BlackBerry 10

BlackBerry OS 10.2 named world’s best mobile OS by India’s Digit

BlackBerry 10 logo

BlackBerry may still be struggling for its survival, especially in the smartphone market arena where its market share now stands at a mere 0.5% but good news has outweighed bad news in recent times. The company got more good news this week when Digit, India’s largest selling technology magazine, named the BlackBerry 10.2 operating system ‘The World’s Best Mobile OS.’ […]

Amazon Appstore coming to BlackBerry 10 with 240,000 apps

Amazon Appstore logo

BlackBerry appears to have found a solution to one of the biggest complaints against BlackBerry 10, namely the lack of a large app ecosystem. It announced today that it is bringing the Amazon Appstore to its operating system with the launch of the BlackBerry 10.3 operating system this fall. In one fell swoop, BlackBerry will offer more than 240,000 new […]

ShopBlackBerry.com launches in Canada with unlocked BlackBerry 10 smartphones

ShopBlackBerry.com

BlackBerry today announced that it has launched its ShopBlackBerry.com site in Canada. Available only in the U.S. so far, the online store offers SIM-unlocked GSM models of the BlackBerry Z30, BlackBerry Z10, BlackBerry Q10 and BlackBerry Q5 smartphones. The site also offers a range of accessories for BlackBerry 10 smartphones and BlackBerry OS models, including carrying solutions, chargers and audio […]

EA games now free in latest BlackBerry 10 promotion

Free BlackBlackBerry 10 EA games promotion

Just in time for the upcoming weekend, BlackBerry today announced a new promotion that makes all Electronic Arts games free for its BlackBerry 10 devices for a limited time. The promotion runs from today, February 20, to February 28 on BlackBerry World. That means you can download and try some of the most popular apps on the platform without having […]

Strange looking QWERTY BlackBerry 10 prototype surfaces

Rumoured Blackberry 10 prototype

In our latest Concept Sunday post, we featured the BlackBerry Q40, a concept device that merged a 5-inch display to a physical QWERTY keyboard. It looked somewhat unwieldy but not quite as much as this strange prototype that surfaced over at CrackBerry today. Rumour suggests that it could be a developer device for a new BlackBerry model, possibly the Windermere, […]

Porsche Design BlackBerry 10 smartphone coming?

Rumoured Porsche Design Z10 smartphone

The collaboration between BlackBerry and Porsche Design looks set to move into the BlackBerry 10 age. The two companies last collaborated on the Porsche Design P’9981, a premium smartphone that took the insides of a BlackBerry Bold 9900 and wrapped them in a forged stainless steel frame with a hand-wrapped leather back cover and a sculpted QWERTY keyboard. Now the […]

Kobo eReading app comes to BlackBerry 10

Kobo eReading app for BB10

Kobo today announced that its free eReading app is now available for BlackBerry 10 devices. Unlike the native BlackBerry PlayBook app, this version is an Android port. “The Kobo app creates the ideal reading experience for BlackBerry smartphone customers who want to be able to consume books wherever they are and whenever they want,” said Wayne White, EVP of Devices, […]