Mobility Phones – Mobile Phones

Research In Motion (RIM) today introduced the BlackBerry® Tour(TM) - a powerful new 3G BlackBerry® smartphone for CDMA customers in North America. The new BlackBerry Tour smartphone offers state-of-the-art communications and multimedia capabilities with outstanding mobile performance and consummate styling. It is a feature-packed and highly refined world phone that keeps you connected and lets you tour the world in style. "BlackBerry continues to be the top selling smartphone brand in North America and we are proud to add this powerful new 3G world phone to our successful product portfolio," said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO at ...

Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion (RIM) announced today the BlackBerry® Pearl(TM) Flip 8230 smartphone will be available on the nation's largest 3G broadband network beginning June 19. The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 features the industry's leading mobile e-mail and messaging solution combined with rich multimedia capabilities and the high-speed connectivity of Verizon Wireless' broadband network in a popular flip design. Available color: Silver Key features: - Two high-resolution color displays; the external LCD lets customers preview incoming messages without opening the handset - 2.0 megapixel camera with zoom, flash and video recording capabilities; video recording requires a microSD(TM) card, ...

Research In Motion (RIM) today announced an enhanced BlackBerry® Technical Support Services offering with new levels of support and support service options for small to medium sized businesses and large enterprise customers. "We have developed a more comprehensive, flexible, scalable BlackBerry Technical Support Services program that can help small-to-mid-sized businesses and large enterprises keep pace with their evolving mobility needs," said Alan Panezic, vice president, platform product management at RIM. "The new program includes new levels of support and a range of add-on services, allowing customers to select the right mix of technical support resources to meet ...

"Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry Curve outsold the Apple Inc. iPhone during the first three months of the year, market tracker NPD Group reported Monday."

Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the availability of a new BlackBerry push API (application programming interface) that will enable developers to push real-time content to BlackBerry® smartphones. RIM is extending its existing, well-proven push technology from the enterprise into the consumer space, allowing developers to leverage push technology for BlackBerry® applications targeted at consumers. Push technology provides a proactive mechanism for developers to deliver data to BlackBerry smartphones as it becomes available. It brings immediacy to mobile communications with real-time content, preserves battery life, and minimizes data usage by eliminating the need for "poking" and "polling" ...

Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the availability of BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 5.0 - the next generation of RIM's secure, push-based server software for business mobility. Version 5.0 supports advanced IT administration features and smartphone controls that help improve the productivity of mobile workers and more effectively meet the demands of large-scale, mission critical enterprise deployments. BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 enables a secure, centrally managed link between BlackBerry® smartphones and enterprise systems, applications, corporate phone environments (with BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System) and wireless networks. It tightly integrates with IBM® Lotus® Domino®, Microsoft® Exchange®, and Novell® GroupWise®, and ...

International CTIA WIRELESS 2009® closed on Friday after a riveting keynote address by former Vice President Al Gore, who emphasized that the wireless industry is “one of the great success stories in the American economy.” The continued development of wireless infrastructure is a key indicator fueling the communications revolution. Gore noted that the U.S. has the most competitive wireless industry of any nation in the world, and “because of the competition, we are seeing a continued pulse of investment to expand the capacity of [broadband] networks.” “While the wireless industry comprises a small portion of the global economy, ...

"On a day that Research in Motion prepares to release what could be promising earnings, I have also been able to confirm that the company is prepping a new hybrid Blackberry that will feature both a full QWERTY keypad and a touch screen."

Research In Motion (RIM) today launches BlackBerry App World(TM), a new on-device application store for BlackBerry smartphones. At launch, BlackBerry App World brings together a broad mix of personal and business applications for users to discover. BlackBerry App World is immediately available to BlackBerry smartphone users in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, with more country launches to follow. Users in these countries can download the BlackBerry App World application to their BlackBerry smartphone by visiting www.blackberry.com/appworld from their handset.(i) BlackBerry App World is designed to automatically present the relevant catalog of applications available for a user's specific ...

"Research In Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphones, reportedly is preparing to announce a new video download service for its BlackBerry phones at the CTIA trade show next week in Las Vegas."

"Microsoft has offered up more details on its mobile developer strategy, matched Apple’s App Store revenue split and offered a more transparent process for app approval. With the details of Microsoft’s plans revealed developers are hit with a conundrum: What mobile platform do you bet on? After all, Apple, Microsoft, Research in Motion, Palm, Nokia and Google’s Android all have application markets launched or planned."

