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further financial losses known manufacturer of mobile phones, the Canadian Blackberry. After the announcement of the financial results of the company’s share price plummeted.

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losses in the last three months amounted to $ 84 million. They were indeed six times less than in the same period last year, but still very disappointing investors.

the company’s stock price fell by 28 percent. The company recently launched Blackberry two new smartphones, touch screen Z10 and Q10 with a small physical keyboard. Formerly known as Research in Motion company also changed its name to the Blackberry in January of this year. As it seems, did not help.

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was until recently one of the leaders in the mobile phone market, now fails with competition from the likes of giants like Samsung, Apple, and Huawei.

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Can RIM Dial Up Big Sales? - Wall Street Journal-India

Research In Motion Ltd. will give investors Friday Their first real insight into how the company’s all-or-nothing bet on a new breed of BlackBerry devices is faring.

The smartphone maker

long ago stopped providing financial guidance, and analysts’ forecasts of quarterly shipments of the new phones are all over the map-ranging from as few as 2.75 million to as many as five million. In part, the estimates vary so much because RIM staggered the devices’ rollout around the world.

The touch screen

Z10 has been selling in Canada and the UK for most of this year, and Friday’s report would offer the first full quarter of Z10 shipments in the U.S. market.

Results will not include shipments of the keyboard-equipped Q10 in the U.S. since That device only went to there customers Earlier this month. In the quarter, RIM is also expected to ship roughly 5 million older model BlackBerrys.

Sales of the new BlackBerrys are expected to fall well shy of Competitors Including Apple Inc. ‘s iPhone and Samsung Electronics Co.’s smartphones. But respectable sales in RIM’s fiscal first quarter ended June 1 could bolster confidence in RIM Chief Executive Thorsten Heins’ turnaround plans.

RIM shares, Which tumbled last year amid delays in the new phones and fears about the company’s survival, have surged 50% so far this year. The stock closed Friday at $ 14.91 on Nasdaq, giving RIM a market value of $ 7.8 billion.

Since taking the helm in January 2012, Mr.. Heins has avoided radical shifts like selling off the company’s equipment operations, or the entire company. Instead, he has focused on pushing out BlackBerry 10, the company’s long-delayed new operating system, and newer phones like the Z10 and Q10 that use it to market.

Time is not on the Waterloo, Ontario, the company’s side. RIM’s share of U.S. smartphone sales from February to April of this year were less than 1% of total sales, says Kantar Worldpanel Comtech, down from 5% the previous year. By comparison, iPhones had 41% of the market, and Android phones had 51%.

RIM’s closest competitor these days, say analysts, is Microsoft Corp. ‘s Windows operating system, Nokia Corp. Which powers. phones among others, and has 5.6% of the U.S. market.

“Every quarter That passes without superlative sales is closer to them giving them [the hardware business] up, or maybe looking to sell That business or somehow make a transition,” said Charles Golvin, a Forrester analyst. “No Matter Which road they choose it is a tough one.”

RIM has recently raised expectations. When the Z10 went on sale in Canada and the U.K. In February, the company hailed the launches as the “best ever” For those countries without providing details. RIM has yet to disclose U.S. sales figures for the phone.

The company has been less effusive about the Q10 Which went on sale in some markets in May but only launched in the U.S. Earlier this month. Analysts have long expected the Q10 to sell well, citing what they said would be pent-up demand from BlackBerry loyalists eager for a new keyboard-equipped phone.

Overall, RIM is expected to report quarterly revenue of $ 3.3 billion and a profit of 5 cents a share. A year ago, it posted a rare operating loss as sales fell 33% to $ 2.8 billion.

At a conference last month, Mr. Heins Introduced a lower-priced phone, the Q5, Which the company is aiming at emerging markets. That phone went on sale in Dubai this month.At the same event, Mr. Heins gave what many analysts Interpreted as the first glimpse of a strategy shift away from hardware sales and into software and services-focused revenue streams. He said BlackBerry Messenger, the company’s popular messaging tool, would soon be available on Apple and Android devices.

