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Analyst Sees BlackBerry PlayBook Buzz Building Ahead of Rumored April Launch

John Paczkowski in News on March 18, 2011 at 11:05 am PT

RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook doesn’t yet have a firm price or launch date–though new rumors suggest it may arrive at market by mid-April–but already there is developing demand for it. According to some analysts, anyway.

BlackBerry PlayBook: Looks Good on Paper, But…

John Paczkowski in News on February 2, 2011 at 3:50 am PT

The PlayBook’s hardware specs might beat anything on the market, its QNX OS might be rock solid and its “Web fidelity” might outshine that of the iPad, but Research in Motion’s forthcoming “professional tablet” will be poorly received when it finally ships. This according to Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair, who believes the device to be signifigantly flawed and claims it will be “dead on arrival.”

IPad 2 Display Question Draws Closer to Resolution

John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 31, 2011 at 4:43 am PT

If you were hoping that Apple, through some combination of engineering acumen, force of will and luck, would overcome the power consumption and cost issues preventing it from adding a high-resolution retina display to the iPad 2, it may be time to relinquish the dream. Because a new set of specs cited by Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst for Concord Securities in Taiwan, suggests the device will feature the same 1024×768 resolution display as its predecessor.

Game Changer? Sony Uncrates Next Generation Portable

John Paczkowski in News on January 27, 2011 at 7:03 am PT

Sony stepped up its game in the mobile gaming market this morning by uncrating the Next Generation Portable, the successor to the dusty PlayStation Portable. A radical redesign of the PSP, the device promises a PlayStation 3-level gaming experience in a handheld form factor.

Apple's Ping Wants Rock ‘n’ Roll, but No Sex and Drugs

Peter Kafka in Media on October 14, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

When it comes to creating profiles on its would-be social network, Apple doesn’t want music acts thinking that differently.

RIM’s PlayBook: Scoring in Garbage Time

John Paczkowski in News on September 28, 2010 at 8:45 am PT

You wouldn’t know it from Research in Motion’s share price today–down 3.35 percent at $46.74–but analysts were generally impressed with the PlayBook, the “professional tablet” the company announced at its developer conference Monday.

RIM Gets into the Tablet Game, Throws Out the PlayBook

John Paczkowski in News on September 27, 2010 at 1:30 pm PT

Research in Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis had his “one more thing” moment today at the company’s 2010 DevCon conference. Near the end of his opening keynote address, Lazaridis–after making a number of big announcements, including in-app payments for BlackBerry apps, a BlackBerry Advertising Service and the opening of BBM as a social platform–uncrated the PlayBook, RIM’s long-rumored tablet.

Apple to Debut iTunes.com, Mac Pro and MacBook Air Refreshes at WWDC?

John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 28, 2010 at 6:15 am PT

The big news coming out of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 in early June will almost certainly be a next-generation iPhone, a device with specs much like those leaked earlier this spring. But there may be a few other announcements as well. The next version of the Mac OS X, perhaps. And beyond that, some news about the Mac and iTunes.

New Dell Smartphones Surprisingly Slick

John Paczkowski in News on April 22, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

Dell’s new foray into the smartphone market looks to be a hell of a lot more impressive than you’d expect from a company with a historically lousy industrial design sensibility and lack of software development experience. Information leaked to Engadget reveals that Dell is working on a handful of impressive-looking handsets.