Category: Blackberry
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Blackberry 9900 set for August 18th UK release
RIM’s Blackberry 9900 will be launched within the month through Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy, the handset will be free on £31-per-month contracts with no word yet on how much it’ll set us back as a SIM-free deal. On appearances alone the 9900 Bold Touch looks like your typical Blackberry handset, but with a bit […]
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Five New Blackberry Smartphones With OS 7 Announced
RIM launches 5 new OS 7 Smartphones including the much rumoured Torch 2 and Monza. We’ve got the scoop!
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BBM news: RIM officially launches BlackBerry Messenger 6
Latest update to the popular instant messenger adds in-app talks
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Blackberry Messenger 6.0 Officially Launched
With a user base of 45 million and millions, if not billions of messages sent every day, Blackberry Messenger (BBM) is one of the biggest mobile social networks in the world, and one of the key selling points of Blackberry smartphones. Research In Motion has today announced Blackberry Messenger 6.0, a brand new version of […]
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Facebook 2.0 for Blackberry Officially Released
Facebook and RIM have officially announced the public release of Facebook v2.0 for Blackberry smartphones and the Blackberry Playbook Tablet. The Facebook app for Blackberry has received a major overhaul and, after several months of beta testing, will become available for customers to download from the Blackberry App World within 24 hours. RIM confirmed that […]
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Two new Blackberry handsets to be unveiled later today?
Two new Blackberry smartphones are expected to be officially unveiled later today, but it looks as though we’ve found some press release pictures already!
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Android’s market share is exploding rapidly – should be ahead of iOS now
ComScore has just released some new figures showing the word domination of Android, which is coming along nicely at a freakishly fast pace. We all know that Android phones are dominating the market at the moment with a reported 500,000 devices activated monthly, and with the OS still being relatively infantile, the growth shown is […]
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Android app player leaked for Playbook
The Blackberry Playbook is a brilliant piece of kit; it has good hardware, a good design and good prospects. But what it does not have is a good developer base. Bring in Alien Dalvik, a tool that will allow the Playbook to boot and run Android applications, with essentially no difference to the Android app, […]
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Blackberry Playbook approved for U.S. Government use
Despite failing to take the consumer market by storm, Research in Motion’s first tablet device, the Blackberry Playbook, has proved to be a hit with the U.S. government. RIM were recently able to boast that their tablet device had passed the super strict FIPS 140-2 certification. While that means very little to the average person, […]
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Phones 4 U announce Blackberry Bold 9900 Prices
UK retailer Phones4U has let the cat out of the bag with contract prices for the forthcoming Blackberry Bold Touch 9900 smartphone, listing tariffs on their website. A range of different contracts have been added to the product page on Phones4u’s website, but all on the Vodafone network only. Contracts start at £36 and run […]
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BlackBerry 7 OS keyboard set for PlayBook-style refresh
Minor mobile update set to bring BlackBerry range in line
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Blackberry Media Box under development to rival Apple TV?
This week we’ve heard a lot of rumours heating up surrounding a new product from Blackberry makers RIM. We’re talking something completely different to a tablet or smartphone – a Blackberry TV device for media streaming, like Apple TV. Blackberry news site N4BB recently reported that RIM was developing something new and interesting, a ‘Blackberry […]