According to the results from a recent ChangeWave survey on Mobile Operating System Preferences of mostly North American respondents, the BlackBerry has hit its lowest level ever with just 4%of consumers planing to get a new smartphone within the next 90 days preferring to get a BlackBerry. Comparatively speaking, 48% of respondents planning to get a new smartphone in the next 90 days said they prefer to get an iPhone.
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Episode #73 of the SMRpodcast: The Switch to Windows Phone, has been recorded and is now available online. We talk a lot about all the drama going on at RIM with the anonymous letter and RIM’s anonymous response. Rod gets a new Windows Phone 7 device that he absolutely loves, but, I still don’t think Microsoft is doing enough to give WP7 a real chance against Android and the iPhone, and, we’ve got our picks.
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Arguably the biggest tech news to come out over the past week is the agreement between Nokia and Microsoft where the Finnish mobile phone giant will start to build smartphones that run Windows Phone 7. It looks like, however, Microsoft wasn’t the first or only mobile OS manufacturer that Nokia was interested in. TechCrunch Europe is reporting that Nokia explored a relationship with RIM where Nokia devices would have run the BlackBerry OS, but, RIM wasn’t interested in such a partnership.
According to our well-placed sources, discussions between the two companies took place as Nokia in parallel explored the Google and Microsoft options. How far those discussions went isn’t entirely clear, although our source says that RIM wasn’t interested, but either way the fact that they took place at all is intriguing in itself. Not least because Elop has since attempted to airbrush out RIM’s place in the competitive landscape.
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Communology, a German based mobile platform software development company, has announced that it is bringing its Visual Voicemail solution to the BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7.
Communology’s white-label Visual Voicemail (VVM) products and services enable voicemail management on the phone with maximum usability. VVM clients support the retrieval, display, storage, forwarding and real-time synchronisation of voicemail audio files via one single user interface.
Communology Visual Voicemail features include:
Expect to see Communology Visual Voicemail showcased at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona which starts Sunday.
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Hosts: Rod Simmons, Chris Ashley,Brent Harman, Robb Dunewood
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We talk about the Google and Apple Shakeup
We discuss Google porting Numbers
We discuss if the Verizon iPhone
Verizon Offering a Phone return deal (to help people get the iPhone)
Why were there no Windows Phone 7 devices at CES
Simon Says Pharoahe Monch – iTunes
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We discuss if the Verizon iPhone will impact Android sales
We discuss Google
BlackBerry Playbook
Why were there no Windows Phone 7 devices at CES
Santa Clause Is Coming Town by Pleasure – Amazon
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Recorded: November 16th, 2010
Published: November 17th, 2010
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Despite the onslaught of rival smartphones like the iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone 7, Research in Motion will maintain the top spot when it comes to worldwide market share until 2015, according to a study from ABI Research.
The study found that RIM will lose market share by 2015. The research firm expects RIM’s BlackBerry to maintain 26% of the mobile operating system world market by 2015, matched by Google’s Android OS with 26%. Nokia’s Symbian OS will take 16%, Microsoft Windows OS 11% and Apple iOS 14%.
What do you think? If RIM continues to lose share as fast as they have for last two quarters they will lose their spot atop the smartphone market share hill much sooner than 2015. Can RIM do enough to hold their competitors off for the next 4 years or so? Time will certainly tell…
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According to a Wall Street Journal report, Dell has announced that it plans to move its 25,000 employees off of the BlackBerry platform and on to its own device, the Dell Venue Pro, which runs Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft.
“Clearly in this decision we are competing with RIM, because we’re kicking them out,” the computer maker’s chief financial officer, Brian Gladden, said in an interview.
“We actually had a conversation last night around creating a site on eBay where we can actually sell these BlackBerry devices” that employees return, Mr. Gladden said. He added that he hasn’t told RIM of his plans, adding, “it’s not clear to them the scope of what we’re doing.”
Mark Guibert, RIM’s senior vice president of corporate marketing dismissed the move as a publicity stunt…
“We find it highly unlikely that they will actually save any money with this move and far more likely they were looking for a little free publicity…”
Personally I don’t think that there is any doubt that this is a publicity stunt… When’s the last time you heard of someone buying a phone from Dell? The problem for RIM, however, is that Dell isn’t the only manufacturer coming after the BlackBerry with Windows Phone 7 in the enterprise…
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