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A roadmap of Wireless Giant’s upcoming BlackBerry devices has revealed a trio of RIM accessories are due to go on sale on October 31. One of them, the Cyclone, is what we’ve heard will be a TV accessory, and is described as “Streaming HDMI”. The other two, dubbed Beats and Calypso, are Wi-Fi stereo devices.…
RIM’s hard at work trying to get their first QNX-powered BlackBerry smartphone out the door for early next year. Word has it that the device currently in testing is only running on a single-core processor (not two, as it may ultimately have at launch), and doesn’t support RIM’s signature BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Apparently it’s been…
Vodafone is gearing up to launch the Torch 9860 and Bold 9900, but they aren’t the only ones offering RIM’s latest in the UK. Three has announced that the Torch 9810 and Bold 9900 will both be coming their way shortly. The BlackBerry Torch 9810 and Bold 9900 are around the same tier of quality,…
Last week we got a quick glimpse of Vodafone’s BlackBerry Torch 9860, but that’s not the only OS 7 device they plan on selling. The Bold 9900 is also set to come out on Vodafone UK, and if the Carphone Warehouse’s listing is accurate, it should be available on August 12 for free with a…
AT&T, Sprint, Rogers, Telus, and Bell are all scheduled to pick up RIM’s new full-touchscreen BlackBerry Torch 9850/60, but what about elsewhere in the world? On launch day, Vodafone confirmed they’d be carrying it by way of a little teaser video showing the ropes of the device. The Torch 9860 (or 9850, for anyone picking…
The other night was a little disappointing since neither of the new BlackBerry devices announced (the Torch 9810 and Torch 9850/60) had near-field communications or mobile Wi-Fi hotspot features. The upcoming Curve 9360 (code-named Apollo), may very well have them included, however. This is pretty interesting, considering we’re expecting the 9360 to be a lower-tier…
Yet another beta from RIM has launched recently, only this one is geared more towards programmers. The first version of the BlackBerry PlayBook native development kit has gone into beta, meaning developers can make apps with a richness we have yet to really see on their tablet If you’ve poked around at all in the…
After a few coy glimpses, the next generation of BlackBerry’s on-device app store is now in the public eye. Beyond some of the visual updates, there are some new functional ones as well. Every month, they’ll be showing a a new set of themed apps, which are linked in the featured carrousel on the front…
The other device to launch last night in Toronto was the BlackBerry Torch 9850/60. Despite sharing a brand with the 9810, this all-touchscreen device was a decidedly fresh turn for RIM, at least from a form factor standpoint. Giant screens in the neighbourhood of 4 inches are a common sight among high-end smartphones now, but…
The first thing that leaped into my mind when getting my hands on the BlackBerry Torch 9810 at RIM’s BB7 Fan Night event in Toronto last night was, “Huh, this feels familiar.” I’ve been using its predecessor, the BlackBerry 9800, for almost a year, so all of the exterior hardware, from the slide mechanism, to…