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Although there has been no plan and official confirmation from BlackBerry about BBM for windows phone, the rumors have been circulating that BBM will be available for windows phone. A few days ago, BlackBerry stating that BBM (Blackberry Messenger) is not just limited to Android and iOS( iPhone ), but may be also to another platform like windows phone.

The statement was disclosed by Gary Klassen is one of the creators and executive producers of BBM. It could be that the purpose of not limited to just the Android and iOS is Windows Phone also a good destination for BBM.

Windows phone is the number 3 biggest mobile platform after android and iOS. Windows phone managed to overtake BlackBerry. Windows smartphone sales fronted by Nokia continues to increase over time.

At present, many smartphone users who expect BBM for windows phone will be come to their smartphone. But it most likely that BBM future will only support windows phone 8 and above, and will not support Windows Phone 7, windows phone 7.5 or 7.8.

The successful BBM for android and iPhone has become its own record for BlackBerry. The Download number has reached 10 million times after released and now BBM managed to get new users by 20 million people on android and iPhone users.

If the present of BBM for windows phone is correct, then BBM may become an instant messaging application that could threaten WhatsApp and WeChat position that are currently the most widely known about the number of users.

It has been almost 2 years since Nokia decided to use windows phone as their primary platform. Nokia is considered unable to compete with Samsung and Apple today. However, the prediction that Nokia will bounce back and fight was justified by the media.

Through a variety of Lumia products released this year, Nokia is optimistic that they will return to compete with Samsung, Apple, Sony and LG in the smartphone and tablet market products. Last week Nokia released three new products, two smartphone and one tablet that predicted to be their best selling windows phone and tablet.

Lumia 1520 and Lumia 1320 is Nokia's new smartphone products. The presence of both can be considered a complete curiosity where Nokia previously considered followed in a matter of quickly adopting smartphone and not a growing trend.

Trends in question was a matter of smartphone product with wider screens or so-called phablet (phone and tablet). We have had a lot of android phablet products flooding the market now, and consumers are a bit bored with this phenomenon because there is only a choice that offers android phablet.

Lumia 1520 offers something new. A 6-inch phablet from Nokia has a great spec, which is on par with the Galaxy Note 3 and the other high-end android phablet.

In addition, Lumia 1520 also integrates Lumia elegant design style, the ability of the camera features is 20.7 mega pixels and of course it's great performance is coupled with the presence of quad-core Snapdragon processor 800 and 2GB RAM.

Currently, there is no information about the price of Lumia 1520. This best selling windows phone, Lumia 1520 prices are likely to be around USD 800, and not much different from competing products like the Galaxy Note 3.

Windows Phone 7.8 update, awaited by the user

Microsoft seems want to treat the Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7.5 users disappointment that will not getting an update to Windows Phone 8. In the upcoming January, Microsoft will release Windows Phone update version 7.8 for some Windows Phone devices.

This word is obtained from Microsoft's official statement a few moments ago. The official updates release that will come in January is also expected for some Windows Phone devices running Windows Phone 7.5. Some Windows Phone 7.5 devices that will get the update to Windows Phone 7.8 including the Nokia Lumia 900, Lumia 800, Lumia 710, Lumia 510 and several others.

Many users of Windows Phone 7.5 that actually has been disappointed with the attitude that Microsoft decided not to include the old Windows phone device to obtain Windows Phone 8 update. This corresponds to Microsoft stated that the reason is Windows Phone 8 requires higher hardware specs.

If on Windows Phone 7 and 7.5 it doesn't support the use of multi-core processors, but in Windows Phone 8 it can use it perfectly. Look at the row of Smartphones that adopt Windows Phone 8 like Lumia 920, Lumia 820, HTC 8X or Samsung Ativ S.

Windows 7.8 update definitely will provide some better changes than the Windows Phone Mango 7.5. Some of them are, there will be a new user interface on the Lock Screen menu, new theme, and the most important is Microsoft will bring some popular applications to be used on Windows Phone 7.8.

Nokia Lumia 920, one of Windows 8 Phone

Once again, Microsoft states their belief about Windows Phone 8 and the smartphones that adopt it. Through Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer with optimistic,  outspoken that the Windows 8 Smartphone sales will be higher. As a layman who can't predict the success or the failure of Windows Phone 8, it's perfectly natural if we judge Microsoft is promoting and confident when talking about their own products and being flaunted.
However, when we view it objectively, a statement from Steve Ballmer was very reasonable considering Microsoft in the last 1 year was learned from their less successful smartphone sales, Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7.5. In addition, Microsoft also continues to make innovations, improvements and continue to develop the newest version of Windows Phone called Windows Phone 8 to be different and more acceptable to consumers.

And the most important thing is how to make the ecosystem in Windows Phone 8 is better and can cover all the needs of its users, especially about the availability of applications. That way, it could be Windows Phone will be the alternatives that's worth mentioning other than android and iOS that have been the most preferred by consumer.

At last, Microsoft mobilize their financial resources to promote Windows Phone 8. As we know, Microsoft poured a lot of money to promote Windows 8, but also the Windows 8 RT tablet and of course Windows Phone 8 for the smartphone as well.

Blackberry OS10 Release

Blackberry developer company, Research In Motion(RIM) is through the middle of renovating the latest release of their operating system, BB10. This technology manufacturer based in the city of Waterloo, was also developed a hardware that is designed to be able to compete with windows phone 8, it was reported by GSMArena on Sunday (09.30.12 ).

A specification document of the upcoming phone that will be the BlackBerry products attached by BB10 is the Laguna Verizon version that has been leaked to the public recently. BlackBerry Laguna is an L-series which seems to be the CDMA version of the first leaked model, the BlackBerry London.


Laguna will be equipped with a 4.2 inches screen measures and a 1280 x 768 resolutions at 355ppi density. The processor itself has applied with the latest dual-core Krait (Qualcomm MSM8960 chipset), 1 GB RAM, LTE connectivity, 2G and 3G GSM, dual-band Wi-Fi a / b / g / n with mobile hot-spot and direct Wi-Fi , NFC and microHDMI port.

Then on the rear panel of this gadget mounted 8-megapixel resolution camera that can record 1080p video with 16 GB internal memory and hot-swappable microSD card. And a 1800mAh battery power set to be the power supply of the BlackBerry Laguna. (Ton/A-108)

Blackberry Laguna Specification by GSMarena