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That blocky-looking BlackBerry Bold we saw last month has just been officially announced in India. As suspected, it’s a luxury do-over of the 9900, branded by Porsche. Aside from having a unique PIN starting 2AA, a custom-sculpted exterior, and an exclusive UI theme, the BlackBerry P’9981 has the same 5 megapixel camera without autofocus, 2.8-inch…
Update: Now in California, too. Free apps and a heartfelt apology won’t be enough to appease some BlackBerry owners of the massive service outage a few weeks ago. The first steps towards a class-action lawsuit against RIM have been filed in Montreal, demanding direct user-by-user monetary compensation. The initiating plaintiff depended on BBM to keep in…
The BlackBerry Bold 9790 is due for a launch sooner than later, if RIM’s latest blog posts are any indication, but some fresh pictures are showing us that the hardware layout may have significantly changed from what we had seen since the phone made its first appearance five months ago. The navigation keys in the…
Skifta, a great little DLNA home media sharing app for Android, has just exited beta and is now officially 1.0. On top of the expected batch of bug fixes, they’ve also added support for 3G streaming, so you can access content stored remotely on your own hard drives, or through various cloud services when outside…
Those of you itching to get your hands on the upcoming PlayBook OS update will have to wait until 2012, RIM says, and even then, it will be without stand-alone BlackBerry Messenger support. The first glimpse of OS 2.0 for RIM’s tablet is offering up an Android App Player, but there’s still a lot more to…
Gaming was a massive part of BlackBerry DevCon 2011 last week, thanks not only to a range of high-grade developer tools becoming available to game makers, but also lots of releases. We got a sneak peak at big-name title, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, during the DevCon general keynote, and took some time…
Some internal T-Mobile documents are indicating that the BlackBerry Torch 9810 may be headed their way soon. As is, AT&T is the only U.S. carrier offering the phone, but after the AWS version made its first appearance in Canada by way of a Wind Mobile announcement, it’s not a huge surprise to see T-Mobile working…
RIM has just announced a beta program for Office 365 on BlackBerry, which will offer business organizations Exchange synchronization and security options, without all of the hosting hassle. A browser-based console allows managers and end-users to keep tabs on their BlackBerry deployment, including remote wiping if needed, and the usual sync between e-mail, calendar, contacts,…
Our first glimpse of Android apps running on the PlayBook was a little choppy, but now that RIM has opened up the App Player to developers, we’ve got a chance to see performance closer to what was demoed at BlackBerry World. RIM’s Chris Smith walked us through some of the apps that they’ve got working…
Poynt’s location-based search app for BlackBerry has been updated recently to include a whole new category: Offers. With it, you can find short-term local sales offered by Restaurant.com, Peekaboo, Mobile Spinach, and others. Some of the coupons are limited time, others ongoing, and cover a breadth of different businesses – food, hotels, services, and lots…