Technology and Gadgets

A small room at the BlackBerry booth at the Mobile World Congress was the scene where Rick Costanzo, executive vice president and regional director of marketing for the Americas of Research in Motion (RIM), told Emol the problems it has had its company during the past year and look back how to dominate the market.

According reveals Costanzo, although 2011 was seen worldwide as the year that RIM and its products fell, the reality is different. The executive says that globally, the BlackBerry had significant growth, with even the most widely used brand of smartphones in Latin America. Clarifies that the fall in the rate occurred in the U.S. market and know what was the reason. “We realize what caused it. We decided to go for the international market and not to launch products with the first LTE chip available.

But we intend to do so in the future, so we are very confident in our ability to make a comeback. We are ready to strive and respond to trends in America, “he says, maintaining that while the world grew platform This year the company will attempt to “return”. RIM’s bid for this year is its new operating system for smartphones, BB10. Costanzo says the level of concentration is in the company in this software is unprecedented, “My opinion is that the strategy of the company has never been so strong as now. What we have to do is focus on the implementation, ensure that dates that we produce high quality, we do things right. That does not mean that we have done wrong but we are looking at things we have to do and saying ‘let’s go back to basic principles. “These basic principles, the executive , is the facilitation of communication and messaging.

This means that although systems will, for example, listening to music on phones, they will not be its focus and its commitment to differentiation. The same intention to show what became known BlackBerry email and messaging Instant, out in the 2.0 update which received the tablet operating system playbook last week. Costanzo says that this tablet is updated and also said that it is a kind of “preview” of what would be BB10 (whose first devices would be launched “in the second half of the year”), highlighting the ability of have the software to emulate Android applications.

Asked about the rumor that RIM is considering licensing the use of BlackBerry software, as its messaging service BlackBerry Messenger, the executive said it is something they are studying.

BlackBerry seeks to be among the first in the dial phones in the world and everything is predicted to do so in 2012. Earlier this year, BlackBerry had furror with his cell phone models and their RIM operating system. But the market fell between May and August making Android and Apple grow. But RIM is not willing to give budge and by 2012 will present new models of phones and a new operating system called BlackBerry 10.

What are the new models of 2012
Well BlackBerry models are released four: BlackBerry London, Milan BlackBerry, BlackBerry BlackBerry Lisbon and Nevada. Although it has only been filtado information and images of the first two listed above.

The on the left You is the BlackBerry London . 4.3 inch touch screen beating his only motive was to touch the moment the Torch. In this new model will install the Retina Display, which has a density that say it will be higher than the iPhone 4S. Features a processor TI OMAP 1.5 GHz, dual core. with 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of storage.

As for the BlackBerry Milan follows the style of the physical keyboard, but with a Slider format. This time I added trackpad functions and buttons, Dial, back and menu directly to the screen.

Still unknown models RIM (Lisbon and Nevada ), but without any doubt that BlackBerry wants to be in the top marking.

Their arrival was not on the launch delay that made the company Research in Motion for the U.S. and UK in early April. Thus, the arrival of the platform reaches users in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela.

To access the service users of BlackBerry phones must have the operating system version 4.2 or higher.

Then to see the catalog of applications should download the BlackBerry App World, available in Spanish, German, English, Italian and French.

“Currently, the global platform has a total of 2500 applications, free and paid. We want App World function as a boutique, bringing together the programs that we consider most useful for the Blackberry, “said Adrian Lin, manager of Market Intelligence for RIM Latin America.

This selection is based on a technical and functional to ensure proper operation of the application during setup and use. “Moreover, we also ensure that the software is what it says, “says Lino.

Like other platforms that offer applications for smartphones, Apple’s successful App Store, BlackBerry App World application will provide recommendations on the model of user’s computer, a ranking of the most used programs.

That list includes a catalog of games, instant messaging, social networks, among others. In turn, enable monitoring and management of downloaded software.

In this first instance, the online store will offer free applications at this time for users of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela, for the moment, the Portuguese language from the options, while paid applications will be available in the future.

At the moment, for legal and business are available only for the region free applications, but soon we hope to resolve these issues,” said Lino.

Just as there are antioscars in the film world, technology has its awards to the worst of the year. Rapidshare Plus and Google were also among the nominees for the failure more dismal. Of course, the intention of the organizers of these awards is to promote critical thinking.

The Blackberry has won the award Fiasco Award 2012 by the collapse who lived their messaging system in October 2011. That incident had repercussions worldwide, although the company has sought to highlight that during this year its sales rose by 162% over 2010, according to pointed out the organization in a statement.

Competition has been a great level. Google Plus was nominated for her insistence on wanting to create a social network that competes with Facebook, after unsuccessful attempts to Wave and Buzz. The HP Touchpad made ​​its way because just 49 days after its release, HP announced that it completely abandoned its new mobile operating system, WebOS along with the entire PC division, burying its reinvention to compete with Apple’s iPhone.

