Pandora Devine

What can't the Apple iPhone 4 do? Apparently it can make wildest dreams come true after a Northamptonshire couple found out through the new National Lotto iPhone app that they had won a Lotto jackpot of almost £3.5 million during the first week of July.

Research In Motion's new BlackBerry Playbook seems to have stalled out of the gate as the developer has recently announced that they are halting production on the 10-inch model. While it was never officially announced, many felt it was all but a given that there would be a big brother to the 7-inch Playbook that would allow for easier viewing on the device.

RIM has lost nearly 1 million American users from March to May of this year, slipping from 20 million to 19 million users. During that same time frame Apple boosted the number of people using its devices by 3 million from just over 17 million users to just over 20 million. The number of customers using Android grew the most dramatically, from 22.8 million at the end of February to 29.26 at the end of May.

After a relatively weak attempt to distance themselves from the pigeonholed world of the businessman, RIM, creators of BlackBerry, have decided to peddle to the masses of suits, ties, heels, and pencil skirts by advertising the new BlackBerry Playbook in some of the world's biggest business hubs: international airports.

Rumours have been circulating for months about the impending release of Apple's iPhone 5. Some thought it was to be announced shortly before Christmas 2010, others thought that Steve Jobs and the rest would hold off in order to milk sales of the iPhone 4, and instead announce the new handset in June at the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote as they have done in years previous.

Nokia has long been considered a pioneer for creating mobile phones that were not only easy to use, but also professionally crafted with care and thought. Unfortunately, the last few years have not been the finest for the Finnish mobile phone giant, as its strategy of focussing on developing devices running its proprietary Symbian software backfired.

Four years ago, the technology industry would have shrugged off any rumours of Apple attempting to enter the mobile phone market. At the time, Nokia was the market leader, touchscreen phones were just entering the mainstream and Apple was still very much a computer software and hardware manufacturer. But Steve Jobs surprised the technology world at 2007's MacWorld expo when he finally lift the lid on the much rumoured iPhone.

In April 2010, Apple announced that they had dusted off the tired idea of the tablet that had all but died a decade earlier and that they were going to, once again, change the technology landscape. They have since succeeded in doing just that with the release of the iPad 2 in 2011 again establishing the successful Apple brand as king of the mobile platform. Over a year late to the party, RIM, the creators of the famed BlackBerry, have decided to give the tablet a go.

Trying to pick the smartphone that is right for you can be like trying to navigate your way through a minefield: that next step might look like a good option, but so does the one next to it, and you never really know if it is safe until you go ahead and make the plunge. Well, no more holding your breath hoping to make it through your mobile experience unscathed, as this is a semi-comprehensive guide to the top three Blackberry products on the market right now.

Developers and technology enthusiasts are looking forward to the forthcoming Worldwide Developers Conference this coming June after Apple confirmed its intentions to finally lift the lid on the latest version of its computer operating system, OS X Lion 10.7, and the upcoming announcement of its mobile phone operating system, iOS 5.