As hinted at in their conference call last night, RIM will be rolling out a new feature for BlackBerry Enterprise Server that will allow employers to maintain the secure, locked-down BlackBerry experience they want, while letting end-users take advantage of the open, install-whatever-you-want experience your average consumer gets to enjoy. How this will be specifically…
RIM Q1 2010 Results – 100 Millionth BlackBerry Served, 24% Revenue Increase Year over Year
RIM announced their first quarter financial results last night, boasting a 24% increase of revenue since last year’s results, and marking the milestone of the 100 millionth BlackBerry sold. Here are the numbers, straight from the report (full PDF here): Revenue grew 24% over the same quarter last year to $4.24 billion Earnings per share…
BlackBerry 9670 Clamshell, Four Android Phones, and More Coming to U.S. Cellular
U.S. Cellular has just outlined their plans for device launches for the rest of the year, among them the Samsung Acclaim, HTC Desire, and a few more mysterious ones. For Android, there’s “another highly-anticipated Samsung device and an LG device with a large touch screen and slide-out, ergonomically-designed QWERTY keyboard” (maybe the Galaxy S and…
Infinity BlackBerry Theme from Elecite a Real Winner
It’s been a little while now since I’ve posted any BlackBerry theme goodness for the Berry users out there… Especially when it comes to themes from the design team over at Elecite. Most recently, we were privy to the Glare theme, and before that came ‘Gizmo‘, ‘Polygon‘, and ‘Pulse‘. All of these themes are solid,…
BlackBerry Shield Promises Device Tracking and Security
We had heard rumblings awhile back of something called BlackBerry Shield, a new app/service from RIM to offer some simple security features, like tracking your device’s GPS location, wireless backup, remote wiping, and lots more. There was little more to run on initially than a feature list, but now we’ve got a whole batch of…
Research In Motion posts solid first quarter – 11.2 million BlackBerry units shipped
While today’s news has been dominated by the iPhone 4 (and its reception woes), Research In Motion has quietly posted a solid first financial quarter. The BlackBerry maker shipped a record 11.2 million devices in the first quarter, including its 100th million BlackBerry. This included 4.9 new BlackBerry subscribers. To put that in perspective, bullish…
BlackBerry Bold 9800 Slider Photo’d with AT&T Branding
As if you haven’t seen enough of the BlackBerry 9800 already, another set of pictures have bubbled up, giving us the whole tour. As you might already know, the 9800 is packing OS 6, a 5 megapixel camera with flash, 4 GB of on-board storage, 512 MB of RAM, an HVGA touchscreen, Wi-Fi b/g/n, 3G…
PayPal App for BlackBerry Updated
Just a quickie here for anyone that uses the PayPal app for BlackBerry. Looks like the app has been updated to version 1.1.1.301. The release notes detail the update as addressing ‘minor bug fixes’, so if you do go ahead and install, be sure to let us know if you notice anything weird and/or wonderful.…
Music WithMe Lets You Wireless Sync Your BlackBerry with iTunes
It’s always annoying when you can’t just plug your phone into your computer and sync your device with iTunes as easily as you can with an iPhone. You have to enable some mass storage or weird USB mode and then manually drag and drop all your music onto your phone’s SD card. It has just…
BlackBerry Bold 9650 Coming to U.S. Cellular Early August
The BlackBerry Bold 9650 that recently found its way to Verizon and Sprint will be available on U.S. Cellular in early August, so sayeth their official Facebook page. Check out our full review of the BlackBerry Bold 9650 here, but the short version is that it’s basically a Bold 9700 for CDMA carriers, with some…