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BlackBerry Losing Its Grip On The Market Share?

by Paul Joseph January 31, 2012 Featured

Once, BlackBerry was the default choice of enterprise customers for their communication needs. But, that is changing fast, especially in the established markets like North America and Europe, according to a New York Times report .   Apple has captured a significant market share from Reserach In Motion (the makers of BlackBerry) in North America, where it once was a dominant player. Samsung is slated to do the same in the other established market of RIM i.e. Europe with its Android operating system. BlackBerry is still going strong in developing markets. But, it is finding it difficult to hold on to its market share in more developed countries. While Apple Inc’s iOS and Google Inc’s Android operating systems have captured a lot of imagination, RIM has failed to innovate in recent years. Hence, many enterprise customers are switching from BlackBerry to other platforms. According to a recent global survey on information workers by research firm Forrester, 27% smartphone users have Android, 26% BlackBerry and 24%, an iPhone. “ Android and Apple together are eating BlackBerry’s lunch ,” said Frank Gillett, a Forrester analyst. Last year,  Blackberry Servers had gone down , sending millions of people across the globe into a frenzy. the servers were down for 4days . after the issue was solved to make it up to the customers Blackberry maker RIM offered all the customers 12 premium apps free of cost . And recently it was also reported that both the CEO’s stepped down from their position. Was this a good news ot bad only time can tell? The one asset that RIM can still bank on is security. But, that won’t be for too long, since other players are also addressing this issue. Some of Samsung’s new phones, like the Galaxy S II, include extra security features for enterprise customers. The newest version of Google’s Android operating system, called Ice Cream Sandwich, has built-in encryption. RIM is aware of its problems and is taking a number of steps to address them. It recently brought a new CEO on board in the form of Thorsten Heins. Heins is betting big on BlackBerry’s new operating platform called BlackBerry 10 or BB10. But, this has also received a severe jolt, since the new OS won’t be ready before late 2012. Now, it’s hard to imagine that enterprise customers will be ready to wait for that long. Looking For A Social Media Agency?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency Related Posts Android Captures 40% Of US Smartphone Market If Mobile Apps Shape Who We Are..Indians Mean Business Android, iOS Race Heats Up: Nielsen More Than 300,000 Android Phones Activated Daily, Reports Google Android To Become Asia’s Most Popular Mobile OS?

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MS Office In The Cloud As BlackBerry Teams Up With Microsoft: Boost In Productivity?

by Paul Joseph January 31, 2012 Featured

BlackBerry Makers Research In Motion (RIM) has collaborated with Microsoft to launch a Cloud based Office Productivity Suite. Simply titled Microsoft Office 365 , the service will help Users & Admins alike to better manage the corporate data on the Smartphones & Servers. Blackberry who recently recovered from the blackout is in no mood to upset its present customers & is offering this service free of cost ! Of course the customers include only who have subscribed to the stand-alone Office 365 suite or the standalone Exchange Online offering. However, the good news is that no matter what the data plan one uses, Consumer (EDGE) or Business (BlackBerry Internet Services [BIS] or BlackBerry Enterprise Services [BES]), one can still purchase this service which is presently not priced. The new cloud-based service will do what iPhone owners have been doing for quite some time . Synching Emails, Documents, Calendar & Organizer data. However, RIM has an ace up it sleeve with BlackBerry Balance . This tool will assist Corporate IT Administrators to effectively manage Corporate data on the device which many enterprises fear might land into wrong hands . Furthermore, BlackBerry users can heave a sigh of relief because there is a choice to objectively separate Personal Data & Corporate Data! This cloud-based service will also bring remote lock and remote wipe functions with it. With the recent stepping down of BlackBerry head honchos & other events &  incidents , we wonder is there something more than what catches the eye? . With the probable acquisition of Yahoo, not yet materialized, is Microsoft eying RIM? The companies are already collaborating heavily behind closed doors to enhance customer experience . Furthermore, Microsoft & RIM primarily cater to the same end of the Customer pyramid, i.e. the Enterprise Market. There were even rumors of a possible take-over, but they remained just that, rumors. We believe there is still a lot of life let in RIM, but it has to up its game, if it wishes to remain a considerable force in the business circles. Looking For A Social Media Agency?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency Related Posts If Mobile Apps Shape Who We Are..Indians Mean Business Android Captures 40% Of US Smartphone Market More Than 300,000 Android Phones Activated Daily, Reports Google Android To Become Asia’s Most Popular Mobile OS? Android To Overtake Windows Mobile, BB And iPhone In 2010 – Report

