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It looks like Apple’s iPad announcement tomorrow will be as much about “out with the old” as about “in with the new”. Reports are floating in that production of the original iPad has stopped, and retailers have been cut off from further shipments. That being said, it’s probably safe to assume that some price cuts…
Since its announcement, RIM has been touting the BlackBerry PlayBook as the one and only enterprise-ready tablet, and to further emphasize the point they’ve released a video talking in vague terms about how awesome and secure the thing is. The key phrase in the video is that the PlayBook was “Built for CIOs with CIOs”…
Analysts are estimating that Verizon sold 1 million iPhone 4 units on its opening weekend, following up on commetary Verizon’s CEO saying that it had set records (though he didn’t disclose numbers). The iPhone 4’s debut on AT&T scored 1.7 million sales on launch weekend, so excitement for the thing hasn’t tapered off that much.…
At last count, the Windows Phone Marketplace had about 6,500 apps available, and only a short month later they’re up to 9,000 according to a third-party app list. That number’s likely to explode in the next couple of months as Microsoft has recently allowed devs to submit 100 free apps, up from 5 initially. So…
QuickPlay will soon be launching an app called Pocket Cinema which lets you browse movies, rent them, download them over Wi-Fi onto local storage, and watch ’em on the BlackBerry Torch 9800. The only downside right now is that Pocket Cinema is only available in the UK, but the developers are aiming to open up…
Two analysts are providing conflicting reports over whether or not there will be enough iPad 2 tablets for buyers at launch. Goldman Sachs said the new displays would see a bottleneck, or “yield difficulties”, but that’s par for course, as they say “almost all of Apple’s new iOS products start out with limited volumes”. They…
Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi interviewed Apple COO Tim Cook recently, where he said that they’re looking to make an iPhone ideal for prepaid customers; “price is big factor in the prepaid market,” and they’re not “ceding any market.” China is a prime target for such a product, and Cook says they’re working on “clever things”…
The supposed bezel for the iPhone 5, expected to drop this September, has been spied, featuring a negligible border on the left and right for a close to edge-to-edge display. It also looks like the next-gen iPhone will be keeping the front-facing video camera, though it’s tricky figuring that out sometimes since proximity and light…
The BlackBerry Analytics Service, announced back in September, has just gone live in a public beta, offering app developers the tools needed to track their users. Metrics range from number of active users, how many new users an app has gained, how often, in which way, and how much apps are used, along with a…
Over the weekend, a completely fed up app developer poured out his frustrations over trying to make something for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. The roadblocks ranged from an excessive demand for documentation (like getting a notarized letter confirm credentials), an unreliable tool installation process, and excessive costs. At some points I felt like he was kind…