“The BlackBerry mobile communications device is hard to beat in the corporate world, where it got its start, but it’s expected have a tougher time winning the hearts of consumers who are being wooed by Apple’s iPhone and other smartphones,” The Canadian Press reports.
“While there’s an opportunity for BlackBerry maker Research In Motion to fill a void in Canada while the iPhone isn’t yet available, Apple’s phone is a real threat, says tech analyst Jesse Hirsh,” The Canadian Press reports.
“‘Technology fetishists are discarding their BlackBerrys and they all drive to the States and buy an iPhone and look on the Internet for how to hack into them and they are all running iPhones,’ said Hirsh, who runs a tech advice website,” The Canadian Press reports.
“A recent upgrade to the BlackBerry wireless system appears to have been the cause of a three-hour service disruption on Monday that affected millions of users in North America,” The Canadian Press reports.
“Hirsh also said the Apple’s touch-screen technology is pushing ahead of the BlackBerry’s trackwheel and the more innovative trackball on the consumer-oriented Pearl smartphone and some newer models of the BlackBerry, which revolutionized wireless e-mail with features such as a full QWERTY-style keyboard for rapid two-thumbed typing.”
Full article here.
Stealth aircraft also “pushed ahead” of the biplane. Slightly.
Ballmer is waiting on tongue touch technology. Sick freak.
Trackballs and trackwheels? Those are just mobile phone analogs for a mouse. The touch interface is obviously the way to go for a hand-held device. It’s interesting that the company that popularized the mouse as an input device is the first one to break-away from that method for mobile devices. The problem for the industry is that Apple’s competition is haphazardly adding touch screen interfaces to phones without making it logical or intuitive, just to have a touchscreen. But under the main screen with touch buttons, most of the other mobile OS functions are still driven by miniature versions of the mouse and keyboard, complete with drop-down menus.
ken1w: I love your explanations, but please try the return carriage from old (
return key).
It’s a bitch to read a solid block of text. Thanks.
@ Ampar
> It’s a bitch to read a solid block of text. Thanks.
I guess Steve Jobs was right. People just don’t read books anymore.
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You guys all are missing the point. Who cares if it’s 10 mln in 2008 or by end of 08. It just doesn’t matter much which one. The point is that the market for these devices is plenty large and growing. BOTH BB and iPhone will have success and growth. There are many that swear by their BB and many that swear by their iphone. Choose what you like and use it – just buy a new device every two years or less. then go out and buy rimm and aapl and wait a few years.
Zune Tang®
That was GOLD.
One of you’re best yet, while I admittedly find you tiresome at times, that was hilariously pernicious.
More in this style please.
ken1w: I guess it’s hard to kindle a flame for reading from an LCD?
As a corporate BB user, I’ve been somewhat tempted to upgrade my personal cellphone … its currently still a Startac (!) … but the basic reality is that there’s little need to carry two phones around on my hip, and since the BB needs to go with me nearly 24/7, I’m more inclined to drop my personal cellphone because I’m paying for it and hardly using it.
Question now is…how does a personal iPhone fit into such a picture? Currently, I’m simply saving the “volume” with an iPod nano.
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I think the rim jokes are pretty well licked by now.
RIM needs to get their collective tongues out of their asses.
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It’s a bitch to read a solid block of text.
It is, a few years back here on MDN I was scolded by everyone for putting a carriage returns between sentances to break up paragraphs to make them easier to read.
But I persisted anyway and now nearly everyone is doing it.
By the way I also invented sex. ;p
“By the way I also invented sex. ;p”
Damn, you’re good.
there’s no way I’ll get rid of my BB8800 for an iPhone – at least not in its current state. I like my iPod Touch though.
Does Mac Maniac have a blog? She is really fascinating.
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