Research in Motion had kicked off its BlackBerry Jam prior to the commencement of CTIA to demonstrate what its BlackBerry 10 operating system will look like and even gave developers in attendance some free BlackBerry developer hardware to play with. Now, after some brief demos of the BlackBerry 10 OS on stage at BlackBerry Jam, [...]
It appears that at least one U.S. carrier will be playing host to BlackBerry 10 devices as T-Mobile has confirmed that it will have a BlackBerry 10 device in its lineup by the time November rolls around. T-Mobile confirmed the news and the time frame with PhoneDog’s Sydney Myers. The carrier made the comments at [...]
RIM has confirmed some unfortunate but unsurprising news in that its current lineup of BlackBerry handsets will not be getting the upgrade to BlackBerry 10, the company’s new operating system that it showed off yesterday for the first time and which will launch later on this year. The news was confirmed by SlashGear who says [...]
Earlier today, RIM posted a short video showing off its upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system. The video depicts a new virtual keyboard complete with predictive text and it left some wondering whether RIM would still be releasing phones with physical QWERTY keyboards. Without going into specifics, the company confirmed that it will not be abandoning [...]
Today, RIM finally showed off an early build of its upcoming BlackBerry 10 software giving us a glimpse at the future of a company whose present is currently in shambles. The company has posted the first video of BlackBerry 10 which shows off some of the core features of the operating system running on a [...]
Last week’s “Wake Up” protest outside a Sydney Apple store wasn’t a Samsung campaign, but a RIM marketing campaign. According to The Age, RIM has confessed that it was the company behind the campaign which featured fake protesters dressed all in black chanting “wake up” outside an Apple store. The BlackBerry maker admitted the campaign is [...]
Later this week, RIM will be putting a BlackBerry 10 developer device into the hands of developers. Over the weekend, photos of that device leaked giving a clear view of the device that the company is expected to hand out tomorrow at its BlackBerry Jam event in Orlando, Florida. The photos were brought to the [...]
RIM has yet to confirm exactly when devices running its BlackBerry 10 operating system will be out but a new report says that the company will announce its first BlackBerry 10 smartphone in August and release its first BlackBerry 10 powered device in October. According to a source of B4BB, RIM will announce the device [...]
Amidst reports that it would be giving up in the consumer market, RIM has fired back in comments made to Pocket-lint saying that it will not withdraw from the consumer market. Reports about RIM exiting the consumer market surfaced after the company posted poor fourth quarter financial results and after company CEO Thorstein Heins said [...]
It’s been a pretty busy day over at Research in Motion as the company not only announced paltry fourth quarter fiscal results but also saw its former CEO and Co-Founder, Jim Balsillie, resign from his post on the board of directors and leave the company. In addition, RIM’s CTO of software, David Yach, and its [...]
For RIM and many BlackBerry hopefuls, the Canadian smartphone-maker’s BlackBerry 10 operating system is intended as a the platform to help RIM compete more effectively against iOS and Android in an increasingly crowded and competitive smartphone space. Based on the same QNX OS that powers the company’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, the BlackBerry 10 OS is [...]
BlackBerry 10 in consumer phones is still months away, but developers will get their hands on it much earlier. RIM has announced that it will be giving away prototype BlackBerry 10 phones to developers in May. The prototype phones will be given out to developers that attend RIM’s BlackBerry 10 Jam developer conference in Orlando [...]
RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet recently got a crucial update to PlayBook OS 2.0, an update that finally brought features like native email and contacts, features that should have been on the device from the beginning. Well, seems OS 2.0 won’t be the last update that the device will get as RIM’s Vice President of Product [...]
It’s unclear if a series of leaked pictures that were obtained by BlackBerry-centric site CrackBerry will represent RIM’s final vision for its next-generation BlackBerry 10 operating system or if the images are concepts that are still being tuned and developed. Whatever the case may be, the images depict numerous refinements and enhancements to the BlackBerry [...]
While RIM’s 2012 roadmap that leaked out a few days ago gave us a potential timeline for the release of the company’s first BlackBerry 10 smartphone, it didn’t provide us with what we have been craving. An image. Well, today, CrackBerry has unearthed an image of what is apparently the BlackBerry London, a device that [...]
Yesterday, a rumored RIM 2012 roadmap revealed the company’s plans for 2012 and beyond. However, there was no hard evidence to back up the claims. Today though, BGR has released the goods and what we see are a bunch of BlackBerry Curve devices, a 3G BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and a possibility that we won’t see [...]
It appears that RIM’s 2012/Q1 2013 roadmap has leaked out today revealing the devices that new CEO Thorsten Heins will see to the market. If they even make it that far. The roadmap reveals that RIM has a few, but not a lot of hardware on the way this year with the company planning on [...]
With its BlackBerry 10 operating system and hardware delayed until the middle of 2012, it’s no surprise that we’re seeing a report that RIM is not only in talks with companies to license its operating system but is apparently leaning towards selling divisions of the company or even the entire company outright. And right now, [...]
It would appear that RIM hasn’t given up on the tablet business just yet as N4BB is reporting that the company is gearing up to release not just one, but two new BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in 2012. RIM will apparently be launching a 7-inch version of the PlayBook in April, which will be 3G, and [...]
2011 was a rough year for RIM and the company is hoping to rebound in 2012 with the release of its next operating system, BlackBerry 10. RIM has already said that handsets with the new OS won’t be arriving until later in the year but the company has now informed Pocket-lint that it will be [...]
Handset insurance provider Asurion, which partners with most U.S. cellular carriers to offer insurance on smartphones and devices, now lists the BlackBerry Torch 10000 model on its website alongside Apple’s iPhone 5. As the iPhone 5 is rumored to be launching in Fall 2012, the BlackBerry Torch 10000 model may not be launched for a [...]
Last week, RIM confirmed the bad news. BlackBerry phones with the company’s new BlackBerry 10 software would not be shipping until the latter half of 2012. RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, at the time, stated that the reasons was because RIM wanted to wait and outfit the devices with a new chipset, presumably LTE in nature. [...]
RIM’s Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, while speaking on the company’s earnings call today, confirmed that devices with RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system (formally known as BBX) won’t be arriving until the latter half of 2012. The reason? According to Lazaridis, it’s because the company is going to be outfitting the devices with a new chip [...]
We have already seen what is thought to be RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry 10 powered powered BlackBerry London and now we are seeing the first image of a device that is being called the BlackBerry Milan, a device that also is apparently powered by the software formally known as BBX. Milan just so happens to be [...]
Research in Motion had intended on calling its next-generation BlackBerry operating system BBX, a name that would have merged the QNX and BlackBerry OS together, but due to losing a legal fight for trademark infringement BBX is no more. Instead, RIM is naming the next-generation OS BlackBerry 10, essentially spelling out the Roman numeral ‘X.’ [...]
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