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Wednesday 26 October 2011

RIM: No PlayBook OS 2.0 Until February, No BB Messenger [ 26-10-2011 14:40 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: BGR Translation by: Paul Smith

RIM have today confirmed that their PlayBook OS 2.0 update will not be released until February of next year. According to Boy Genius Report part of this delay is due to difficulties in getting native apps to work, apps such as email and BlackBerry Messenger. Speaking of which ...

... BlackBerry Messenger will not be included in the app bundle that ships with PlayBook OS 2.0. It will be released sometimes afterwards. According to RIM:

We are committed to developing a seamless BBM solution that fully delivers on the powerful, push based messaging capabilities recognized today by BlackBerry users around the world and we're still working on it.

In other words it's not ready yet and it's not going to be ready by February. In place of BlackBerry Messenger actually being present what you can do, and no I'm not making this up, is to connect an existing BlackBerry smartphone using Bluetooth to a BlackBerry PlayBook using BlackBerry Bridge. If all that sounds a bit convoluted that's because it is.

RIM's reputation hasn't exactly been going up lately what with global service outages, lacklustre products and an ever diminishing market share. Delays and omissions in their own software schdule won't help matters.

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Lumia 710 - The Second Coming Of Nokia Windows Phone [ 26-10-2011 14:31 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Translation by: Paul Smith

If the Lumia 800 stole the show today as Nokia's firstborn Windows Phone device then the Lumia 710 is undoutedly its baby brother. The Lumia 710 is in fact not all that inferior to the 800. It comes with the same 1.4 GHz processor the 800 has, and also features a 3.7 inch ClearBlack display. The camera has been toned down a little, from the 800's 8 MP effort to a 5 MP affair in the 710. Even so the camera does support 720p video recording at least. There's 8 GB of inbuilt memory, half that of the Lumia 800 and 512 MB of RAM.

The Lumia 710 is going to launch first in Hong Kong, India, Russia, Singapore and Taiwan. Those are the countries that will see the Lumia 800's second wave of sales after the initial European markets have been hit. The Lumia 710 will be going on sale for 270 euros.

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Lumia 800 - 1st Nokia Windows Phone Gets Official [ 26-10-2011 13:49 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Translation by: Paul Smith

Nokia finally took the wraps off its first Windows Phone device today at Nokia World. I say 'take the wraps off', but of course the device now known as the Lumia 800 had already leaked on the internet. Nevertheless it is now official.

The handset features an 8 MP camera with the Nokia stalwart of Carl Zeiss optics. There's a 3.7 inch AMOLED ClearBlack curved display to look at the pictures you take with that camera and a 1.4 Ghz chip powering the show. The handset comes with 16 GB of internal memory, but you get another 25 GB of SkyDrive space.

The Lumia 800 is available forpre-order for 420 euros in select countries. The actual release will be around November in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. After that it's going on a (short) world tour as it hits Hong Kong, India, Russia, Singapore and Taiwan. Those latter countries should come into play 'before the end of the year'. Further markets will be opened up in early 2012.