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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…
To help us officially celebrate the start of the holiday shopping season, Sprint is literally giving away a BlackBerry Style flip-phone for free. When you buy one of the new BlackBerry flip-phones for $99.99 (with new 2-year contract), Sprint will hook you up with another BlackBerry Style for no additional charge. Two-for-one, buy-one-get-one, BOGO, “twofer,”…
A neat concept for a BlackBerry phone called Empathy has been cooked up by designer Daniel Yoon, focusing on sharing our mood with friends. It’s a bit of a throwback to the early LiveJournal and MySpace days, which were all about updating mood statuses, but there are some interesting twists on old ideas here. The…
The latest device available for ColorWare customization is the BlackBerry Bold 9780. The company allows proud Bold 9780 to change pretty much every detail of their smartphone, including the frame, top, bottom, inner back and outer back. Changing the color of the frame is the most expensive thing to do and it will cost you…
A quick BlackBerry OS update here for the Storm2 users out there. Coming to us directly from Verizon, it looks like Storm2 users can now download and install an OFFICIAL update on their devices. OS 5.0.0.1015 is now available from ‘big red’, just in time for the Thanksgiving weekend. Good timing! Below are the key…
The source of a video showing a BlackBerry PlayBook outside the vigilant auspices of RIM PR and marketing has suggested the three price points of the upcoming tablet. Apparently the version with 8 gigabytes of storage is going for $399, the 16 gigabyte one for $499 (both under $500 as promised) and the 32 gigabyte…