Research in Motion has released the BlackBerry Feedback Tool to members of the BlackBerry Beta Zone.
The new feedback tool offers direct access to send feedback for any Research In Motion developed application from within each app. The feedback can be specific to that application or if you just happen to think of something, you can choose the option of general feedback. This information allows Research In Motion to identify trends in issues that users may be seeing. With the collective information being reviewed, they can act more quickly in resolving any issues that arise.
The BlackBerry Feedback Tool is available only to BlackBerry Beta Zone members. If you aren’t a member, but, would like to join, you can sign up over on the BlackBerry Beta Zone site.
At WES2010 last week, RIM put out a video of developers from various companies talking about “Super Apps”. From the sounds of it, Super Apps are pretty cool BlackBerry applications. What would be even cooler is if a few BlackBerry Super Apps were actually developed.
BGR has screenshots and a pretty detailed review of BlackBerry OS 6.0. It would appear that AT&T will soon have a BlackBerry with a touchscreen that supports multitouch. Hopefully OS will enable this on the BlackBerry Storm and Storm2. Check out more pics and all the details over on BGR.
Research in Motion is “doing everything they can” to make it easier for BlackBerry developers to create applications for the BlackBerry platform. They held a seminar to show developers how to create BlackBerry Super Apps back in February. RIM made BlackBerry Push Services available to all developers back in March. And just yesterday RIM released enhanced Java and web development tools to make it easier for developers to create feature-rich BlackBerry Applications.
BlackBerry OS 5.0.0.607 for the Verizon BlackBerry Storm2 has been officially released. Some Storm2 users have reported that the update has been pushed OTA to their devices. (Note: Wireless update works only with officially released BlackBerry OS versions)
When it comes to smartphone market share in the United States, the BlackBerry is still king of the hill according to a recent report by comScore, however, Android is coming on strong.
For the three month period ending Feb. 10, RIM’s percentage of market share was 42.1%, up 1.3% from the same period a year earlier. Android is still just a fraction of the total smartphone market at 9%, however, they were the only other platform to actually increase share, up 5.2% year over year. Apple remained relatively flat, down 0.1%, and Palm and Microsoft lost share, with -1.8% and -4.0% drops year over year.
RESEARCH IN MOTION REPORTS YEAR-END AND FOURTH QUARTER RESULTS FOR FISCAL 2010
Waterloo, ON – Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today reported results for the three months and fiscal year ended February 27, 2010 (all figures in U.S. dollars and U.S. GAAP).
Annual Highlights:
Revenue grew 35% over the prior fiscal year to $15 billion • BlackBerry® subscriber account base grew 65% over the prior fiscal year to over 41 million, with a record 4.9 million net new subscriber accounts added in Q4
BlackBerry smartphone shipments grew more than 40% over the prior fiscal year to 37 million
BlackBerry was the number one selling smartphone brand in the United States at the end of calendar 20091
We just heard that Research in Motion has acquired Viigo, makers of the popular BlackBerry RSS Reader that goes buy the same name.
Our team has joined RIM’s global organization and will continue to bring our expertise in BlackBerry application development and real-time content delivery to the BlackBerry platform.