This week RIM unveiled another push into services: allowing corporate clients the ability to manage non-BlackBerry devices using RIM software. That program, called Secure Work Space, lets corporate technology departments to manage Apple or Android devices using a new version of RIM’s BlackBerry Enterprise Service, or BES. The offering would cost $ 99 a year per device.

'Secure Work Space' Brings BlackBerry Security to iOS, Android - PC Magazine

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id=”intellitxt” name=”intellitxt”> BlackBerry today rolled out a new security option for the BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 That will let Those with iOS and Android smartphones Their separate work and personal information.

id=”intellitxt” name=”intellitxt”> The move comes as more and more people use their personal smartphones for work-related activities. With Secure Work Space, employees no longer have to have a BlackBerry for work and an iPhone or Galaxy S 4 for home.

id=”intellitxt” name=”intellitxt”> From an iOS or Android device, workers can tap into work documents without having to log on to a VPN, Including integrated email (with attachment viewing), calendar and contacts, and a secure browser for access to a company intranet. Document editing is also available via the BlackBerry’s Documents To Go.

id=”intellitxt” BlackBerry name=”intellitxt”> said It provides security at the device, server, and network level, Extending the same behind-the-firewall connection available on BlackBerry smartphones to iOS and Android.

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“In today’s ‘bring your own device world,’ Secure Work Space is a differentiated solution That brings key elements of the BlackBerry platform security and mobile device management to iOS and Android devices,” said David J. Smith, executive vice president of Enterprise Mobile Computing at BlackBerry.

BES 10 launched in January, and the BlackBerry first Announced plans for Secure Work Space in March. Since then, the BlackBerry has been testing it with customers around the globe, Including Netherlands-based e-office mobile.

“We’re looking forward to deploying this solution across our organization and to our customers in the coming months and bringing the separation of work and personal data to life on iOS and Android devices,” Thierry Lammers, director and co-founder of e-office mobile, said in a statement.

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The BES server software is free to download, but annual licenses for Secure Work Space are $ 99 per year per device. BlackBerry is offering a 60-day free trial of BES 10 with 50 corporate licenses and 50 licenses Secure Work Space.

For more, see PCMag’s review of the BlackBerry 10 OS, as well as the

Apple and BlackBerry continue to play cruel tricks on hedge funds - BGR

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One of the most popular trading ideas among these funds is a short BlackBerry – more than 30% of its stock was sold short recently. And another very popular idea has been going long Apple, of course. As we all know, Those two trading strategies went tragically awry last winter, when Apple’s share price plummeted from $ 700 to $ 400 and BlackBerry’s stock spiked from $ 6 to $ 18 This helped demolish the performances of many of the best known tech funds on Wall Street in the fourth quarter last year and the first quarter in 2013. But that’s not the interesting part. The interesting part is with the new hotel weird winter trends seemed to have reversed in the spring and many funds flocked back to the BlackBerry shorting shares and going long Apple …. only to see a counter-reversal taking place.

This is why most tech-oriented hedge funds have been underperforming the S & P and Nasdaq so badly over the past year: handset / tablet industry share price trends have become demonically difficult to pin down.

Apple’s scary tumble from $ 700 seemed to culminate in a panicky dive to $ 385 in mid-April. Then the share price reversed and rebounded sharply to $ 450 Smooth riding to the new product announcements in late summer and the rebuilding of Wall Street’s confidence seemed to be in the cards, Following the playbook of so many Earlier summers. Except now Apple’s stock is diving below $ 400 again, even with new phone announcements and possible iTV and iWatch debuts coming up.

The widely anticipated

turn sentiment did not stick – possibly because many analysts are still cutting Their iPhone volume estimates as cheap Android devices continue Their triumphant run in Latin America, Middle East and Asia.

