It's A Small World After All

Until recently, BlackBerry subscribers who live and work in the Pacific Rim and other parts of East Asia have not had the capability of using their BlackBerry smartphone to their fullest potential. Until 2011, when Singaporean and mainland Chinese BlackBerry subscribers attempted to access the online applications-store through their mobile devices, they received quite a troubling message. The message read, Services not available in this country. This means that Chinese and Singaporean customers could not access the applications-store. Therefore, they could not benefit from their phones built-in wi-fi connection. Therefore, customers could not browse the Internet, or use any of the other BlackBerry software, which American and other Western European subscribers have been enjoying incessantly since the first BlackBerry entered circulation.

Thankfully, this situation has changed. Thanks to successful negotiations between American software designers and native East Asian carriers, BlackBerry applications can now be purchased and downloaded by foreign users in Singapore and Hong Kong. BlackBerry has facilitated this drastic change by creating its own satellite company, BlackBerry Singapore, which provides services to both Singaporean and Malaysian customers. While, Western applications such as Google, and other search engines are popular among subscribers in East Asia, the satellite company has also designed its own applications, specifically designed to improve the Singaporean subscribers daily life. Chief among these new applications is a program, which sends updated mass transit schedules to the phone. This is particularly beneficial for Singapore and other East Asian countries, where trains, taxis, and buses are more widely used than personal modes of conveyance such as cars and trucks.

Furthermore, East Asian countries such as China, Taiwan, and Singapore are multilingual. Providing government documents, schedules, and other printed materials in multiple forms of Chinese, English, and other indigenous languages. While applications, specifically designed for use in Singapore are still under development, some applications such as those associated with the Singapore Grand Prix are now available for download. These applications allow subscribers to use either their cell phone or their tablet to keep up with schedules, tournaments seats, organizations, and their favorite drivers performances.

In closing, it has become a small world after all, and fourth-generation devices have enabled people across the globe to keep in contact with people that are most important to them, while also allowing them access to programs which allow them to live more efficiently. These developed have begun to improve life on nearly every continent from Asia to Africa. The benefits of fourth-generation will continue influence the course of developing nations.