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Yesterday, RIM announced the latest addition to the Bold family, the 9900, and at the BlackBerry World show we got some time to play around with it. It is indeed their slimmest BlackBerry to date, and the first in a long line of upcoming devices to support augmented reality apps, near-field communications, and big horsepower.…
During this morning’s general keynote at the BlackBerry World conference, RIM showed off the Android app wrapper which was announced a few months ago for the PlayBook tablet. As you can see from the video below, a variety of apps all run extremely smoothly. Things started simply enough with a piano app and drum machine,…
The BlackBerry PlayBook launched with the rather irksome “feature” that required a BlackBerry smartphone to be paired over Bluetooth to get core apps like e-mail, contacts, memos, and tasks. RIM has been promising that stand-alone versions would be available, and today at their big conference, they showed e-mail and contacts running fine without a Bluetooth…
Which will come first? Angry Birds for PlayBook, or a native e-mail client for RIM’s lukewarm tablet? It’s hard to say, but if I had to guess, it’d be the beloved avian-versus-swine game. This morning during Mike Laziridis’ keynote speech at BlackBerry World in Orlando, Florida, it was announced that, in addition to the 3,000…
This morning at the BlackBerry World keynote in Orlando, Florida, attendees were a little surprised to see Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer take the stage. What could he possibly be doing down in Orlando during a BlackBerry event? Well, it turns out he was promoting Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, and Bing Maps. In partnership with BlackBerry, future…
Prior to their big show, RIM blasted out a ton of announcements yesterday, prominently including a new enterprise product that will support Android and iOS, as well as the Bold 9900, their first smartphone in an upcoming series with NFC chips, faster processors, and support for augmented reality applications. We’re covering it live, and hoping…
Earlier today, there was a leaked file for BBM on the BlackBerry PlayBook, but it’s a bit of a moot point now, as RIM has announced the the signature instant messaging app will be included in a software update going out tomorrow, and like many core apps, will be dependent on Bridge. Included in the…
It’s going to be a big week for BlackBerry with BlackBerry World taking place in Orlando, Florida, and we’re already off to some big news. The new Bold 9900, which is reminiscent of the Bold 9000 that came out in fall 2008, was just announced this morning and we’ve learned that it’s going to come…
We’re still waiting on RIM’s signature BBM instant messenger client on the PlayBook tablet, but it may be coming sooner than later. Thanks to a leaked file, the app is running fine through Bridge (i.e. when the tablet is linked to RIM smartphone over Bluetooth). There are reportedly a few bugs, but that’s to be…
Big news is coming from BlackBerry this week, with new devices and services being announced from the smartphone manufacturer, but it’s also introducing a brand-spankin’ new OS: BlackBerry OS 7. We haven’t seen much of the new mobile operating system at this point, but we expect to catch plenty of it along with its new…