BlackBerry’s stock presents a mirror image. The share price spiked to $ 18 in January and drifted down to around $ 12.50 in March. The consensus was that the decline would continue as Z10 hype dissipated and other smartphone launches would steal Q10′s thunder. But the share price started staging surprise bounces as shorting grew even more intense. Now BackBerry is back at $ 15 and Wall Street analysts are scrambling to raise Their BlackBerry 10 volume estimates ahead of Friday’s quarterly report. If your BlackBerry delivers more than 3.5 million units of the new device sales, the report small trigger a short squeeze driving the share price back to $ 18

The number of funds That nailed the recent whiplashes is Likely minuscule. That would have required predicting the shocking reversal Apple stock last September and then Realizing That the April revival, though sharp, would last less than three weeks. These are incredibly tough calls to make, Particularly since handset sector names are no longer correlating well with the Nasdaq. Hedge fund performance numbers for the second quarter this year is going to be fairly fascinating reading.

Respected BlackBerry Extends Security Platform to iOS, Android - eWeek

NEWS ANALYSIS: Secure Work Space Provides a stable security environment by allowing Apple iOS and Android devices to access BlackBerry’s secure network infrastructure.

BlackBerry is bringing its family jewels in the form of Secure Work Space to the fast-paced world of personal devices as a way to give IT managers the stability they need to protect company information while giving users the flexibility they are demanding to use their favorite devices at work.In the process, the company is bringing BlackBerry’s legendary uncrackable encryption to iOS and Android. Equally important, the BlackBerry is bringing a suite of secure, containerized applications-Including email, calendar, contacts and Web browsing-To those new devices.As a result, the BlackBerry is Eliminating the need to Maintain a separate virtual private network (VPN), Which reduces costs while Maintaining security. BlackBerry’s Senior Vice President for Security Scott Totzke described it to eWEEK as “the same secure connectivity with BlackBerry protocols” that’s being used for existing BlackBerry devices. He said the process is also the same. “Encrypt and compress using BlackBerry transport protocols using the same encryption and the same outbound port,” he said. “This is all managed by BlackBerry Enterprise Service [BES],” Totzke said. “There’s no VPN to deploy. There are no additional connections, no extra holes in the firewall.”The network traffic looks the same to the firewall as any other BlackBerry Traffic, According to Totzke, meaning That advanced firewalls and other security systems do not need to be updated.

He also Noted That the BlackBerry encryption works the same as it does with BlackBerry devices. “It uses an AES key VPN That changes with every packet,” he said, adding BlackBerry That treats every data packet as a separate VPN session and uses a new encryption key for each one.The That new apps come with BlackBerry Secure Work Space are modified versions of apps That already exist for BlackBerry 10 and are used with BlackBerry Balance. There’s the secure HTML5 browser That allows users to connect to Securely existing Web services behind the corporate firewall, secure e-mail for use with BES 10.1 and the corporate e-mail service. The calendar and contact apps work with corporate Their analogs, and all connect using the secure BlackBerry environment.While it’s possible to look at this as acknowledging That its BlackBerry devices are not selling, in reality there’s a lot more to it than that. One of the Reasons That BlackBerry Enterprise Service is so widely used is because of its security. IT managers need to be able to deliver secure mobile applications Regardless of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) environment.Because BlackBerry’s Enterprise Service is widely used, the move to BES 10.1, Which is required to support the Secure Work Space, is easy to integrate, since it requires few if any changes to the existing BlackBerry environment. IT managers will not need to change Their company’s security infrastructure to work with the new capabilities.

BlackBerry Launches Secure Work Space for iOS and Android - Mashable

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BlackBerry has launched Secure Work Space, an app that lets businesses and Organizations manage employees’ Android and iOS-based devices through the BlackBerry’s Enterprise Service 10

Apps and data managed through Secure Work Space are secured with 256-bit AES encryption, and separated from users’ personal apps and data.

This means employees will be able to check out 10 Their BES email, calendar and contacts from Their iPhones or Android devices. Web browsing, as well as document viewing and editing, through Documents to Go, is also available.

On the other hand, the company admins will be able to secure and manage the data on all employees’ devices, even Android and iOS ones.

