The cat is out of the bag. Finally, there’s a worthy competitor to Apple’s iPhone and this time the competitor is expected to shake iPhone’s status in the touchscreen phone industry.

Even if the Blackberry Bold 9000 (Research In Motion) has not been released to the market yet, critics are saying that the upgraded Blackberry will surely stir people inside Apple because of its features that are still not found in iPhone.

The Blackberry Bold 9000 will have sharper display, faster processor, and wifi capabilities with 320×480 display, high-speed 3G networking, 1 gigabyte of onboard storage, Bluetooth compatibility and GPS.      (more…)

Fresh from the oven, AT&T, the exclusive sales partner of Apple in the US,  announced it will be selling the upcoming 3G iPhone for $199. Yes, AT&T is preparing to subsidize $200 of the cost of the new iPhone but there’s a catch.

Customers who want the $199 3G iPhone will have to compusorily sign up for a two year contract with AT&T. You will have to pay the $399 unit price for 8GB and $499 for 16GB if you want your network under Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, or Sprint.

The markdown price is a strategy by AT&T to drive customers away from its competitors. But for sure, the other network providers will also be implementing marketing strategies that will challenge AT&T.       (more…)

Yes, there are a lot of mobile phone manufacturers who have tried but didn’t generate much interest as Apple’s iPhone. Nokia hugged the headlines when information about its touch screen phone Nokia Tube 5800 leaked online. It was considered as an iPhone challenger for a while but even as the unit has not been released to the market yet, the Nokia Tube fever has died down and all eyes are now back to iPhone with the coming of the iPhone 2.0

Now, Research In Motion (RIM), the creator of the phenomenal Blackberry is reportedly hot on the trail of iPhone when the reported introduction of a new Blackberry unit that will surely challenge the status of Apple’s baby.

Which is just the right thing for RIM to do. Introduce revolutionary touch screen phones that will compete with the iPhone if the company still wants to take a bite at the smart phone pie. If it remains stagnant and feel confident with the way its Blackberry is selling, RIM is doomed.      (more…)

Apple’s iPhone continues to stir the mobile phone world especially with the coming of the iPhone 2.0 in the next few months. And even as the 3G iPhone news is still hugging the headlines, Apple has announced the introduction of a tactile feedback to iPhone, which means when you press the keys on iPhone’s screen, it will give a sensation, a feeling that you are pressing a real button.

Isn’t that nice?

At the Research In Motion (RIM) office, the atmosphere beams with so much pressure. The company that makes the Blackberry are is in full blast in research and development to keep up with the iPhone hype, which can kill the Blackberry in the near future if the company remains stagnant.   (more…)