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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.
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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.
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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.
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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