BlackBerry, Hacking, Vine Porn and More: The AllThingsD Week in Review 1/27/13 – 2/02/13
Happy Super Bowl weekend! In case you missed them and are bored waiting for the kickoff, here are the top 10 stories on AllThingsD from the week of 1/28:
1.) Twitter Hacked; 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compromised
2.) BlackBerry Reinvents Itself to Compete With All-Touch Smartphones
3.) HBO Go Is Coming to Apple TV. Why Isn’t Everything Coming to Apple TV?
4.) PSA: Unlocking Phones Without Carrier Permission Becomes Illegal on Saturday
5.) Time Inc. Braces for Layoffs This Week [Update: They happened -- here's the memo too]
6.) Twitter’s Vine App Doesn’t Have a Porn Problem. It Has a Porn Discovery Problem.
7.) iPhone Users Rack Up the Highest Carrier Bills
8.) Sales Talks Fell Through, So Ad Exchange AdBrite Shuts Down
9.) The Next Step for Computing: The Storage Fabric
10.) Apple Announces iPad Maxi
Music And Videos Land On BlackBerry World Ahead Of BlackBerry 10 Launch
RIM will launch their new BlackBerry 10 OS later today, along with two new BlackBerry 10 smartphones, the BlackBerry Z10 and the BlackBerry X10, and yesterday they announced a range of new content partnerships for videos, and music on their BlackBerry World Store.
RIM has now started selling TV shows, music and movies on their BlackBerry World store ahead of the launch of BlackBerry 10 which takes place later on today.
Everything You Need to Know About the New BlackBerries
This morning the world held its collective breath as RIM BlackBerry took its sweet ass time trotting out the BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 and amidst all the shenanigans, the company formerly known as RIM managed to show off a few notable new BB10 features, too. In case you missed all the live coverage this morning, you can find everything and anything related to BlackBerry 10 below. [Editor's note: you can tap and drag the above Z10 all you want thanks to Gizmodoscope.]
BlackBerry 10 Launch: Everything You Need to Know
Well, here goes. RIM is announcing its new BlackBerry 10 OS and hardware today. This could be the launch that gets RIM back in the game for smartphones. Or it could be the last time BlackBerry is relevant. It’s a big moment. [More]
This is the New Blackberry Z10
Here it is. It’s the new Blackberry 10. It’s official, it looks exactly like the leaked photos and the renders we published. [More]
RIM is Dead, Long Live BlackBerry
Starting today, RIM is rebranding itself as BlackBerry. With the official name change, you can say so long to all your RIM-related innuendo. [More]
BlackBerry Q10: The Next Generation QWERTY Beast
Blackberry’s QWERTY handset for Blackberry 10 is here. Launched today, BB10 10 does away with a lot of baggage that has been holding the company back, but the QWERTY keyboard is here to stay. This slim, lightweight phone is its future. [More]
How the Blackberry Z10 Stacks Up to the Competition
Q10′s physical keyboard may be the most notable feature in the new lineup, but the Z10 is BlackBerry’s best shot at taking a share of the more prominent (at least for now), touchscreen market. So can the Z10 measure up to some of the its biggest contenders? [More]
BlackBerry Q10 Hands On: We Missed You, QWERTY
The BlackBerry Z10 might be the prom queen of the BB10 launch, but the Q10 and its physical keyboard is what a lot of people are actually waiting for. “Will I still be able to have a BlackBerry like my BlackBerry after this?” Sure, just better. [More]
BlackBerry’s Most Important Phone Isn’t Its Flagship
BlackBerry announced two phones today, but it’s clear which is the favorite son. The Z10 looks like a winner; it’s got brains and body enough to face the iPhones and Galaxy S IIIs of the world head-on. It’s got a release date and a price. It’s a phone any company would be proud to call a flagship. In fact, its only downside is that it’s totally irrelevant. Whoops! [More]
BlackBerry’s Best Trick: Nailing Work-Life Balance
Today BlackBerry demoed what it’s calling BlackBerry Balance, a clever way of separating one’s personal and work lives in one device. You don’t see it as much these days but carrying two phones—one for business, one for pleasure—was commonplace not too long ago. I remember having a BlackBerry 6200 alongside my Sidekick 2; and I’m sure a lot of you remember those days as well. [More]
BlackBerry Z10 Camera: The Worst Low-Light Performance We’ve Seen in a Long Time
For the old BlackBerry, a handset’s camera was an ancillary feature. But the new hip BlackBerry is supposed to be tuned into how regular people—not just suits—use their phones. The BlackBerry Z10′s camera has a chance to prove it’s better than the rest. And if our initial low-light camera test is any indication, the camera is a complete failure. [More]
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Apple dominates smartphone OS satisfaction survey
ChangeWave Research, a service of 451 Research, looked at operating system customer satisfaction based upon the OS consumers have on their smartphones.
