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The Q10
What we know
The device will launch with a 16GB model that will utilize a 3.1 inch touch display. It will be a 4G device and use a 720×720 resolution. This device will be a lower end model, think curve to bold. It will record HD video in 1080p and have a battery standby time of 14.8 days and 13.5 talking time. I don’t see the market that they are appealing to though. IPhone have never really came to market with a cheap phone, just lowered prices on older models. I’m not sure I agree with this marketing strategy though, I feel that they should push the higher end models, and give a price reduction on the z10, and then push a new high end phone. This will launch BlackBerry OS 10.1. I will make another blog posts that go over the specifics of that upgrade. I assume it will have a lessor processor then that of the z10.
BBM On Android And iOS Summer Of 2013
Good move by RIM. I think anything to bring in cash to the company at this point, and to be more of a MDM player, is a good idea, and fine by me.
BES 10.1
Features leaked for BES 10.1 from RIM
Key features of BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 version 10.1
-- Regulated-level EMM. BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 version 10.1
provides customers with an optional set of extended IT policy settings
and controls that restricts the use of a BlackBerry 10 smartphone for
work only (does not allow personal apps and content).
-- Simplified deployment for a lower total cost of ownership. Following a
simple installation process, customers will be able to use BlackBerry
Enterprise Service 10 version 10.1 to manage BlackBerry 10 smartphones,
BlackBerry(R) PlayBook(TM) tablets, iOS and Android devices, as well as
earlier model BlackBerry smartphones. Upgrading to BlackBerry Enterprise
Service 10 version 10.1 is simple and intuitive, and existing BlackBerry
Enterprise Server 5 customers can quickly upgrade to BlackBerry
Enterprise Service 10 version 10.1 with no firewall changes.
-- Dashboard & reporting. New dashboard capabilities provide an "at-a-
glance" graphical view of information and statistics associated with the
customer's complete fleet of devices, providing administrators with
immediate access to the information they need. The dashboard displays a
high level overview of information such as a device deployment summary
by platform and carrier, device compliance state, application
deployments, and more.
-- High Availability. All components of BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10
can now be deployed in a highly available active/passive configuration,
similar to the high availability support offered by BlackBerry
Enterprise Server 5.0. It offers simple, easy to configure threshold
settings and improved failover performance.
-- BlackBerry Support is now included as standard. Care(ii) now comes as
standard with BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 deployments(iii),
providing 12x5 telephone access to BlackBerry experts, responsive online
support, access to training, productivity and diagnostic tools. Extended
technical support offerings are available.
Could BlackBerry be turning the page?
I was reading up on BlackBerry live news this morning and I stumbled upon this important tidbit. BlackBerry set sales records in the UK and in Canada when it launched. Now assuming this is true, this is really good news for RIM. As I wrote earlier, RIM is definitely hurting in the marketplace right now, and any good news helps. This time last year at BlackBerry world, I met with some very high profile customers who were talking about plans to move off of BlackBerry and BES. In the past few months, I’ve heard plans of implementing BES 10 ( which is the sudo-BES for BlackBerry 10 devices) along with their stand alone MDM solution
Could BlackBerry be part of MDM solutions going forward, we will see…
My first WES…..
I remember the first time I went to WES, now BlackBerry live ( also called BlackBerry world, and BlackBerry user conference). I met so many people that I had met through different online avenues. It was a magical place, and at the time BlackBerry were the kings of the hill. The late night parties, the technical sessions, meeting RIM developers and so much more. It was very worth every penny that my company spent on it. This year, I had a dilemma, with BlackBerry’s recent dealing’s, and no real announcements to speak of, I had to decide on if it would be worth it. I’m in the middle of working on a pretty large deployment for a new customer over in London. So I passed on BlackBerry live. So I sit here, on the side lines, waiting like everyone else to see what comes next. For the past 7 years, I’ve been involved with RIM, both as a user and a BlackBerry engineer. I’ve done hundreds of BES upgrades, spoken to RIM about several technical challenges and just met some amazing people along the way. If I had to sum up all the feelings I’ve had for RIM over the last few years I would just say this. The good times didn’t have to stop, but you chose to let them. You did not innovate.
