Verizon BlackBerry Torch 9850 to Take on Motorola Droid Bionic 4G LTE Today
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(5.7 Percent) and Symbian (1.9 percent).”
Although RIM’s shares went down few months back, with the launch of seven new smartphones RIM is expected to climb back up in days to come. The new models include BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930, BlackBerry Torch 9810 and BlackBerry Torch 9850/9860. Even Motorola has not seen any major boost after the launch of Motorola Atrix in January 2011. Motorola only introduced a few major smartphones like Motorola Droid X2, Motorola Droid 3 and Motorola Photon 4G. But with the launch of Droid Bionic Motorola expects to gain back the market share from top-end smartphones.
The BlackBerry Torch 9850 is the CDMA version of RIM’s second generation Torch smartphone. As of now Torch 9850 will be available online from Verizon Wireless starting with September 8 and will be available in stores from September 15. The phone retails at for $199.99 when purchased with new two-year contracts. However, the BlackBerry Torch 9850 going to Sprint is available for $149.99 with contract. And the phone without contract is priced at $599.99.
Source: International Business Times
Blackberry Torch 9850 smartphone introduced by Verizon Wireless
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The Blackberry Torch 9850 smartphone claims to have the largest display and highest resolution as compared to other Blackberry smartphones, till date. It aims at enabling users to stay connected with their personal as well as professional lives. The device is powered by the BlackBerry 7 operating system and incorporates next generation BlackBerry browser with HTML 5 performance.
The BBM experience and a range of apps have been broadened to fit in gaming and social networking The Social Feeds app is upgraded, to capture feeds from media, podcasts and arrange it in one consolidated view. The Universal search capability is also updated to support voice-activated search. Blackberry’s premium version of Documents To Go has been included to provide document editing features along with PDF viewer.
Source: Mobiletor.com
Soonr Releases Native BlackBerry Application to Access, Store, Share and Sync ...
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Soonr Inc., a cloud services company focused on team productivity for
small and medium businesses (SMB), today announced a native
application for BlackBerry touch screen smartphones including the new
BlackBerry Torch. Reflecting the way business "works," Soonr
Workplace is a secure cloud service allowing teams to work together
on digital content from any device, anywhere in the world.
The Soonr Workplace Touch application is specifically optimized to
support BlackBerry devices with touch-based interfaces including the
Torch 9800, Storm 9530 and Storm2 9550. The combination of Soonr's
cloud service and BlackBerry touch screen devices provides business
users instant access to information on the go. Soonr currently serves
over 50,000 organizations around the world, providing mobile access
from more than 800 devices including Android, Android Honeycomb,
BlackBerry, iPad and iPhone, with patented rendering technology to
view files locally in seconds.
Source: MarketWatch (press release)