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Friday, September 18th, 2009
According to research done by analyst David Eller at TownHall Investment Research, return rates of BlackBerry Tour 9630 handsets to Sprint and Verizon might be as high as 50-percent. Â The most frequent complaint is believed to be problems with the QWERTY smartphone’s trackball, but somewhat bizarrely Eller also claims that people are “complaining about the sensitivity of the touch screen”. Â We’d suggest that’s probably because the Tour doesn’t actually have a touchscreen.
The trackball issue appears to manifest as extreme undersensitivity, with almost frantic scrolling required to move the on-screen cursor only minimally. Â There are some reports of multiple replacement handsets showing the same issues, while others are resorting to DIY modifications ...
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Since the release of the Palm Pre, analysts have been all over it. For the better and the worse, as it turns out no one can figure out whether or not the Pre is making any kind of headway in the market, if its being returned at alarming rates or not, or if people are even happy with their devices. Either way, the Pre isn’t the only device coming down the pipeline wielding the webOS, but according to those pesky analysts, it’s looking like the Eos might not be showing itself until 2010.
There had been rumors that the Palm Eos (codenamed Pixie) would be arriving some time by the holiday season, ...
