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A new report from comscore said Research In Motion and Samsung are tops in the United States in terms of smartphones and phones. RIM BlackBerry is still the leading smartphone platform in the United States with 37.3% of the market. The BlackBerry Torch probably helped RIM keep customers but the trends do not portend well…
If you caught Mike Lazaridis on-stage back at the Adobe MAX conference in late October, you’ll no doubt remember how pumped he was about the BlackBerry PlayBook. Among other things, he noted to developers at that time that if their PlayBook apps were approved for App World inclusion BEFORE the actual PlayBook launch… they’d be…
Yesterday, OS 6 made a big leak for the BlackBerry Bold 9700, and today its GSM cousins, the Pearl 3G 9100 (and its 9105 variant) and Curve 3G 9300 also have OS 6.0.0.344 available to them. RIM promised that the Pearl 9100 would get OS 6 when the Torch launched, while the Curve 9300 was…
If you were wondering why Google was willing to spend close to a billion dollars acquiring the mobile ad firm AdMob, some new data from ad optimizer Smaato should help you understand just how large this business could become. The company said that the mobile advertising market for the Untied States alone could be up…
Today OS 6 for the second-generation BlackBerry Bold, the 9700, was leaked, offering a host of user interface improvements, universal search from the home screen, and a new WebKit browser. The BlackBerry Bold 9700 is solid mid-rand smartphone, and packs most of the same specs you’ll see in newer BlackBerrys, like an HVGA display, Wi-Fi,…
Not a huge deal here, but if you use the Twitter app for BlackBerry… you best take note. The application has just been updated, and it brings us up to version 1.0.1.7. It’s usually best to load up the latest version of any app, so I highly suggest you do so. Hit up the App…
We already had a pretty good feeling that the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 would be coming to Canadian carrier Wind mobile, and today we’ve got some added confirmation. This internal inventory screenshot shows two 9300 placeholders keeping the Curve 3G’s spot warm until launch (perhaps for two colours?). There’s still no pricetag, but as an…
Last we had heard from the government of India regarding lawful interception of BlackBerry data is that they had partial access to BBM data, and RIM had provided an interim solution that bought them another two months as of a few weeks ago. India is now giving RIM until January 31 2011 to test out…
Remember that big-ish BlackBerry Storm 3 we saw awhile back with a trackpad? It’s not the refreshed BlackBerry Storm 9570 that was going to be a small incremental upgrade and supposedly launch with OS 6, but rather another touchscreen smartphone after that. Some undocumented specifications have surfaced for our consideration. Camera: 5MP, 2592×1944 pixels or 8…
The BlackBerry Bold 9780 went official last week, with a handful of carriers confirming that they would be offering it for sale. We didn’t hear much about colour selection, but a red version has popped up in a video showing the 9780’s RAM usage. You’d think nice thing about using the exact same exterior as…