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Earlier this week at DevCon 2011, RIM announced the name and developer framework for their next-gen BlackBerry operating system. BBX was meant to bring the QNX-based operating system on the BlackBerry PlayBook to smartphones, and though we didn’t get a clear picture of what the OS would look like (nevermind what device it would launch…
Facebook’s new Messenger application has been chilling out on Android and iOS for awhile, and now BlackBerry gets join the party. Android and iOS versions are also getting a bit of an update, so you can now see when someone else is typing, and you’ve got quicker access to your favourite friends. They also include…
Back at BlackBerry World, RIM had promised that a lot of the fancy user interface elements made by their Swedish branch would become available to BlackBerry developers. This week at DevCon 2011, RIM took some time to show off the library, called Cascades. During the keynote, they showed off just some of those UI bits,…
During a briefing on their involvement with Android on the PlayBook tablet, a RIM exec at DevCon 2011 made a somewhat bold statement: BlackBerry App World would be the first professional market for Android applications. This stemmed from a line of questioning around security – how does RIM propose to stop just about anybody from…
RIM has updated the official Twitter for BlackBerry app in the Beta Zone with a long-awaited feature: multiple account support. Now you can send tweets and monitor timelines from up to five accounts. On top of that, you can also edit your Twitter profile from the device now, include name, location, and bio fields. Twitter…
The hugely popular free, on-demand streaming music service Spotify is finally coming to BlackBerry. Of course, you need a premium subscription to enjoy tunes on mobile, and compatibility for the Spotify app is currently limited to the 9780 Bold, 9700 Bold, 9300 Curve, 9000 Bold, 8520 Curve – sorry, no CDMA handsets or the Torch…
A big part of today’s announcements at the BlackBerry DevCon 2011 was OS 2.0 of RIM’s PlayBook tablet, or at least an early beta of it. The user interface has a few small tweaks, but the main reason for this release is to give developers something they can start loading Android apps into. We’re still…
I ducked into Gameloft’s San Francisco office today to check out some new iOS games, including their upcoming first-person shooter, Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation. As with many Gameloft titles, the influence of popular games is readily apparent – in this case Call of Duty – but they’re shy about mentioning the originals by name.…
Today, RIM announced their upcoming operating system for smartphones – a re-jiggered version of the QNX OS on their PlayBook tablet called BBX. Backwards compatibility with classic BlackBerry applications was once in the cards, but RIM’s Alec Saunders has confirmed that Java apps did not make the cut. After trying to emulate the Java ME…
We’re mid-liveblog right now at the BlackBerry DevCon general session, but a press release just crossed the wire outlining RIM’s announcements for the show. BBX will support Adobe AIR 3.0, have a native SDK UI tool called Cascades, and a ton of HTML 5 support. Here’s the press release – we’ll have more soon!