Another sign emerged this week that BlackBerry was not quite ready to give up on hardware despite recent struggles that have decimated the dominating position it once held in the smartphone space. Speaking to Pocket-lint during Mobile World Congress, BlackBerry’s Vice President of Global Product Management Francois Mahieu said that the company was open to an eventual return to the […]
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BlackBerry enhancing chats with BBM stickers
While BlackBerry is refocusing much of its attention on the enterprise space, the company’s new CEO, John Chen, also reiterated that it was not turning its back on the consumer market. As if to reconfirm this, the latest feature to come to BBM is decidedly one for this market and especially the teen market. BlackBerry yesterday announced that it is […]
BlackBerry Windermere concept shows off three-row keyboard
Very little had been known about the BlackBerry Windermere, the rumoured next high-end QWERTY keyboard-packing smartphone until earlier this week. First a strange looking prototype surfaced. It was quickly followed up with a report that BlackBerry was exploring a new keyboard design that would only have three rows of keys to make them touch-sensitive to offer a new kind of […]
EA games now free in latest BlackBerry 10 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 […]
More details emerge about BlackBerry Windermere
While BlackBerry has turned over development and management of its entry-level BlackBerry smartphone business to Foxconn, it is still developing new high-end models in-house. At least two new devices, the all-touch Ontario and the QWERTY keyboard Windermere, are reportedly in the works. The Ontario has already been the topic of a few rumours (including benchmarks) but the Windermere has proven […]
Strange looking QWERTY BlackBerry 10 prototype surfaces
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, […]
BBM for Android Gingerbread now available
BlackBerry first announced that it would offer a version of its BBM app for devices still running Android Gingerbread back in January. The company announced yesterday that this “special release” is now available for download through Google Play. This means that Android Gingerbread users can start to enjoy the immediacy, privacy and control of BBM to chat and share with […]
BlackBerry Z3 Jakarta image and specifications revealed?
BlackBerry and Foxconn are expected to reveal the first device borne of their new partnership at MWC 2014. Codenamed Jakarta, details about the device have so far been slim but that looks to have changed today with both leaked renders and specifications. The images reveal a look different from the styling we have seen with other BlackBerry 10 devices. They […]