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Fans line up for newly launched windows mobile OS based-Nokia Lumia 800 and 710 at a shopping mall in Jakarta on February 17, 2012. Nokia is depending heavily on its partnership with Microsoft and the new phones to help maintain its ranking as the world's largest mobile phone maker, as RiM's Blackberry, Apple's iPhone and handsets running Google's Android platform take growing bites out of its market share.

Newsday's coverage

  • BlackBerry-maker RIM unveils prototype

    In Motion's new chief executive unveiled Tuesday a prototype BlackBerry smartphone powered by a new operating system, the very software that the company has pinned its future on.Thorsten Heins, who took the CEO job in January, revealed features of the BlackBerry   Read more »

  • RIM to launch updates of popular BlackBerry apps

    downloaded on BlackBerry App World is BBM-connected.Waterloo, Ontario -based RIM has more than 70,000 apps in its App World store for either BlackBerry phones or the PlayBook tablet, compared with 200,000 iPad apps, and half a million for the iPhone.   Read more »

  • Apps: Dial into baseball action, stats

    as well. MLB .com At Bat(iPhone, iPod Touch , iPad ; free with $14.99 subscription or $2.99 per month; Android, Android tablets, BlackBerry ; free with $14.99 subscription) MLB.com At Bat is a first-ballot Hall of Fame app for any category and a must-have   Read more »

  • Apple says more than 200K apps for iPad

    the iPad rather than what CEO Tim Cook calls "blown-up apps for smartphones."Apple products are popular compared with Android , BlackBerry and other devices in part because Apple has a greater number of apps developed by outside parties. Such apps extend the   Read more »

  • RIM releases belated new PlayBook software

    messaging service.The PlayBook OS 2.0 software update is available as a free download. It also allows users to use their BlackBerry's as a keyboard and mouse for the Playbook.The PlayBook is RIM's first effort to branch out from its smartphone base and capture   Read more »

About BlackBerry

The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1997 as a two-way pager. The more commonly known smartphone Blackberry, which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services was released in 2002. It is an example of a convergent device. Developed by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM), it delivers information over the wireless data networks of mobile phone service companies. BlackBerry first made headway in the marketplace by concentrating on e-mail. RIM currently offers BlackBerry e-mail service to non-BlackBerry devices, such as the Palm Treo, through the BlackBerry Connect software. The original BlackBerry device had a monochrome display, but all current models have color displays.

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