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Following up on his Bloomberg interview last week, RIM’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie spoke with the Wall Street Journal about not only reviews of the BlackBerry PlayBook, but also the ongoing security situation in India and a few other issues. Balsillie replied to Walt Mossberg’s “codependent” label of the PlayBook by calling the relationship between RIM’s…
We finally have a retail-ready BlackBerry PlayBook unit in our hands, so we decided to give it a quick unboxing video to show you all what it will look like once you’re able to go out and buy one of your own. The packaging is actually quite nice. As you’ll notice from the start, it’s…
Hey, folks! We’re sure you’ve seen BlackBerry PlayBook reviews hitting the web the past few days, and our unit just arrived this morning. So, while we’re working away at our review to give you guys the details, we’re also live-streaming so that you can ask us questions for the next half hour or hour. Ask…
Jim Balsillie stepped up to the plate in an interview with Bloomberg recently, in the wake of disappointed BlackBerry PlayBook reviews. Contrary to the picture above, Balsillie was actually confident, composed, and very optimistic about the future of their tablet and its new operating system. He put a lot of weight behind the updates that…
GetGlue, an app for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android that lets you check in to just about anything, just crossed the 1 million user milestone. To mark the occasion, they’ve released a bevvy of stats in a pretty interesting infographic format. The Oscars produced 31,000 check-ins, which is GetGlue’s peak of activity, but on a daily…
RIM’s next-generation BlackBerry smartphones are well on their way, with plenty of hands-on pictures and video lately, and now some official-looking TV spots for two devices: the Bold 9900 (code-named Dakota), and the Touch 9860 (code-named Monza). The theme for both of them depicts a city bustling with a wide variety of communications, with hints…
Last night an embargo lifted on press reviews of RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook, which launches April 19. The vast majority of reviews say that even after spending six months in the public eye, the BlackBerry PlayBook’s operating system isn’t quite ready to compete with the other tablet players. Regardless, most of the final impressions lean…
Another video of the upcoming BlackBerry Touch 9860 (codenamed Monaco or Monza) has surfaced to join the one from last week. On top of that, we have the first video of the Torch 2 9810 (code-named Jennings) to go along with the handful of stills we’ve seen. Unfortunately, the videos don’t show much of the…
RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis abruptly ended an interview with BBC when pushed for the status of the ongoing BlackBerry security concerns in India. The interviewer sought some kind of reassurance to the public that BlackBerry service in India would continue, or that good progress was being made, but Lazaridis called the line of questioning “not…
Yesterday, we got a chance to see the upcoming BlackBerry Bold Touch 9930 on video, and now it’s the turn for BlackBerry Touch 9860 (code-named Monaco or Monza) in action. This certainly isn’t the first time we’ve seen hands on with RIM’s next touchscreen slate phone, or even the second, but it’s nice to see…