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BlackBerry interim CEO John Chen wrote an open letter to the company’s loyal users and doubters, alike. The main thing he wanted readers to comprehend is that BlackBerry is here to stay. He said that rumors of the company’s death “are greatly exaggerated,” adding that the “for sale” sign has been taken down. BlackBerry’s focus…
BlackBerry is launching 25 Days of Gifts giveaways at BlackBerry World, offering one premium app for free to BlackBerry 10 users. Through December 25th, if you have a BlackBerry 10 device, you can visit BlackBerry World each day to get your freebie. Each free app, game or movie will be available for only 24 hours,…
BlackBerry has managed to convince 12 international OEMs to preinstall its BBM app onto their Android smartphones. These are not household names in the West, but then again these days most of BlackBerry’s customers don’t live in North America and Europe. The companies that agreed to preload BBM on their phones include Be, Brightstar, Celkon,…
Today BBM Channels is finally shedding the beta tag, and bringing its version of feed-based social networking to all BlackBerry users. In a few hours, BlackBerry 10 and classic BlackBerry OS devices will be able to use the new service for themselves; a service that allows users to subscribe to content feeds from both major providers and…
The never-ending saga that is BlackBerry just continues to roll on, as the company’s new management is reported to have let go more top-level executives from the old regime. This comes after the troubled Waterloo company shook things up by letting CEO Thorsten Heins go for new boss John S. Chen. The folks leaving BlackBerry…
After many in–the–wild photos, BlackBerry has officially announced the luxury version of its Z10 smartphone, made in partnership with Porsche Design. The new BlackBerry Porsche P’9882 keeps most of the Z10’s specs, including a 4.2-inch 1280×768 screen, 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 2GB of RAM. The change was made in the amount of built-in storage that…
Even though BlackBerry 10.2 isn’t widely available, the Canadian company is already experimenting with its successor, OS version 10.2.1. We’re not sure when this incremental increase in platform version will be released, but we do have few details to share. Here’s what we’ve got: There will be a new incoming call screen, which will allow…
And yet again we have a chance to check out the forthcoming BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9982 before it’s being officially announced later this month (or so we think). As you may know from our previous post, this will be a luxury phone made for a limited number of users who want a pricey BlackBerry smartphone.…
Verizon won’t be offering the LG Nexus 5, but that doesn’t mean that Big Red doesn’t have some tricks up its sleeves. The company is jumping into the Holiday season with an interesting offering; the BlackBerry Z30. That’s right folks, Verizon is offering the BlackBerry Z30 today, for a price of $199 with a new…
Remember that we’ve told you that one solution to solve the “BlackBerry saga” was to split the company in few parts and sell those pieces to interested investors. Apparently, the major computer companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft would all want some part of the former smartphone giant — namely intellectual property — but the…