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RIM’s next full-touchscreen slate handset has been spotted in various roadmaps, and once with dead screen, but today we get to see the BlackBerry Monaco alive and running. According to the source, it may launch as the BlackBerry Touch, likely in an effort to get away from the Storm family and the negative stigma created…
A leaked enterprise product roadmap from RIM is indicating that BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Google Apps Premier is being targeted for a September launch. This means corporate-grade e-mail, calendar, and contacts will sync up seamlessly between the Google services in the cloud and the BlackBerry phone in your hand. This is vaguely reminiscent of the…
Internally, Research In Motion has been running a conference for their BlackBerry developers, talking a lot about how to speed up the rollout of their operating system upgrades, but also hinting at the future. BlackBerry OS 7 is a new project named “Highlander” which will attempt to join the QNX Neutrino-based operating system on the…
There’s a rumour floating around that RIM’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie spoke in Toronto yesterday and announced that BlackBerry Messenger and “other services” would be coming to iPhone on April 26, followed-up with a new notification system for BBM on iOS in the summer. The fact that the rumour originated from some random dude on a…
Russian carrier MTS will be launching a new marketing campaign soon revolving around some high-tech displays which put the BlackBerry Storm2 at front and center. Using what’s called a Dreamoc 3D Display, made by RealFiction, the Storm2 will be circled by holographic 3D images, viewable from 3 sides. The concept video illustrates a variety of…
At launch, RIM’s first tablet, the PlayBook, will require a Bluetooth pairing with a BlackBerry smartphone in order to get access to core native apps like e-mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, and memos. It isn’t ideal, but there are a lot of reasons RIM would go with this set-up. A recent Verizon training webinar went through…
IDC recently published their forecast for the worldwide smartphone market, and they foresee 450 million units shipping in 2011 compared to 303 million last year; that translates to 49% growth, which is four times more than the overall mobile market. IDC claims Android will snatch up 45% of the worldwide smartphone market share by 2015,…
Slacker’s various mobile apps for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry are due for an update in a few weeks, and will include the ability to listen to individual music tracks on demand. The feature is a long time coming, having been announced about six months ago, but it should finally be landing in mid-April. This is…
Although I can’t consider myself a HUGE fan of The Joy of Tech, every once and awhile one of their comics will catch my eye, and make me laugh. Case in point today comes to us in the form of a new BlackBerry PlayBook comic. Check it out above. If you’re waiting patiently to get…
Heralding the launch of NFC and augmented reality-enabled BlackBerry handsets, an updated version of RIM’s desktop software companion has broken cover. BlackBerry Desktop Software 6.1 has a few new features by the looks of it, like forgetting a previously synced device if you don’t want to have extraneous backup data cluttering your computer, and launching…