You know that multi-talented smartphone powerhouse sitting in your pocket? Well, it may just be one of the last of its kind.
That’s the prediction from RIM’s UK boss Stephen Bates, who says the expansion of the tablet market and its more media-friendly form factor will push smartphones back towards being pure communication devices.
“Demand is being met by smartphones for now, but the form factor isn’t ideal,” Bates argued at a London seminar on the mobile industry’s future yesterday. “We’re going to see a change in behaviour; the tablet is going to come in as a media device and we’re going to see the smartphone drifting back to pure communications.”
However, if you’re getting pictures in your mind right now of your call-and-text-only mobiles of the nineties, fear not. Today, a “communications” device is far more than just that. And of course, being a company man Bates was quick to push BlackBerry as having unique appeal in that regard.
“These days, you hear a lot about apps but at BlackBerry we have a wider focus. We’re about delivering the ultimate communications platform, including social networking,” he said.
“We have more users of Twitter on BlackBerry than any other platform, and Facebook has told us that BlackBerry users are three times more interactive on Facebook than any other device users."
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