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Unknown's avatar Pete 10:35 am on May 20, 2013
Tags: , BlackBerry Live, BlackBerry world,   

Where have all the MDM providers gone?

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Looking at BlackBerry world news, I stumbled upon an interesting fact.  The sponsor list strangely had something missing.  This is an impressive list of sponsors, but once you drill down into the list, what is missing…

Where are all the MDM providers?  It seems that the only companies on this list that are MDM providers are Boxtone and Vox Mobile.   Those two companies are more BlackBerry centric then the others.  Now some companies have an MDM solution, like SAP, but they are hardly there for the MDM part of the business.   This leads me to one conclusion.

Either RIM told Mobile Iron, Airwatch, Zenprise and Tangoe MDM to stay away or those companies decided that they did not need to be seen at BlackBerry live.  Each of these scenario’s provides insight into what is going on in the battle for MDM.  The Gardner report on MDM is due soon, and we are going to see what has happen since last year’s report put Airwatch and MobileIron on top of the pile.

Unknown's avatar Pete 11:03 am on May 15, 2013
Tags: , BlackBerry Live, q10   

The Q10

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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.