Black Berry Playbook Cutting Retail Price???

The news that the BlackBerry Playbook will be revealed prices ranging proven. Research in Motion (RIM) as producers begin to cut the price of the tablet computer in their home country, Canada.

Local retailers, Best Buy, Future Ship and Staples has cut the price of 100 dollars Canadian Playbook. Also still a $ 100 gift certificate plus other Canadian dollars with certain conditions.

The result was satisfactory, the Playbook is reportedly sold out their stock. Best Buy and Staples to sell in the discount program that only applies two weeks. While Staples does not mention when tempting offer came to an end.

Now, users in Canada can get the Playbook for $ 249 Canadian dollars. The price cuts include computed from the gift card worth 100 Canadian dollars if the purchase is done online.

Quoted from Ars Technica, Monday (26/09/2011), discount Playbook first offered to workers in the local telecom operator, Rogers. RIM is now also decided to cut prices to consumers, though still limited.

Sales Playbook is not in line with expectations, much less with the Apple iPad. The price cuts were made ​​in order to woo consumers back interest-based tablet that QNX operating system.

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Samsung Galaxy S II sales of 10 million units

Samsung relied on the upscale segment of smartphones, Galaxy S II does not disappoint. So far, phones with Android OS Gingerbread has penetrated amount of sales of 10 million units.

Galaxy II was a Samsung smartphone with the fastest sales growth. As quoted from PCMag, Monday (9/26/2011), the number of sales was achieved in just over five months since its marketing.

A total of 3.6 million units sold in the Galaxy S II South Korea, 3.4 million units in Europe and 2.3 million units in Asia. Galaxy II has recently marketed in the United States, one of the most important markets. The number of units sold was expected to continue to rise.

"In just five months of the Galaxy S II show that reflects the great growth in popularity throughout the world," claims JK Shin, President of Samsung's Mobile Communications Division.

Sales Galaxy S II is likely to soon surpass his brother, Galaxy S. Galaxy S is also one of the most successful Android phone, has achieved total sales of about 14 million units.

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After Gingger Bread, Ice cream what next ???

Interesting habit of giving Google a unique name for the Android operating system update is likely to continue. Ice Cream Sandwich has not been officially released, but it blows the latest news about the Android name afterwards, the Jelly Bean.

Jelly Bean which means colorful candies shaped like jelly beans, will become a new member of the Android OS. The name is in accordance with Google's custom OS naming it with the name of a snack food or cover and in alphabetical order.

Reported by Cellular-news and quoted on Monday (12/09/2011), this information is obtained from internal sources who declined to be Google.

Android gait became popular through the Android 1.5 has called Cupcake. Then proceed with the Android 1.6 (Donut), Android 2.0/2.1 (Eclair), Android 2.2 (aka Froyo Frozen Yogurt), Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), and Ice Cream Sandwiches are yet to be determined for how many Android version.

The report also mentions, some interesting features that originally planned in the Ice Cream Sandwich presence likely will be postponed and will be displayed in the Jelly Bean.

Reportedly, this is because these features are still not ready until it was time for the release of Ice Cream Sandwiches are scheduled for next month. But Google itself has not confirmed anything related to this information.

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BBM Vs MANGGA

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Inspired by the success of the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), PT Telkomsel currently developing a similar application called Mangga. This application is an application chat / messaging and emails that can be used cross platform. So that will not only be used on one brand of mobile phones, but can be in various brands of mobile phones."Along with the increasing use of data, messaging applications are affordable to the attention of Telkomsel today. Mangga expected to meet those needs, and become a new trend, "said President Director of Telkomsel, Sarwoto Atmosutarno in his statement last weekend.
Mangga Telkomsel has actually introduced about four months ago. But unlike other products that are promoted heavily, this application such as escape from the promotion.Sarwoto admit it. "Not yet. Mangga is still version 1 and version 2 was developed, when it's new version 3 will be introduced widely to the public, "he said.
With the completion of version 3, Sarwoto Mangga claims will have a capacity equivalent to the Blackberry. The ability messenger, push mail, browsing and other messaging services, including access to social networking. Mangga can be downloaded for free are later available for BlackBerry, Android, Nokia and Nexian.
He revealed that some of the excess Mangga invite one of them through contact. "All contacts can diinvite at once," he said. In this application, the phone number into the username. Therefore, no need to tell a friend or colleague about Mangga username. They automatically have it already. Mangga will even search the phone book to find people who are known who are already using this service.
The services developed include instant chat, instant push email, sending pictures and video. Users also can send and receive emails directly from the application mangga.Problem cost of this service. Package Daily quoted only  Rp. 2 thousand, Rp.10 thousand weekly and monthly Rp 35 thousand.
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Wildfire Mid End Class Solution From HTC

In 2009 HTC smartphone manufacturers that used to focus on the Windows phone successfully get booming smartphone market with HTC Hero followed by the Legend series, which means a legend of HTC's successful journey through the market with the qualified support of the Android OS.

Aware of the need for more entertainment device users in 2010 HTC smartphone that eventually spawned a phenomenal deal directly with the status quo that is Apple, with the release of Desire.

Apparently, HTC's seriousness in working on the market are not satisfied with just a high end smartphone, taiwan manufacturer's apparently also eyeing the Mid-end middle class costumer. namely the issuance of Desire mini version, so named Wildfire.

HTC Wildfire almost begs the same with Desire, just different in sizes and processor. Wildfire 7225 Qualcomm 528 MHz processor 512 Mb ROM with the full specs as follows:

GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, HSDPA 900 / 2100
106.8 x 60.4 x 12 mm 118 g,
240 x 320 pixels, 3.2 inches, TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
- Multi-touch input method
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate the UI
- Touch-sensitive controls
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Optical trackpad
- HTC Sense UI
- Turn-to-mute and lift-to-dim-out a call
Internal Memory 384 MB RAM: 512 MB ROM
GPRS Class 10 (4 +1 / 3 +2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g
Bluetooth A2DP, microUSB v2.0
Primary Camera 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Smile detection, geo-tagging
Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair)
CPU Qualcomm MSM 7225 528 MHz processor
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
HTML Browser
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
- Digital compass
- Dedicated search key
- Facebook, Flickr, Twitter integration
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail
- YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- MP3/AAC + / WAV/WMA9 player
- MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV9 player
- Voice memo
- T9
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1300 mAh


Affairs Wildfire supports HSDPA network connectivity, GPS already and wifi enable. has a 5 MP camera with auto focus and LED flash is accompanied by so able to capture a moment in a state of enlightenment even less. besides that features smile detection and geo tagging is the set of information via the GPS equip Wildfire privilege.

Wildfire is the Android OS out with Eclair 2.1 but now can be upgraded to version Froyo 2.2 so you can share the Internet with other devices via WiFi hotspots that are emitted by the phones.

You will also be offered with premium features that HTC SENSE where you simply touch the screen with your very smooth Wildfire smartphone is still able to respond properly. other advanced features is the social hub, where dismartphone existing contacts will be integrated with your Gmail account, Facebook, Twitter and other social networking.

For those of you interested HTC but economical thinking, Wildfire is the answer for you.

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