Considered one of
the best smartphone company once, BlackBerry lost its shares to Apple and Samsung.
Not exact matches
-- BlackBerry plans to forge stronger partnerships with others in the tech industry and build
better relationships with longtime business customers as the
smartphone company attempts to turn around flagging operations, chief executive John Chen says.
There are a number of issues the
company would like the media and the financial community to
better understand, such as that the BlackBerry is still the bestselling
smartphone in Latin America, and that it recently became the No. 1 device in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country.
That was chief executive Thorsten Heins's message at the annual shareholders meeting in Ontario today, as he tried to defend the
company's trajectory after sales of the new BlackBerry 10 line of
smartphones fell
well below analyst expectations.
The
smartphones brought in more than $ 40 billion — or
better than 69 % of the
company's total revenue.
Moorhead's post prompted plenty of
well - deserved bashing of Intel's mobile failings and a recounting of how the once dominant
company of the «Wintel» era had been disrupted by
smartphones running weaker, slower but cheaper and lower - powered ARM - based chips.
The
company's displays are widely considered among screen experts the
best in the
smartphone industry, and the Galaxy S9's performance only bolsters that argument.
Motorola says the device, which sold particularly
well in India and Brazil and re-established the
company in the United Kingdom, is its most successful
smartphone yet — even more so than its Droid a few years ago.
To see which
company is in
better position to take over as the clear - cut No. 1
smartphone maker, we asked the next generation of
smartphone users which they prefer: the Apple iPhone or Samsung Galaxy phones.
The appearance came almost a week after Cook took the stage for Apple's latest special event, in San Francisco, where the
company unveiled a host of new and updated products such as the iPad Pro and Apple TV as
well as two new
smartphones — the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus — that went on sale for pre-order over the weekend.
Lower mobile data costs would be
good for Google, because it would mean
smartphone owners could use their devices more — and therefore the
company's various services more.
Israel - based tech
company StoreDot claims to have a new product that can move your
smartphone's charge - o - meter from that red sliver of death to full - on green in
well under a minute.
Buying Motorola will enable Lenovo to join Apple Inc. as the only major technology
companies with global product lines in PCs,
smartphones and tablets, putting Lenovo in a
better position to become a one - stop shop for
companies to buy all their devices from the same vendor, said Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett.
OtterBox is
well - known for its
smartphone and tablet cases, but the Fort Collins, Colorado - based
company is applying its concept of durability to a new market: coolers.
When the BYOD craze started,
company officials had no clue about network security, much less the
best practices that would be necessary to reduce the risks introduced by employees using their personal computers,
smartphones and tablets for
company business.
The
company's stock fell this week after announcing it was spending $ 7.2 billion to buy Finnish
smartphone maker Nokia in an effort to
better compete in the hot mobile market.
The
company, whose low - cost
smartphones have won a loyal following not just in China but in other emerging markets like India as
well, said it would raise an unspecified amount from the public in order to fund the development of new
smartphones and other devices like household gadgets.
Apple also gave
better projections for the third quarter than expected, giving investors more confidence in the
company's long - term health at a time when its top
smartphone rival, Samsung, said it expects demand for its high - end phones to soften.
The
company blamed reduced
smartphone unit volumes in the second half of its fiscal year for the lackluster results, as
well as a negative impact from the sale of lower - priced components at key Android OEMs.
However, we remain skeptical on the
company's ability to execute a turnaround of its device or service businesses, and we continue to believe that there are
better investments in the
smartphone ecosystem than BlackBerry.»
The lower end of the market is saturated with
companies like Xiaomi and Lenovo all trying to deliver the
best smartphone experience at a budget price.
The
company's offerings include home appliances such as TVs, monitors, refrigerators, and washing machines as
well as key mobile telecommunications products like
smartphones and tablets.
Green says the
company's sales team utilizes CPG Data to collect retail display data to target new opportunities as
well as SignTrak to order point of sale material directly from their
smartphones in the field.
The
smartphone may be the
best parenting tool since diapers, and it seems some moms and dads really, really love one
company in particular.
Working in partnership with Wellframe, a Boston - based
company that enables health plans and providers to
better manage risk and amplify existing support resources, McLean Hospital's Waverley Place community support program successfully completed an important and promising study to gauge the effectiveness of a new
smartphone app as a support model for people with severe mental illness.
Spark.com doesn't render too
well on
smartphone and tablet browsers, but the
company's increasing focus on mobile dating has resulted in a fun iOS app that is expected to be available for Android soon, too.
