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When RIM announced the BlackBerry PlayBook, it was easy to see the similarities with Palm’s webOS – gesture areas, thumbnailed multitasking, and upward flicks to close apps were all conspicuously familiar. RIM evolved the idea in a few ways, like by throwing a gesture area around all sides of the screen, and adding a few…
Since its announcement, RIM has been touting the BlackBerry PlayBook as the one and only enterprise-ready tablet, and to further emphasize the point they’ve released a video talking in vague terms about how awesome and secure the thing is. The key phrase in the video is that the PlayBook was “Built for CIOs with CIOs”…
QuickPlay will soon be launching an app called Pocket Cinema which lets you browse movies, rent them, download them over Wi-Fi onto local storage, and watch ’em on the BlackBerry Torch 9800. The only downside right now is that Pocket Cinema is only available in the UK, but the developers are aiming to open up…
The BlackBerry Analytics Service, announced back in September, has just gone live in a public beta, offering app developers the tools needed to track their users. Metrics range from number of active users, how many new users an app has gained, how often, in which way, and how much apps are used, along with a…
Over the weekend, a completely fed up app developer poured out his frustrations over trying to make something for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. The roadblocks ranged from an excessive demand for documentation (like getting a notarized letter confirm credentials), an unreliable tool installation process, and excessive costs. At some points I felt like he was kind…
Rumors are coming fast and furious that suggest the BlackBerry PlayBook will be able to run Android applications. Last week, we read a report from ShopSavvy that claims someone was using their Android application on a BlackBerry Curve 8520, a Curve 8300, and a mystery 8600 device. While not conclusive evidence that RIM is building…
If you thought this was how Angry Birds would look like if it ever made the leap to BlackBerry, guess again. Smarter Apps has released an unabashed knock-off called Angry Farm, where, like the original, you aim and slingshot various animals at precariously-constructed buildings in an effort to collapse everything on top of the hapless…
ShopSavvy, a price comparison app, has detected that their Android app has been used in Waterloo, Ontario (presumably by someone at RIM) on a BlackBerry Curve 8520, Curve 8300, and a mystery 8600 device. We had heard plenty of rumours that the BlackBerry PlayBook will be able to handle Android apps, but this is the…
Some screenshots of the next version of Facebook for BlackBerry have snuck out, revealing a handful of new features. The most prominent among them is Chat, something users have been missing for ages, resulting in a slew of third-party apps filling the gap. Facebook 2.0 for BlackBerry also tidies up the user interface, enables you…
BlackBerry Internet Service, the underlying structure that BlackBerry owners use if they aren’t hooked up to a corporate server, will get a handful of new features soon according to some leaked docs. The last update introduced two-way Google Calendar Sync, which will get polished up in 4.0 with the ability to completely delete calendars and…