Category: Gadgets

Android smartphone reportedly in the works between BlackBerry and Samsung

| June 19, 2015

This device would bring the Google operating system together with the secure and powerful BB services.

BlackBerry’s ongoing struggles have not shown any sign of coming to an end over the last while, despite a number of strategic improvements that the company has made, and it has recently been rumored that the next step along the way will be an Android smartphone.

Now, further rumors are indicating that BlackBerry will be partnering up with Samsung for this new mobile device.

After stumbling a number of times in its predictions as to what would turn the company around, it now looks like it is going to make a move toward an Android smartphone that could potentially differentiate itself in a whole new way. There is a great deal of potential in this type of idea. If it partners with Samsung, it has the chance to make a sleek, attractive, cutting edge device and if it uses Android, it could combine the platform with its own security and software strengths.

The result could potentially be an Android smartphone with a physical keyboard, high security, and awesome software.

BlackBerry & Samsung working togetherOf course, none of these mobile technology rumors have actually been confirmed, but the reports have been made by certain sources that have been highly accurate about their predictions, in the past. According to Eldar Murtazin, the Russian tech blogger, the BlackBerry Venice or BlackBerry Slider, which had been unannounced but that were spotted at the MWC featuring a dual-edge display, could potentially be released based on the Android operating system.

A tweet from the blogger indicated that if BlackBerry and Samsung are working together, the outcome could be an Android Lollipop mobile phone with BB services. The idea is that the trusted enterprise services that are the foundation strength of BlackBerry could potentially be carried over to a mobile device that is launched based on Android.

The reports of the two companies working together on an Android smartphone were released only a day after others that had indicated that BlackBerry was considering making a mobile device based on that operating system, in the first place.

The next iPhone may be manufactured in India

| June 18, 2015

Ahead of the launch of the next generation Apple smartphone, it may be headed to a new country.

The latest iPhone rumors have all been turning heads toward Asia, as it looks as though Foxconn Technologies (one of the most important strategic manufacturing and production partners companies that Apple has) may be changing the location of its mobile device production work.

Foxconn is a company that is based in Taiwan, and it reportedly sees this as a vital move to boost output.

Many predictions have shown that there will be an unprecedented growth in demand for the next iPhone, and Foxconn intends to be prepared for the production requirements that will come with that demand by moving its production to India. It believes that it will be able to achieve a notably higher output level if it works from that country as opposed to its current location.

Government officials have also stated that Foxconn is in talks to move the iPhone manufacturing to India.

iPhone could be made in IndiaAnother potential benefit of this manufacturing move is that it is believed that producing the Apple smartphones in India will make it possible for the prices to be reduced within the third largest smartphone market in the world.

India has more than 1 billion people making up its population and yet Apple is struggling to compete with the mobile devices of Samsung Electronics and other more local manufacturers, particularly because of the associated price tag. This move to India could make iPhones notably cheaper for people living in that country.

A Reuters report also pointed out that by creating an iPhone manufacturing workforce in India, it may be possible for Foxconn to control the impact that it is experiencing with regards to the massive wage inflation that is currently occurring in China. This has been causing the manufacturing opportunity in China to become a situation that has a rising amount of risk and is one that many companies are now making a strategic effort to avoid. India has been providing a considerable alternative for businesses that are seeking a similar opportunity with a lower risk associated with wage inflation.