More currently Megaupload, because since the FBI closed and his chief jailed last January all users who thought having a secure and stable disk ran out of him suddenly. The new Nintendo 3DS erauna strong candidate because, while you play 3D images without glasses, “users have noticed eye strain – some even felt dizzy and nauseous The project Voota was among the candidates because it sought to citizens to move an open list with the highest rated political, but the idea did not work, and the general concept of globalization technology also competes, because no matter how positive, it has also “growing inequality and a sense of control”.

The Fiasco Award recognizes projects on new technologies of the last year ended up being noisy failures, in order to promote critical thinking. A representative from each of the finalist candidates have been invited to attend the party delivery prize, which was held Tuesday in Barcelona.

The famous Nokia ringtone tune is about to be reinvented. Nokia has launched an international competition which invites users to create a new Nokia Tune. The company has set up a website where participants can submit their proposals and, in turn, listen and vote on proposals from other users.

Nokia, along with the audio company AudioDraft building, is looking for a melody “new, expressive and original” but is distinct from Nokia to become the new ringtone mobile phone company. Soon the Finnish live a “reborn” with Windows Phone 7 and want to have a new tone logo.

Participants are invited to experiment with Nokia tunes old and new and also can create their own musical works, sounds and arrangements.

The tune must have a maximum duration of 30 seconds. The deadline ends on October 2. The five proposals most votes are classified as finishers. The jury will select five finalists and will choose other finally the winning between 10.

The winning song will be included in selected models of the range of Nokia in 2012, with an estimated 100 million phones, the company says. In addition, the winning song will be available on Ovi Store and included in the Nokia BrandBook.

To make matters worse, not everything will be recognized as a mobile presence. The winner will receive a $ 10,000 prize (7,000 euros). The five finalists will be ranked including their versions of the Nokia Ovi Store Tune in and receive $ 1,000 (about 700 euros) each.

The renowned name of Nokia’s Symbian operating system for the Belle Nokia now brings an interesting news about Nokia mobile applications. And is that as the operating system of Nokia, Symbian, has been “aldegazado” and what is said from Nokia, much faster, lightweight and easy to use.

With this OS, the Nokia Belle, the most interesting is that it maintains compatibility with applications that could run without problem from the classic Nokia Symbian, so Nimbuzz is still used to talk for free over the Internet with friends and family well as chat and send messages to your contacts from multiple social networks.

Today we will discuss some of the best applications for Nokia Belle and mobile devices:

Nimbuzz : I could not miss the best application to talk for free over the Internet , send messages and chat with friends from multiple social networks at once. Nothing is more complete than this!
Gravity : As an application for managing Twitter in our Nokia mobile Belle recommend Gravity, of course it’s application is one of the best mobile Twitter apps for Nokia , and there is a completely free version.

Facebook: Through Nokia’s Ovi Store you can find a client application installed on Facebook for your Nokia Belle. Through this application you can write on the wall, upload photos, check the status of your friends, etc..

Spotify: We mentioned above some online music player Nokia among others, and where we have included Spotify of course, among other very interesting alternative. (more…)

I had high hopes in the event that RIM had developed this morning in London to introduce new models of BlackBerry and probably some other surprises. According to Spence Partrick, a director of the company, today was the biggest launch of BlackBerry in history, also accompanied the presentation of the new BlackBerry OS 7, to remember that unfortunately can not update the models of the company and show in the market, only newer. And I say I had high hopes because as the event progressed, which you can find more information in Gizmóvil , these have been deflated as he went checking that I had before me was a mere update, a simple set-up without any innovation and without any revolution, the old RIM always repeating the same steps as usual again and again. And so we are not going well.

No brand should be condemned to fall into the clutches of oblivion and technological backwardness unless you make merit for it, we could follow a similar case very closely with Nokia, which lately seems to be soaring thanks to its alliance with Microsoft and presentation of a new terminal with Windows Phone 7, which as we mentioned yesterday seems we will have news soon. The fact is that lately it that RIM will follow the path of Nokia starting to hear increasingly ominous and voices that proclaim the truth is that they lack reason. If there is any reason that the companies may end up ostracized is just one world: the lack of innovation.

Right now the market that make dancing to Apple with its iPhone OS and Google with Android, you like who you like and no matter who gets upset. Before proceeding we briefly summarize the new models that Canada has pressntado today: we have first the Bold 9900 that we saw in the BlackBerry World in Orlando and the two new pearl in the crown are the 9810 Torch and the Torch 9860, both with touch screen, unless the 9810 classic also has the physical keyboard of the Blackberry (this sublime physical keyboard, if I may add) and the 9860 is only a resistive touch screen, an improved version of the ineffable Storm and unusable. Basically it seems that RIM has realized that in the tactile is the future and has updated its terminals for that, keeping to the most conservative with a model that retains the physical and the most innovative with a model that focuses on absolute in touch.

