![]() ![]() With today's announcement, BlackBerry App World is now available in 101 markets. "Research In Motion today announced that BlackBerry App World is now available in 27 additional markets worldwide. "Research In Motion today announced plans to launch two additional BlackBerry 4G PlayBook tablets during the second half of 2011, featuring support for LTE and HSPA+ high speed wide area wireless networks." Even though there isn't a ship date or price yet for the first PlayBook (I'll be asking them for something later today), it's got more on the way: RIM, the company that Nokia's Stephen Elop keeps not mentioning (he implies that the only ecosystems that exist are Apple, Android and Windows Phone), has announced more unicorns.The question is, what features can Apple leave out of the existing iPhone to justify a cheaper - sorry, less expensive - iPhone? The new device would be about half the size of the iPhone 4, which is the current model."Īs a strategy, it sounds very like the one that Apple adopted with the iPod - where it established itself solidly and then began to grab more of the market via price and feature segmentation with the iPod mini onwards. "One of the people, who saw a prototype of the phone late last year, said it is intended for sale alongside Apple's existing line. " Apple works on line of less-expensive iPhones" neatly avoids that "cheap" word, but has some tantalising details: ![]() ![]() That's a rumour that has been around for ages, but what's different this time is that it has come out of the Wall Street Journal, and in particular from writer Yukari Iwatani Kane, who has had the inside track on lots of Apple stories in the past. The Company That Is Not Here, Apple, is reported to be working on an "iPhone mini".11.11am: Day 1 of Mobile World Congress is off with a bang: none of this waiting for starters' orders nonsense. ![]()
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