We were lucky enough to be given access to the closed beta of BBM Music, the latest venture buy RIM to expand the reach of BBM6 and its third-party integration. At its core, BBM Music is a natural extension of the BBM social network. For $4.99US per month, you have access to 50 songs in [...]
If you have a BlackBerry and want to make the most of it you could attend the upcoming “BlackBerry Innovation Forum”. This one-day event will set your company back $149 (USD) per person and it’s coming to various cities across North America: New York City, Chicago, Washington, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, San Fransisco and the only [...]
In the hopes of expanding their well-known success from the business sector, RIM has revisited the clamshell design and combined it with their latest software offering, OS6, in order to release their newest CDMA device, the Blackberry Style 9670. Unlike RIM’s initial attempt at a Blackberry flip phone (Pearl Flip), the Style has a full, [...]
Who says BlackBerry is dying? Waterloo-based Research in Motion has reported “record third quarter results” and from their press release here are the key points: – Record 14.2 BlackBerry smartphones shipped (up over 40% from the same quarter last year) – Revenue breakdown for Q3: 82% for devices, 15% for service, and 3% for software [...]
Now that the BlackBerry Torch is officially available in Canada… stock is probably limited so here are the places you can go to get one today: TELUS, Rogers, Bell and Virgin online and retail locations; SaskTel (now we’re hearing it’s delayed due to shipping), WirelessWave Wireless etc. and TBooth retail locations, Best Buy online and [...]
At RIM’s BlackBerry Developer conference in San Fransisco co-CEO Mike Lazaridis took the stage and revealed some interesting statistics: – Over 115million BlackBerry devices sold to date (over 12 million just this past quarter) – #1 smartphone in North America – 35 million users for their BlackBerry App World: 1.5 million apps getting downloaded per [...]
If Waterloo-based RIM announces a Tablet device this week at their developer conference in San Francisco, RBC Capital analyst Mike Abramsky says that the “Launch is expected [in the first quarter of calendar 2011]… missing the busy holiday season technology push. The reason RIM announcing the product this week is to keep the interest of [...]
Late last night we reported that Bell delayed the anticipated launch of the BlackBerry Torch 9800. This was supposed to be available next week on September 24th. We’ve learned more about the reason and are hearing that it’s not just Bell, but all carriers. The reasons are ranging from “production line problems from Rim” to [...]
The BlackBerry Bold 9780 is not officially announced yet by RIM but that hasn’t stopped it from getting the usual amount of leaks. This time thanks to BerryReview we see the newest member of the Bold family caught on video having fun with RIM’s new BlackBerry 6 OS, checking out the running apps and a [...]
RIM has officially released latest version of App World and BlackBerry users should be getting their notification to upgrade shortly. There are a few new features such as the ability to charge apps to your credit card, developers can now price apps at $0.99 and $1.99… here’s a list of the detailed features you can [...]