write about the makers of the once-ubiquitous Blackberry because I want to see them return to greatness, and I hate seeing them make obvious missteps. Having sat through the death of Palm, I […]
Angry Birds Invades RIM Playbook, Continues Platform Domination
If star of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds Tippi Hedren has a mobile device, she must be freaking out right now, because there’s no escaping from Angry Birds! The omnipresent game from Rovio is now even available on the RIM PlayBook, with the original game as well as the Rio and Seasons variations going for $4.99 each. That means […]
Is This the End Of The Blackberry?
Blackberry maker RIM has had a rough year with an evaporating market share, a plummeting stock price, the failure of their first tablet, and a nearly unending stream of media criticism. Blackberry fans have been holding out hope that Blackberry OS 7 will tide them over until the first BBX phones arrive next year, but […]
The High Price Of Cheap Tablets
We’ve seen some impressive price drops on tablets this year. I’m not just talking about the explosive launch of Amazon’s Kindle Fire, $300 cheaper than the industry-leading iPad. Some of the biggest splashes have been made by tablets that foolishly set their retail prices in iPad territory, when they didn’t have the hardware, software, or […]
Android’s OS On Your Smartphone No Guarantee Of Reliability
According to V.P. of Marketing Tim Deluca-Smith at wireless service firm WDS, “Android is a bit of the Wild West” when it comes to handset reliability. Their recent study covering 600,000 technical support calls they took from customers in America, South Africa, Australia, and Europe shows higher percentages of hardware failures in various Android phones […]