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After a slight delay, the Sprint BlackBerry Curve 9360 launch has been nailed down to October 2. The pricetag sits at $79.99 on a two-year contract, matching the price T-Mobile launched with earlier this week. Business customers, however, will be able to snag one for $49.99 with a fresh business account activation. The BlackBerry Curve…
Update: Here’s a statement from RIM! “RIM doesn’t typically comment on rumors, but any suggestion that the BlackBerry PlayBook is being discontinued is pure fiction. RIM remains highly committed to the tablet market.” John Vinh, an analyst at Collins Stewart, claims that Quanta isn’t just ramping down BlackBerry PlayBook production – they’re halting it altogether,…
Ahhh, finally. One of Canada’s awesome discount carriers, Mobilicity, has finally got around to launching one of the new OS 7 BlackBerry devices. The Bold 9900 is available today for $549.99 without contract. To sweeten the deal, Mobilicity is offering three months of free BlackBerry data if you sign up for a $35 plan. Not…
RIM is gearing up to show off the Android app player for their PlayBook tablet next month at BlackBerry DevCon, but that hardly means they’re adopting Android wholesale. In fact, at a Romanian developer event, RIM engineers explained just some of the Android features we won’t be seeing in QNX 2.0 for the PlayBook: live…
Carl Icahn is a company’s worst nightmare. He buys up enough shares of your company to get himself a seat on the board, he then convinces the board that they need to just give up and break the company apart, and then when all is said and done he walks away with more money than…
While iPhone owners will be clinging to their brand until the bitter end, it looks like Android will be there to capture just about everyone else in the mobile world. A recent survey by Nielsen showed that of those that had purchased a smartphone in the last three months, 56% of Americans picked up an…
Update: RIM has issued a statement, clarifying that the price hasn’t dropped, and that these are just promotional rebates. “The official retail price of BlackBerry PlayBook has not changed. However, as mentioned on the Q2 earnings call on Sept. 15th, we have a number promotional plans in place for the fall with our retail partners…
It’s no surprise that Apple has a large loyal following, something other companies probably cry themselves to sleep at night over. But just how large and loyal is this following? Statistics for the iPhone are in, and they’re huge as always. It turns out Apple has an astounding 89 percent retention rate, according to a…
After plenty of early hints, T-Mobile has announced their plans for RIM’s next entry-level smartphone, the Curve 9360. The Curve 9360 will be available for pre-sale to business customers starting today, and will hit stores starting September 28. A purple version will be hitting shelves on October 12, while the pricetag sits at a reasonable…
Quanta has shaved off about a thousand of its Taiwan workforce, likely because of dwindling BlackBerry PlayBook orders. The specifics of how many RIM tablets the manufacturing partner shipped in the first half of the year is undisclosed, but Fubon Securities analyst Arthur Liao says Quanta shipped 1.5 million, while a source told DigiTimes RIM…