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BlackBerry has twice failure rate of iPhone
News Apple's iPhone has half the failure rate of RIM's BlackBerry in the first year of use, a study carried out by a mobile-phone warranty firm has found. The report's authors also noted that fewer than half-a-percent of iPhone owners reported battery...
[November 10, 2008, 11:24]
HSBC may roll out iPhone to 200,000 staff
News Global banking giant HSBC is considering ditching the BlackBerry and adopting Apple's iPhone as its standard staff mobile device, a move that could result in an order for some 200,000 iPhones. Should HSBC select the iPhone as its official corporate...
[August 14, 2008, 9:06]
SAP to develop corporate apps for iPhone
News Initially, the companies plan to focus development efforts on the iPhone, RIM's BlackBerry and phones running Microsoft Windows Mobile. Corporate software makers SAP and Sybase are teaming up to make it easier for business users to access SAP's...
[March 12, 2009, 7:58]
How will the iPhone impact IT and business users? review
Reviews In its research note entitled 'How to Plan for User Interest in the Apple iPhone', Gartner even went so far as to estimate that the total cost of ownership (TCO) of supporting the iPhone will be double the TCO of supporting BlackBerry or Palm Treo...
[July 5, 2007, 8:13]
iPhone 2.0 vying with BlackBerry in the enterprise
News Even after the March preview and July release of the 'business-friendly' iPhone 2.0 software, it seems that most iPhones are being purchased by individuals rather than corporations, who still look to RIM's BlackBerry first when it comes to...
[November 17, 2008, 11:13]
iPhone fever sees Apple market share grow
News Its latest research report highlighted the buzz surrounding Apple's iPhone, the Android and BlackBerry smartphone platforms, focusing particularly on the iPhone's gains in the market. However, he added that there is opportunity for rivals to target...
[August 20, 2009, 16:14]
Mac OS X sails past Windows in the smartphone race
News Statistics from analyst house Gartner for the third quarter of 2008 show Apple moving into third place in the global ranking with 12.9 percent market share, behind BlackBerry-maker RIM which has 15.9 percent.
[December 5, 2008, 9:22]
Apple snatches second place for smartphone sales
News Apple's stellar quarter for iPhone 3G sales has lifted it into second place among all smartphone vendors worldwide, according to analyst firm Canalys. It's unclear whether Apple will be able to sustain the previous level of iPhone 3G shipments...
[November 7, 2008, 7:24]
Gartner: iPhone will soon be ready for business
News In June, Apple is expected to roll out new, more enterprise-friendly features for the iPhone in a bid to pitch the device against the BlackBerry and other business-oriented handsets. The iPhone will thus match up initially in several segments...
[March 19, 2008, 11:22]
RIM lowers outlook as sales disappoint
News RIM recently introduced its iPhone competitor, the BlackBerry Storm. Market research firms have crowned Apple's iPhone the most popular phone in the US market and the second most popular smartphone worldwide.
[December 3, 2008, 15:41]
RIM delivers solid Q4 results on BlackBerry sales
News In addition, the company ramped-up inventory on the long-awaited Storm, a touchscreen Blackberry to rival Apple's iPhone. Looking forward, the company highlighted the launch of its app store on Wednesday — a move that follows Apple's success with...
[April 3, 2009, 9:28]
O2: Enjoying its bite of the 3G apple
News Despite clearly enjoying the fruits of winning the iPhone contract, Dunne is also keen to stress O2 is not an "Apple house"; nor is Apple's touchscreen phone a BlackBerry killer in his view, though he believes it has certainly shaken the industry up.
[September 22, 2008, 16:35]
Mobile fun with a Blackberry centre...
Blog I'd just sent the iPhone 3G back to Apple after two weeks of playing around with it, when the nice chaps from Research In Motion came in with their latest Blackberry. It was.well, a Blackberry. It's also thought about how to manage corporate apps...
[October 21, 2008, 20:49]
What the future holds for mobile applications
News But Apple has a unique advantage compared with its competitors: its applications have only to support two devices that are essentially identical (the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G), and for the most part Apple works only with a single wireless...
[April 6, 2009, 14:09]
Apple iPhone loses US market share to RIM, Palm
News According to data compiled by research firm IDC, Apple remains the number-two smartphone maker in the US, behind RIM and the BlackBerry franchise. Given the iPhone shortages experienced for several weeks ahead of the iPhone 2.0's expected US debut...
[June 3, 2008, 9:16]
New RIM BlackBerry Better Than iPhone?
Blog Comment Finally, the one specific example you give for why the Blackberry is better doesn't take account of the fact that the iPhone too switches between Edge and Wifi seamlessly. The Blackberry may be a great phone but we have no means of knowing why.
[July 30, 2007, 0:30]
New RIM BlackBerry Better Than iPhone?
Blog Comment There should be no doubt that the iPhone is under attack; the BlackBerry has clearly not attracted the same hacker attention making it a much safer choice. He does not even bother to hide the fact that he is a Blackberry user who has never even...
[August 2, 2007, 4:55]
Smartphones heading for the mass market
News Then along came Apple, which essentially redefined the market with its sleekly designed iPhone that combines the functionality of an iPod music player with a phone and portable web-browsing device that allows people to surf the net on their mobile...
[October 1, 2007, 12:19]
RIM: BlackBerry Storm was Vodafone's brainwave
News The BlackBerry maker has been under pressure to come up with something special to compete in the increasingly crowded high-end mobile market — especially after Apple launched onto the scene in 2007 with the first iPhone.
[October 9, 2008, 9:06]
BlackBerry app store open for submissions
News However, it is not yet clear precisely how much control RIM intends to exercise over which applications are chosen for listing — the closest points of comparison being the iPhone App Store, over which Apple retains control, and the Android Market...
[January 21, 2009, 15:13]
