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The BlackBerry PlayBook has been met with mixed reviews but that doesn’t appear to be impacting it at the store, as Best Buy is crowing about how well the first Research In Motion tablet is selling. “Best Buy has had great success selling BlackBerry smart phones in North America, so our sales expectations for the…
Big news is coming from BlackBerry this week, with new devices and services being announced from the smartphone manufacturer, but it’s also introducing a brand-spankin’ new OS: BlackBerry OS 7. We haven’t seen much of the new mobile operating system at this point, but we expect to catch plenty of it along with its new…
Well, this isn’t good news heading into the largest BlackBerry show of the year next week. Research In Motion updated its Q1 guidance and said it expects to sell fewer BlackBerry smartphones than it previously estimated. From the official statement: RIM now expects fully diluted earnings per share for Q1 to be in the range…
Cellcrypt, the company that provides encrypted mobile phone voice calling we talked about in the past, is going beyond voice, adding a new secure messaging feature for users of Cellcrypt Mobile for BlackBerry. The feature brings government-certified end-to-end encryption for messaging, countering interception vulnerabilities of standard SMS and instant messaging. The trick is in using…
I ran into the Unsocial app a few months ago and it had a novel name and a strong idea: build a social networking business platform based around events like conferences. The app is now out of beta and it includes versions for Android, iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 will be coming soon. The…
How quickly the world changes. Nielsen said that a higher percentage of consumers prefer Android for their next smartphone over the Apple iPhone or Research In Motion’s BlackBerry. This is especially interesting because the iPhone reined supreme in Nielsen’s last survey in September of 2010 but things change. According to the latest figures, 31 percent…
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted any BlackBerry OS Update action, and with good reason. Either I’m simply not noticing the OS leaks and releases as much anymore, or the pace has slowed down. That said, ever since the PlayBook hit the scene, there’s a whole new group of BlackBerry tablet owners that…
The new BlackBerry PlayBook apps just keep rolling in. Today, I received a presser from the good folks at Rogers Sportsnet. They’ve let me (and in turn, YOU) know that Rogers Sportsnet Hockeycentral is now available for the BlackBerry PlayBook. This addition joins a successful family of Hockeycentral apps. Previous editions for iOS (iPhone and…
To all the BlackBerry addicts out there, I hope you enjoyed PlayBook launch day! If you tossed down some cash to pick up RIM’s first venture into the tablet scene, good on ya… and if you haven’t already, be sure to check out Simon’s BlackBerry PlayBook Review. It’s good stuff, I swear. With tablets clearly…
It’s been almost six months since we first saw the BlackBerry PlayBook from Research In Motion but the 7-inch corporate-friendly tablet is now available. The PlayBook can be yours for about $500 for the 16 GB model. When the BlackBerry PlayBook was first introduced, it blew us away with its specs: 1 GHz dual-core processor,…