This Week in BlackBerry #63
July 11, 2009“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
~Blaise Pascal
Fix Tip
1. After BB O/S Upgrade, No HTML Email Support?
Commentary
3. Three Questions for This Week
5. The BlackBerry Rise in Large Enterprise
BlackBerry
6. Sprint to Adopt WiFi in BlackBerry Starting 2010
7. Sprint & Verizon Launch BlackBerry Tour Sunday
8. RIM Doubles App World Content
9. BlackBerry Saves Man from Deadly Fall
Palm
iPhone
11. iPhone & Touch: Free Tall Coffee at Barnes & Noble
12. Potential Features for the Next iPhone OS
16. Apple Releases iPhone “Enterprise Deployment Guide”
Android
13. T-Mobile Predicts HTC’s MyTouch 3G will surpass G1
Other News
18. 10% of Smartphone Users Are Addicts
19. How Many Drivers Admit To Texting While Behind The Wheel?
20. Gartner Projects Location-Based Services Boom in 2009
21. Sprint Outsources Network Management to Ericsson
22. Ericsson Wins $1.7B Deal in China
23. Largest Mobile Network Operators (MNOs): Subscribers, Revenue, Ave Revenue/Unit
“If you’re not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.”
~John Alejandro King
Fix Tip
1. After BB O/S Upgrade, No HTML Email Support?
First check you BB > Messages > Options > Email Settings > Enable HTML Email = yes. If you are missing “Enable HTML Email” from your BB, then ask
you administrator to have your “service books resent”
“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves."
~Helen Keller
Commentary
Success in the mobility marketplace is often compared to a race. The race is to drive adoption of innovation, products and services faster than competing solutions. Perpetually competing on the hugely wide track of complex mobility solutions are technologists advancing at the speed of thought. This Week in Mobility reduces truck-loads of news into motorcycle sized summaries with links tempting deeper understanding. Whether you watch with an occasional glance or rapt interest, the mobility race moves us all.
3. Three Questions for This Week
Here are 3 questions to ponder for this week in mobility:
1. Will “augmented reality” gain wider consumer adoption and how can you use it to improve your business?
2. The iPhone consumer tools get increasingly compelling, but since Apple refuses to publish a roadmap, can we assume the iPhone will never meet large enterprise’s most stringent security demands?
3. Are you accessing mobility tools beyond what is safe and healthy?
Go to YouTube and search on “augmented reality”. You will see that a handheld device integrates the camera and the view-screen to fabricate images on top of real objects. If your handheld can make virtual buildings, cars, or zombies appear out of a board game on a table, then what else can it do? Take a look at augmented reality, it will blow your mind, and I bet a few ideas of your own will appear. Let me know what you see…ARHrrrr
5. The BlackBerry Rise in Large Enterprise
Since the BlackBerry inception, wireless efficiency and security were top priorities. Many years later, RIM has developed an unmatched depth of support and administration controls for the BlackBerry server & device. RIM combined its early enterprise market penetration with reasonably transparent roadmaps that deepened partnerships with the most powerful smartphone customers on Earth: government and big business. Through two-way dialog with its customers, RIM solutions have helped define the high standards demanded by security-intensive large-enterprise organizations. Ubiquity, allowing users to select their favorite wireless provider, occurred early in the BlackBerry maturation process. Today’s top supply chain management teams demand multi-vendor ubiquity to leverage their large economies of scale in the negotiation process. A cost-conscience enterprise offers its people the best solution at the best price. RIM quickly learned that if it meets the needs of its largest and most demanding customers, there would no barriers to entry for the rest of the world. Today BlackBerry is a world-wide recognized brand. Is that the development strategy Apple, Palm, and Microsoft should consider? eWeek
BlackBerry
6. Sprint to Adopt WiFi in BlackBerry Starting 2010
All Sprint Nextel smartphones will have Wi-Fi in the future, including upcoming BlackBerry handsets. InformationWeek
7. Sprint & Verizon Launch BlackBerry Tour Sunday
Research in Motion is relying on Sunday’s launch of its BlackBerry Tour to keep pace with Apple and Palm. With Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless on board, RIM is taking the unusual tack of releasing a smartphone with two carrier distributors on the same day.CNET
8. RIM Doubles App World Content
BlackBerry users now have twice as many applications available to download at Research in Motion’s online App World marketplace. RIM, which is also opening App World to users in Italy, France, Germany and Spain, has expanded its inventory to 2,000 apps. By comparison, Apple’s store offers about 50,000 apps.Bloomberg
9. BlackBerry Saves Man from Deadly Fall
While skiing the glacier in the Matterhorn and Monterosa peaks when the snow gave way beneath him, sending him down towards the depths of the crevasse. “After 70 feet it narrowed and I became stuck like a cork in a bottle between the walls,” said Fitzherbert . “Fortunately the extra inches of the Blackberry were enough to block the fall.”BlackBerryCool
Palm
Palm today announced that the Palm Pre will be going on sale in Europe. The Pre is scheduled to be available initially in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany exclusively on Telefonica’s O2 network, and in Spain exclusively on the Movistar network. Wireless Week
iPhone
11. iPhone & Touch: Free Tall Coffee at Barnes & Noble
Do you have an iPhone or iPod Touch? Download the free Barnes & Noble Bookstore app and get a mobile coupon to redeem for a FREE Tall Starbucks Brewed Coffee at any Barnes & Noble Café.
