The pricing of the iPhone 5 from Russian resellers is based on the principle of “who is less”. It is unlikely that this can be called an artificial price reduction (it did not reach the real dumping and the price tag below the market), but the official price of the novelty has risen to the same level as the “gray”.

Yesterday, Microsoft published official information about the cost of a Surface tablet running Windows RT. 

The release of the iPhone 4S instead of the iPhone 5 may give chances to competitors – smartphones based on Windows Phone and Android from Microsoft, HTC, Samsung Electronics and Nokia, which will increase their market shares due to more innovative devices.

Representatives of RIM, Andrey Kiselyov and Ola Larsen spoke at the MobileFest conference, which was held in September near St. Petersburg. They talked about the capabilities of devices on the BlackBerry® platform – in particular, they presented a new PlayBook tablet and even played it among the conference participants.