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RIM Slashes Rates Heavily On Playbook In India: But Will This Strategy Boost Sales?

by Paul Joseph December 29, 2011 Featured

We all know that RIM is not doing too well these days and this is pretty much evident from the lack luster sales that their flagship tablet, the Playbook has seen in the Indian market. The Playbook had a  lot of negative reviews when it was launched forcing RIM to recall some of them back. Now in order to boost their sales for the festive season, RIM is offering their Playbooks at heavily discounted rates . The 16 GB version is now available at Rs. 13,490 instead of its regular price of Rs. 27,990 . The 32 GB version is available at Rs. 15,990 and the 64 GB model is selling for Rs. 24,490 compared their regular pricing of Rs. 32990 and Rs. 37,990 respectively . The discounts amount to nearly 50% of the price! We wonder how they can afford that. Let’s look at how the Blackberry Playbook has fared compared to other popular tablets. The Playbook has sold less than 1 million units globally. Apple has sold more than 11 million iPads in just one quarter. Apple is way ahead of the competition and RIM cannot catch up with it . Heck, even Android the most dominant mobile OS cannot come near Apple in terms of sales. With ICS , they probably have a chance, but about RIM, we cannot say the same. Their tablet is doomed unless they change their strategy soon. The Blackberry range of smart phones is still pretty popular in the country but due to major outages that have happened recently, this may not be case soon. People are eagerly waiting for new range of BB smart phones with QNX OS, these phones may not see the light of day till late next year. We feel that RIM’s days are numbered. They have been way too complacent and that has resulted in many failures and dropping market share for the company. What do you think? Will you buy the Playbook at these discounted prices? Looking For A Social Media Agency?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency Related Posts 3G On Corporate Phones? Not So Soon Blackberry Playbook – First Impressions Blackberry Playbook To Arrive In India This Month Will Tablets Touch Success In India? RIM’s Answer To IPad’s Dominance? – PlayBook For Under $500!

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Amazon Considered A RIM Acquisition This Past Summer

by Paul Joseph December 21, 2011 Featured

Research in Motion (RIM) is in a lot of trouble and they know it. The maker of of the Blackberry smartphones has not made much headway in the product category this year. The only thing that people are actually expecting from RIM is the new QNX based OS they are going to launch. But unfortunately, these devices will not see the light of day till late next year, which really is a big downer! As other platforms continue to grow and advance, their platform is currently languishing because of these problems. Their venture into the tablet market with ‘ Playbook ’ has also not been very successful. All in all, a very dismal year for these guys.Now imagine what would this year be like for them had Amazon bought them over. Yes, it would definitely be very interesting. Amazon had briefly considered buying out the troubled company to further their own advances into the mobile segment. Both the companies are tight-lipped about anything any suggestions of a buyout but Reuters is reporting that there were some informal talks between the two companies during this past summer. Besides Amazon, bankers were also trying to convince RIM’s competitors HTC and Samsung to buy out the ailing company but they chose not to. Let us try to understand why this buyout would make sense to Amazon. Amazon is a huge online retail company but besides their Kindle reader they had made much headway into the mobile computing segment earlier. With RIM’s devices and the substantial patents that it has, it would have made perfect sense for Amazon to acquire RIM. But since the talks didn’t go down well, Amazon focused on Android. They have just released their Kindle Fire and also invested in their own app store . RIM has thus chosen to face the future alone but it is very risky business for the Canadian technology company. The company’s board has rejected the notion of selling off parts of RIM’s business. The company seems to have undertaken a campaign to be hopeful about their future. The two CEOs from RIM have also proactively reduced their pay to $1 per year. Whether or not such tactics will work for RIM to steer clear of troubled waters, only time will tell. What is your opinion about RIM’s future in India? Let us know. Looking For A Social Media Agency?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency Related Posts Are Smartphones The Future of Mobile? RIM Quarterly Results Paint A Dismal Picture Android Captures 40% Of US Smartphone Market If Mobile Apps Shape Who We Are..Indians Mean Business Android, iOS Race Heats Up: Nielsen

