While Android, iOS, and BlackBerry are current leaders in the smartphone war in the U.S., a recent Nielsen survey finds that men prefer Android as a platform while iPhones were favored by the female gender. However, in a market where iOS and BlackBerry have each captured 27 percent market share and Android trailing by 3 [...]
Research in Motion’s been pretty shy when it comes to showing off the PlayBook. Back at DevCon 2010 we didn’t get to touch it and there weren’t any working units floating around the conference. That’s no longer the case. Even though RIM CEO Josh Balsillie wouldn’t give a live demo today at the Web 2.0 [...]
Research in Motion’s put together a video demo of the BlackBerry PlayBook’s web browser and how it stacks up against the iPad’s. Pages appear to load significantly faster on the BlackBerry PlayBook and of course you can run Flash on it, while iPad’s Safari experience is a Flash-free zone. Javascript animations appear quite a bit [...]
Research in Motion is rumored to be expanding its BlackBerry Torch franchise with a slimmer entry level model. While the Torch is basically a high-end model now that takes design cues from its high-end BlackBerry Bold franchise, an entry-level torch could more closely resemble a consumer-oriented BlackBerry Curve or Pearl. Details on the model are [...]
Rumors of a BlackBerry Storm 3 have been on-again, off-again as the future of the Storm franchise, at least in the U.S. under the helm of carrier Verizon Wireless, has been uncertain. The latest Storm 3 rumor has it that the 3.6-inch AMOLED Storm 3 will get some updated specs bringing it on-par with many [...]
Bloomberg is reporting that RIM’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie has teased a comment indicating that the Playbook Tablet will debut under $500. Of course that means Bloomberg is positioning that statement to mean head-to-head competition with the iPad. The fun part of the game is that the actual quote from Balsillie is “the product will be [...]
Dylan F. Tweney at Wired’s Gadget Lab has proclaimed “A Tablet Plus a Feature Phone Would Be Mobile Bliss”. I don’t know about that, but yeah, I agree a phone + tablet combo is a pretty good idea, and I’m not just saying that because it’s my idea (okay, maybe I am).
Motorola’s Droid Pro will launch come this November 18th but will be available for pre-sale starting November 9th for $180 on a two-year agreement after a $100 mail-in rebate will be targeted directly at Research in Motion and its enterprise grasp with its BlackBerry smartphones. The Android-powered Droid Pro will come with profiles, a pretty [...]
Enterprise BlackBerry users who are eyeing the BlackBerry 9780 should take a look at Tracy and Matt detailed review of the device, which will be headed State-side later this month. The Bold 9780 is an evolution of the original BlackBerry 9700 and has the design of its predecessor while adding more memory and a freshened [...]
Research in Motion’s PR folks sent over a longer video demo of the BlackBerry PlayBook being shown off at Adobe MAX. This video shows the BlackBerry PlayBook being used to view MRI images, viewing media in Adobe Air apps and playing Flash videos on YouTube. This is the first time that RIM has shown a [...]
Apple CEO Steve Jobs made some pretty negative statements about the competition this week. At least one of Apple’s competitors isn’t taking the trash talk lying down. Research in Motion’s Co-CEO punched back at Jobs’ disparaging remarks about 7″ tablets and its BlackBerry smartphones. Here’s the fighting words from RIM’s CEO in full: RIM responds to Apple’s ‘Distortion [...]
BlackBerry and Sprint announced the release date and price for the BlackBerry Style 9670 yesterday. It will be available nationwide on October 31st for $99.99 (after $100 mail in rebate). The BlackBerry Style 9670 is a flip phone with a QWERTY keyboard. I am not much of a BlackBerry fan, but I think this one [...]
With four baseball playoff series kicking off this week, it’ll be difficult to catch them all form the comfort of your couch.If you’re like most people, you probably don’t have an HDTV with cable or satellite sitting in your cubicle. Kevin Purcell’s put together a great guide on how to watch MLB playoff games online [...]
Since I am new around here, I wanted to get to know our readership a little better. I know most of you are into Tablets and other mobile PC solutions, but being a smart phone addict comes with the territory. I am sure it’s become quite apparent that I am a smart phone addict too. [...]
Yesterday I got a chance to take a look at the BlackBerry PlayBook at DEVCON 2010. Unfortunately, Research in Motion still isn’t ready to let us go hands on with the PlayBook, sandwiching three prototypes between glass and running a video loop. But it was close enough to get a good sense of the device. [...]