12. Potential Features for the Next iPhone OS
To keep it short, I just say: live object identification, face recognition, text filtering, smarter messaging, voice alteration, event based modes, intelligent and scheduled communications could come with your new iPhone 4.0 or 5.0 OS. Follow the link for details. Unwired
13. Apple Releases iPhone “Enterprise Deployment Guide”
In attempt to garner more enterprise customers, Apple released a “Enterprise Deployment Guide”. Hopefully, this attempt to woo larger business means the future holds a more secure software solution that meets the needs of security intensive organizations. Obama doesn’t have an iPhone. Apple Insider
Android
14. T-Mobile Predicts HTC’s MyTouch 3G will surpass G1
T-Mobile USA launched its second Android-powered smartphone, HTC’s MyTouch 3G, by taking pre-orders before its Aug. 5 mass release. Executives said they hoped the G1 sequel would knock some wind out of the sails of Apple’s iPhone 3GS, and they predicted MyTouch would outdo the million-selling G1.The Wall Street Journal,CNET,PC World
Other News
15. 10% of Smartphone Users Are Addicts
Smartphone penetration in the U.S. stands at 18%, but within the top 10% of that group lies a subculture — dubbed "Smartphoniacs" — who seem to view their handsets as another appendage. Their number may be growing: About 50% of the nation’s smartphone buyers say they are using their devices more now than they were three months ago.The Wall Street Journal
16. How Many Drivers Admit To Texting While Behind The Wheel?
A quarter of drivers with cell phones admit that they send or receive text messages while driving, according to a poll by Harris Interactive. Most drivers who own cell phones use them to talk while driving, even though almost all of them believe it is dangerous to do so, according to the poll results. Most drivers with cell phones use hand-held rather than hands-free phones although they believe that hands-free phones are safer. Even in states where it is illegal for drivers to use hand-held phones, half of cell phone users do so. The poll also shows that most drivers who use cell phones believe that using hands-free phones is safer than using hand-held phones, contrary to the evidence of available research that suggests that it is the minds, not the hands, of drivers that are adversely affected by talking on the phone. Mobile Enterprise
17. Gartner Projects Location-Based Services Boom in 2009
Users of location-based services will more than double this year, to 95.7 million, as will revenue, to $2.2 billion, according to a Gartner forecast. An analyst pointed to "improved price/performance of the enabling technologies and compelling location applications" as a major factor in LBS’ burgeoning popularity.The New York Times,Computerworld
18. Sprint Outsources Network Management to Ericsson
Sprint Nextel inked an outsourcing deal with Ericsson to hand over management of its nationwide wireless and wireline networks. The seven-year deal, valued between $4.5 billion and $5 billion, will transfer 6,000 employees to Ericsson subsidiary Ericsson Services in Overland Park, Kan., which is also home to Sprint’s headquarters
19. Ericsson Wins $1.7B Deal in China
Ericsson also signed 2G and 3G framework agreements, together valued at $1.7 billion, with China Mobile and China Unicom. The deal with China Mobile includes green solutions to support China Mobile’s network energy optimization and CO2 emission reduction target. Ericsson will expand GSM/GPRS coverage and provide TD-SCDMA products and solutions.
20. Largest Mobile Network Operators (MNOs): Subscribers, Revenue, Ave Revenue/Unit
Rank MNO Subscribers (In Millions)
1 China Mobile 457.3
2 China Unicom 179.0
3 Bharti Airtel India 85.7
4 AT&T The US 77.0
5 Verizon The US 72.1
Rank MNO Total Revenue (In USD Billions)
1 China Mobile 57.5
2 AT&T The US 49.3
3 Verizon The US 49.3
4 NTT DOCOMO Japan 43.9
5 Sprint The US 30.4
Rank MNO Monthly ARPU (In USD)
1 3 The UK 74.2
2 Bouygues France 63.9
3 Vodafone Ireland 63.7
4 O2 Ireland 63.6
5 Orange Switzerland 61.5
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Very detailed post. thanks!
Thank you for the complement
~Scott