From BlackBerry’s Standpoint, this could be one of the most important apps in the company’s portfolio. It lets businesses use BlackBerry services to full extent even if some (or all) of Their employees are using non-BlackBerry smartphones.

You can download the Secure Work Space trial here, and tell us how you like it in the comments.

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BlackBerry launches service to manage Android, Apple devices - Reuters

A view shows the keyboard of the Blackberry Z10 at a Rogers store in Toronto February 5, 2013.

Credit: Reuters / Mark Blinch

By Euan Rocha

class=”location”> TORONTO | Tue Jun 25, 2013 12:04 am EDT

class=”focusParagraph”> TORONTO (Reuters) – BlackBerry launched a service on Thursday allowing government agencies and corporate clients to secure and manage devices powered by Google Inc. ‘s Android platforms and Apple Inc’s iOS operating system.

The long-anticipated offering, Which BlackBerry had said would come out around mid-year, could help the company sell high-margin services to its large clients even if many, or all, of Their workers are using smartphones made by its Competitors.

The new Secure Work Space feature will be managed through the BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES) 10, a new back-end system launched at the start of this year’s BlackBerry That Allows clients to control mobile devices on Their internal networks.

The company, a one-time pioneer in the smartphone arena, is now fighting to regain ground lost to Apple’s iPhone and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s Galaxy devices. To compete, it has rolled out a trio of devices powered by its new BlackBerry 10 operating system.

It hopes to win back users with the Z10, Q10 and Q5 That devices were unveiled during the first half of this year. The first comprehensive look at the success of its turnaround plan Likely will emerge when it reports quarterly results on Thursday.

At the same time, it has Indicated a shift in emphasis from smartphones to services.

“With an integrated management console, our clients can now see all of the devices they have on Their network, manage Those devices and Securely connect to them,” David Smith, the head of enterprise mobile computing at the BlackBerry, said in an interview.

“We now also have a secure work space on Android and iOS That Allows our clients to secure and manage the data on Those devices as well.”

BlackBerry has installed some 18,000 BES 10 servers since the system was launched in January, up from a little more than 12,000 servers one month ago, and more than 60 percent of U.S. Fortune 500 companies are testing or using the system.

The feature, when used to manage Android and iOS devices, will allow IT managers to fence off corporate email, calendars, contacts, tasks, memos, Web browsing and document editing from personal apps and content, Which could be less secure.

(Reporting by Euan Rocha; Editing by Edmund Klamann)

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After paying $ 4m to port apps to BB10, BlackBerry to stop payments ... - ZDNet

Summary: BlackBerry’s pay-to-port campaign to drive up the number of BlackBerry 10 OS apps is winding down.

By Liam Tung | June 24, 2013 – 9:32 GMT (2:32 PDT)

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BlackBerry 10 ‘port-a-thon’ adds 15,000 submissions to the App World

BlackBerry has paid out $ 4m in rewards to developers for porting existing apps to its BlackBerry 10 OS and will now wind down the campaign.

The company

Announced the payment milestone on Friday, meaning the port-a-thon events it has held since the beginning of the year have generated around 40,000 BB10 apps to populate its BlackBerry World app store.

BlackBerry developers offered $ 100 per ported app, up to 20 submissions. Once approved and made available in the app store, the developer would gain a $ 100 reward.

A good deal of Those apps were gained in January, shortly after the first port-a-thon, when BlackBerry netted 15,000 app submissions in the course of 37 and a half hours. A week later landed a further 19,000 apps in a similar timeframe, thanks to the port-a-thons.

BlackBerry has extended the program several times this year, and initially only budgeted for $ 500,000 in payments. It will now wind down the scheme and pay out to developers That submitted apps. The company will not initiate any new payments or shipments after June 30, though existing pending payments will continue beyond then.

The next phase of the BlackBerry’s developer program will focus on making gaming apps more successful.

