BlackBerry: To Be or Not to Be, That Is the Question

BlackBerry is trying for the second time to become a major player on the mobile phone market, but for the first time this is also a matter of survival for the Canadian company. Since Thorsten Heins took leadership of BlackBerry back in January 2012, the company continued to bleed money to the point that even Windows Phone, a brand new mobile platform, managed to surpass it in well-established markets. The legendary BlackBerry security and reliability traits took a huge blow with the major outage from October 2011, which was also one of the reasons Heins was appointed new CEO and President of BlackBerry while the company’s founders Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis stepped down. Unfortunately, the strategy for turning BlackBerry’s financial...

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Newly Uncovered Samsung SM-T805 Could Be the AMOLED Tablet We Have Been Waiting For

Samsung's R&D teams never seem to be getting any rest. Even if Samsung barely launched its latest set of tablets, the Galaxy NotePRO and Galaxy TabPRO series, the tech giant has apparently already started work on its next high-end tablet line-up. The guys over at SamMobile came across a UAProf listing of an unseen before device code-named SM-T805, which they speculate is a new premium offering. How can we tell it is high-end just by looking at the number? Well, compare it to the one of the Galaxy TabPRO 12.2 SM-T900 and you’ll certainly notice the resemblance. It also helps the screen resolution has been listed as 2560 x 1600 (the same we have in the Galaxy TabPRO and Galaxy NotePRO line-up). The tablet is shown to be running...

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