RIM: BlackBerry apps are more profitable than Android apps
Analysis In Motion executivess took the stage for the duration of BlackBerry DevCon Europe on Tuesday to clear up a few facts about the company’s good results with its BlackBerry App Globe marketplace. RIM’s new CEO Thorsten Heins said BlackBerry App Planet is now house to a lot more than 60,000 applications, which is a fraction of what’s obtainable in the Android Industry or iTunes App Retailer, and that BlackBerry devices are amongst the most well-liked smartphones bought in the United Kingdom. RIM’s vice president of developer relations Alec Saunders also stated that there are 174 million app downloads per month, or about 6 million applications downloaded per day, The Verge reported. Saunders argued that RIM’s BlackBerry App Globe has 43% far more every day downloads per app than Apple’s personal iTunes App Store and he said App World can be much more lucrative as nicely — BlackBerry apps supposedly earn about 40% far more than their Android counterparts, and 13% of BlackBerry developers have created much more than $ 100,000 from their apps. In addition to the app figures, Saunders and Nokia’s head of Qt announced that RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook OS now supports the Qt developer framework, originally intended for Nokia devices.
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RIM giving away BlackBerry PlayBook
Following slashing the price tag of its ailing BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, RIM might now be giving it away for free to developers.
Announced in a tweet by Alec Saunders, RIM’s vice president of developer relations, the offer needs developers to submit their apps to BlackBerry App Planet, speedy wise.
Those wanting to claim their totally free PlayBook require to submit an app by 13 February to qualify.
The subsequent step is to e-mail [email protected] with the name of the app you have submitted to claim a shiny new BlackBerry tablet.
Where’s the small print?
According to a follow-up post on the BlackBerry Developer’s Blog, there will be some as-however-unspecified terms and conditions, but by the time those have been posted, it’s likely that developers will not have a chance to make confident they meet them.
RIM woos Android developers with free PlayBook tablets
At last month’s Consumer Electronics Show, Research in Motion previewed the company’s upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 update, which we exclusively reported would land in mid-February. The anticipated update will give PlayBook users the ability to use Android apps that have been compiled for RIM’s platform, but getting developers on board remains the issue. RIM is taking steps to get the attention of developers, however, and one of the first is to offer free BlackBerry PlayBook tablets to any Android developers that repackages their apps for App World. The promotion was announced by Alec Saunders, the company’s VP of developer relations, with developers having been given until February 13th to submit their applications.
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First BlackBerry London leaked image appears
RIM‘s 2012 roadmap was purportedly leaked recently, and it didn’t look like there was going to be a flood of thrilling hardware flowing out of Waterloo. Of course, no one particular had truly seen any of the company’s as-however-unreleased handsets. Not till now, that is: the all-touch BlackBerry London has been pictured in a leaked presentation slide.
The telephone looks like a quantity Android phones on the market place with its flat black chassis and rounded corners (I’m reminded a tiny of my trusty old HTC Incredible minus the red accents). The London supposedly leaked just before as a dummy unit, even though that version sported a silver face with sharply angled corners like the Porsche Design BlackBerry. When it launches — possibly later this year — the BlackBerry London will function BlackBerry ten. As RIM’s first QNX-powered smartphone, it tends to make good sense that the London takes some design cues from the BlackBerry PlayBook.
I’m going to assume that the phone lying down is also the London, even though there’s either a perspective problem or the designers forgot to pop in the bit of the phone that need to be sticking out past the back of the unit that’s standing up. Otherwise, there’s a second, considerably a lot more stout telephone in the image as nicely.
So, what about the BlackBerry London hardware? The rumor mill claims that RIM is looking at both the TI OMAP5 platform as nicely as Qualcomm’s chips. There’s also a front-facing camera on the slide image, but this is nevertheless just a leaked render for the time becoming. Things could change drastically by the time this phone hits retail shelves, and it could all be down to what RIM’s new CEO considers a “perfect” device that is really ready for sale.
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Apple wins the 2011 smartphone battle, or perhaps Samsung, or maybe RIM…
30 January 2012 12:43 GMT / By Paul Lamkin
The smartphone figures for 2011 are in. Lots of them, in truth, and they do not all correlate exactly. But we’ll ignore that and declare Apple the winner. Really Samsung. Or possibly Study in Motion. Absolutely not Nokia.
Let’s start off at the very starting….
IBM and HTC combine to bring Android to businesses
IBM has teamed up with HTC to try and bring Android handsets to the company sector, which is at the moment dominated by Apple and Blackberry devices.
A series of intelligent company applications have been developed by IBM to run on HTC smartphones and tablets – despite the fact that theoretically they need to be comparatively easy to port to other devices if IBM eyes the larger Android prize.
Targeting the enterprise marketplace is a new direction for HTC, which has only lately begun to shift some focus to the location, as they appear to grow and hit 100-million devices globally.
Make positive you take your tablets
Due to the iPad’s huge good results in the workplace as well as for sofa browsing, improved focus is getting put on Android tablets by producers and developers to acquire a slice of the enterprise pie.
HTC will be searching at new Android tablet and smartphone devices, employing its partnership with IBM to extend appeal to the company market place.
More than a third of recent iPhone buyers came from another mobile platform
Consumer Intelligence Research Partners released a report on Monday revealing new particulars about iPhone users. Amongst these surveyed as element of the firm’s study, 21% of iPhone 4S buyers bought the 64GB model and 36% of new iPhone buyers came from one more platform such as Android, BlackBerry or Windows Telephone. The research firm previously identified that 18% of buyers who bought the iPhone 4S at launch came from another platform. On the web purchases of the device represented 43% of Apple’s total handset sales throughout the iPhone 4S launch, dropping to 33% by the of 2011. The survey also discovered that AT&T, Verizon and Sprint have all maintained steady market place shares relating to iPhone ownership, nonetheless, and the device has apparently helped every single carrier take consumers from other carriers that do not carry the iPhone, such as T-Mobile. CIRP surveyed more than 6,000 buyers who purchased an iPhone between October and December last year.
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Scosche cellCONTROL Blocks Dangerous Cell Phone Use While Driving
January 20th, 2012
This is a single of the stranger tech goods I have seen in a long time. It comes from Scosche and is called cellCONTROL. The notion is that you plug the dongle into the OBD-II port below the dash of any vehicle from 1996 up, and then put an app on your mobile phone. The app and hardware perform in conjunction to guarantee you can’t use the phone even though driving.
Scosche says that when the dongle senses the car moving it will block all sorts of things on the telephone such as texting, e-mail, voice calls, the camera, and a lot more. It is also supposed to still enable voice calls if it detects a handsfree headset. The thought is that it will avoid the driver from making use of the phone and being a hazard or just pissing the rest of us off. Too negative it can’t block idiots that read or put on makeup even though driving too.
I see a couple concerns with the $ 129.95 gadget although. The 1st factor is if you occur to roll your auto and the wheels maintain spinning how would you call for assist? The second is that you have to be operating an app on the mobile for the device to operate, and the third thing is that all the driver has to do is unplug the OBD-II dongle to foil the system (although it will notify you through e-mail if it is removed or deactivated.) The method also does not list iPhone compatibility, even though it functions with Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and other individuals.
