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The BlackBerry And iPod Touch Are Like Peanut Butter And Jelly

July 14th, 2010 BBerryNews

BlackBerry + iPod Touch

This post originated on Simple Mobile Review

I know that every BlackBerry user isn’t an iPod Touch owner and visa versa, however, the combination of the two devices often seems to be as common as peanut butter and jelly.

Today I sat in a meeting where every user at the table had a BlackBerry and 4 of the 6 BlackBerry users also owned an iPod Touch.  As we got to talking about it we all came to the same conclusion…  The BlackBerry is the king when it comes to anything related to communication (messaging and phone).  The iPod Touch is great at the multi-media and application stuff.  Yeah, I know…  Ground breaking details.  The thing is, we ALL wanted an iPod Touch with a 3G data option like the iPad and a camera.  No one wanted the iPhone (as a phone) as we all want to avoid paying again for a voice plan we did not plan to use.

This really highlights a problem for the BlackBerry. Windows Mobile, Android, WebOS, and iPhone (Jailbroken) all have the ability to offer Wi-Fi tethering. This is the one missing feature on the BlackBerry platform that would make the marriage of an iPod Touch and a BlackBerry complete. While an iPod Touch with a 3G data plan is attractive, I would rather have the ability to just share the 3G internet connection on my BlackBerry via Wi-Fi. It would be a lot cheaper and under my control.

Hopefully RIM will shock the BlackBerry community with BlackBerry 6 and add Wi-Fi tethering, although, with all the leaked information so far, this would be hard to keep under wraps. Personally, I would carry a BlackBerry and iPhone if AT&T were to waive the requirement for a voice plan. For now, I guess this is just wishful thinking. What are your feelings on the matter?

The BlackBerry And iPod Touch Are Like Peanut Butter And Jelly is a post from: RIMarkable

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Smartphone Sales Jump 49 Percent with RIM Number 2 Platform

May 26th, 2010 BBerryNews

According to the latest research from Gartner, the number of smartphones sold worldwide has jumped 49 percent from a year earlier to 54.3 million units. BlackBerry is now the world’s 4th largest manufacturer of mobile devices and the 2nd most popular smartphone after Symbian.

Android has leap-frogged Windows Mobile and Linux now represents 10 percent of smartphones shipped. Nokia has declined by 4.5 percentage points to 44.3 percent as sales rose by one-third, lagging behind the market’s growth. The iPhone is the third most popular smartphone after Symbian and RIM, with a 15.4 percent share of handsets that are open to third-party applications.

Smartphones now account for 17.3 percent of the industry’s phone sales, and Nokia reported last month that smartphones accounted for about 20 percent of its volume in the first quarter.

© Kyle for BlackBerry Cool, 2010



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BlackBerry has the Lowest Click-Through Rates in Mobile Advertising

April 19th, 2010 BBerryNews

Smaato are a mobile advertising and ad optimization company and they’ve recently announced their March figures on mobile ad click-through rates (CTR). According to Smaato, Symbian leads in their global OS CTR index, followed by feature phones, Windows Mobile, Apple, Android, Palm and lastly BlackBerry.

It’s not necessarily a bad thing that BlackBerry users have a low CTR. It might have something to do with the way BlackBerry apps are serving these ads that aren’t appealing to users, or simply BlackBerry users don’t care for ads and don’t want to click.

I have personally never clicked on a mobile ad and purchased, although I’ve clicked on many ads to find out more about the product or service. Ads can be informative and easy to digest, as long as they don’t impeded the user experience to any significant degree.

I’m curious, have you ever clicked on a mobile ad, whether in an application or in browser?

© Kyle for BlackBerry Cool, 2010



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New York Daily News Launchs Mobile App For BlackBerry, iPhone, And Windows Mobile

March 2nd, 2010 BBerryNews

Daily News Mobile

The New York Daily News has just launched a free mobile application for the BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile devices.

Daily News Mobile features:

  • Breaking News
  • Political, National and World News
  • Sports – with in-depth coverage of local teams
  • Gossip – the hottest celebrity news
  • Local – comprehensive coverage of New York City
  • Opinion – get insight into current issues
  • Daily News Columnists – featuring Lupica, Daly,
    Louis, Myers, Madden and more…

You can find download Daily News Mobile by visiting http://nydn.mwap.at/ from your device’s browser.

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Gartner Release Breakdown of Mobile OS Market Share

March 2nd, 2010 BBerryNews

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Gartner have released their latest figures breaking down the mobile OS market between BlackBerry, iPhone, Symbian, Windows Mobile et al. RIM are doing very well in second place with a 3.3 point gain bringing them to 19.9 percent market share. While Symbian is dominating the list, I’m personally more concerned with smartphone-based OSes that have a relatively vibrant developer community. With all that today’s modern smartphone can do, Symbian seems like a relic of a feature phone world that is almost obsolete.

As we pointed out in the IDC post, you can’t deny Apple’s market share growth rate. Apple is selling just 10M fewer units than RIM, and if the growth numbers remain constant, I can see them overtaking RIM. On the other hand, RIM still has some core business and technology advantages that can leave Apple in the dust.

For example, carriers are going to put an increasing amount of pressure on hardware manufacturers to be efficient with data. Apple have been pretty greedy when it comes to network consumption and if they lose the carriers’ confidence, we’ll be seeing the carriers’ marketing dollars shifting to BlackBerry. RIM are also going to see a tremendous amount of growth globally, while Apple are too rigid in pricing to be effective outside of first world countries. It’s safe to say that the next few years are going to be very interesting.

[Graph courtesy of TechCrunch]

© Kyle for BlackBerry Cool, 2010



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