Blackberry

This blog shares the latest 51Degrees User Agent Analysis including User Agent examples from Smartphones, MediaHubs and Consoles. Currently, we have over 50,000 device models in our database.

A topic close to the heart of many of our readers, the much loved Canadian handset company has experienced some turbulent times in the past few years. There's no denying that they have made some excellent phones, but they are in the middle of a turnaround at the moment (event T-Mobile US' John Legere recently said “they're on the up”) in a bid to regain market share, as well as focus on areas such as security software and device management.

Last week our data team added the PRIV BlackBerry into our database. It is the first-ever BlackBerry smartphone to run on Android. According to the manufacturer, this new device brings incredible new features to the Android platform that make sharing ideas and connecting with people faster and easier.

51Degrees takes a look at the current state of BlackBerry, here are the vital stats that can help us analyse the possibilities for BlackBerry.

On September 24th BlackBerry released their newest smartphone. The device goes by the name of the BlackBerry Passport. It is targeted to business professionals and has an interesting form factor. Find out more here.

This week introduces LG 's smartphone G3S D724 that was announced in July 2014 and was released in August 2014.

In this Chart Of The Week we looked at the change in popularity of Microsoft and BlackBerry devices in the UK in 2013 and 2014. For quite some time UK was considered to be BlackBerry's stronghold in Europe but with all the trouble that company has endured over the past few years this situation is bound to change.

Earlier this week Kantar Worldpanel showed that Windows Phone devices now make up 1 in 10 smartphone sales across the five major European markets. This week, 51Degrees takes a look at Windows Phone web traffic share in Germany, The United Kingdom, Italy, France and Spain.

Earlier this week Blackberry wrote an open letter to their customers, in hopes to encapsulate their user base with Blackberry passion. Here at 51Degrees it reminded us of our first ever Chart of the Week where we compared the newly released Blackberry Z10 against it's fierce market rival, the Sony Xperia Z. This week we take another look at mobile web traffic originating from the same models, over the same countries, 6 months later.

With an increase in sales for the HTC One, this week 51Degrees revisit the global web traffic from the Sony Xperia Z, Nokia Lumia 920, Blackberry Z10 and HTC One.