The story appears on

Page A15

April 1, 2011

GET this page in PDF

Free for subscribers

View shopping cart

Related News

Home » Business » IT

App World to go live on mainland


BLACKBERRY is expected to officially launch its App World service for Chinese mainland users in the next couple of days, sources said yesterday, and users now can access the service for a trial period.

A company source told Shanghai Daily that the short trial period would help the company solve any problem before the official launch whose date was not confirmed by the firm. The App World went live in other countries and regions in 2009, but BlackBerry didn't open it to domestic users.

Industry observers said the move to officially launch the App World was to coincide with the launch this month of the Playbook tablet computer by Research In Motion, also the maker of BlackBerry phones.

BlackBerry phones accounted for about 4.6 percent of the domestic smartphone market in terms of sales in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to research firm Analysys International.

IT



 

Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.

沪公网安备 31010602000204号

Email this to your friend