SMRpodcast #95, Begging for Apps is now online and ready for download. This week we talk a lot about BlackBerry and explain whey so many tech journalists are wrong about the Kindle Fire. We also debate Verizon’s stance on Windows Phone, and, of course we’ve got our picks… A lot of really good picks, especially for Android users…
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Based partly on “customer hesitation” with Nokia as it shifts away from Symbian towards Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS on smartphones and also a much larger smartphone market than most had expected, National Bank Financial analyst, Kris Thompson, has bumped up his BlackBerry shipment forecasts in 2012 and 2013 up to 66.8 million BlackBerrys in 2012 and 77.3 million units in 2013, up from 59.9 million and 67.9 million respectively.
“We previously suggested that RIM could win an additional one million units per quarter in the near term from Nokia’s transition so our 2012 estimate could be conservative. While we do expect RIM to lose market share in international markets, the company may hold share better than many expect.”
Thompson also raised his price target for RIM (RIMM) from $75 to $80 and stated that if RIM does allow Android Apps to run on it’s platform that NBF’s tablet forecast for RIM will need to be increased.
[Via Financial Post]
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RIM’s market share trouble continues
Verizon has a few things going on this week
We Talk about RIM needing to get the Playbook out sooner than later
Google announces the Android Web Market
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Word on the street is that presenter at a recent Microsoft event let it slip that the name Windows Mobile is being changed to Windows Phone. I recently posted this on Twitter, but, I’ve gotten so many directs and emails asking me about it that I figured I would write a post.
I originally heard this on the Inquirer.net and it is being echoed on sites like Mobile Crunch.
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