Mobile Minutes: BlackBerry touts Classic phone; Sony's mobile loss; Nintendo's sleeping device; YouTube's 60fps videos
BlackBerry:
We're still in the phone business
BlackBerry may be off the radar among many mobile phone customers these days,
but the company wants to remind us that it's still got more up its sleeve. Posted
on Wednesday, an open letter from CEO John Chen touted the upcoming new
BlackBerry Classic phone as a way to prove that the company is far from dead
and buried in the mobile phone market.
Read more on CNET
Sony posts $1.2B loss on mobile woes
Sony's losses ballooned to 136 billion yen ($1.2 billion) last quarter as the
Japanese electronics and entertainment company's troubled mobile phone division
reported huge red ink.
Read more on CBS News
Nintendo?s new health device listens to you sleep
Nintendo?s first entry into the ?quality of life? business, which it plans to
release by early 2016, is a device that tracks a user?s level of fatigue by
monitoring sleep.
Read more on Wired
YouTube launches 60fps video and it looks amazing
Four months ago YouTube promised support for 60fps (frames per second) video.
Finally the Google-owned streaming site has delivered and as you will see from
the embedded clips below, the wait was well worth it because the results are
breathtaking.
Read more on Forbes