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Virgin Mobile Canada now taking BlackBerry 10 pre-registrations

Virgin Mobile Canada today began to take pre-registrations for the upcoming BlackBerry 10 smarpthones. Those who sign up will also be entered to win one of four new BlackBerry devices (model unspecified). Research In Motion will unveil its much anticipated BlackBerry 10 devices on January 30th in a series of worldwide events, including Toronto and New York. It will announce […]

TELUS starts taking RIM BlackBerry 10 pre-registrations

TELUS today became the latest Canadian carrier to start taking pre-registrations for BlackBerry 10 devices. While the tweet making the announcement boasted pre-orders, the sitelet set up only allows you to register to receive updates. This what Bell is doing more closely than the actual all-touch model reservations that Rogers is now taking. Having said that, TELUS says that “Pre-register […]

More RIM BlackBerry Z10 pictures, now with carrier branding

More pictures of Research In Motion’s all-touch BlackBerry 10 smartphone have surfaced. The device, which could be known as the BlackBerry Z10, is shown next to an Apple iPhone 4S (for a size comparison). For the first time, we see carrier branding on a BlackBerry 10 device. The device on the lft sports a Verizon logo on the top left. […]

Bell starts taking BlackBerry 10 pre-registrations

Bell today began allowing customers to pre-register for updates about the upcoming BlackBerry 10 launch. Both business and personal users (or those using both) are welcome to sign up. It looks like the pre-registration will give customers a chance to get regular updates but does not give them a chance to reserve a BlackBerry 10 device the same way Rogers […]

Two RIM BlackBerry 10 devices clear FCC?

Research In Motion will need to ensure that its upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones have all their necessary certifications in place before they can be launched. One such hurdle appears to have been passed: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has given its approval to two BlackBerry devices identified only as the RFF91LW and RFH121LW. Unfortunately, confidentiality requests have hidden away […]

More pictures of the QWERTY-keyboard RIM BlackBerry X10

Rumoured RIM BlackBerry X10

It appears that the upcoming RIM BlackBerry X10, the first BlackBerry 10 device to come with a physical QWERTY keyboard, has lost its aversion to the camera. Its all-touch BlackBerry Z10 sibling is now having to share the limelight more often as more leaked pictures have surfaced. The latest come courtesy of an N4BB anonymous source: While these latest pictures […]

RIM sells off NewBay cloud service subsidiary

Research In Motion has found a buyer for NewBay, the company it acquired in October 2011. It bought the company that offers media and social sharing tools for about US$100 million but sold it to Synchronoss Technologies, a company that provides software-based activation and mobile content management solutions for connected devices for US$55.5 million in cash. “By adding NewBay’s technology […]

BBM Remember to be new BlackBerry 10 task app?

Research In Motion has confirmed that its upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system will include no BlackBerry 7 legacy code and is built instead on its QNX acquisition. Existing apps and services will be updated and new ones will also be unveiled. We caught a glimpse yesterday of BBM Video and another leaked slide also obtained via the CrackBerry forums today […]