In response to the increasing number of US adults with
smartphone devices,
companies introduced a bevy of new products, including iPhone, Android and Blackberry dating apps, as
well as locations services that use global positioning system (GPS) technology to find other single people in a customer's vicinity.
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Well, it's that time of the year again and here you are, looking for While Arianna Huffington would tell you you're not supposed to bring your
smartphone into bed with you, a range of
companies at CES this week to showcase
However, Sailfish right now is only available developed for use in a
smartphone device though the
company behind it has stated they wish to see the platform transcend to other areas of computing as
well.
Demand for its once famous BlackBerry line of
smartphones has seen a sharp and steady decline and the
company's revamped OS, the BB10, hasn't exactly fared too
well.
Adding, that along with the gradual, but expanding, availability of the BlackBerry Motion, and the demand for BlackBerry - branded
smartphones in general, the
company is now a
good position to further expand the brand's portfolio throughout this year.
The
smartphone's USP is the massive 3,900 mAh battery, which the
company claims is
good enough for up to 48 hours of mixed usage.
The
company might introduce the Xperia XZ during the upcoming Mobile World Congress, but until then, the Xperia XZ is still the
smartphone to go to if you're planning to buy the very
best of Sony.
Last week, the
company showed off an Android - based tablet and
smartphone at CES 2011, as
well as an Android and Google TV - powered HDTV.
With
companies like Qualcomm, Samsung, Intel, and Nvidia regularly releasing new mobile chips that make their way into a wide range of tablets and
smartphones, it's tough to tell at a glance at a spec sheet how
well a given Google Android - or Apple iOS - based tablet will perform.
They were known for having a secure
smartphone, and having the
best physical QWERTY keyboard around, but that was over 5 years ago, and recent years haven't been too kind to the Waterloo
company.
Xiaomi is one of the biggest
smartphone manufacturers in the world, its devices make the top 10
best seller list globally and the
company sold 26.11 million
smartphones in the first half of 2014.
The
company is credited with launching the world's first
smartphone with a 2K screen as
well as the world's thinnest
smartphone, records that have been beaten by others since the launch of the two
smartphones.
The
smartphone, which has a large touchscreen and a modified version of the
company's
well - known keyboard.
Nokia caught everyone off - guard with the Nokia N1, an Android tablet with the
company's name on top that is manufactured and marketed by Foxconn over in China, but it also gave hope to a lot of consumers that the once - giant Finnish manufacturer would soon dip a toe in the Android
smartphone market as
well.
Motorola's retail model, where it only sells phone via Flipkart, may seem restricting to many, but that didn't stop the Moto G to become the
best selling
smartphone in the
company's history.
Today, the
company has launched Power HD, which as the name suggests, is the same
smartphone but with a tad
better set of specifications.
Nokia is
best known for its
smartphones, but the
company is taking a stab at the tablet market with its first Windows 8.1 RT slate, the 10.1 - inch Lumia 2520.
In addition to the unique back panel, the
smartphone also boasts a massive 3,900 mAh battery, which the
company claims is
good enough for up to 48 hours of mixed usage.
The
smartphone also features an 8 - megapixel rear camera, 2 - megapixel front - facing camera, 2,110 mAh battery that the
company claims is
good enough for 18 hours of talktime and 353 hours on standby mode.
The
smartphone is backed by 2,600 mAh battery which the
company claims is
good enough to provide a talktime of 8 hours and a standby time of 200 hours.
Five - inch all - touch
smartphone with long battery life and
best - in - class virtual keyboard is built for career builders and
companies who value security and privacy WATERLOO, ONTARIO --(Marketwired - May 7, 2015)- BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY)(TSX: BB), a global leader in mobile communications, today launched the BlackBerry ® Leap, an affordable all - touch
smartphone in a modern and powerful design for 4G LTE networks in Canada.
After all, it only took us 3 weeks to port our
Good e-Reader App Store from being a
smartphone app, to being fully compatible with E-Ink and other e-reader
companies are now bundling our store on THEIR Android devices.
The
company says that you'll be able to send e-books to a friend's Nook, iPhone, or iPod Touch, select BlackBerry and Motorola
smartphones, as
well as Windows or Mac PCs that have the Barnes & Noble eReader software installed on them.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has gobbled up Skiff, the
company that makes e-readers and is the creator of the software that acts as the provider of information to tablets and e-readers as
well as
smartphones.