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Blackberry Users Affected By Faulty Vodafone Balance Deduction System

by Paul Joseph December 12, 2011 Featured

Vodafone India, the 2nd largest cell phone GSM provider in India, offers a variety of services. For RIM users, they offer special Blackberry Plans. These enable users to access Blackberry Internet Services and browse the web. Sanjay Bafna, Co- Founder of reputed Indian blog Telecom Talk , brought to light a potential error in Vodafone’s system of deducting balance. Vodafone offers a plan known as BIS 299 and BIS 399. According to the Vodafone website, this includes Unlimited web browsing, Email, Messengers (IMs)  usage is free along with native usage of apps  which are downloaded from BlackBerry App World. However, after a Software Upgrade of Vodafone’s System on 21st November, 2011, Sanjay and several other Blackberry users have reported frequent random deductions in balance. Throughout the day, 10 paise keeps getting deducted each time. If you add up all the small deductions, it comes to a sizable amount. This bug has affecting several people on Vodafone Prepaid. While bugs are understandable and it is the company’s responsibility to iron them out or at least address the issue, Vodafone seems to be turning the blind eye. As Bafna has shown, various Vodafone employees from Vodafone’s 111/198 helpline and even the folks behind Twitter Handle @VodafoneIN deny the issue. The head of Public Relations, Mr. Suresh Rangarajan, too was contacted by them for the same. They all maintain that the balance was getting deducted due to usage of Vodafone Live. However, as Bafna demonstrated with screenshots, no Vodafone Live was active on his device. An array of unsatisfactory tweets but many users have been posted, and users may even be porting out of Vodafone due to this issue. It is interesting to note that last year, Bharti Airtel too had a similar issue. However, once contacted they looked into it and rectified the problem. Are you affected by this bug? Head on over to the blog post here and read all the details. Looking For A Social Media Agency?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency Related Posts Recap 2010 : The Great Telecom Saga(s)! Mobile World Congress RoundUp – Day 2 Telecom Head Honchos In Consensus Over ‘Key Areas’ MNP Seems To Be A No Go In India: Why The Lack Of Popularity? Telenor Wants To Own 3/4th Of Uninor

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Blackberry Bold 9790 All Features

by Paul Joseph December 1, 2011 Featured

The RIM mobile company has planned to launch its new Smartphone Blackberry Bold 9790 in India in December 2011 first week. The stylish Smartphone has Blackberry 7.0 operating system. The Blackberry mobiles have great looks to attract the mobile users. In India the Blackberry Bold 9790 will be rocking the Indian mobile market because the mobile has excellent thin structure. The Blackberry Bold 9790 price in India is not yet declared. The Blackberry Bold 9790 pictures are currently available online.   The Blackberry Bold 9790 features include QWERTY keypad and optical track pad options. The Smartphone is enabled with music player and video player as multimedia features. The mobile phone comes with SMS, MMS, email or push Email as messaging services features along with lots of social networking services features. The Blackberry Bold 9790 runS ON Blackberry 7.0 operating system along with 768 MB RAM. The Smartphone is supported with internal memory of 8 GB and external memory of up to 32 GB via microSD memory card.     The Blackberry Bold 9790 comes with HTML internet browser. In the local data connectivity features, the mobile phone is having Bluetooth v2.1 with EDR + A2DP, microUSB 2.0 and Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n for fast data transfer services. The Blackberry Bold 9790 is packed with 5.0 MP beautiful camera with auto focus and LED flash which is providing 2592 x 1944 pixels resolution. The 2.4 inches TFT capacitive touchscreen display is well included in the touch phone along with accelerometer sensor and 360 x 480 pixels resolution. The Blackberry Bold 9790 is supported with Li-Ion standard battery with talk time up to 5.10 hours for 2G and 5.20 hours for 3G. The model comes with GPS with A-GPS navigation services. The RIM company has launched Blackberry Bold 9790 in India but the mobile will be available in first week of December.

