RIM: Earnings show we’re still in the game
Research In Motion today vex Wall Street’s estimates for the ordinal quarter, display that the concern of the BlackBerry is farther from existence a has-been in the smartphone game.
For the lodge success Nov 27, the consort reportable gain acquire of $911.1 million, or $1.74 per share, on income of $5.49 billion. Wall Street had been expecting earnings of $1.64 per deal on income of $5.4 billion. (Click here to wager the evidence and a preview.)
The consort said 82 proportionality of the income came from devices, patch 15 proportionality was attributed to services. The consort shipped most 14.2 meg devices and additional most 5.1 meg gain newborn subscribers in the quarter, attractive the client statement humble to over 55 million. ..read more
Microsoft shows off prototype mobile phone
Image of a Menlo figure attending in the Microsoft Research paper.
(Credit: Microsoft)
Microsoft ostensibly has no intention of letting its unfortunate with Kin ready it discover of the smartphone market.
The school colossus is employed on a touch-screen sound low the codename “Menlo,” according to a Microsoft Research essay named “User Experiences with Activity-Based Navigation on Mobile Devices,” (PDF) most Menlo. From that paper:
“Menlo is a image ambulatory figure with a capacitive contact concealment (4.1? diagonal, 800?480) streaming Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 which incorporates a Bosch BMA150 3-axis accelerometer and Bosch BMP085 digital push device (barometer).”
The paper, which was prototypal reportable by ZDNet’s Jewess Jo Foley, also ..read more