As in previous ChangeWave surveys, Apple is the clear leader with 71% of iOS users saying they are Very Satisfied with their phone.
What may be a surprise to some is that users of Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system (53%) now rank it higher in terms of customer satisfaction than do users of the Android mobile operating system (48%).
Source: ChangeWave Research
MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote well over a year ago on October 27, 2011:
Windows Phone will be popular. Over time, it’ll eat the lunch of the increasingly fragmented, increasingly insecure, and increasingly costly Android (losing patent infringement lawsuits and dropping features/paying royalties to multiple IP owners will do that to you).
The not-iPhone world will begin to dump Android and move to Microsoft’s mobile OS offering because it will eventually cost less, work better, and come with far fewer legal issues. In the iPhone wannabe market, it’s already happening (Nokia, for example). We expect the same to happen in the iPad wannabe market, too. Google and Microsoft will long battle each other for the non-Apple markets and that’s a much better scenario for everyone than having a single ripoff artist flood the market with fragmented, insecure, beta-esque, mediocre-at-best products. Google’s attempt to be the next Microsoft is doomed.
This, of course, will also impact Google’s search business. Apple’s Siri will increasingly deliver info to users sans Google and Microsoft will, naturally, use Bing for their search. As we’ve said many times in the past: Google will rue the day they got greedy by deciding to try to work against Apple instead of with them.
The bottom line: We’d rather see a company trying unique ideas, even if – shockingly – it’s Microsoft, than the wholesale theft of Apple innovations that we’ve been seeing for over
four[five] years now. Don’t steal IP. Even worse, don’t steal IP and “claim to be innovators.” We have no problem with any companies that attempt to compete with Apple using their own unique ideas and strategies.
Hot Pink Snap-On Rubber Feel Cover Hard Case Cell Phone Protector for RIM BlackBerry Torch 9800 / Torch 9810 / 9810 4G / Torch 2
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iPhone 4S Or Galaxy S III ?
Apple’s iPhone 4S has been on the market for 6 months already and the Samsung Galaxy S III does not even hit keep racks until the end of May. However the iPhone 4S remains the finest selling mobile phone handset worldwide and the Galaxy S III claims to be the best handset in the world, period, so let us place them head-to-head, Mobile Nations style.
It can be immediately apparent just how much larger the Samsung Galaxy S III is, along with a whopping 4.8-inch, SAMOLED PenTile monitor. The Galaxy S III is so huge, it seems just like you might hollow it out and use it as an iPhone case. For people who don’t have a tablet, this is as near as you can get free of dont… Galaxy Note. On the downside, some (yours truly integrated), far like the color and pixel perfection of your non-PenTile iPhone- or HTC One X-style LCD LED show.Regrettably, Samsung still appears to be hugging to their Hasbro-style plastic-type material casings, which are frankly awful compared to the glass and metal a feeling of the iPhone, not to point out the unearthly great plastic materials Nokia and HTC have been using currently.The software side is a lttle bit of a combined bag for the Galaxy S III as well, with the most recent edition of Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich all loaded up, but hidden beneath Samsung’s TouchWiz. Though designed to supply a more consumer-friendly (i.e. Apple-like) appear and feel, it also offers a slightly out-dated, Gingerbread-esque vibe to entire working experience. Pro users will without a doubt desire stock (and will without doubt flash to that particular, or something all-around it, at their original opportunity). The others includes some intriguing, progressive features like speak with wake, accelerometer move from texting to talking, and also variants of Siri and iTunes Match once again cloned instantly from Apple’s 2011 keynote.
The conclusion, on the other hand, remains the similar — Samsung makes fantastic, cutting-edge, entirely uninspiring devices. They can spin out specific features so impressive they literally build your nasal bleed, and yet they really don’t really know how to innovate. Any atom and pixel just sort of reminds you of something you have often seen just before from Apple or Nokia or another person. They may be mechanics more than artists. Of course, that means something a lot more to device divas rather than well known buyers. That’s why Samsung sells millions of these big boys, and why — like Apple — they’re actually successful.
Still, this time around I reckon HTC stole a measure on Samsung. The One X merely seems and feels like a far better next generation Android phone. (I’ve quarreled the Nexus One was far better for it’s time than both the Nexus S or Galaxy Nexus too — Nexus one was a look ahead to what Android could possibly be, Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus were both summations of what Android currently was.)Speaking of which, neither the Galaxy S III nor the One X are Nexus devices, on the other hand, so if/when Google declares Android Jellybean, it might possibly well be a race to see who gets it first… or last… or never.)
Either way, we are intending to have to wait till June to observe iOS 6, and probably October to observe the iPhone 5,1. Immediately the new Androids are striking the marketplace up against the old iPhone, which is a good bit of counter-programming. The more intriguing war will be fought this fall, and Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10 might possibly just create it a 4 way race on this occasion.Simply, watch the video, read the pictures, and let us know what you believe.
