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The last 12 months have been pretty wild in the mobile world, as we’ve seen some major partnerships, Apple and Android continue to dominate and 4G LTE start to roll out. We think that 2012 will be just as important, if not more so, than the last twelve months, so we’ve enlisted the IntoMobile team…
comScore today published their research results for the U.S. smartphone market in November, and it’s more of the same: RIM’s share of the pie keeps getting smaller, and Google’s keeps getting bigger. The changes since October weren’t really significant, but the course remained consistent. The BlackBerry smartphone OS market share dipped 0.6% since last month,…
If you got a PlayBook for Christmas, there’s not much to do but download apps, but for those that just got their first BlackBerry smartphone, there’s a lot more to wrap your head around. I actually just bought my mom her first cell phone for the holidays (a Curve 9300 on Mobilicity), and even after…
Now that the holiday season is starting to wind down, it’s time to get comfortable with the new gifts. A popular one, mainly thanks to its attractive (if inconsistent) $200 price point, is the BlackBerry PlayBook. Over the summer I had slapped together my top ten favourite apps at the time, but since then, selection has…
Verizon’s after Christmas sales were a little ho-hum, but you might find Best Buy’s a little more exciting. They’re offering a wide range of devices across all the major U.S. carriers, and the phones are all free with a two-year contract. From Verizon, you’ve got the Samsung Stratosphere and HTC Droid Incredible 2; from AT&T,…
If you work at Volkswagen in Germany, your BlackBerry e-mail starts coming in 30 minutes before your shift, and 30 minutes after, thanks to a new union agreement. Senior staff are exempt from the new rule, who likely need to be accessible around the clock, though standard phone functions will still be available for everybody…
RIM recently had to change the name of their upcoming platform update from BBX to BB10 due to a preexisting trademark, but it looks like one of BlackBerry’s more well-established features may be coming under similar fire. BBM Canada is a non-profit business intelligence company that has been around since 1944 gathering TV and radio…
RIM’s Swedish arm, better known as The Astonishing Tribe, has updated Scrapbook for the BlackBerry PlayBook with in-app downloads. These new content packs add a whole bunch of new stickers and backgrounds to create your virtual postcards. The packs cover themes like Christmas, the 50s, and travel. The 2.0 update also lets you upload the final creations to…
The last 12 months have been a wild ride, as we started the year with many of us wondering how the Xoom and PlayBook could compete against the iPad, how would HP use webOS, what the iPhone 5 would look like and if 4G LTE would really come to America in a big way. There…
After a brief mention back in the spring, Angry Birds is now available on the BlackBerry PlayBook. The quintessential mobile game has you slingshot various kinds of birds into shoddy structures, which in turn collapse onto the lazy, stupid, thieving pigs within. The absence of Angry Birds on any BlackBerry has even spawned a shameless…