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A leaked document from O2 Germany suggests the carrier will drop BlackBerry internally and replace the smartphones with Windows Phone handsets. According to the report by WMPoweruser, sales representatives will soon be sporting Nokia Lumia 520s as their main handset, while managers and above will receive Lumia 925s. The leaked document claims this switch will…
Starbucks customers in Silicon Valley will now be able to charge their mobile devices wirelessly. Starbucks is putting Duracell Powermat wireless charging devices in its tables at 10 Silicon Valley locations, which are compatible with devices that utilize the PMA wireless charging standard. “More and more customers are using Starbucks as their home base and…
Some more troubling news for the company formerly known as RIM comes today, with reports stating that BlackBerry has laid off 250 of its workers at a product testing facility in Canada. The layoffs were made in the R&D department, where employees work to test and develop new technologies. BlackBerry is making these cuts as…
And yet again we have a fresh leak of the upcoming BlackBerry A10 to show you. As you’re about to see, it will be much bigger than the Z10, sporting a 5-inch screen, faster dual-core processor clocked at 1.7GHz and a more potent 2,800mAh battery. Rest of the specs are pretty much unchanged and include…
If you recall, we’ve already told you about Unity decision to “let BlackBerry developers in,” and now the floodgates are officially open. With the release of the Unity 4.2 update, Unity’s more than 2 million developers are now able to use the free and Pro BlackBerry 10 add-ons for Unity to publish their games for…
BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 users, this one’s for you. iHeartRadio launched a dedicated app for BlackBerry 10 devices, providing users with instant access to more than 1,500 live broadcast and digital-only radio stations, as well as user-created custom stations from a catalog of more than 16 million songs by over 400,000 artists. Plus there’s the…
Photos of the rumored upcoming BlackBerry A10 back cover have leaked today, showing a form factor that is slightly larger than the Z10. While we’ve seen some pictures and a video of the device before, the new pictures show curved edges with black and grey stripes gracing the case. An AT&T logo appears on the…
Media streaming service PlayOn is now available for BlackBerry 10. As you may know, it allows users to beam media from a Windows machine to mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), consoles and other connected devices. Yup this means you can access Netflix on your Windows PC and then stream it to your BlackBerry. It’s not…
The BlackBerry Q5 debuted in India this week, and Sunil Lalvani,the managing director of BlackBerry India was on hand for the launch. While speaking during the Q5 kick-off, Lalvani filled in some details about the upcoming BlackBerry Messenger launch on Android, according to IBNLive. Lalvani confirmed that the highly anticipated Messaging app would arrive this summer. He…
BlackBerry is facing some trouble. Just yesterday, we heard that a few U.S. carriers and retailers slashed the price of the BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 smartphones to $49. A new report from Barron’s today claims that the company will be slashing production of the two BB10 devices, due to weak sales. One analyst, Stuart Jeffrey…