AT&T is already the exclusive US provider of the Torch, and today they have announced they will add the BlackBerry Pearl 3G and Curve 3G to their lineup too. The Pearl 3G will be available for $149.99 in mid October while the Curve 3G date is not yet announced. The press release says the Curve [...]
Having had your first taste of the BlackBerry Playbook, if you’re hungry for more, BlackBerry has us covered with a press release, full specs, and a fancy new web page.
More info to come, including hands-on stuff from Xavier who is on location at RIM’s DevCon. Until then, your first taste of RIM’s new tablet, the BlackBerry Playbook, is in this video.
File sharing and sync service Dropbox today announced support for BlackBerry, updates for their iOS and Android apps, and a directory to help users find new ways to make the most of their boxes.
The Wall Street Journal has assembled every rumor about the impending BlackBerry tablet, possibly called the BlackPad, put them in one place, and tied them together with an announcement date of next week.
Folks are breathing a sigh of relief today after Business Insider confirmed Microsoft’s Bing will not be the “exclusive” search provider for Verizon’s Android devices. One question: how does Verizon define “exclusive”?
The BlackBerry Torch was greeted with strong opening sales of 150,000 units, according to analysts. That’s right in the same neighborhood as recent Android phone debuts. Yet, various blogs are deriding the Torch as a failure. Not only does that seem unfair, but it also misses the point of the BlackBerry comeback.
BGR reminds us that both the BlackBerry Torch and Motorola DROID 2 go on sale today for the price of $199 with two-year contract (counting a $100 debit card rebate on the latter). Exciting day for those devices, but not so much for the Dell Streak going on sale here in the U.S. tomorrow for [...]
Digitimes passes along word that Chinese-language Apply Daily reports that Quanta will be building the new BlackBerry tablet, a.k.a. BlackPad, to start shipping in September with a price tag of $499.
First it was the United Arab Emirates that banned Blackberries, now it is Saudi Arabia. Rumor is India is considering it has well. The reason for the bans or considered bans is that security agencies can’t get to the email traffic, or so the claim goes. Essentially, if they can’t monitor an email they don’t [...]
Nielsen released some very interesting numbers today, summarizing Americans’ smartphone habits and desires. One out of four phones are now smartphones, an increase of 56% over the past year. For the first time, more Android devices were sold in a quarter than iPhones. With a 27% share of new subscribers, Google’s free mobile operating system [...]
Research in Motion’s Co-CEOs aren’t taking Steve Jobs allegations of faulty antenna design laying down. The two have issued a statement after Steve Jobs held a press conference yesterday when he made the case that the iPhone 4′s reception issues aren’t unique to the iPhone 4. To demonstrate, he showed a video of a BlackBerry [...]
Research in Motion released another sneak peak of BlackBerry 6, the upcoming mobile operating system. The UI and marketing material aren’t what I’m used to seeing from RIM and I wonder if it will resonate with its core business users. The first video, released at WES 2010, looks like it was produced by HP”s consumer [...]
My wife recently clued me in to a term she and the ladies in her office have been using: BlackBerried. Here’s how it’s used.
We’ve heard RIM Tablet rumors before and here we go again. This time the Wall St. Journal is saying that Blackberry maker RIM is testing out a new touch screen smartphone with a slide out keyboard with the iPhone in its sights. Also in the same article RIM is supposedly working on a Tablet that [...]
The Boy Genius at BGR has dug up some dirt on that rumored BlackBerry tablet, codenamed “BlackPad” and from what they say, it sounds like it will either be extremely awesome or an extreme fail (because there’s never any middle ground with these things).
A BlackBerry leak out of website BlackBerry Leaks indicates RIM is working on a tablet device to add to their gadget lineup.
Rejoice all Blackberry users! Your time is at hand. It looks like RIM has taken off the veil of secrecy about the new version of the Blackberry operating system, Blackberry 6. The new version was announced at WES 2010 keynote this week, along with other news such as the release of two new Blackberries, the [...]
Ford SYNC has been slowing coming into its own for a while. For those not familiar with this technology, Ford SYNC allows for drivers to “talk” to their cars to get things done, like hands-free calling, turn-by-turn navigation, 911 assist, and getting the news of the day. So far, so cool, right? Well now Ford [...]
Twitter finally has its own iPhone application. How? Well, they went out and bought Tweetie. Tweetie is a $2.99 iPhone app, which in a few weeks will be rebranded as the official free Twitter client for the iPhone. The developer who created Tweetie, Loren Brichter, will join the Twitter team to create an iPad version [...]
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