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BlackBerry Q10 review - BGR India

When unveiled BlackBerry BB10 and the first two smartphones running on the new operating system, everyone sort of intuitively DECIDED That the Q10 with its QWERTY keypad was the flagship smartphone. Surprisingly, BlackBerry launched the all-touch Z10 first, Which led many BlackBerry die-hard fans (yeah, they still exist) to wait for the “real deal.” The Canadian smartphone maker finds itself in a peculiar situation as it struggles to keep up with its rivals That have all-touch phones with huge touchscreens, as well as appeal to its existing user base That swears by its physical QWERTY keypad. Can Blackberry cling on to the past while forging a place for itself in the future of mobile computing? Let’s find out.

DESIGN

Being the only high-end smartphone with a physical QWERTY keypad Ensures That the Q10 does not have any issues with standing out in a crowd of smartphones. Unlike the Z10, Which had an uninspiring design, the designers have done a good job with the Q10. The Q10 looks as well as feels premium, Which is a rarity these days even in the high-end segment where Certain vendors get away with cheap plastic and faux chrome trimmings. The black variant has a 3D weave pattern on the back That not only Provides a nice grip but also makes the phone look classy. The white variant, which I received for review, however lacked That weave design but the dimpled pattern worked for me.

The metal band That encircles the entire frame lends a sense of sturdiness, Which is missing from most flagship smartphones these days. A metal strip between every row in the keypad Ensures That the phone does not flex and gives an impression with the new hotel keys will not fall off, like they did in some older BlackBerry smartphones. Even the back cover snaps with an assuring click. The Q10 is certainly one of the best built smartphones out there.

Unlike older keypads, That especially on the Bold 9900, the Q10′s predecessor, the BlackBerry has let go of the curved edges and has gone for a flatter keypad. The difference is a little difficult to explain but it Becomes apparent when one starts thumbing on the keypad. It takes a while getting used to, especially for someone who had to let go of physical QWERTY keypads years ago and feels at home thumbing on a glass surface rather than plastic keys. Irrespective of my personal preferences, the keys on the Q10 have just the right amount of give and would appeal to those who still use a BlackBerry Bold.

HARDWARE

On the hardware front, not much has changed since the Z10, with the Q10 retaining most of the specifications as the other BB10 smartphone . It still runs on a Qualcomm dual-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz coupled with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal memory. The microSD card slot remains as well and so does the 8-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front facing camera.

The only thing That has changed is the display, Which is now a strange 3.1-inch 720 × 720 pixels square display. The square display goes well with the portrait QWERTY keypad, but the logic is lost when one plays videos on it when the already tiny Becomes tinier display with thick black frames on the top and bottom.

SOFTWARE

I will not delve deep into the BB10 and how its gestures work, which I have previously covered in the Z10 review, but running the same OS with the same gestures seems a bit odd on the Q10. BB10 was built ground up for an all-touch user interface, Which the designers rightly thought was the future (or rather the present). Swiping up from the bottom of the display on the Q10 is unintuitive and especially the slide up, right flick gesture to get into the hub Takes Time getting used to on the tiny 3.1-inch display. Eventually I started swiping up from the topmost row of keys rather than trying to search for the edge of the display.

One of the main features of BB10 on the Z10 – the intuitive onscreen keypad with its predictive input – has been turned off by default on the Q10. That might make sense considering it has a physical QWERTY keypad, but I found that I could type much faster on the Z10 by flicking words predicted by the software rather than typing it on the Q10′s keypad! They can turn on the predictive input on the Q10 Which shows the words at the bottom of the display but jumping from the display to flick the words to the keypad is unintuitive.

A neat new feature added to BB10 lets users simply type on the homescreen to initiate actions. So I could type “mail Sahil” or “BBM harshit” or “call Sambit” and it would carry out the Necessary action. This is a nice feature That furthers BlackBerry’s ‘getting things done’ mantra.