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BlackBerry Bold 9790 Features and Specifications

by Paul Joseph November 24, 2011 Featured

The BlackBerry Bold 9790 is latest model launched by RIM. The company has delivered many good ranges of BlackBerry mobiles that are really very attractive and excellent. The BlackBerry Bold 9790 price in India is Rs. 27,490. The latest BlackBerry Bold 9790 pictures are uploaded on the internet.The new attractive mobile BlackBerry Bold 9790 has BlackBerry 7 operating system. The mobile has TFT capacitive touchscreen with a display size of 360 x 480 pixel. Accelerometer sensor display feature is also added to the display of the new BlackBerry Bold 9790. The BlackBerry Bold 9790 is having 8GB data internal memory and external memory which can be expanable up to 32 GB via microSD memory card.       The BlackBerry Bold 9790 features reveal that the mobile has 5 MP camera along with camera resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels. EDGE and GPRS service runs at high speed to offer fast internet access. The WLAN service is also available in the handset. Bluetooth, microUSB 2.0 are available to share data with PC.The BlackBerry Bold 9790 is enabled with HTML, WAP 2.0 and xHTML Internet browser. The mobile operates on 2G network frequencies at GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz. The 3G network work at HSPDA 850/900/1900/2100 MHz. The mobile phone supports vibration, polyphonic and MP3 alert type ring tones. The BlackBerry Bold 9790 mobile is capable of high speed internet accesses with 3G support with HSPDA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA 2.0 Mbps. The BlackBerry Bold 9790 comes with GPS support and also with preloaded games.          The BlackBerry Bold 9790 comes with messaging features like Push E-mail, Instant Messaging and SMS and MMS. The video player of the new BlackBerry Bold 9790 supports multi format videos and the camera also features with high resolution and digital zoom. The new QWERTY keypad phone supports Multi format music player with audio streaming and 3.5 mm audio jack.

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QWERTY Blackberry mobile Bold 9790 coming soon

by Paul Joseph November 18, 2011 Featured

The upcoming latest mobile Blackberry Bold 9790 is one of the best cell phone. This latest technology mobile will be launched very soon in India from RIM Company. The company has made specifications of Blackberry Bold 9790 mobile very clear. Blackberry Bold 9790 features and specifications are really wonderful. The Blackberry Bold 9790 price in India market is not yet announced. Blackberry mobiles are expecting this time to get good response from the Indian market. The Blackberry Bold 9790 features are included that the mobile phone is enabled with QWERTY keypad for fast and easy typing. The mobile phone is integrated with vibration, polyphonic and MP3 ringtones alerts features. SMS, MMS, email, push Email as non voice messaging communication services features are enabled in the model. The handset comes with 3.5 mm audio jack sound output device. GPS with A GPS navigation services are also integrated in the bar phone. the mobile phone is endowed with NFC Capability, Computer synchronization, OTA synchronization connectivity features. The Blackberry Bold 9790 specifications are revealed that the mobile phone comes with Blackberry 7.0 operating system along with Marvel Tavor MG1 1 GHz processor. The handset is packed with HTML internet browser. The mobile phone is enabled with 2.45 uinches TFT capacitive touch screen display with 16M colors. The accelerometer and optical track pad features are also supported in the model. The bar phone comes with 5.0 MP camera facility which can supports 2592 x 1944 pixels resolutions. The model is integrated with VGA video recording facility. The camera is enabled with Geo-tagging, face detection, image stabilization and auto focus camera features. The handset is having 8 GB internal memory and up to 32 GB external memory via Micro SD memory card along with 768 MB RAM. LI Ion standard battery is also presented in the model. The Blackberry Bold 9790 pictures are uploaded on the internet.

