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.
Business users do not tend to have much time for digital
camera phones, with a few niche market exceptions, which probably
explains why the BlackBerry Bold offers a vision of yesterday with its
2 megapixel camera, albeit with flash and digital zoom.
There is dual speaker stereo sound though, and
plug in a pair of headphones to get an equaliser option as well. Roxio
Media Manager for BlackBerry will come bundled with the Bold to help
control all the multimedia stuff, along with Roxio Photosuite 9 LE.
RIM tell us, in a move that is sure to annoy Apple, that the Bold
provides simple syncing with iTunes courtesy of the BlackBerry Media
Sync application.
But, again, these are hardly business functions and it seems that RIM
is trying a little too hard to compete with Apple on the consumer
front. The same cannot be said of the location based service and satnav
functionality provided by the integrated GPS.
In the UK the Bold specs include a business-worthy 1GB of storage
on-board, with the option of adding more via a microSD slot. Up to 8GB
more currently.
It seems that Research in Motion, far from just introducing another
level of BlackBerry for its business users to keep them from biting
into Apple, has responded to the iPhone 3G launch by changing tack a
little.
It seems that with this new BlackBerry it is actually targeting the
consumer market and with it potential iPhone 3G users as well. A Bold
move indeed...
David Bass
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