Archive for August, 2010
| Q&A with GetJar’s Patrick Mork | ||||||
| By Shaun Zelber, August 9th, 2010 :: Apps & Sites, Interviews | ||||||
The more you learn about independent app stores like GetJar, the harder it is too understand why Apple’s App Store receives all the media attention. While Apple’s – for obvious reasons – restricts the target market to Apple handsets (i.e. about 2-3 percent of mobile handsets), GetJar features downloads for all sorts of feature phones – the majority of handsets – and smartphones. All the top performing apps work on multiple types of handsets. | ||||||
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| The BlackBerry Torch | ||||||
| By Shaun Zelber, August 4th, 2010 :: Geek & Tech, OS & Handsets | ||||||
Looks like Blackberry is finally understanding it’s positioning. Rather than try and go after iPhone users it is catering to their very loyal base of users. The BlackBerry Torch is a perfect example of that strategy. Better web usage, touch screen but also the keyboard that made Blackberry a huge success. So best of both worlds. It also looks similar to the Bold and Curve. It has also conserved For technical stuff here is the specs : The Blackberry Torch 9800 will be the first RIM device to run the Blackberry 6 operating system, so expect faster Web browsing and downloads. It will also feature virtual and slide-out keyboards, a 1GHz processor, 5-megapixel camera and 512MB of RAM.
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trackpad button that all new Bold’s and Curve’s have.| BlackPad for November ? | ||||||
| By Shaun Zelber, August 2nd, 2010 :: Geek & Tech, OS & Handsets | ||||||
Bloomberg is now reporting that Research in Motion (RIM) will be launching their Blackberry/iPad tablet PC in November. There have been a lot of previous rumours that the RIM Tablet PC will be called the BlackPad. All of these rumours are because RIM registered the domain name Blackpad.com very recently. Anyways, sourcing are now saying that this iPad competitor from RIM will be launching in November. Of course every tablet PC will be directly compared to the iPad, but with Microsoft about to launch into the same market, it all seems to be getting a little crowded. There are few details on the BlackPad apart from the size of the screen 9.7-inch screen (identical to the iPad) and that it can be tethered to a BlackBerry phone so that it can access the Internet. Pricing is similar to the iPad.
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