The iPhone will from today due to stormy weather. If it were up to Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) is anyway. The Canadian manufacturer brings for the first time a Blackberry on the market that is specifically directed at consumers. With touch screen and ability to watch movies and photos on popular websites such as Facebook and Flickr site.
In the Netherlands, the first telecom service provider Vodafone. The company may own to say a year exclusively with the Blackberry Storm parade. This gives the counterbalance to competitor T-Mobile, which in three months time erase to attract 60,000 customers for the iPhone. The market for smart phones, or smart phones, is growing fast. In the Netherlands, says about 10 percent of phone users to have a smartphone, says a survey by research firm Telecom Paper. The phones are aggressively pushes by telecom providers, because more revenue, says director Ed Achterberg of Telecom Paper. Delivers an average customer is now 27 euros per month. Subscriptions for smart phones start at that price. Research firm Canalys reported earlier this month that global sales of smartphones in the third quarter had risen by 28 percent to nearly 40 million. Leadership is still Nokia. The iPhone from Apple along hard on. Last quarter, Apple sold more than iPhones did with the RIM Blackberry, according to Canalys. This pain should have done to the precursor of corporate e-mail on the phone. With the Blackberry Storm the company hopes to win back ground. In terms of price distinguishes the phone is not in any case. A subscription will cost between 30 and 65 euros per month, equal to the prices that T-Mobile for a reconciliation of the iPhone asks. Still think RIM a chance to make the iPhone hard to make. The manufacturer makes good ornamental with a new touch screen that bounces in the press, so users are still a click-feeling "if they make a choice. "This is the transition from an ordinary phone easier," says product manager Nevin Dos Remedios of RIM. For the connoisseurs of a touchscreen, it is getting used to. Compared with, for example, the iPhone more effort should be made to a contract it. The new touch screen style was already struggling with critical reviews in the United States. The question is whether enough consumers RIM could appeal. The Blackberry is known as a business phone, with users known as Prime Minister Balkenende and the upcoming U.S. presidential Barack Obama. In addition, the Storm is traveling in a crowded market. Besides Nokia and Apple things, inter alia, the South Korean Samsung and HTC with the Taiwanese back in smart phones to consumers. Samsung recently even claimed market leadership in the Netherlands with its Omnia presented at the end of August.
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