Posts Tagged ‘BlackBerry’

This week RIM have been promoting their BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps which allows developers to make a few tweaks, repackage their Android apps online then upload them to BlackBerry App World. This should make porting between Android and BlackBerry simple and removes some of the challenges of porting between operating systems to ensure that [...]

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Adobe announced this week that it would no longer be developing a Flash plugin for mobile browsers, prompting comments that Steve Jobs has had the last laugh. After all, the iPhone does not support Adobe Flash and Jobs was highly critical of its reliability, security and performance. Jobs’ essay, ‘Thoughts on Flash’ is well worth [...]

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Take nothing away from Samsung: with a 219% year-on-year shipment growth and higher volumes than any other vendor for the first time, the Korean giant can take a moment to celebrate being number one in the smartphone market. Apple will tell you though: this is only one quarter (and the quarter before a new iPhone [...]

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There were a couple of news items over the last few weeks that caught my eye.  First, that AT&T is rumoured to block NFC capability on the Blackberry 9900 and secondly (and you couldn’t miss this one) that Google is buying out Motorola’s handset business (see Daniel Ashdown’s blog on this here). These events may [...]

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Last week RIM announced 5 new Blackberry models in what amounted to a continuing shift towards touchscreen-centric interfaces. In Juniper Research’s recent report on the Smartphone market we looked in great detail at the trends in interface technology, amongst other things, and RIM’s move fits with what we are seeing. While there are compelling reasons [...]

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