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BlackBerry announced its new BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system and two new handsets at a big event in NYC on Wednesday. Early reviews of the flagship Z10 handset suggest the new gesture-based OS is nice, but difficult to figure out. This entertaining video from Mashable shows what happens when five iPhone and Android owners are…
BlackBerry announced its new BlackBerry OS in late 2011 and today, the Canadian company took the final wraps off its shipping product. There were no big surprises in the presentation as most of the details have been revealed in earlier BB10 events or leaked to the Internet in the past few weeks. Nonetheless, it’s worth…
BlackBerry officially launched its BlackBerry 10 OS today at a morning event held in New York City. Besides unveiling details about its new mobile OS, the Canadian manufacturer also announced the BlackBerry Q10 handset, the first QWERTY phone with tits BlackBerry 10 OS. The Q10 will complement the Z10, a full-touchscreen model also unveiled today…
BlackBerry announced today that its new Z10 handset will debut tomorrow and roll out worldwide over the next few months. The Z10 will land in the UK starting tomorrow, with a launch in Canada shortly afterwards on February 5th. The US will finally get the handset in March. In the US, it will be available…
The big question about BlackBerry OS is the app landscape. Both iOS and Android have robust catalogs of apps and BlackBerry will need some top names to compete. According to BlackBerry, the platform will launch with 70,000 apps, the biggest library for any new mobile platform. The company claims it has 1,000 of the top…
Verizon Wireless announced today that it will carry both the BlackBerry Z10 and the qwerty Q10. The two LTE-enabled handsets will be available in black and white, with the white Z10 as an exclusive to Verizon. Both phones will retail for $199 with a new two-year customer agreement. A launch date will be announced soon.…
BlackBerry held its big BlackBerry 10 launch event today and the Canadian manufacturer used it time in the spotlight to announce the BlackBerry Z10. The Z10 is one of two handsets RIM is using to kick off its new mobile OS platform. As expected, the Z10 will sport a 4.2 inch HD display with a…
As part of its big BlackBerry 10 event, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins announced that the company is changing its name from Research in Motion to BlackBerry. The name change will appear globally and the company will be publicly traded as BBRY. RIP RIM. [Via BlackBerry]
Rumors suggests BlackBerry’s upcoming Z10 smartphone may launch soon after today’s announcement. Soon may actually be today, according a report in The Verge. A demo Z10 phone was spotted in a at a Phones4U store in the UK and posted to Twitter by Bandozer. A follow-up call to the store by The Verge suggests the…
It’s no doubt that the once frowned upon RIM has recently captured the public’s imagination with their new BlackBerry 10 devices, and tomorrow in New York City, the new BlackBerry 10 devices will be officially unveiled. With rumors abounding the last few weeks, we finally have some.. well, ok you got me. Rumors. This one comes from…