I was in attendance last year at BlackBerry world, and I listened to the speeches, the promises and the very weak demo of BB10. (BTW that was a video, if it wasn’t a video then why wouldn’t he show us any of the features that we were promised)I found myself getting very mad listening to Hein’s speak. I’m sick of demo’s, I’m sick of promising my customers to wait. I want something now. Then about 6 months later, I finally got my hands on one. I’ve been using a Z10 for about a month and a half now, as my only device. Besides the lack of applications, I will say that I am very impressed. I love the typing, I love BlackBerry hub, and the internet experience is light years above the competition. My only question is, why did this take 3 years to come out. I still feel like BlackBerry missed the boat…
Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales to End Users by Vendor in 2012 (Thousands of Units)
|
Company |
2012 Units |
2012 Market Share (%) |
2011 Units |
2011 Market Share (%) |
| Samsung |
384,631.2 |
22.0 |
315,052.2 |
17.7 |
| Nokia |
333,938.0 |
19.1 |
422,478.3 |
23.8 |
| Apple |
130,133.2 |
7.5 |
89,263.2 |
5.0 |
| ZTE |
67,344.4 |
3.9 |
56,881.8 |
3.2 |
| LG Electronics |
58,015.9 |
3.3 |
86,370.9 |
4.9 |
| Huawei Technologies |
47,288.3 |
2.7 |
40,663.4 |
2.3 |
| TCL Communication |
37,176.6 |
2.1 |
34,037.5 |
1.9 |
| Research In Motion |
34,210.3 |
2.0 |
51,541.9 |
2.9 |
| Motorola |
33,916.3 |
1.9 |
40,269.1 |
2.3 |
| HTC |
32,121.8 |
1.8 |
43,266.9 |
2.4 |
| Others |
587399.6 |
33.6 |
595886.9 |
33.6 |
| Total |
1,746,175.6 |
100.0 |
1,775,712.0 |
100.0 |
I guess the real reason I’m writing this, is I really hope I won’t have to say one day “I missed the last BlackBerry conference”
ActiveSync Version
FSMO Roles
Flexible single master operation or operations master
Strange, I work regularly with these roles, but after being asked the other day what they stood for, I had no idea.
Lets start by taking a look at what FSMO roles you have, install the Support Tools from the \Support\Tools folder on your product CD and type netdom query fsmo at a command prompt and you should get something like this.
By Default, all the FSMO roles will be installed on the first domain controller in your forest. When you install the first DC of any other domain in your forest, that DC will hold all three domain FSMO roles (PDC Emulator, RID Master, and Infrastructure Master).
1. Forest Roles
- Schema Master – As name suggests, the changes that are made while creation of any object in AD or changes in attributes will be made by single domain controller and then it will be replicated to another domain controllers that are present in your environment. There is no corruption of AD schema if all the domain controllers try to make changes. This is one of the very important roles in FSMO roles infrastructure.
- Domain Naming Master – This role is not used very often, only when you add/remove any domain controllers. This role ensures that there is a unique name of domain controllers in environment.
2. Domain Roles
- Infrastructure Master – This role checks domain for changes to any objects. If any changes are found then it will replicate to another domain controller.
- RID Master – This role is responsible for making sure each security principle has a different identifier.
- PDC emulator – This role is responsible for Account policies such as client password changes and time synchronization in the domain
Why you should never change the name of your mailbox server, ever.
I recently had the pleasure of dealing with a customer who renamed their Exchange mailbox servers, and the pains that went along with it. The obvious thing here is, you should never be renaming your Exchange mailbox servers, and I will attempt to explain why. The first thing to realize is that Active Directory is liberally populated with references to an Exchange server name. These are everywhere in Active Directory, so when you make this change, there is a good chance (100% certainty) that AD will not populate these changes to all the users. So why is this a big deal? Those settings in AD are the configurations that we use every single day. When you make a change to the object that active directory references, AD has no way knowing the new name of the object. This can cause you HUGE problems going forward with things like Remote-Powershell, Directory services, Calender delegates and many other LDAP objects.
APNS Isues
It looks like Apple is having issues this morning with their APNS portal. I have heard scattered reports about users not being able to enroll new IPhones.
**Update this has been resolved.
Peters ramblings 