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 It’s been a battle of epic proportions over a microscopic piece of plastic, but the warring sides appear to be working together to find a compromise. We’re referring to the fight between Apple and a coalition formed by RIM, Motorola and Nokia as each group attempts to make their own nano-SIM design the ETSI standard. . . . → Read More: RIM and Motorola modify nano-SIM proposal, hope to meet Apple halfway  By now, the crew in Waterloo have likely piqued your interest in what’s to come for the world of BlackBerry. So far, we’ve gotten to see the company’s developer handset , along with a few screenshots of the BlackBerry 10 software. One element that’s remained elusive up until this point, however, was the home screen itself . . . → Read More: BlackBerry 10 home screen and launcher officially previewed by RIM  Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. . . . → Read More: Refresh Roundup: week of April 30th, 2012  Financial maven and maker of beautiful graphs Horace Deidu has found that between the top eight mobile phone vendors, Apple and Samsung share 99 percent of the total spoils. Of RIM , LG, Sony (Ericsson) , Motorola , Nokia and HTC , only the latter made a profit — claiming that left over one percent. The remaining six all recorded losses for the quarter, Mr. . . . → Read More: Visualized: Apple and Samsung occupy the 99 percent… of phone profits  Hot off the heels of the BlackBerry 10 exhibit , RIM announced a partnership with Gameloft that will see the developer offer a number of mobile titles by the time the new platform launches. . . . → Read More: Gameloft set to offer 11 games on BlackBerry 10 platform at launch, more to follow  With the release of their BlackBerry 10 beta development tools and Dev Alpha devices earlier today, RIM has made it very clear that they want to build up as much developer love as possible before BlackBerry 10 officially launches. Well, as it turns out, that’s not the only thing they’re doing to attract devs. . . . → Read More: RIM To Developers: We’ll Make Sure Your App Earns At Least $10K In Its First Year  Before wrapping things up at the BlackBerry 10 Jam keynote, Alex Saunders lobbed out a whale of a tidbit: the Dev Alpha may be joined by another, “very limited-edition” version of a BlackBerry 10 device much closer to the platform’s official launch. . . . → Read More: RIM: another limited-edition developer device coming later this year  Remember that retro time-defying camera app that RIM unveiled alongside a few other BB10 features? You should — it happened this morning. . . . → Read More: Did Scalado Invent RIM’s Time-Defying BB10 Camera Tech?  Those decrying the death of the BlackBerry keyboard can officially put their mourning on hold. RIM CEO Thorsten Heins addressed the matter during today’s keynote — but just in case the QWERTY-inclined weren’t quite convinced by the sentiment, a spokesperson for the Canadian smartphone maker has brought some reinforcement, telling Phone Scoop that, while early BlackBerry 10 devices will be focused on the virtual, physical keyboards will also be making their way into the mobile OS’s ecosystem. . . . → Read More: RIM: Don’t worry, BlackBerry 10 devices with keyboards are on their way  comScore just took the wraps off its data for the first quarter of 2012, and it confirms what we’ve been seeing over the past few months: in the U.S., Samsung and Android are the manufacturer and mobile OS to beat. Samsung maintains its lead with 26% of the total mobile headset market share, up from 25.3% in Q4 2011. . . . → Read More: comScore’s Q1 2012 data shows that Samsung and Android are still sitting pretty |
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