New sharing features introduced in BBM for Android and iOS

It was few days back when BlackBerry introduced its BBM for Android and iOS users which proved to be successful for the company. Now its time for the company to really carve their way in the high paths of Android and iOS platform. Company just released an update for the app which has brought sharing features and bug fixes for improved user experience.

Android captured 80% market share with Samsung alone having 39% of that.

In the intense competition between major mobile operating systems, Android has marked another highest point where it has captured 81% of the total market share in 3Q13. We have then iOS at the second position with 12.9% market share which saw some decline as compared to 14.4 % in the 3Q12 (3rd quarter of 2012). But what was most interesting is the percentage increase in market share for Windows Phone, which jumped to 3.6% from 2% last year (2Q12). This means it increased by 156% and that is really amazing but then also seems very insignificant in comparison to top 2 operating systems.

China's smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi's growth report

Xiaomi, China's sixth largest smartphone manufacturer, started making and selling smartphones from 2011. Now just after two years, company has reached goals bigger than one would have expected.

In the picture, company's co founder and president, Bin Lin .. is holding company's new smartphone launched this year. Company's strategy of selling high specs smartphones at very affordable cost is working like charm, allowing it to nearly double its funding to $10 Billion as comapred to $4 Billion in june, last year. 

It is also interesting to note that company has surpassed Blackberry in terms of total fundings. Company has collected nearly double the fundings collected by Blackberry so far. 

Source http://allthingsd.com/20130824/xiaomis-bigger-than-blackberry/

Facebook app update for BB10: Includes page admin feature and more

Facebook app for BlackBerry has got a new update including many advanced features like Facebook chat, Facebook messages, improved pagemanager, faster scrolling in news feed and better image visuals. One interesting thing written on the company blog was that Facebook app is still maintained and updated by Research in Motion on BlackBerry World. Facebook itself is not providing any update. But still update is very worth. Let us check what we have got in it.

Whatsapp introduces Voice Messages

World's biggest messenger app, Whatsapp has now updated to a better version where voice messages can be sent just like WeChat and Line. News came from the Whatsapp blog, where they posted about this update. Whatsapp has enabled this feature keeping in mind the competition it is getting from newly rising messenger applications across different platforms.

Ubuntu and BlackBerry 10: Gesture Based Operating Systems

Operating systems have very long story of how they begun and changes they faced during the time. Companies started with all hardware keys to navigate into the operating system in mobile devices like Nokia, Samsung earlier phones used to be. Then Apple brought touch screen based mobile phones, keeping just one hardware button to access home screen on the device with some added controls like volume, camera and screen lock controls. Navigate in between the operating system by touching, sliding and tapping your fingers on the screen.