Research In Motion today announced the latest version of its BlackBerry mobile operating system. BlackBerry 7 promises an improved user experience, including an updated browser with a new JIT JavaScript compiler and improved HTML5 support and an enhanced Universal Search with voice-activated search. It will also include BlackBerry Balance to separate personal content from corporate content on the smartphone (BlackBerry […]
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T-Mobile USA to offer BlackBerry Bold 9900
T-Mobile USA today announced via Twitter that it will offer the just announced BlackBerry Bold 9900: The just-announced BlackBerry Bold 9900 will be T-Mobile’s first 4G capable BlackBerry Smartphone later this year. T-Mobile USA did not give any availability details but RIM announced that the Bold 9900 will be available this summer, giving us a general sense of when we […]
RIM launches Facebook and Video Chat applications for PlayBook tablet
Research In Motion today announced two new applications for the BlackBerry PlayBook. The first bring video chat capabilities to the tablet while the second is a native Facebook app. The Video Chat application allows users to place and receive video calls between PlayBook tablets over an internet connected Wi-Fi network. It offers features such as One-Click Video, pop-up notifications for […]
BlackBerry Bold Touch appears on BlackBerry.com ahead of announcement
RIM appears to have accidentally revealed the upcoming BlackBerry Bold Touch just ahead of its BlackBerry World conference next week. The yet-to-be-announced device appeared briefly on its BlackBerry.com site earlier today. Specifications were leaked earlier this month and the BlackBerry Bold Touch could be RIM’s first dual-core smartphone and its first with the BlackBerry 7 OS. According to BGR.com, it […]
RIM sells 50,000 PlayBooks on first day?
Initial estimates suggest that Research In Motion sold about 50,000 BlackBerry PlayBooks on launch day, a figure that includes pre-orders. While RIM has yet to provide any numbers, RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky came up with the estimate by checking with about 70 retail locations. While these figures are a pale comparison to Apple iPad 2 sales, Abramsky notes […]
BlackBerry OS7 to combine best features of QNX and OS6.1?
N4BB.com has landed some details about the upcoming BlackBerry 7 operating system. The upcoming OS was one of the topics in a keynote delivered by David Yach, RIM’s Software Chief Technology Officer at an internal RIM RDX conference. It appears that BlackBerry 7 will be a combination of the best features of both QNX and BlackBerry 6.1. It will also […]
BlackBerry Dakota and Apollo specifications and pictures leaked
BGR has landed details on two future RIM BlackBerry devices. The first is codenamed Dakota and looks set to slot into the Bold family (based on its styling). The second, codenamed Apollo, appears to be a future Curve device. Both come with NFC, a feature I expect we will see a lot of in 2011. Rumoured BlackBerry Dakota specifications: Operating […]
Skyfire halts BlackBerry Alpha program
Earlier today, Skyfire announced that it was halting its private Alpha program for the BlackBerry. The decision was made after the program was leaked by a participant who was under NDA. Our intention with this Alpha was to get some early feedback under NDA with a limited number of BlackBerry Bold users – all under NDA during this early dev […]