Not a bad idea, but not enough. From my point of view, BlackBerry now has two winning horses, on one hand the business environment, which historically has worked very well and is still very true and the other the popular BlackBerry Messenger, causing anger among the market younger. They are two good reasons to keep holding sales, but unfortunately I fear that they will not remain so for much longer. As to the first because there is increasing migration from RIM phones to other alternatives like the iPhone and Android some, in fact since iOS 4 Apple has put considerable emphasis on the business environment, especially as far as the mail client is concerned, although not anywhere near as good as the BlackBerry OS. On the second day because while WhatsApp wins in the competition number of users is also starting to put the batteries as we have seen with IMessage or the Huddle Google + Android.

With respect to the presentation of OS 7, although several improvements are just staying in a browser that is up to 40% faster than the previous version (according to RIM the fastest of the entire competition) with WebKit which also has partial support for HTML5 and the use of Liquid Graphics technology, which improves system aspects such as fluency loading menus, transitions and visual enhancements when loading applications, all great, but as I said nothing new under the sun. It is a rather personal, but I’ve always seen the BlackBerry as a great productivity tool, nothing is as good as the BlackBerry push email, no one was there before them with an idea as good as BlackBerry Messenger , nothing is so oriented work well and efficiently from the field of mobility as a Blackberry, in that we must recognize that are great, who wants to play games and throwing birds against chorras pigs can buy an iPhone or an Android.

So to further strengthen this point and rely on market trends which I think is missing in BB OS 7 is a bunch of apps in the App World that reinforce and complement all of these features native operating system’s. All these functions are not alone, come with a handful of developers behind it, something they already have other platforms and that RIM should scramble to get it soon. Microsoft has also fully dedicated to it with Windows Phone 7 and currently there are being given too bad, with significant growth of Windows MarketPlace. If the characteristics of promising themselves a BlackBerry, its operation and the principles of its operating system we add a handful of applications that revitalized system, you may get to dodge the pothole. If not I fear what awaits them at the bottom of the abyss into which appear to be sunk is only one thing: failure .

By the time the company RIM confirmed anything about their new devices have the new operating system BBX, but strong rumors and speculations suggest that this will happen very soon and it looks to be in the first half of 2012. On the time and wait until that date there is only one photo of a supposed new Blackberry London.

The site has exclusive rights to the photo the Verge, and according to that site reports that the blackberry london reached in June 2012, comes internally with a dual core processor at 1.5 GHz, with an excellent 8-megapixel rear camera, 2MP camera head, as to leave us the memory is 1GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal memory.

What draws the most attention of the bb london is that it is thinner than the iPhone 4, then it must be said to be smaller than the 9 mm that brings the iPhone.

Features Blackberry London

Display : 4.3 inch, only specifies that the dl like Samsung Galaxy S 2
Processor : TI OMAP dual-core 1.5GHz
RAM : 1GB of RAM
Memory Storage : 16GB
Rear Camera: 8 Megapixel
Front camera : 2 megapixel

It should be noted that we recently heard of another blackberry phone without prior notice, which also appeared as a possible BBX device, the BlackBerry Colt . Indeed, RIM could introduce two smartphones BBX while or maybe we are talking about the new blackberry london.

I recently had the opportunity to try a C7 Nokia smartphone with a stylish, ergonomic design with rounded corners featuring a 3.7 inch touch screen with resolution of 360 × 640, Accelerometer, proximity sensor and ambient light sensor with a powerful ARM 11 processor with 680 MHz GPU with OpenGL 2.0 support all these features in your mobile system Symbian ^ 3.

The new Nokia C7 is a very powerful computer that allows us to get in touch with friends through social networks, have fun with the most popular games, and keep up with the news from your Nokia C7. It currently has a lot of games and applications available for download from the official store of Nokia (Ovi Store). Among the applications for Nokia C7 you are going to recommend major.

By popular demand, now in the blog you are some free apps for Nokia, and it will be these applications Nokia N8 and others, will be adaptable to these three models most popular Nokia phones now.

To this list, we made ​​a compilation of the most sought after applications by users, and so I set them free and we leave you for you to use as you like, are all highly recommended and you can download all the link is way down the post.

1. Flash Player for Nokia

With these applications Nokia C7 , available for the 3 models mentioned in the title, we can have many advantages when trying to install applications like flash games and flash videos. The plugin for Nokia is similar to the PC, so enjoy all the functions of which can even compete with Java.

2. Need for Speed ​​Shift

The newest racing game from EA saga, highly recommended for fans of this series of games.

It has excellent graphics, as it is a HD and 3D game.

This game is perfect for maximizing the video card that bring these impressive móvilesNokia therefore leave many applications Nokia E7. It is completely touch and easy to play.

3. Translator

The application is known internationally as “Translator” is very useful as it is always necessary to load an application to resolve our doubts rapid translation, and often use google but what if we have no signal?. (more…)