www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Verizon Wireless, USA’s leading mobile operator, is now selling the BlackBerry Storm for half the price of its original two-year contract price to $99. Though the price of the unsubsidised handset still remains at $499.
On 07.23.09, In Mobile, By Editor
On 07.17.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nokia N97, the newly launched handset by Vodafone UK, has become operator’s best selling handset for the month of July. The handset which stood at second plance for Nokia’s S60 5th Edition smartphone, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. The Sony Ericsson W595 Walkman is on the third place, followed by the C510 Cyber-shot, also from Sony Ericsson. The fifth place is taken by the brand new Samsung Jet.
The other five phones that made it into the top 10 are:
6. Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition
7. Samsung Steel L810
8. Nokia 6300
9. BlackBerry Storm
10. HTC Magic
On 07.13.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The BlackBerry Storm smartphone’s revolutionary SurePress™ touch-screen, which depresses ever so slightly when the screen is pressed, dramatically enhances the touch interface for both typing and navigation. Virtual keyboards on the BlackBerry Storm respond like a physical keyboard to allow easy and precise typing and the interface also supports single-touch, multi-touch and gestures for intuitive and efficient navigation.
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On 06.16.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Research In Motion (RIM) today introduced the BlackBerry® Tour™ – a powerful new 3G BlackBerry® smartphone for CDMA customers in North America. The new BlackBerry Tour smartphone offers state-of-the-art communications and multimedia capabilities with outstanding mobile performance and consummate styling. It is a feature-packed and highly refined world phone that keeps you connected and lets you tour the world in style.
“BlackBerry continues to be the top selling smartphone brand in North America and we are proud to add this powerful new 3G world phone to our successful product portfolio,” said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO at Research In Motion. “With its striking design and exceptional performance, the new BlackBerry Tour will offer a compelling choice for the growing number of wireless customers looking to upgrade their existing cell phone to a smartphone.”
The BlackBerry Tour smartphone allows customers to stay seamlessly connected – across town and around the world. It supports high-speed 3G EV-DO Rev. A networks in North America, as well as 3G UMTS/HSPA (2100Mhz) and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks abroad. (more…)
On 06.15.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Verizon Wireless is soon anticipated to launch the BlackBerry Storm in the mobile market with its coming BlackBerry Tour. Moreover, the operator is also preparing for a launch of the Android based mobile handset, Palm Pre within next 6 months. “Over the next six months or so,” Lowell McAdam said, “you will see devices like the Palm Pre and the Cousin on our network from Palm. You will see a second-generation [BlackBerry] Storm. You will see a new device we call the Tour from BlackBerry as well. That is an upscale of any other QWERTY-based devices that we have from BlackBerry today.”
“You’ll see Motorola back into our portfolio. We feel very good about the progress that the Motorola team has made. And, yes, you’re going to see Android devices as well.” he further said.
On the other hand, Storm is likely to come in by September-October’09. The confirmations have come from both the manufacturer and Verizon Wireless, now the official dates for the release are awaited.
On 06.12.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: AIS, the Thai mobile operator, has launched the RIM’s BlackBerry Storm handset and new BlackBerry tariff plans for its subscribers. The BlackBerry Storm smartphone features a ‘clickable’ touch screen, HSPA network support, web browsing and push e-mail, GPS and multimedia capabilities including a 3.2 megapixel camera with video recording, a media player and an expandable memory card slot. The Blackberry Storm can also be synchronised with iTunes and with the Blackberry Music Gateway, which allows users to play music through their home stereo.
AIS introduced a postpaid BlackBerry plan for THB 850 per month, a prepaid package for THB 40 per day and a roamer package for foreigners travelling to Thailand for THB 500 for three days or THB 900 for seven days. These plans are for the subscribers who use the BlackBerry Internet Service, for Enterprise Server users AIS has separate plans. AIS will sell the BlackBerry Storm for THB 29,900.
On 06.10.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Taiwan Mobile and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that the highly anticipated BlackBerry® Storm™ – the first touch-screen BlackBerry® smartphone – will be available in Taiwan tomorrow. The BlackBerry Storm smartphone features the world’s first “clickable” touch-screen and delivers the renowned usability and
performance of the BlackBerry solution with powerful communications and multimedia features.
Honoured with the GSMA’s Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough award at Mobile World Congress 2009, the BlackBerry Storm smartphone’s unique SurePress™ touch-screen depresses ever so slightly when the screen is pressed, dramatically enhancing the touch interface for both typing and navigation and giving users an experience they can actually feel. The BlackBerry Storm offers a large and stunning display together with a first class phone and the industry’s leading email and messaging capabilities, as well as many other powerful features including 3G (HSPA) network support, desktop-style web pages, advanced multimedia capabilities, 3.2 megapixel camera and built-in GPS – all designed to give users a fast and intuitive mobile experience. (more…)
On 05.20.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Celcom Malaysia aims to double its BlackBerry subscriber base which stood at 16,000 by mid-2008. According to Cellcom’s Vice President (head of enterprise services) Farid Yunus, the company already have more than 50% of the market share of BlackBerry users, and that the trend is set to increase following its move to reduce business costs through services it provides. He further added that the corporate segment is willing to invest and expressed interest in these business services.
Meanwhile, the GM for Sabah region Mohammad Rozaidi Mohd Sharif said, the target is to add 1,000 new BlackBerry subscribers in Sabah in 2009, and they have already registered 300 new users, to date. For BlackBerry Storm, it intends to register 200-250 users out of the total target of new users this year.
On 05.18.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone Egypt and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today introduced a portfolio of high-performance GPS-enabled BlackBerry® smartphones in Egypt, including the BlackBerry® Storm™, BlackBerry® Curve™ 8900, and BlackBerry® Bold™.
Vodafone was the first operator to launch the BlackBerry® solution in Egypt in 2004. Launching the new range of GPS-enabled BlackBerry smartphones for enterprise and individual users further underscores Vodafone’s commitment to maintain a leadership position within the Egyptian market, delivering state-of-the-art products and services to customers.
BlackBerry smartphones provide customers with easy wireless access to email, phone, organiser, web, multimedia and a wide range of other business and lifestyle applications. Through the new GPS-enabled BlackBerry smartphones from Vodafone, users gain incredible functionality and can enjoy the many benefits of location-based applications in the
palm of their hands. (more…)