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ShopSavvy, a price comparison app, has detected that their Android app has been used in Waterloo, Ontario (presumably by someone at RIM) on a BlackBerry Curve 8520, Curve 8300, and a mystery 8600 device. We had heard plenty of rumours that the BlackBerry PlayBook will be able to handle Android apps, but this is the…
Some screenshots of the next version of Facebook for BlackBerry have snuck out, revealing a handful of new features. The most prominent among them is Chat, something users have been missing for ages, resulting in a slew of third-party apps filling the gap. Facebook 2.0 for BlackBerry also tidies up the user interface, enables you…
BlackBerry Internet Service, the underlying structure that BlackBerry owners use if they aren’t hooked up to a corporate server, will get a handful of new features soon according to some leaked docs. The last update introduced two-way Google Calendar Sync, which will get polished up in 4.0 with the ability to completely delete calendars and…
IHS has just published some research on much revenue was made through the Android Market, iPhone App Store, Nokia Ovi Store, and BlackBerry App World in 2010. Predictably, the iPhone App Store is still the king of the hill with $1.7 billion in revenue, but they’ve lost some market share since 2009 (82% vs. 92%).…
Twitter for BlackBerry has been updated in the Beta Zone to 1.1, enabling a host of new features to the RIM-built social networking app. The biggest feature is one I’ve been waiting for since the official app first came out – geotagging support. Now your tweets can have your location included, unless that’s just a…
The RIM-owned company QNX has tweaked out a 2009 Corvette which lets the BlackBerry PlayBook change the car’s internal temperature through an app. Why would you want to do that if there’s already an in-car console to handle climate control? I dunno, maybe someone in the passenger seat is a little chilly and couldn’t be…
The BlackBerry Bold Touch, code-named the Dakota and Montana, has been spotted in a few document leaks, but we aren’t ones to fawn over mere two-dimensional renders for long. Some shots have surfaced of a real live device, unbranded, sitting next to the Bold 9700. The magnetic compass seems to be working fine on there,…
Well, we heard that the BlackBerry Storm 3 (Monoco) was already going into production, so it’s not that surprising to see the thing being put in front of a video camera. The short video below of the BlackBerry Storm 3 doesn’t reveal much and I wouldn’t judge the laggy nature of the OS just yet…
Back in an interview a few months ago, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie said they “would be fools not to” include near-field communications in their next batch of handsets. In addition to reiterating their stance at the Mobile World Congress 2011 keynote with him saying “many, if not most” future BlackBerry smartphones would have NFC, RIM…
RIM recently acquired Swedish design firm The Astonishing Tribe, and for Mobile World Congress 2011, they were put to work demonstrating just how awesome the BlackBerry PlayBook could be. We got a look at three apps TAT had cooked up for a demonstration at the Texas Instruments booth (since the PlayBook runs on an OMAP…