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You’ve seen the gold BlackBerry Q10, right? If that’s not fancy enough for you, there’s another version encrusted with diamonds. The gold also comes as part of the deal, but the 20,000 GBP ($around $30,000) price tag is (primarily) justified with the presence of more than 700 VVS1 diamonds (approximately 4.7cts). Of course, there are…
BlackBerry users don’t like Netflix and their policy to keep its mobile client out of the Canadian company’s new platform. Few unofficial apps found their way to the BlackBerry World, but were promptly pulled after the video streaming/rental service complained. To make things worse, Netflix has iterated that it won’t support BlackBerry 10 because its…
We’ve heard that BlackBerry PlayBook users will get BlackBerry 10 update at some point but somehow we expected that to happen closer to the end of the year. Now we have a new piece of information suggesting that PlayBook will get its BB10 treatment “in the next few weeks.” The information comes from the official…
While I like the new BlackBerry Z10, I found it have a too thick bezel around the display. In fact, at one time I had it home alongside the Sony Xperia T and found Sony’s phone only slightly bigger, despite having a 0.35-inch larger screen (4.55 vs 4.2 inches). That made me wonder – couldn’t…
The new BlackBerry Q5 could easily prove as the company’s most popular smartphone, helping the Canadian company reach customer segments which is now served by other vendors. When BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins officially announced the Q5, it failed to share its specs sheet. Later on, we’ve learned that it comes with a slower-than-Q10’s 1.2GHz dual-core…
If you’ve been following IntoMobile in the last few years, you may know that I was the one predicting demise of BlackBerry when it was at the top. I’ve found it pretty obvious that the company has stopped innovating and that the fact they lack patents prevents them from offering their devices at a more…
First of all, this isn’t rumor nor I have any inside information – it’s just me speculating and reading between the lines. Here’s how I came to this conclusion: 1. BlackBerry CEO Thosten Heins’ words First he predicted the demise of tablets and then said they should be easier to use. While these two comments…
Android apps that have been simply ported to BlackBerry 10 are proving unpopular with users, BlackBerry’s head of developer relations, Alec Saunders said. He went on to add: “From a commercial perspective, users hate them. Our partners who have ported apps get dinged for them.” BlackBerry allowed developers to easily port over existing Android apps…
Canadians obviously want BlackBerry to succeed and have flocked in numbers to support the company’s new BlackBerry 10 devices, including the Z10 and Q10. According to latest figures from the research firm Raymond James, BlackBerry is steadily gaining its Canadian market share back. From its sunk market share of 6%, it managed to grow to…
BlackBerry World app store now counts 120,000 BlackBerry 10 apps that work on the company’s Z10 and Q10 smartphones (as well as the upcoming Q5). The new platform was launched with 70,000 apps “on board” with another 50,000 submitted in the next four months. BlackBerry president and CEO Thorsten Heins didn’t hide its excitement, praising…