Friday 18 November 2011

Video: Nokia Lumia 900 Promo Video Leaked    [ 18-11-2011 17:14 ]

Author: Serge Novikov   Source: All About Phones     Translation by: Paul Smith     

Nokia have inadvertantly let the cat out of the bag with a video promo showing off the, as yet, unannounced Lumia 900. The video was posted on Nokia's public YouTube channel before the mistake was realised and the video was flagged as private. Unfortunately the video is short on specifics, it's really just an image of the device with some tag line text aimed at developers. What is suspected of the device though is that it will be sporting a 4.3 inch ClearBlack AMOLED screen, 1.4 GHz processor and an 8 MP camera.

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BlackBerry 7 Sales Slowing Whilst Competitors Surge Ahead    [ 18-11-2011 16:52 ]

Author: Irina Turina   Source: BGR     Translation by: Paul Smith     

Every time I come to write something about RIM these days it invariably seems to be a negative piece and sadly this one is no different. Sales of RIM's BlackBerry 7 smartphones have been slowing recently with competition from rivals such as Android and Apple heating up. Mike Walkley, of analyst firm Canaccord Genuity, summed up the situation “Our recent checks indicate slowing sell-through trends for the new BlackBerry 7 smartphones the past couple weeks. Further, with the launch of the iPhone 4S, increasingly price competitive Android smartphones, improving Windows smartphones, and the launch of the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, we anticipate increasing competition across all tiers of RIM’s products in C2012". This is pretty bad news for RIM because BlackBerry 7 saw its biggest ever launch with a number of handsets being offered through hundreds of different networks world wide. The only other thing RIM has up its sleeve is BBX, but the first BBX handset is probably still a year or so away.

Meanwhile Apple have been announcing 4 million iPhone 4S sales during its first weekend of sales and many analysts are predicting a record breaking fourth quarter for Apple. Android hasn't been standing still either with Google announcing that it activated its 200 millionth Android device earlier this week and that it was processing approximately 550,000 devices a day. All of this whilst RIM, despite its best efforts, continues to flounder. The calls for some sort of meaningful change at RIM will likely only grow louder as a result, but so far all such calls appear to have fallen upon deaf ears.

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200 Independent Labels Dropped From Streaming Services    [ 18-11-2011 16:39 ]

Author: Ivanov Konstantin   Source: STHoldings     Translation by: Paul Smith     

STHoldings is a distributor of music in the UK and they have just announced that they have removed almost 200 independent labels from various streaming services. The reason, according to STHoldings, is because these streaming services "cannibalise the revenue" of traditional music sales. STHoldings will continue distributing just 4 independent music labels, at their own request, through the likes of Spotify, Napster, etc. The decision to drop so many is founded upon some rather simple arithmetic, which STHoldings helpfully tweeted:

3 sheets of toilet paper = £0.010 / Payout out for one stream = £0.006 Music < arse wipe

It's a crude, but effective way of explaining their point. £0.006 per streamed track is certainly a very small amount, but on the other hand it rather misses the point. If they're saying that such cheap pricing means customers will invariably prefer such an option to paying far more in a shop then they are no doubt correct. However, experience has shown that many customers will choose a third option ... piracy. That has a revenue value of £0.000 for the music labels. So which is better? £0.006 or £0.000? As per usual with the music industry it all comes down to trying to protect their precious model of store bought merchandise, which is increasingly unpopular in the ever digital world we live in. Couple that with a desire to wring every last penny from music and you get a situation where they once again cut off their noses to spite their faces.

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