RIM seem to be having a tough time at the moment, and now Apple has shipped more smartphones in RIM’s home country of Canada for the first time.
According to a recent report in 2011 RIM shipped a total of 2.08 million BlackBerry smartphones, and this compares to 2.85 million smartphones shipped by Apple for the same period.
This is the first time that Apple has sold more smartphones in Canada than RIM, in the previous year RIM sold 500,000 more smartphones than Apple, and in 2008 RIM sold five times more smartphones that Apple.
AT&T announced some of its devices which will be getting updated to the latest version of Google’s mobile OS, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and at the same time they have rolled out Android 4.0 to the HTC Vivid.
The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich brings a range of new features to the HTC Vivid, which include a new version of HTC’s custom Sense user interface and also updated Beats Audio.
On top of that the HTC vivid gets all the standard feature of Ice Cream Sandwich, which include Face Unlock, and much more, you can update you device by going to the link over at AT&T from you handset.
At the moment Blackberry could do with all the help it can get, to pull itself out the declining sales trajectory its currently following. But designs such as the one created by Toronto based design studio Pixelcarve, detailing a new concept for a Blackberry Blade smartphone, might help RIM turn a corner if they are adopted.
The Blackberry Blade concept design has a slight curved and the main touchscreen slides upward to reveal the familiar BlackBerry keyboard. In a similar style to slide out phones by Nokia in the early 90′s. But there are also fixed buttons beneath the touchscreen in addition to a trackpad.
More information on the Blackberry Blade concept can be found over at the Pixelcarve, Crackberry and Digital Trends websites.
Today Apple has rolled out new high-definition iTunes Movie Trailers to app to support the Retina Display on their new iPad 3 tablet. The new iTunes Movie Trailers application has now jumped to version 1.1 and allows you to view the newest and most exclusive movie previews in glorious HD on your new iPad 3.
Apple’s new iPad which launched a week ago today, features a massive 2048 x 1536 resolution, creating 3.1 million pixels on the iPad’s 9.7-inch screen. Which Apple, says is about four times as many pixels you find on the older iPad 2, and more than many HDTVs.
Even thought the new Apple iPad has only been out for juts a week, Apple has already sold three millions new iPads, and today has launched the new iPad in another 25 countries.
Motorola has released an update for the European version of the Motorola RAZR, unfortunately the update isn’t the Android ICS one, instead they have released a firmware update for the handset.
The latest update is SPU15 and it can be applied directly from the settings menu on your Motorola RAZR, the update is available in the UK, Span and Italy.
The update comes with a range of bug fixes, including some new enhancements, and additions to Motorola’s Smart Actions which now include text messages, WiFi, VIP callers and more.
HTC announced a range of new smartphones last month, one of those was the HTC One V and now it would appear that the handset is headed to Virgin Mobile.
The HTC one V is expected to retail for less than $200 when it lands on Virgin Mobile some time this Spring, and the device comes with Android 4.0 ice Cream Sandwich and the new HTC Sense 4.0.
Other specifications on the HTC One V include a 3.7 inch WVGA display with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, and processing is provided by a single core 1GHz processor.
The HTC one V features a 5 megapixel camera with a BSI sensor, auto-focus and an LED flash which can record HD video in 720p, the device also comes with Beats Audio and HTC’s Media Link for streaming of HD content, plus 4GB of built in storage and a microSD card slot.
Yeah, an optical drive. You know, for folks who still appreciate the passing fads of life. Bitterness aside, Commodore is following up its retro-fabulous C64x with a new small-form-factor PC, the Amiga Mini. While not much of a looker, this box houses a potent 3.5GHz Core i7-2700k CPU, 16GB of DDR3 memory, NVIDIA's GeForce GT 430 (1GB), a WiFi radio and a 1TB HDD that can be swapped out for a 300GB or 600GB solid state drive. There's a slot-loading Blu-ray drive by default, internal space for a pair of 2.5-inch drives and a predictable Amiga logo burned right onto the front panel. Unfortunately, the well-specced base model tips the pricing scales at $2,495, but that does include a copy of its Commodore OS Vision. The company's also revealing the C64x Supreme, the new VIC mini and a more powerful VIC-Slim keyboard computer (which now includes an HDMI output), all detailed in the presser past the break.
