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Friday 16 September 2011

BlackBerry Might Have Slipped To Single Digit Marketshare [ 16-09-2011 19:41 ]

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

Crads on the table folks, RIM hasn't been doing too well lately and their recent earnings report for Q2 only added to their decline. Some quick numbers first: BlackBerry subscribers did in fact rise 40% to 70 million or so, which is the highest level ever. However, it's pretty much all downhill from there; net income dropped by a colossal 60%; average selling price dropped too, and operating margin fell from 21% to just 13%.

That looks pretty bad for RIM, but there's worse to come I'm afraid. An independent analyst, Horace Dediu, noted that RIM's global marketshare may have slipped into single digits during the past quarter. RIM managed to ship a total of 10.6 million devices, which is short of their own estimate of between 11 million and 12.5 million. It's even short of some very conservative estimates for RIM's performance. Dediu states:

In terms of the competition, 10.6 million units is less than half what Apple or Samsung sold in its prior quarter. It's also less than what HTC sold. RIM's volume rank will likely go to fifth place as a smartphone vendor.

To be clear the actual figures for global rankings will not be available for another month or so, but Dediu points out that with the general market trend of growing at 77% these sort of figures from RIM indicate that a single digit marketshare globally could very well be on the cards.

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Shareholder Is Suing HP Over Dropping webOS [ 16-09-2011 19:23 ]

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

HP's decision to effectively drop webOS was certainly a big move and despite the corporate speak webOS is pretty much dead in the water at the moment. It wasn't just the blogosphere that got a shock by the move, Wall Street also reacted, with HP's share price dropping a hefty 20% the day after the announcement was made. Well that appears to be too much for some to bear and one HP shareholder has launched a class action lawsuit against HP.

Richard Gammell, the shareholder in question, alledges that HP did not inform investors that webOS was no longer a major part of the company's strategy and that HP changed its business plan without duly notifying its shareholders. What that amounts to, according to Gammell, is an artificial inflation of the HP share price and Gammell is looking for damages to be paid to shareholders who bought stock between 22nd November last year and 18th August this year.

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Nokia Shipping First Windows Phone Devices By Year's End [ 16-09-2011 18:12 ]

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

The question isn't if Nokia will release a Windows Phone device, but rather when. We still don't have an exact answer to that yet, but a tweet from Nokia Australia has at least narrowed it down somewhat.

Now even though the first handsets will be shipping late this year that doesn't necessarily mean they will be in full swing. It will probably be early next year before we see real volume from Nokia so it won't be until then that we can get a feel for how well Nokia's gamble is paying off.

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RIM's First Touchscreen BlackBerry Curve [ 16-09-2011 17:11 ]

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

The Boy Genius Report managed to score one on one time with RIM's first touch BlackBerry Curve, the BlackBerry Curve 9830 (Orlando). The handset features an 800 MHz processor, which sounds so out of date these days if I'm being honest. The display is 3.25 inches, which again feels sort of behind the times when compared with the current crop of touchscreen smartphones. There is a 5MP camera with support for 720p HD video at least and 1 GB of internal memory and NFC support. It should be out in the shops within a few months.

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Video: Google Rolls Out Voice Actions Across The EU [ 16-09-2011 16:58 ]

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

Google have expanded their Voice actions service across several European countries today. Smartphone and tablet users running at least Android 2.2 will be able to make calls, send SMS and of course use Google search just by speaking to their device. It's a familiar story to those already with the service; tap the microphone button on the homescreen and say something. The countries (and languages) now supported are France/French, Germany/German, Spain/Spanish, Italy/Italian and the UK with British English being supported.

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