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An overlooked announcement here at DevCon was the release of BlackBerry Theme Studio 6, screenshots of which had leaked a few weeks ago. Even though the tool might be just a little overshadowed by the announcement of the BlackBerry PlayBook, the new studio will allow theme developers to finally start tweaking the BlackBerry Torch 9800’s…
Best Buy is making its intentions about the BlackBerry PlayBook very clear – it wants to carry and sell the device when it comes to market. The PlayBook, RIM’s new tablet, is likely going to be a popular tablet with hardcore BlackBerry fanatics, so it makes sense that the huge electronics retailer would want to…
BlackBerry fans on AT&T have a lot to look forward to if the Torch just didn’t strike their fancy: the Curve 3G and Pearl 3G are arriving soon. We first caught a glimpse of the new Pearl 3G at WES, and folks on the carrier who loved the original Pearl have undoubtedly been waiting impatiently…
After a lot of shuffling with dates, the BlackBerry Torch 9800 is now available on Rogers for $199 on a three-year contract, with Telus and Bell not too far behind. It seems like the Torch is only in the online store, and that the brick-and-mortar locations will still get it on September 30 as planned.…
Yesterday, the Associated Press announced two new ‘Super Apps’ for BlackBerry. The new apps are aimed at localizing news coverage by bringing region-specific content to specific areas of the world. The first app is the AP Móvil América Latina app. It delivers news to 20 countries in the Caribbean and Latin America. To receive targeted…
John Jackson, an analyst from CSS Insight, estimates that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet announced by RIM recently will cost $300 – $350, though RIM hasn’t said anything about price point yet. Regardless, anything under $400 would be an aggressive price point and compete with the Samsung Tab’s rumoured subsidized $300 pricetag, and the bare minimum…
Foursquare’s check-in application for BlackBerry has been updated to let you get pop-up notifications as soon as your friends check in to a location. There’s also a fresh round of bug squashes, UI improvements, and code optimizations, all of which are welcome. Foursquare’s presence here at the BlackBerry DevCon has been significant, with a check-in…
This week at DevCon, RIM is showing off for the first time the Pearl 9100, Curve 3G 9300, and Bold 9700 running their new BlackBerry 6 operating system. RIM didn’t offer anything specific as far as a release timeline goes, but they did imply that the software was mostly in the hands of carriers at…
On the BlackBerry scene, we’ve seen nothing short of a whackload of BlackBerry PlayBook news in the last 24 hours… and with good reason. The PlayBook is RIM’s first entry into the tablet scene, and while the jury is still out on it, I honestly can’t wait to get my hands on one. Believe it…
Over a breakfast event today at the BlackBerry Developer Conference, a RIM VP confirmed that the QNX operating system announced in their new PlayBook tablet would in fact be finding its way to smartphones in the long run, and ultimately replace the existing BlackBerry OS. Of course that kind of major transition would take time,…