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Amid the steady trickle of hands-on videos of the BlackBerry Torch 9860/50, the latest one out of China is showing one of the first signs of carrier branding. Verizon is set to pick up the 9850 if the battery door cover in this video is any indication, though a 9860 is also expected for GSM…
The BlackBerry Bold 9790 made its initial appearance a few months ago, shortly after the first big leak of OS 7 devices. Today, the device is getting a little more real with a batch of tutorial videos that would normally be loaded up onto the device. Detailed specs on the BlackBerry 9790 are scarce, but…
An early build of the Android app player leaked today, and I got it up and running on my BlackBerry PlayBook. Wanna check it out? It’s still pretty basic, and by the looks of things, you can only run core Android applications. Still, the browser runs fine, and despite a bit of lagginess, the native…
RIM has been talking about supporting Android applications on the BlackBerry PlayBook for a couple of months now, and like many worthwhile features, it’s taking awhile to get here. Luckily, an early version of the Android app player has leaked out for us to try. The eventual goal is to have developers submit their Android…
It looks like RIM’s losing more than one team member to Samsung. Ryan Bidan, whom we’ve seen in several official BlackBerry PlayBook demos, is moving on from Research In Motion. He was a senior product manager that handled the BlackBerry PlayBook development. Before that, he handled gaming at Microsoft. While people in the wireless industry…
Following up on some significant updates for Windows Phone and Android, The Foursquare location-based check-in app for BlackBerry has been bumped up to version 3.0. The biggest changes are around user interface, with some new graphical category tabs, new layout for tips, and lots of other small tweaks. There’s also a new discovery engine to…
Earlier today the RIM’s tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, was updated to OS 1.0.7. It’s not quite as significant as the last update, but there are a few new features, mostly surrounding file attachments. Now files can be saved to your BlackBerry smartphone over Bridge in addition to locally on the tablet. The PlayBook can also…
The BlackBerry Bold 9900 recently passed FCC certification, but that’s not the only RIM device coming down the pipe. The Torch 2 9810 has also made its way through the testing rigamarole, which suggests that it’s one of the multiple devices RIM has promised in the next month.The bands tested line up with AT&T’s HSPA…
Not too long ago RIM had launched a radio application that amalgamated various streaming music services and put them under one roof. A new screencap is showing something else called BBM Music that may go a step further. Details are skimpy, but this will basically allow folks to share playlists and music tracks with friends,…
Update: We refreshed our top 10 BlackBerry PlayBook apps list for the 2011 holiday season – some of them will look familiar, but there are a bunch of new ones too. The BlackBerry PlayBook launched with a relatively meager selection of quality applications, despite RIM handing out the tablet to any developer willing to cook…