Well, here’s something I haven’t written in a while: BlackBerry has released a new smartphone! Ever since BlackBerry began coming apart at the seams, the company has been struggling to stay afloat, dropping Thorsten Heins and nabbing James Chen as CEO of BlackBerry. Where Heins was extravagant and flashy, Chen is anything but. Since his…
BlackBerry working on a new QWERTY slider?
The BlackBerry Torch won’t be the last QWERTY slider made by the Canadian company. If we can take BlackBerry’s recent patent filing for anything, they are working on another such device as we speak. However, unlike the original Torch, this one has a different kind of keyboard, one that looks like Passport’s keyboard. We’re talking…
BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9983 is officially official and chances are you won’t be buying one
BlackBerry has finally made its Porsche Design P’9983 smartphone officially official. After being leaked for months, it’s almost here, but you still can’t get one. Let alone afford it. Although the pricing hasn’t been announced, chances are this will be an expensive device, one that will find its buyers among Middle East oil barons and…
BlackBerry Passport heading to T-Mobile?
BlackBerry and T-Mobile may be “dating” again. The “couple” disengaged after T-Mobile started offering its BlackBerry subscribers and easy upgrade option to the iPhone, leading BlackBerry’s CEO John Chen to react. T-Mobile’s CEO John Legere responded swiftly, and the two parties pretty much ended co-operation. However, now that BlackBerry is about to launch the Passport,…
BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9983 to be announced on September 17th, the Passport a week later
BlackBerry is preparing for busy September; the struggling Canadian company will unveil two new devices in the next few weeks. First, we’ll see the expensive BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9983, which will boast all the expensive materials and Porsche branding to justify the steep price tag. Unlike the previous Porsche Design device, this was one goes…
BlackBerry Blend will bring BlackBerry 10 OS to the big screen
With its upcoming BlackBerry Blend solution, the Canadian company is preparing to go beyond mobile. Said product (software solution) will allow select BlackBerry phone owners to connect their QWERTY device to the big screen and get accordingly better experience. In other words, the extra screen estate will be properly used, allowing folks to more easily…
BlackBerry Passport should come with Snapdragon 801 chip
I personally can’t wait to play with the BlackBerry Passport, but even before I touch it I can’t help but think that the Canadian company should’ve opted for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 801 rather than Snapdragon 800 chip. The S801 is part of the same family of chips with slightly faster cores and improved GPU. With Snapdragon…
This is the BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9983 aka Khan
BlackBerry is working on another Porsche phone. Unlike the current BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9982 which is a special version of the Z10, the upcoming builds on top of the Q10, boasting a full QWERTY keyboard and, again, slightly beefed-up hardware. According to N4BB, the P’9983 will rock a 3.5-inch touchscreen, 3GB of RAM, 1.7GHz dual-core…
BlackBerry Passport clears the FCC, inching closer to the U.S. launch
If you’re like me and can’t wait to try out the upcoming BlackBerry Passport, you’ll be glad to hear that said device has been caught at the FCC. The filing is everything but revealing — there are no external and internal photos — since the Canadian company asked for confidentiality through September 12th. About at…
German officials can’t get enough of BlackBerrys
BlackBerry may be losing its consumer market share, but some governments can’t buy enough of their smartphones. Take Germany as an example; the government in Berlin has already deployed around 3,000 encrypted BlackBerry units with Secusmart technology, and that’s just a start. The latest report, coming from the Financial Post, suggests that they’re looking to…