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Blackberry App World 2.0 Now Official

August 20, 2010 Leave a Comment

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Blackberry App World 2.0 is finally leaving its Beta phase and is now officially available as a fully fledged service to use. App World 2.0 brings in some goodies to both customers and developers and we shall discuss them throughout this post.

  1. The cost of per application has been decreased to allow developers to develop cheap applications. This can help both customers and developers as some applications with only few functions require less effort and hence, less developing cost. Previously the minimum allowed cost was $2.99 for paid apps.
  2. Now developers can easily release their apps for a lower price point, i.e. $0.99 and $1.99.
  3. However, there is a change in revenue split. RIM has now lowered the 80/20 revenue split to 70/30.

This is done to support the advertising cost that is maintained by RIM. It can seriously disappoint those developers who create high-value apps for Blackberry.

  1. As for customers, the payment options are now flexible than before. But I don’t think that you need to hear that as you were already using Blackberry App World 2.0 Beta yourself, weren’t you? Even then, I would like to remind those users who don’t know just yet that App World 2.0 will support payment via credit card and carrier billing.
  2. Users can also move their purchased apps from one Blackberry device to a new one with great ease.
  3. The interface has become simpler than before and RIM has tried to fix all the bugs in this final release, which were encountered in the Beta release.
  4. The app discovery mechanisms have also been tweaked to find great apps within seconds. This would allow us to enjoy the apps rather than wasting our time to find them.
  5. According to RIM, the App World 2.0 now has more apps than before to choose from and new apps will be added everyday to increase the choices. But the quality of App World 2.0 shall not be compromised with dozens of apps for the same function.

Blackberry App World 2.0 still needs some improvement and RIM has made sure to take our feedback seriously. Let’s see how far it goes with Apple’s app store.
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Research in Motion (RIM) Launching Blackpad to Compete Apple iPad

August 19, 2010 3 Comments

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Research In Motion Launching Blackpad with RIM Software

Research in Motion Company is now working on a new gadget to compete with Apple’s iPad. The rumor is so strong that RIM might introduce the new tablet or pad, as they call it, Blackpad, by the end of November 2010.

RIM, which has a market share of 40 percent, has a strong chance of winning in this field with their unique technologies regarding the business aspect of a digital pad.

Apple iPad, a strong contender of this upcoming digital pad, will be optimized and tweaked further to improve its stability and performance for numerous iPad applications. App store has more than 225,000 applications for iPad and that suggests that for every desire of an iPad user, there is an application for it and with new applications being added every day, the quota just keeps on increasing.

In this filed, however, RIM, has a lower score with their limited amount of applications, i.e. only 8000 plus. However, it must be noted that the applications that RIM offers via BlackBerry App World are focused on business prospects rather than entertainment.

Among these 8000 plus applications, there are unique applications designed to perform there combined tasks, i.e. one media player can play all formats of video and audio with multiple player settings. This limits the need of developing many other applications for various media functions.

There are still no verified configurations for RIM’s Blackpad, but since this digital pad is being developed keeping in mind some tough competitor’s like Apple’s iPad, iPad 2 (highly rumored), Cisco tablet, Sony Pad, etc., it will offer all next-generation features for an iPad.

For example, large screen (possibly 9.7”), front and rear HQ cameras, Wi-Fi, 4G (possibly), Bluetooth 3.0, etc.

Blackpad will be based on RIM’s reliable platform that is responsible for stable functionality of their Blackberry series Smartphones.

Many people are still not happy with the odd sounding and unappealing name of RIM’s new digital pad; therefore, it is possible that RIM might change the name later on.

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