An innocuous Facebook user was poking through application permissions and found that the Facebook for BlackBerry app asked for permission to log in to the instant messenging service, even though it doesn’t offer mobile chat. RIM’s certainly no stranger to IM clients, having built AIM, ICQ, MSN, and GTalk apps around a similar and reliable…
Video: Rogers on Demand Streaming Live World Cup Games to Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone
As FIFA World Cup was starting up last month, Rogers offered an app for Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone to watch the games live, as well as watch clips cached from a wide selection of shows. I got to spend some time with Rogers on Demand on the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, and though I had…
BlackBerry Theme of the Day: Slipstream by Magmic
It’s been a little while since I’ve featured a BlackBerry Theme of the Day, so here we go. Today I’m touting the new ‘Slipstream’ theme from the good folks at Magmic. As you can see from the shot above, it’s very colorful, features a custom icon set, and a lot more. Once you download and…
eBay for BlackBerry Now Available in Australia, UK and More…
Early this morning, eBay and RIM made a joint announcement that the eBay app for BlackBerry is now available in 6 more countries. If you carry a BlackBerry and live in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain or the UK, online auction goodness is now available to you via your BlackBerry handheld. eBay for BlackBerry allows…
T-Mobile’s BlackBerry Curve 9300 “Kepler” Spotted in Purple
The last we had seen of the BlackBerry Curve 9300, code-named Kepler, it was happily bearing a T-Mobile logo, the first concrete sign of carrier support. There are a few new pictures bubbling up, showing an alternative purple paint job to the silver 9300 we had seen previously. The source of the picture and previous…
Rumor: Apple, RIM may go on shopping spree
A couple of rumors going around suggest that Apple and Research In Motion will be acquiring companies in the near future. This comes courtesy of Business Insider off-the-record dinner and, while the publication has been spotty in the past, these deals make a lot of sense. Fresh off its success with the iPhone 4 and…
BlackBerry Internet Service 3.1 Rolling Out with Hotmail and Yahoo! Sync?
There had been hints of it before, but now we’re seeing the first signs of BlackBerry Internet Service 3.1 coming to life, featuring Yahoo! and Windows Live Hotmail contact sync. I’m not seeing anything up on Rogers right now, but some folks have had new icons pushed to their device, and new options enabled in…
More BlackBerry OS 6 Features Rumoured
We’ve been picking apart every scrap of video of BlackBerry OS 6 that has surfaced, but some new features and a list of compatible devices have come down the rumour mill. The compatibility list is mostly the same as what we’ve seen before, with the exception of the 9300 Kepler launching with OS 6. From…
‘Sense’ BlackBerry Theme from HedoneDesign
If you’re big into the look and feel of Android, but prefer to carry a BlackBerry… Why not combine the best of both worlds? I happened to stumble across the Sense BlackBerry theme from HedoneDesign recently, and it packs all of the Sense UI / Android goodness one BlackBerry user could handle. It’s real nice.…
BlackBerry Storm 3 Specs Rumoured – 1GHz Processor, 1 GB RAM, LTE
There was talk back in 2008 that RIM had begun work on an LTE BlackBerry. Given their two-year development cycle, it makes sense that we would see the fruits of their labour sometime near the end of this year, and from early rumours, the final product could be a doozy. Here’s what tipsters are saying…