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Google chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt admitted to using a BlackBerry as his primary smartphone in an interview with Guardian at the Activate conference. One might assume someone with a high ranking at Google would be using an Android phone, but that’s apparently not the case. Schmidt says the main reason for using his BlackBerry…
The BlackBerry Z10 has crossed over the northern border and is now available in the United States. The BlackBerry 10-powered handset makes its debut on AT&T which is selling the phone online and in its retail stores. AT&T is selling the BlackBerry handset for $199 with a new two-year customer agreement. AT&T isn’t the only…
BlackBerry has denied reports that its latest mobile platform and BlackBerry Z10 have failed to meet British government security requirements. The Guardian pretty much invented the story, saying that BlackBerry 10 and the BlackBerry Balance software failed to meet the same security requirements that BlackBerry 7.1 met in December last year. BlackBerry obviously denied the…
RIM BlackBerry is looking to hit and surpass the 100,000 apps mark by the end of this month. According to the company’s CMO, Frank Boulben, BlackBerry 10 was launched “with the highest number of apps,” namely 70,000 titles, and adding an additional 30,000 apps shouldn’t be a problem. Sure enough, many of these are Android…
The BlackBerry Q10 will soon start selling in the UK, or at least a page at The Carphone Warehouse’s website suggests so. The phone retailer is now accepting pre-registrations and you are free to leave your email to be notified when the phone starts selling. UPDATE: Meanwhile, Unlocked-Mobiles.com is offering the smartphone for pre-order… Unlike the Z10,…
Speaking to The Australian Financial Review, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins was very outspoken about BlackBerry 10 and its place in the smartphone market. Heins touted BlackBerry’s new OS, mentioning that the company has seen a fair amount of early adopters who have switched from another platform to BlackBerry 10 OS. BlackBerry may not be winning…
As part of its efforts to get as many developers on board as possible, BlackBerry is giving away a number of “special edition” BlackBerry Z10 units to select developers willing to port their apps to the new platform. What’s unique about this version of the device is that it comes in red and that only…
BlackBerry’s time to shine is at hand. AT&T has started accepting pre-orders for the flagship Z10 phone and Verizon announced today that it will start accepting pre-orders, too. According to Verizon Wireless, it will start its Z10 pre-orders tomorrow, March 14th, at 8 am ET. The handset will then go on sale in Verizon Wireless…
Things are looking up for BlackBerry, receiving today the biggest purchase in the company’s history. A press release today details the purchase of one million BlackBerry 10 smartphones from one of BlackBerry’s partners. While there are no details of which handsets exactly were ordered, the units are to ship immediately. “An order for one million devices is a…
BlackBerry Messenger 7 with included BBM Voice was launched in December and today we’ve got the word from the Canadian company that they’ve surpassed 50 million BBM Voice calls. The figure includes only owners of BlackBerry 6 OS or higher devices with those running an older version of the platform (5.0) only now being able…