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Remember that Limited Edition Team Canada BlackBerry Bold 9700 I told you about some time ago? The device was put together by RIM to help celebrate Canada’s success at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, however, only 20 of these beauties were put together. If I recall correctly, FutureShop ran a promo (for their sales staff…
Apple and Research In Motion reportedly tried to buy Palm before Hewlett-Packard (HP) won the rights to the smartphone pioneer, according to a report. We had previously known that there were other bidders for Palm but sources definitively told Business Insider that Apple and RIM were major suitors. The report said that Apple offered up…
Apple has turned the smartphone world on its head when it first introduced the iPhone. Since then, other major players have been making tremendous advances and seeing a resurgence in prominence. Others are dangerousy falling behind. According to a survey conducted by ChangeWave Research, now is the time that most folks are planning to buy…
The BlackBerry 9800, aka BlackBerry Talladega, aka BlackBerry Torch, has been all the buzz on the Berry scene over the past few months. However, I found it odd that I hadn’t heard much about RIM’s first-ever vertical slider as of late. In fact, just the other day I woke up wondering what the latest and…
Showing reckless abandon to the growing pre-eminence of the official BlackBerry Twitter client, HootSuite has announced that they’re taking submissions to participate in a private beta for an upcoming BlackBerry app. HootSuite has a few great things that set it apart from RIM’s Twitter client, like support for multiple accounts, multiple members, multiple social networks,…
This weekend we heard that the upcoming BlackBerry tablet, code-named Cobalt, would have a forward- and rear-facing camera as well as a 1 GHz processor, and today we’ve got Flash support to add to the mix of rumoured specs. This would be a huge differentiator from the iPad, and give BlackBerry an honest advantage in…
If you’ve already locked your jowls on the recently released video of BlackBerry OS 6… chances are you want it on your BlackBerry, and you want it now. Sadly, you CAN’T have it now, but thanks to the theme developers at WJD Designs… you can have the next best thing… a BlackBerry Theme based on…
You may recall the iLike BlackBerry Theme from HedoneDesign that I told you about last week. It’s an ideal solution if you want to marry the masterful UI of the iPhone with the functionality and business sense of your BlackBerry. If you checked it out, and felt that maybe it just wasn’t for you, a…
RIM has just posted another video running through the upcoming BlackBerry OS 6. It’s mostly nothing we haven’t seen before, but there are a few new tidbits. Individual apps seem to get their own home on the today screen, so you can see Twitter and Facebook items separately. Visual Voicemail makes its first appearance, which…
We’ve been hearing about a project from RIM called BlackBerry Shield for some time, first in March, then again a few weeks ago. The rumours were all true, and RIM has announced the private beta of what they’re calling BlackBerry Protect. It exists as both a web service and an on-device application, and can help…