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We just picked up on this over at BerryReview…
Is this the official Research in Motion BlackBerry Storm Announcement?
The upcoming BlackBerry® Storm™ is the first touch screen BlackBerry smartphone from Research In Motion and it builds upon a variety of existing BlackBerry features and capabilities to produce a truly compelling touch experience. With the BlackBerry Storm, RIM will introduce a version of software (v4.7) that delivers a new set of APIs and capabilities for third party developers including:
1) Enhancements to the existing RIM User Interface APIs to provide support for touch and gestures including proper handling of multi-touch events.
2) Support for MIDP applications that leverage touch.
3) Virtual keyboard APIs
4) Enhanced and open GPS APIs on all networks
In addition to the new API capabilities, your Browser-based applications will build upon the browser capabilities released in v4.6.0 including:
For third party developers, one of the unique features of the BlackBerry Storm is its compatibility mode which provides an operating environment for existing 3rd party applications that are not implemented to support touch. This feature will automatically convert the touch events into existing trackball events. When an application is executing in compatibility mode, a virtual keyboard will be shown at all times for text input to mimic the physical keyboard on previous devices and will only support portrait mode.
- Improved web page rendering including AJAX
- XMLHttpRequest
- JavaScript® 1.5
- CSS 2.1
- DOM L2 (including Core, HTML, Style, Events)
- HTML 4.01 (including Forms, Maps, Tables, Frames, Objects)
- Improved Native Attachment Download
- Support for downloading files via the browser
Key Features
- Screen Resolution: 480×360
- Virtual Keyboard: SureType (Portrait Mode) and Full Keyboard (Landscape Mode)
- Networking: Global network support (2G/3G)
- Memory: Embedded Memory
For all BlackBerry Alliance partners, RIM will be providing access to developer documentation, the BlackBerry Java Development Environment (JDE) v4.7 and the BlackBerry Storm simulator in October to enable development and testing of your applications on this new and compelling smartphone.
Written by Robb Dunewood on September 29th, 2008 with 4 comments.
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Research in Motion just reported 2nd quarter results for fiscal year 09 , and, to make a long story short, they had an “extraordinary” quarter.
Revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2009 was $2.58 billion, up 15% from $2.24 billion in the previous quarter and up 88% from $1.37 billion in the same quarter of last year. The revenue breakdown for the quarter was approximately 82% for devices, 13% for service, 3% for software and 2% for other revenue. During the quarter, RIM shipped approximately 6.1 million devices.
Read the full press release here…
Written by Robb Dunewood on September 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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Australian telecommunication giant Telstra is the first carrier to offer the BlackBerry Bold in in the land “Down Under”. The Telstra BlackBerry Bold has a suggested retail price of $999 but will be subsidized significantly (some rumors say $0 up front) with a 2-year plan which starts at $89.95 per month.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on August 18th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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The BG does it again, this time getting his hands on the ‘08′ - ‘09′ Sprint roadmap which tells us the that a new iDEN bearing BlackBerry called the BlackBerry 8350i that supports Nextel Direct Connect will appear in Q4.
Written by Robb Dunewood on August 13th, 2008 with 7 comments.
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Krussel just put out a marketing release with the top-10 selling mobile phones and not a single BlackBerry made the list. This wasn’t completely unexpected as Research in Motion didn’t release any new BlackBerry devices in July.
I’ll bet you can guess which mobile phone topped this list. Here is the entire list in case you are wondering about 2 through 9…
1. (1) Apple Iphone
2. (5) Nokia 3109
3. (3) Nokia E51
4. (4) Nokia 6300
5. (-) Sony Ericsson C902
6. (-) Sony Ericsson C702
7. (7) Nokia N95 8 GB
8. (8) Sony Ericsson K810i
9. (9) Sony Ericsson K530i
10. (6) LG KU990
() = Last month’s position.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on August 8th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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In an interesting if not odd move, Nokia has asked all of their Nokia Eseries customers using BlackBerry Connect to move fully over to the BlackBerry and to stop buying devices from Nokia.
I guess that this isn’t exactly what Nokia said, but, they did stop supporting BlackBerry Connect and even said that RIM is now a competitor.
RIM are a competitor and have done a reasonable job in a space that is traditionally ours, so it’s no great surprise that we see this as an opportunity to give consumers a proper choice on what email solution they want.
Now, I know that Nokia is a giant handset manufacturer, especially outside of the United States, however, this move all but ensures that they will never again sell a device to a business user in the U.S. that works for a company that has standardized on BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on July 30th, 2008 with 3 comments.
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NTT DoCoMo today announced that it will launch BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) in Japan on August 1st allowing individual BlackBerry users not connected to a corporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server to connect directly to the internet.
BlackBerry Internet Service will run NTT DoCoMo users about $30 per month.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on July 7th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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A Rogers BlackBerry Roadmap has made its way onto the web and we now have approximations as to when the BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry KickStart, and BlackBerry Javelin will hit the street.
We can only assume that these devices will hit American carriers around the same time. Time, however, will definitely tell…
Written by Robb Dunewood on July 7th, 2008 with no comments.
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It looks like we North Americans aren’t the only ones that think that employees should be compensated for BlackBerry use. 13,000 BT employees have banded together and decided to work only 36 hour weeks as well as turn off their BlackBerrys in a BlackBerry Strike of sorts after work hours in lieu of going on strike.
BT Connect users are seeking equal pay and changes to pay differentials, ranges, and progression and feel like they are being short changed when asked to user BlackBerry devices outside of regular business hours without compensation.
BT Connect members expect that their contracted 36-hour work weeks will end on Thursday. Union members will go home after they’ve worked their 36 hours as well as switch off their BlackBerrys in an effort to show BT just how much productivity is lost if employee doesn’t work outside contracted hours.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on June 24th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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