A recent survey by ChangeWave shows that Android has overtaken the iPhone as the mobile OS that smart phone buyers plan to buy in 2010. In Dec 2009 it is Android’s 21 percent vs iPhone’s 28 percent and fast forward to March 2010 and Android tops interest to 30 percent while iPhone’s at 29 percent. A mere 1 percent win but a win is a win.

This trend shows that Android will be a growing threat to the iPhone OS X. The other competing platforms such as RIM, Windows Mobile saw a drop in interest. In the satisfaction area though the iPhone leads at 76 percent while Android is a near second with 65 percent.

Analyse the statistics more with 4 more pics of the ChangeWave survey graphs after the break.

Via: Electronista

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The BlackBerry Bold 9700 as spotted on Thailand’s RIM official website shows that there is the option of the color white and it is speculated it won’t be long till it comes to the States. It was expected since the Black Berry Bold 9000 was offered the white colored version afterwards.

White color would really work well with the silver bands in the keyboard and some people would consider white color more slick than the black (Not me though, i still prefer black). No official word yet on pricing and availability but we’ll update once we have the news.

Check out 1 more pic of the white BlackBerry Bold 9700 after the jump.

Via: Engadget

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Online market researchers Crowd Science conducted a study recently with BlackBerry, iPhone and Android users. The survey indicated that BlackBerry users are more likely to abandon the brand the following day to buy another - 39% of BlackBerry users go for an iPhone while around 30% go for Android phone.

When compared to iPhone users and Android owners - a high percentile of 92 percent and 87 percent respectively, this shows the loyalty of users towards each brand.

Still though, the BlackBerry leads in the smartphone market share but is slowly declining.

Source: Yahoo Finance

BlackBerry maker Research In Mothion announced that it has official acquired Toronto based application developer Viigo. Viigo most popular application is the News and RSS Reader available for free which branched off into many other categories such as weather, stocks, shopping, movies and others.

Following the acquisition, Viigo will continue to bring its ‘expertise in BlackBerry application development and real-time content delivery to the BlackBerry platform.’

Source: Unwired View

Telus, Canada’s national telecommunications company will be offering the BlackBerry Pearl Flop 8230 soon as the phone appears to be ‘coming soon’ on Telus website. It is rumored to be priced at around $100 on a 3 year contract. Canadian wireless provider Bell was the first carrier in the world to offer the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230.

Specs of the phone include GPS sensors, 2 megapixel camera, video recording functionality, Bluetooth, 128MB built in memory with expansion through microSDHC cards. It will be available in the standard black or pink colors.

Source: Engadget Mobile

Research In Motion has jumped onto the application marketplace bandwagon and its upcoming store for BlackBerry smartphone has been officially named as BlackBerry App World. BlackBerry owners would be able personalize their phones with games, social networks, personal productivity applications and many others.

Minimum requirements are Blackberry smartphones that uses the operating system 4.2 or higher with trackballs or SurePress touch screen. User can now register their email to be alerted when the App World is officially launched.

Source: BlackBerry

After the iPhone outsold RIM’s BlackBerry Storm to the tune of four to one in the last quarter of 2008, New York based Guava came up with this ad concept to RIM which comes with an anti-Apple message. After much consideration, RiM decided not to use this ad for its BlackBerry Storm which depicted a slow motion capture of BlackBerry Storm bullet passing through an apple which ended with a words ‘The world’s first touch-screen BlackBerry. Nothing can touch it’.

1 videoclip of the RIM BlackBerry advertisement with an anti-Apple message after the jump.

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NTT DoCoMo halted sales of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Bold in Japan after some 4,000 units sold. Word was an estimated 30 people issued complaints of the mobile device’s keyboard area overheating while recharging.

So far the issue was only affected the devices sold in Japan while sales of the BlackBerry Bold in other countried were unaffected. RIM ruled out battery problem and said the root cause is still being investigated.

Source: Reuters

The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 is the first clamshell BlackBerry from RIM and it’s a sleek departure from the bulky business wide look of the BlackBerry lineup. It uses the Tron UI and the latest BlackBerry OS and although the screen is smaller and lacks the horsepower, the translation goes pretty well but marred with performance issues.

Features include OVGA 2.4 inch 320×240 screen supporting 65K colors, media capabilities, 2 megapixel camera and video recording, html rendering, stereo bluetooth support, external microSD memory card slot and full fledged BlackBerry apps such as email, Flickr and Facebook.
Connectivity support includes Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WiFi network as well as support for international roaming.

T-Mobile is currently the exclusive telecommunications courier for the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220.

11 more pics of the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8820 after the jump.

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