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At an event showcasing tablets the other night, Rogers announced that they’ll be offering RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet early next year. They didn’t mention any specific pricing, but we’re guessing it’ll be around February for between $399 and $599, depending on how much storage you want. For those unacquainted with the BlackBerry PlayBook, it’s a…
RIM has acquired well-known Swedish design firm The Astonishing Tribe. TAT has done a lot of mobile work in the past, including some live wallpapers for Android, some far-out concepts, worked on Symbian, and a lot of other really cool stuff. TAT also collaborated with Synaptics and a bunch of others on the Fuse concept…
If you’re into eBay like I am, chances are you already have the app loaded up on your BlackBerry. It’s been around for quite some time now, and lets you do almost everything you can do from your desktop. Watch items, place bids, search for items, you name it… you can do it. In a…
Although probably not quite as inflammatory as RIM’s current stance against Kik Messenger, Research In Motion has decided that they won’t be working on ICQ for BlackBerry anymore, and that as of December 4, they’ll be turning off the instant messaging service. RIM’s not alone, either – Nimbuzz dropped ICQ a few weeks ago, too.…
While we were looking at the numbers that Pingdom had commissioned from StatCounter regarding global smartphone OS marketshare based on web usage by region, we noticed that StatCounter also had some more recent mobile web usage data that showed BlackBerry being more popular than iOS (which includes iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch) in the U.S.…
RIM tweeted yesterday that the BlackBerry App World portal is now home to 15,000 apps, up from 10,000 in September. It’s still a far cry from the iOS App Store’s 300,000-ish and the Android Market’s 100,000-odd apps, plus Windows Phone isn’t that far behind BlackBerry with 3,000 apps after just a few weeks. Also, as…
Hooboy, I think we’re starting to see why Kik Messenger was booted out of App World and had its developer tools revoked. As of yesterday, Research In Motion is suing the makers of the instant messaging app for patent infringement. RIM had said that Kik was breaching contractual obligations, and that they had tried to…
It’s been a while since we’ve seen the mysterious BlackBerry 8980 code-named Atlas, which looks like little more than a Bold 9700 with a Curve-style keyboard, but it recently passed through the FCC rigamarole. Technically, the first test results for the 8980 went through in early September, but just yesterday the user manual and external…
RIM’s job database has a position for an NFC specialist for their Rolling Meadows, Illinois, who would design and oversee the testing processes for as yet unannounced NFC devices. Man, Jim Balsillie wasn’t fooling around when he was talking about near-field communications on BlackBerry being more or less a sure thing. For the uninitiated, near-field…
Maybe I’m not looking hard enough, but generally I’m not too impressed with the Cyber Monday sales that are available. The discounts seem so insignificant, and in some cases, completely non-existent. Telus, however, is going all-out and offering some really good deals today. LG IQ – $0 with a 1-year contract Nokia E71 in red…