Research In Motion Ltd (RIM), the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, said on Friday Apple Inc’s attempt to draw RIM into a “self-made debacle” over iPhone connectivity “is unacceptable.”
“Apple’s claims about RIM products appear to be deliberate attempts to distort the public’s understanding of an antenna design issue and to deflect attention from Apple’s difficult situation,” RIM co-chief executive officers Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie said in an e-mailed statement.
“RIM’s customers don’t need to use a case for their BlackBerry smartphone to maintain proper connectivity,” the statement said. “Apple clearly made certain design decisions and it should take responsibility for these decisions rather than trying to draw RIM and others into a situation that relates specifically to Apple.”
Motorola Inc Co-Chief Executive Officer Sanjay Jha also said his devices don’t have the same antenna shortcomings as the iPhone 4.
Phones with the antenna on the outside of the chassis — the design used by Apple’s latest model — are more likely to have reception issues if they’re held a certain way, Jha said on Friday in an e-mailed statement. Motorola’s Droid phones compete with the iPhone 4.
“It is disingenuous to suggest that all phones perform equally,” he said. “In our own testing, we have found that Droid X performs much better than iPhone 4 when held by consumers.”
Cairo’s new monorail slices across the city skyline, running above the familiar chaos of blaring horns and aging buses’ exhaust fumes that mark rush hour below. The US$4.5 billion monorail, opened this month, is among Egypt’s most prominent new transport projects, part of a debt-funded infrastructure drive criticized for sapping state finances while bringing limited benefits to most of the country’s 109 million people. “It feels like you’re in a different country,” said Ramy Sayed, a restaurant manager, aboard a driverless Innovia 300 train. “No noise, no traffic, we’re not used to this.” The eastern line runs 56km from the bustling middle-class
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