Browsing: Research in Motion

Nokia is replacing its CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, with a top Microsoft executive, Stephen Elop, as the Finnish handset manufacturer seeks to make up for ground it has lost in recent years to rivals such as iPhone-maker Apple and BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion. But already a senior Gartner analyst is questioning the move. “I’m in two minds about this,” says Gartner vice-president Nick Jones.

The BlackBerry Pearl 3G, more formally known as the BlackBerry 9105, is Research in Motion’s boldest product since the Bold 9700. BlackBerry devices have always tended to conjure up images of businessmen and women, hacking away at e-mail on practical Qwerty keyboards.

Research in Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry range of smartphones, has posted a new video showing off its upcoming BlackBerry 6 operating system software. The company has introduced a new, more fluid user interface. The video demonstrates a few of the new applications and features in BlackBerry 6, including a redesigned home screen.

Operating systems were all the talk last week at Mobile World Congress, the cellphone industry’s annual confab in Barcelona. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Nokia and others are engaged in a battle over whose software will run the next generation of smartphones