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BlackBerry phones have almost always had a “belt” which contained either a trackball or a trackpad, apart from a back button, a BB button and two separate buttons for receiving or declining calls. Trackballs were phased out a long time ago and replaced by trackpads, but last year when it launched its new BB10 phones, the company eliminated this belt altogether. Now this might not have been appreciated by some BB loyalists who would have preferred that the company retained this once iconic setup. If a new report is true, apparently BlackBerry is bringing back the trackpad as well as the entire belt of buttons.

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BlackBerry Is Reportedly Bringing Back Trackpads original content from Ubergizmo.

Whenever people think of Foxconn, chances are they associate the company with Apple as well as overworked and underpaid employees, but perhaps that is an image that Foxconn’s boss, Terry Guo, would like to shed in the future. Founded nearly 40 years ago, Guo is hoping to change Foxconn’s image to one that supports entrepreneurship where he will encourage employees to come up with ideas to create startups in which if good enough, Foxconn will support. The goal is to create five spin-off companies on an annual basis, of which three out of these five will eventually become separate companies which Foxconn will support with orders.

According to Guo (via Want China Times), “I want Hon Hai employees to have a chance to be bosses.” Guo has also revealed that he will be reducing his influence in the company greatly and will be spending more time on health care and philanthropic endeavors. Apart from looking to help Foxconn employees realize their dream, the company will also be launching a new project called Dreams of Being Rich Come True. This initiative will be similar to what Foxconn will offer its employees, except that it will target young people and encourage them to startup their own business where the company pledges to offer young people help for free in terms of designing and developing molds.

Foxconn To Encourage Employee Startups original content from Ubergizmo.

Typically, when we talk about Foxconn, we are talking about the Chinese company and its production of Apple gadgets. Foxconn does have customers other than Apple, but Apple is one … Continue reading

It was not too long ago that Foxconn chairman Terry Gou was tipped off to have mentioned that the new BlackBerry smartphones which are manufactured by his company would end up on the Mobile World Congress showfloor in Barcelona, Spain, later in February. Apparently, it seems that one of these new and upcoming smartphones would be known as the STJ100-1 where model numbers are concerned, as the Bluetooth SIG had already approved a handset which sports this particular model number, and it has been specially designed to run BlackBerry OS 10.2 – an operating system version that we have heard about for quite some time already, where it has also made its mark in recent days.

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Foxconn-Made BlackBerry With OS 10.2 Certified original content from Ubergizmo.

It was first rumored back in 2012 that Apple would opt for sapphire covered displays for the next generation iPhone, but that hasn’t materialized up till now. All iPhones since then, including the latest flagship, tout Corning’s Gorilla Glass. There’s chatter once again of Apple testing out sapphire covered iPhones, a new report coming in from Taiwan claims that Foxconn has actually manufactured 100 prototype units of an iPhone with a sapphire covered display.

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Sapphire iPhone Prototypes Reportedly Manufactured By Foxconn original content from Ubergizmo.