PERFORMANCE

The BlackBerry Q10 turned out to be a mixed bag when it came to performance. It delivers on the core promise of providing the best physical QWERTY keypad experience on a high-end smartphone, Which has always been BlackBerry’s forte and especially now when there are no high-end smartphones with a physical keypad any longer. In That sense, the Q10 has a niche of its own and does not have any competition. So if one is looking for a phone with a physical QWERTY keypad, there are really no other options and the Q10 Becomes the obvious Choice Awards.

Things, however, get a bit complicated if having a physical keypad is not a requisite. The Q10′s 8-megapixel camera, like the Z10, is nothing worth writing home about, with shots lacking details and being nowhere close to what they can capture with the iPhone 5 or the Galaxy S4. The third party app ecosystem is abysmal – even though the BlackBerry might claim numbers, there are hardly any worth using. The battery performance, however, is great and I could easily stretch it to almost 36 hours on a single charge but then there is only so much they can do on this phone to drain the battery.

VERDICT

As with the BlackBerry Z10, the Q10 is not going to make users switch over from Android or iOS to BlackBerry. This one is Exclusively for those who need a physical QWERTY keypad and BlackBerry users are already. I can not think of any other reason why anyone would spend Rs 44,990 on the Q10 if not for the keypad, considering it hardly does anything else better than other smartphones at this price point. The Q10, with its premium build quality and design, has been undone by the BlackBerry’s pricing policies.

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BlackBerry Is About to Pull a Samsung? - Motley Fool

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Competition in the global smartphone market has Reached a fever pitch. With several former champions of the mobile-phone space vying for Their piece of the pie, we’re seeing companies Pursue some bold tactics in hopes of differentiating themselves. One company attempting to regain a piece of its former glory, BlackBerry ( NASDAQ: BBRY ) Appears That it might be about to borrow a page from one of the current top dogs, Samsung, by taking aim at multiple price points and form factors that appeal to users Potentially in some of its most critical markets. In this video, Fool contributor Andrew Tonner discusses the dynamic and how it could help your BlackBerry going forward.

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Is BlackBerry Back? - DailyFinance

This Friday will be a big day for BlackBerry . The troubled smartphone maker is hoping for a renaissance, powered by a variety of new phones running the company’s QNX-based BB10 OS. The company’s upcoming earnings report will be the second since the BlackBerry 10 smartphones started to roll out worldwide. It’s also the first report since the launch of the Q10: the first BB10 phone with BlackBerry’s signature QWERTY keyboard. The Therefore the report will provide some insight into the demand for these new models.

The BlackBerry Q10.

The new BlackBerry platform is nowhere near challenging market leaders Apple and Google , but investors hope it will be able to carve out its own niche in the rapidly growing smartphone market . However, observers are sharply divided in Their beliefs about just how much traction BlackBerry 10 is Gaining. Next week’s earnings report and the associated conference call Should help a lot in terms of understanding the BlackBerry Whether you can mount a real comeback.

Analysts divided

As my Foolish colleague Tim Brugger recently highlighted, BlackBerry analysts just do not know what to expect from the company. Last Friday, an analyst at Societe Generale upgraded the company, writing That demand for the new BB10 phones has been stronger than expected, and the company could have sold more than 5 million units last quarter. Analysts at RBC and Jefferies are also expecting strong results for the quarter ended recently.

however, there is an even larger pool of analysts who are Convinced That BlackBerry is on the brink of collapse. This Wednesday, an analyst at Bernstein Research cut his rating on the stock, arguing That consumer demand for the new BB10 phones has fallen off rapidly. Similarly, a longtime BlackBerry bear James Faucette of Pacific Crest opined That the vast Majority of BB10 phones being produced are going into inventory, and That BB10 phone global demand is less than 500,000 units per month.

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Opinion on Wall Street is THUS hopelessly divided. Over the past six months or so, a few analysts have crossed over from the bear camp to the bull camp or vice-versa, but for the most part they have become ever more Convinced That Their initial beliefs were true. Furthermore, the market is flooded with a variety of rumors about BlackBerry supply and demand. We need more hard data to get a decent sense of the company’s chances.

