Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
While Apple tantalises the taste buds of smartphone users with the currently unattainable iPhone, it's business as usual for RIM which has released another new model of its wildly popular Blackberry phone. In fact, the new white Blackberry Pearl model could be said to have drawn from Apple's design expertise, at least as far as colour is concerned.
Like Apple's MacBook, the Blackberry Pearl now
comes in two non-colors - black and white. This may appear to some as
the new hip design mode of the decade.
In the US, RIM has done an exclusive deal with German-based mobile
carrier T-mobile. Once again, this could signal a trend for smartphone
vendors. Apple last week announced that its new iPhone will be
available exclusively in the US through the country's largest mobile
carrier, Cingular.
RIM is touting the new Blackberry as more than just a business phone
and messaging device. In addition to the messaging, email and Internet
browsing options, the Blackberry Pearl includes a 1.3 megapixel camera
with zoom and built in flash; a multimedia player with support for MP3
and AAC music files, as well as MPEG4 and H.263 video.
“The BlackBerry Pearl has proven that it’s possible to provide a
full-featured handset at an attractive price point with an
uncompromising user experience and an extremely small, light and
stylish design,” said Mark Guibert, Vice President, Corporate
Marketing, Research In Motion. “We are delighted by the immediate
success of the BlackBerry Pearl in the market and we are pleased to
build on this momentum with the addition of another stunning color and
finish.”
Despite the emphasis on style and expanded feature set, the new RIM
smartphone comes with just 64MB built-in flash memory, which is
expandable via a MicroSD slot. With only a 1.3 megapixel camera and
limited storage as standard, some may view the new Blackberry as merely
a business phone dressed up in casual clothes.
While the power, feature set and finish of the Blackberry Pearl may not
match that of the iPhone, however, it has one major advantage - it is
available now.
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