Published on November 22, 2010 by Technology Slice
Nokia N8 Smartphone Has Power Problems – Some customers are reporting that their N8 turned off unexpectedly without any way to turn them back on, or refused to power on at all. “It’s a very small number of phones, we don’t have exact numbers,” company spokesman Tapani Kaskinen said. Advertisement: Story continues below The company [...]
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Published on October 21, 2010 by Technology Slice
7 Inch Screen Enough Says RIM – “We think many customers are getting tired of being told what to think by Apple,” RIM co-chief executive Jim Balsillie said in a blog post responding to the comments made on Monday by Jobs. Jobs, speaking to financial analysts during a conference call, dismissed 7-inch tablets as “tweeners” [...]
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Published on August 6, 2010 by Technology Slice
All New Blackberry Torch – I love my BlackBerry Bold, but over the past year I have become acutely aware that Research in Motion, the Canadian manufacturer of the BlackBerry, needed to touch-enable its handsets and revamp the BlackBerry browser if it wanted to remain relevant in the cut-throat smartphone market. This week RIM delivered [...]
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Published on August 4, 2010 by Technology Slice
Android Getting New Users – Research in Motion’s BlackBerry platform continues to be the number mobile OS in the U.S., but a poll of BlackBerry users showed that about 42 percent of current owners are weighing a switch to iPhone or Android. Overall, RIM has 35 percent of the mobile OS market share in the [...]
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Published on August 1, 2010 by Technology Slice
Blackberry Table To Launch – Research In Motion will introduce a tablet computer in November to compete with Apple Inc’s iPad, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the company’s plans. The Waterloo, Ontario-based maker of the BlackBerry smartpnone will call the device the Blackpad, according to one of the sources.
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