BlackBerry

Should investors be looking for two things on Monday: a sales number for BlackBerry 10 phones (anything above 4 million is good, while anything under three million is bad), and some commentary on sell-through. Sell-through Refers to the number of units actually in the hands of users, and THUS excludes phones sold to wholesalers and retailers That are still sitting in inventory. Last quarter, CEO Thorsten Heins said That at least two-thirds to three-quarters of the units shipped to the BlackBerry had already sold through to end users. That’s a very strong figure, and investors need to see Whether the company can repeat That performance.

What does it all mean?
Nobody thinks BlackBerry is going to rival Apple or Samsung in terms of shipment volume in the foreseeable future. However, the BlackBerry has traded below book value for a long time, Which Implies That many people still expect the company to go out of business relatively soon. In other words, it’s not really fair to compare BlackBerry with Apple, Samsung, and Google for investment purposes. If BlackBerry can carve out a small niche in the smartphone market – perhaps 5% of the high-end and midrange segments – investors will be thrilled. Anything beyond That is just icing on the cake.

Realistically, you accomplish this, the BlackBerry needs to start by converting most of its existing subscribers to the BlackBerry 10 devices. Considering how outdated the legacy BlackBerry OS is, these users ought to be very excited about the opportunity to upgrade to a much snappier BlackBerry phone. If this is true, there Should be enough pent-up demand to soak up at least 4 million to 5 million Z10 and Q10 phones for the first several quarters of production.

BlackBerry

If you able to ship 5 million BB10 phones last quarter, and three-quarters of them sold to consumers through during the quarter, it would strongly suggest That this “turnaround scenario” is materializing. If shipments or sell-through are weaker Notably, it will confirm the bears’ fears about BlackBerry getting squeezed out of the smartphone market. For now, investors need to wait and see. Hopefully, BlackBerry’s future will become a lot clearer on Friday.

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Kenya: 1st Girl Blackberry Forms Developer Group in Kenya - AllAfrica.com

Research in Motion yesterday (20th June 2013) formed the first Girl BlackBerry developer group in Nairobi, this is the first in the world, and it will be lead by Kweli Mukeli, as the developer Girl Group Manager.

They made this announcement prior to the BlackBerry10 World Jam Tour held in the Nairobi Incubation Lab (nailab), Kenya. This is the 2nd year they are having the tour in Kenya after holding it at Ole Sereni Hotel in 2012, though have previously had a series of hackathons too.

The tour is dedicated to providing the Enterprise Developer community with insights on the upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform, its strengths, the vision and how developers can build applications That deliver real business value.

BlackBerry10 Jam Kenya; close look up on the user interface

“Native applications are faster since they are compiled, web applications on the other hand are slower since they have to be Interpreted on different platforms.” Luca says Sale, Developer Evangelist for BlackBerry.

BlackBerry 5, 6 and 7 browsers were slow, at the moment the see improvements on this ecosystem That include advanced development on HTML5 and user interface. HTML 5 Allows for cross platform compatibility, this mark up language has enabled developers to code applications That run on various platforms, be it on HP, Nexus 4, Nokia among others. “We do not believe in locking up developers onto one platform,” says Sale. BlackBerry10 (BB10) scored 485 out of 500, against Chrome’s 463 and IOS 7′s 404 on an HTML 5 (html5test.com) test used to benchmark every single browser, in fact says Blackberry10 Sale runs a webkit browser engine, Which only the Chrome browser comes close to. BB10 interface operates at 60 frames – per – second, Which is a sweet spot for fluid user interface operation.

The test shows how different browser interprets HTML objects.

From the Nairobi community, will award Blackberry and Blackberry Z10 or Q10 device to developers with the best three applications selected out of the best fifteen submitted to the “Built for Blackberry App store.” The winning application from the African tour will be awarded USD 5,000 in October.

“Kenya developers are keen on exploring more languages ??and they want to understand new stuff on the BB10 platform,” notes Sale.

