Blackberry owns 30% of Canadian smartphone market

Statcounter is reporting that Blackberry has approximately 30% of the Canadian smartphone market. This places it behind the iPhone but better than Android (21%). We'll have to wait until their next quarterly release to see the official numbers but this looks like they doubled their Canadian marketshare.

Does this mean Blackberry is back? How well are they selling in other markets?

Only time will tell.

Source: Seeking Alpha

Samsung Galaxy Zoom ad

I love iphoneography and am hoping the next Google Nexus and iPhone 5s push the limits of smartphone photography. Samsung not wanted to leave a gap in its product offerings has married a Samsung Galaxy S4 mini and a 16 megapixel point & shoot camera.

Meet the Samsung Zoom

Samsung will release a Galaxy S4 with LTE-Advanced

Samsung's Galaxy S4 has been an incredible success and the electronics giant is always looking for new markets it can dominate. JK Shin, their fearless leader, has now decided it wants to be the first cell phone manufacturer to launch an LTE-Advanced mobile phone.

In simple terms, an LTE-Advanced capable device talking to an LTE-Advanced tower perform twice as fast as "normal" LTE. Samsung will meet this target by releasing a new variant of the Samsung Galaxy S4 leveraging Qualcomm's new chipset (eschewing the in-house Exynos).

Source: Reuters