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Gartner has just released their forecast for the global mobile market reaching out to 2015, and as you might expect, things are looking good for Android. Much like ABI’s report, Gartner says Android is poised to take about half of the mobile smartphone market share by the end of 2012. A big part of the…
RIM has been cagey about showing everything the BlackBerry PlayBook has to offer as they continue putting the final touches on the OS and its apps, but one lucky guy got some time with the tablet to check out App World briefly. The layout is largely the same as App World on BlackBerry smartphones, with…
RIM has launched a small but potent addition to the native calendar app which lets you launch easily and quickly into conference calls on a BlackBerry. Once the installed, BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing puts a new option appears in the native Calendar menu and within appointments themselves to add or edit conference call data. If you…
The BlackBerry PlayBook missed its end of March release date, which has since been moved back to April 19. Why the change? Rumour has it that Apple had booked up capacity of touch panels from Chinese manufacturing partners Quanta and Foxlink. Foxlink also provides connectors for both the iPad 2 and the PlayBook, apparently, which…
We got a glimpse of the BlackBerry Touch (code-named Monaco or Monza) a few days ago, and now some shots of another upcoming BlackBerry, the Bold Touch (a.k.a. Montana/Dakota), have surfaced. There’s not much more to say that we haven’t seen in those leaked tutorial videos, but the back of the device is still showing…
The Bank of Montreal is putting the finishing touches on the mobile apps for BlackBerry and iPhone, which should be going live by the end of the month. With it, you’ll be able to check your balance, make transfers, find nearby BMO branches (complete with turn-by-turn directions), plus push alerts for those time-sensitive bills. BMO…
The Wi-Fi-only BlackBerry PlayBook is launching April 19, and will be sold by carriers no less. What would they have to gain by giving RIM’s first tablet any space on the shelf, since there aren’t any cellular plans or contracts to tack on? $30/month from users who want to enable 3G wireless connectivity on the…
A few glimpses of the upgraded BlackBerry Messenger app launching in OS 6.1 have snuck out, and though it mostly looks the same as what we have now, you can now add a colour to particular contacts so incoming messages are clearly recognizable. I’m going to guess that these were somehow ripped from the OS…
Yesterday, we got a look at some tutorial videos for the upcoming BlackBerry Bold Touch 9930 which were extracted from an OS 6.1 leak, and to join those clips are a few of the BlackBerry Touch “Monaco” (not to be confused with the lower-end Curve Touch). The key layout is similar to the Bold Touch…
The other day, BlackBerry OS 6.1 was leaked, and ever since folks have been busy rooting around for something interesting. A whole batch of videos have been wrung out, the most exciting of which is a full hardware tour, mainly since we’ve only ever really seen the device from the front. The frame originally looked…