Planning to take your faithful BlackBerry along on a trip to the United Arab Emirates? Think again. The showdown between the Middle Eastern nation and the makers of the popular electronic devices escalated Monday, with Research in Motion (RIM) assuring its customers that it would not alter its security methods, while the United Arab Emirates said its BlackBerry ban, though it won't cover phone calls, also will apply to Americans and other foreign visitors.
By Walter S. Mossberg The Wall Street Journal
All of the buzz last week has been on the release of the BlackBerry Storm, the new touch-screen smartphone. After using one for a day, I was ready to toss it in the river, but I confess after another day, I started to get the hang of the touch-screen, which has a more tactile feel than the competitive iPhone from Apple. Coming from a smartphone with a full real keyboard, the Storm's all-glass feel of the keyboard is its main learning curve.
Patti Mistick knows she has a problem. On Friday, the Pittsburgh Pirates' employee services director got a sneak preview by Verizon Wireless of the new BlackBerry Storm smartphone. Then she had to go from PNC Park -- where the preview was held -- to her office and face a group of Storm wannabees.
The buzz this week has been on the release of the Blackberry Storm, the new touch-screen smartphone. After using one for a day, I was ready to toss it in the river, but after another day, I started to get the hang of the touch- screen, which has a more tactile feel than the competitive iPhone from Apple. Coming from a smartphone with a full real keyboard, the Storm's all-glass feel of the keyboard is its main learning curve.
Reading some accounts of the mobile development market, you can almost see entire rivers of long-bearded and red-flanneled developers panning for gold in iPhone streams. No matter which device manages to pull ahead in the ensuing race between the iPhone and BlackBerry Storm (or even Palm's dark horse, the Pre), the fact is that phones are becoming more powerful, and more will be possible in the application space. Datamonitor predicts that revenue for automatic speech recognition in mobile handsets will grow to $32.7 million this year, up from $26.1 million in 2007, despite the current recession. The mobile app could prove to be the foot in the door that gets consumers thinking about other ways they might speech-enable tasks. Even if speech does provide a boost in sales for a third-party...
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