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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…
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!
We’re live from the BlackBerry DevCon conference and we’re just minutes away from the keynote. We’re expecting a lot out of RIM today, as the company is in the middle of a public relations and investor confidence nightmare. Not only has BlackBerry been losing market share to the likes of Apple and Google, RIM just…
Wind Mobile has just announced six new handsets leading up to the holiday season. Among them is the first AWS-capable BlackBerry Torch 9810, its touchscreen cousin, the Torch 9860, and the Curve 9360. The Bold 9900 will also be hitting shelves this Thursday for $169 on a WINDtab+ (which offers up to $150 subsidized so…
After the worst service interruption in the company’s history, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion announced today that they would be offering a bunch of otherwise-premium apps for free to make amends. RIM hopes the bundle worth over $100 will convey that it’s “committed to providing the high standard of reliability [customers] expect, today and in the…
The Foursquare app for BlackBerry got a modest upgrade today. No, it’s not going to include Radar, but the logo in the top-left now launches into a notification stream. The notification list will include comments on your check-ins, when friends do one of your tips, both you and a friend have an identical place on…
In a developer blog post similar to the one we saw prior to the OS 7 device launch, RIM described the displays for two upcoming BlackBerry devices. The 9380 (which we had seen in glimpses) will have a 3.2-inch 480 x 360 touchscreen in a 4:3 aspect ratio, much like the existing Torch 9800. The…
blueSLR has expanded from iPhone to support Android and BlackBerry handsets recently. By slapping their Bluetooth accessory onto the side of your DSLR camera, you can control shooting settings for your camera from your phone, as well as geotag photos and upload them to Flickr, Picasa, and other web albums. Although cameras on smartphones are…
This morning, RIM posted a video of their co-CEO and founder, Mike Lazaridis, talking about the BlackBerry service interruptions that have been ongoing since Monday around the world. Lazaridis reported that service levels are approaching normal, but they still can’t say for sure how long it will be before everything is restored. He sounded sincere…