Peter Nalika

Peter generates technical content for CIO East Africa and the International Data Group News Service, he also contributes to PC World and Computer World. Peter is classically trained in computing and information management, and he is currently pursing an MBA in Management Information Systems at the University of Nairobi, @ peternalika

Blackberry Q10: First hour - Onet.pl

id=”intertext_1″> With the transition to a new operating system, BlackBerry engineers at all costs try to avoid the loss of the most recognizable elements of the brand, while adjusting device for today’s demands. No wonder: the market for new technologies simply do not be left behind, it does not mean that you have to give up the practice – especially those that have made the company millions of loyal customers. I could be convinced of this by talking to many people who could not imagine that its previous, already worn out mobile Research in Motion (the previous name of the BlackBerry) replace it with something other than Q10. It is thanks to their kindness and exposed to copies demonstration had the opportunity to quietly look at niedost?pnemu still on the Polish market the device.

chosen specification

Dimensions / weight:	66.8 x 119.6 x 10.35 mm / 139g
class=”k_it_bold”> CPU:	Qualcomm dual core 1.5 GHz
class=”k_it_bold”> RAM:	2GB
class=”k_it_bold”> Memory:	16GB
class=”k_it_bold”> Screen:	– Super AMOLED touch screen
	– 330ppi
	– 720x720px resolution
	– diagonal of 3.1 “
	– 1:1 aspect ratio
class=”k_it_bold”> Camera:
class=”k_it_bold”> – Rear:	8MP five-element lens F2.2, FullHD video
class=”k_it_bold”> – Front:	2MP, 720p video
class=”k_it_bold”> Operating System:	Blackberry 10.1 (for updates from version 10-dependent)
class=”k_it_bold”> Battery:	2100mAh
class=”k_it_bold”> Extras:	microSD miniHDMI, NFC

Aesthetics

id=”intertext_3″> you can start a description Q10 differently than the keyboard, the presence of which over the years has become a sort of trademark of Research in Motion? The old company name remains the motto of designers who are not moving away from the idea of ??a comfortable, full-size keyboard for mobile devices – they confess by trial and error – to come to a number of minor amendments to improve this item.

id=”intertext_4″> First, then, rows of keys are “straight”, and in between there are metal frets. The inspiration, according to the designers, was to be the guitar fretboard. The upper part of the front is glass screen, running from edge to edge of the unit, as it is the Z10, also holding a black box to enable support for gestures BB10 system.

id=”intertext_4″> Aesthetic experience is an individual matter, but clearly it must be said that the Q10 can not be denied elegance – both the materials used and their combination do not give occasion to complain. Like the touch Z10 all items are good fit and you will see that every detail has been thought out. The similarities are more: on the left side of the device you will find the same set of three keys on the top of the lock button and the output mini plug, and on the right were miniHDMI microUSB ports.

id=”intertext_4″> Back-divided into two parts: a fixed top, which was the camera lens and flash, and a bottom, a removable flap, which is found under the battery, microSD card slot and microSIM. Designers point out that even separating the two parts of the metal threshold is designed to provide additional protection for the camera.

How does it work?

id=”intertext_4″> can see that the designers sought what was to not only improve, but not the destruction of a concept, which so far had a check. Contrary to initial fears, straightening, curved rows of earlier models, the key is in no way diminished the comfort of writing. Distinct thresholds and sculpted buttons make it easy to “teach” the fingers move across the keyboard, and the tab on the literce “D” enough to find without looking at the numeric part. Fingers quickly memorize the positions of characters and the primary object – error free, quick and, if necessary, and NY State – can safely be considered achieved.

id=”intertext_4″> On the other hand, the physical keyboard is a touch screen, so disappeared the need for additional navigation buttons. This gave more space to the display, the bottom of which is within your thumbs, which allows free use of the on-screen auto-complete options. Of course, the hint system is not as effective as the onscreen keyboard, Z10, and to make it more effective you need to spend more time with him, but after a while you will see that it can speed up text entry.

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