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Last night, Verizon accidentally posted a demo video of the upcoming BlackBerry Bold 9930, running through the basic highlights. Although it’s not one of the unannounced BlackBerry smartphones that we’re expecting to break cover today, it’s good to see some U.S. carriers lining up to sell this thing. Though the video doesn’t really show anything…
RIM made a coy tweet not long ago more or less confirming that there would be new devices announced tomorrow. “You got it! New #BlackBerry devices are coming w/ our new OS, BlackBerry 7! Check back tmrw 4 deets on #BB7FanNight. ^CH” In their general meeting a few weeks ago, RIM execs confirmed that they…
Yesterday an early build of the Android app player leaked for the BlackBerry PlayBook, and though it’s not quite ready for prime-time, the daring and adventurous are welcome to check it out. RIM has warned against using it, but if you’d like to throw caution to the wind, we’ve got full instructions on how to…
Amid the steady trickle of hands-on videos of the BlackBerry Torch 9860/50, the latest one out of China is showing one of the first signs of carrier branding. Verizon is set to pick up the 9850 if the battery door cover in this video is any indication, though a 9860 is also expected for GSM…
The BlackBerry Bold 9790 made its initial appearance a few months ago, shortly after the first big leak of OS 7 devices. Today, the device is getting a little more real with a batch of tutorial videos that would normally be loaded up onto the device. Detailed specs on the BlackBerry 9790 are scarce, but…
An early build of the Android app player leaked today, and I got it up and running on my BlackBerry PlayBook. Wanna check it out? It’s still pretty basic, and by the looks of things, you can only run core Android applications. Still, the browser runs fine, and despite a bit of lagginess, the native…
RIM has been talking about supporting Android applications on the BlackBerry PlayBook for a couple of months now, and like many worthwhile features, it’s taking awhile to get here. Luckily, an early version of the Android app player has leaked out for us to try. The eventual goal is to have developers submit their Android…
It looks like RIM’s losing more than one team member to Samsung. Ryan Bidan, whom we’ve seen in several official BlackBerry PlayBook demos, is moving on from Research In Motion. He was a senior product manager that handled the BlackBerry PlayBook development. Before that, he handled gaming at Microsoft. While people in the wireless industry…
Following up on some significant updates for Windows Phone and Android, The Foursquare location-based check-in app for BlackBerry has been bumped up to version 3.0. The biggest changes are around user interface, with some new graphical category tabs, new layout for tips, and lots of other small tweaks. There’s also a new discovery engine to…
Earlier today the RIM’s tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, was updated to OS 1.0.7. It’s not quite as significant as the last update, but there are a few new features, mostly surrounding file attachments. Now files can be saved to your BlackBerry smartphone over Bridge in addition to locally on the tablet. The PlayBook can also…