Furthering its commitment to provide the most economical unlimited wireless services available to consumers, MetroPCS Communications, Inc. launches their first BlackBerry® CurveTM 8330 smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM). Featuring a full-QWERTY keyboard and advanced multimedia capabilities, the BlackBerry Curve 8330 is an ideal smartphone for customers that want to stay connected to the people and information that matter most. MetroPCS is also introducing two unlimited rate plans to support the BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone. The $50 personal rate plan, for use with the smartphone, will offer flat rate, unlimited talk, text, web browsing, MMS and BlackBerry ...

"NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan's biggest mobile phone operator, said on Friday it has halted sales of Research In Motion's BlackBerry Bold because the phone can overheat while the battery is being recharged."

A survey of 235 US smartphone users who installed applications on their devices in 2008, conducted by ABI Research in November, reveals that a surprising 16.5% spent between $100 and $499. That level of spending is especially significant given the low cost of most mobile applications, ranging from as little as a dollar or two at Apple’s iPhone App Store, to at most about $25. Those low App Store prices are one of the contentious issues discussed in a new global ABI Research study of mobile application storefronts. “Apple is seen by some as hurting the market with ...

2008 proved to be a Year of Two Halves. In the first half, mobile handset shipments happily chugged along at ~14% YoY. In the second half, 3Q handset shipments slowed to 8% before crashing into the Red in 4Q with -10%. The underlying root cause? “Sheer fear sapped the confidence of consumers, enterprises and corporate users across the board,” says Jake Saunders, Asia-Pacific Vice-President of ABI Research. “As a result, 2008 signed out the year with 1.21 billion handsets shipped for an annual growth of 5.4%. Just a year ago we had +16%”. *Nokia 38.6% *Samsung 16.2% *LG 8.3% *Sony ...

T-Mobile USA, Inc., and Research In Motion (RIM) today announced that T-Mobile® will offer its customers the new BlackBerry® Curve(TM) 8900 smartphone, the thinnest and lightest full-QWERTY BlackBerry smartphone. The BlackBerry Curve 8900 from T-Mobile, in a stunning titanium-colored finish with chrome highlights, combines an elegant, compact design with a wide range of popular features and an easy-to-use full-QWERTY keyboard. It features built-in GPS and support of location-based services. It also allows easy access to social networking sites and has built-in Wi-Fi® (802.11 b/g) supporting both voice and data, making it easier to stay connected to family, ...

International CTIA WIRELESS 2009®, today announced new additions to its keynote lineup that include executives from T-Mobile USA, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Clearwire. Robert Dotson, 2009 CTIA chairman, and president and CEO of T-Mobile USA; Robert Bach, president, entertainment & devices division, Microsoft Corporation; Mike Lazaridis, president & co-CEO, Research In Motion; and Benjamin Wolff, CEO and director, Clearwire will join former Vice President Al Gore in delivering keynote addresses during International CTIA WIRELESS 2009, April 1-3 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. “The International CTIA WIRELESS show continues to be an important venue for thought leaders ...

Starting today, TELUS is offering the BlackBerry Storm 9530 smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM) at select TELUS stores across Canada. To celebrate, TELUS customers who buy the BlackBerry Storm smartphone will receive the gift of music this holiday season with a limited-time offer of exclusive pre-loaded songs and music videos from some of Canada's hottest artists. The songs and videos will come on an eight gigabyte microSDHC memory card made possible through TELUS' collaboration with Arts & Crafts, one of Canada's most-respected independent music labels. The memory card puts top Canadian artists such as Stars, Broken ...

MultiMedia Intelligence projects that Motorola will remain the most successful mobile handset manufacturer in the US market in 2008, but that share is rapidly fading. According to recent research by MultiMedia Intelligence, Motorola is projected to provide 21% of all handsets consumed in the consumer market in the US. Samsung and LG are closing fast and promise to surpass Motorola in 2009. "The market share changes among the top mobile handset providers is noteworthy; however, it is not the story of the market," according to Rick Sizemore, chief strategy officer with MultiMedia Intelligence. "The market share gains ...

Qik, Inc., the leading live mobile video streaming platform, today announced alpha support for Blackberry devices from Research In Motion (RIM), including Blackberry Pearl and BlackBerry Bold. With Qik's free service, users can stream video live to the Internet in just two clicks from their mobile phone. Those watching the videos on the Web can take part in live interactive chat with the person broadcasting."We are excited to bring our lifestyle technology to the millions of Blackberry users worldwide," said Ramu Sunkara, co-founder and CEO of Qik. "In our quest to bring mobile live ...