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Following up on the recent leak of a BlackBerry Bold 9900 OS with a new mobile hotspot feature, another build for the BlackBerry Torch 9810 has recently found its way into the wild. After sideloading it through the BlackBerry desktop software, you would be able to share your HSPA+ connection with up to 5 nearby…
When RIM launched their OS 7 devices over the summer, one of the key features was augmented reality support, thanks to a magnetic compass built into their new phones and a graphical overlay API on the software side. Wikitude was the showcased partner for this tech, but at DevCon Asia, they’ve announced a fresh version…
Those of you who saw the first of RIM’s next-generation BlackBerry lineup may have been turned off by the lack of a physical keyboard, but this spiritual successor to the Torch is looking pretty sharp. This slider, code-named Milan, is one of many upcoming BlackBerry 10 devices, bearing code-names like Lisbon, Nevada, and London. Details…
Following up on a brief beta period, RIM has updated the official Twitter client for BlackBerry with support for multiple accounts. Now if you tweet as more than one person, you can swap between the two accounts pretty seamlessly; in fact, they’ve even tossed in an alt+space keyboard shortcut to make swapping back and forth…
Over the summer, RIM launched a call conferencing app which tied tightly into the native BlackBerry calendar, phone, and e-mail functions. Today they’ve tacked on a few new features. One is the ability to automatically generate a conference call entry in your calendar based on information within e-mail messages, like the body, subject, and recipients.…
RIM has quietly rolled out a beta for their software portal, BlackBerryApp World, which includes a few handy new features. The biggie is app gifting, something which RIM had talked about a long time ago, and is timely given the holiday season. Now you can request certain apps as a gift from BBM friends, as…
After a brief lead-up period, the Dingleberry jailbreak for the BlackBerry PlayBook is now publicly available, though still in a very early beta. The exploit used to gain root access is actually pretty simple. PlayBook backup files used in the BlackBerry Desktop Software apparently aren’t signed, which means those files can be used to launch…
It looks like Sprint and AT&T aren’t the only ones in the U.S. using the now-infamous Carrier IQ debugging tool. The app which apparently logs a ton of user information in the name of support and quality control is also loaded up on a bunch of T-Mobile phones, including: HTC Amaze 4G Samsung Galaxy S…
Late last month, the BlackBerry Bold 9790 was introduced in Jakarta, Indonesia, and drew quite the crowd on launch day thanks to the half-off sale they were offering the first thousand people in line. Unfortunately, the queuing system was a complete mess, and some people got injured as the throng grew restless. Now it looks…
comScore has just released some numbers relating to the U.S. wireless market in the three months leading up to October, and Samsung is still on top, claiming 25.5% of all mobile subscribers (among smartphones and otherwise). The numbers haven’t changed too much since their September survey, so there aren’t a lot of surprises. LG was nexddt…