Samsung is getting ready to reveal the Galaxy Note 3 during next month's IFA 2013 conference in Berlin, but there are still a few rumours emerging prior to its official announcement.

The Galaxy Note 3 could be a popular business mobile upon its launch, following in the footsteps of its predecessors by offering a big screen smartphone experience which is difficult for its rivals to match.

But with rumours suggesting that it could be equipped with a display that measures up to six inches across the diagonal, there will be a need for plenty of power to be available onboard to help keep the handset running for extended periods.

PhoneArena reports that sources close to the matter believe the Galaxy Note 3 will have a 3450mAh battery, which is a significant increase over the 3100mAh cell that found its way into the previous model in this range.

There are a number of other power-hungry assets expected to arrive onboard this device, including an eight-core processor and 3GB of RAM, which should make the additional battery capacity all the more relevant.

A September 4th launch event should put the speculation to bed and showcase the Galaxy Note 3 in all its glory.

In less positive business mobile news, it now seems that Canadian manufacturer, BlackBerry, is back on the market and might be interested in selling itself to any interested parties in the near future.

While there was speculation that a takeover might occur over the last two years, BlackBerry had been aiming to put itself back on the track to success with the launch of BB 10 and the Z10 smartphone earlier in the year.

Followed by the Q10 and Q5 handsets, with the larger Z30 in the works, there are still plenty of reasons to choose a BlackBerry device, but in a press release it published this week, it made it apparent that there are a number of avenues it is pursuing to shore up its operations against the potential for collapse, amongst which is the sale of the company as a whole.

BlackBerry is actually forming an executive committee in order to help it formulate some strategies that will keep it going, amongst the ranks of which will be current chief exec, Thorsten Heins.

The committee will also be seeking to forge some partnerships with other companies in the mobile market and perhaps even join forces to create some products further down the line.

Another option for BlackBerry is to license its operating systems and services so that they can appear on third party devices.

This would help it to generate some revenue and also give it the ability to get BB 10 into the hands of more customers.

It has already started this process to a certain extent with the upcoming launch of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) on iOS and Android.

Although Apple is arguably an anomaly, it is no longer sensible for tech firms to limit the software they develop to the devices that they produce, as BlackBerry has discovered to its chagrin.

Of course removing the exclusivity of BB 10 from BlackBerry devices might be bad for the sales, but in the long run should benefit the business as it seeks to regain commercial viability.

For customers, being able to buy a phone produced by Samsung, HTC, Sony or any of the other major manufacturers which also runs BB 10 and has all the business features that this entails, might be a positive step, particularly if it means that additional capabilities and hardware improvements are also added to the mix.

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