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RIM Stands Firm On Its View About Blackberry Encryption Data Sharing Services. Will It Cost Them?

by Paul Joseph November 9, 2011 Featured

For Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadians makers of the iconic Blackberry mobile phones, 2011 has been a difficult year. Apple’s iPhone and mobile phones on the Android platform have outperformed and outsold Blackberry’s in the western market. India is one of those countries where Blackberry fans are on the rise and RIM would hope that it can continue its services in India and other countries in Asia, without any disruptions . In the last couple of years RIM has faced problems in India from the Government, over security concerns. The Blackberry USP of providing top-quality encrypted data sharing services is the same the reason for the trouble as well, with the Indian Government wanting RIM to provide them access to the data or setup a local server in India. And then the Big Outage fiasco took place. Last month for more than three days all the Blackberry services were down and this incident has created skeptics out of fans . The fact that it took RIM more than three days to restore services is extremely worrying . Amidst declining sales forecasts, RIM had to come up with a $100 apology pack containing premium apps, including games and a Siri replica. Besides India, Blackberry has faced similar issues in other countries as well. Saudi Arabia is a prime example. The Saudi Arabia Government had banned the BBM (Blackberry Messenger) service, but then rolled it back after RIM agreed to some of the conditions put forth by the Government. UAE, Lebanon and Indonesia are some of the other countries who have expressed concerns about the Blackberry services and the threat to security. Ironically, these are the same countries where popularity of Blackberry has increasing rapidly and RIM would have hoped that these markets will boost its flagging fortunes. RIM has once again reiterated that the concerns about security over encrypted data is an industry wide concern and not specific to Blackberry. Recently Sunil Lalvani, who is the director of enterprise sales in India, said that RIM is constantly in touch with the Indian Government and has had several discussions with their representatives. He stated that RIM is currently waiting for the Telecom Policy 2011 to be finalized, which will direct the next step. Mr. Lalvani further impressed the point that India is an important market for Blackberry devices. International Data Corporation figures say that Blackberry phones have a 15% share of the Indian smartphones pie. Blackberry has started launching new phones in India within a week or so of its international debut. They are banking heavily on their new Blackberry 7 OS and the apps based on the NFC technology. Talking about apps, Blackberry AppWorld has not been able to match either the Apple AppStore or the Android Marketplace, both in terms of quality and quantity. Smartphones users like their apps and interesting apps can be the difference between success and failure. iPhone’s prohibitive price has meant that in emerging markets likeIndia, it has not found many takers. While phones on the Android platform have lowered the price of a feature packed smartphone drastically. Blackberry needs to introduce phones at sub-Rs. 8000 level to be able truly capture the market. Blackberry Curve 8520, which is the lowest priced Blackberry phone in the market at present, is almost an obsolete model. In comparison Nokia E5 is at the same price category and packs in a lot more punch. So can Blackberry come out trumps in India and other Asia countries and recapture its lost glory? I guess we have to wait and watch.  Looking For A Social Media Agency?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency

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New Blackberry Torch 9810 specs and features

by Paul Joseph November 4, 2011 Featured

Blackberry Mobiles has announced their new upcoming phone named as Blackberry Torch 9810. It is expected that this new blackberry phone will also run on Blackberry OS 7.0 which is powered by a processor of 1.2GHz. The Blackberry Torch 9810 will be a slider QWETRY keypad, which offers users ease while typing messages. If buyers want more range of colors in Blackberry, then they will not get disheartened as the new Blackberry Torch 9810 will be available in two colors only i.e. Black and Grey. Blackberry Torch 9810 Price in India is yet not revealed. Blackberry Torch 9810 Features includes a camera of 5MP with a resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels along with the auto focus function. There is no secondary camera in this phone. The Blackberry Torch 9810 can store practically unlimited entries and fields in phonebook. The phone has a internal memory of 8 GB with a 768 MB RAM and it is also supported by an external memory of 32GB, if user want then it is extend the phone memory with help of memory card.With all the above features the Blackberry Torch 9810 will offer all the other features that are included in all blackberry phones like digital compass, document viewer, MP3/WMA/WAV, organizer, voice memo, predictive text input and many more. The phone will offer a Li-lon battery of 1270mAh which claims a stand by time up to 308 hours and 300 hours in 2G and 3G with a talk time up to 6h 30 min and 5h 50 min in 2G and 3G respectively. Apart from this, if the phone is used to play music only, then battery can used up to 54 hours. Blackberry Torch 9810 Pictures are already out on internet and they reveal that the phone has a clear cut design similarity with the original handsets.

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