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BlackBerry announced today that it is opening up its BlackBerry messenger platform and expanding it to iOS and Android. The expanded service will debut sometime this summer. It’ll launch first with messaging and then will gradually expand its features to include groups, screen sharing and the newly announced channels. Andrew Bocking, Executive Vice President, Software Product Management…
At the BlackBerry Live event today the troubled company announced many new features and products. One of those new products included the entry level BlackBerry Q5, which is a cheaper version of the Q10 with different colors. The company also announced that it would be finally rolling out the latest version operating system 10.1 to…
BlackBerry kicked off its BlackBerry Live conference by announcing a new, mid-range handset. The BlackBerry Q5 lands under the Q10 and will rock a 3.1-inch touchscreen, a classic QWERTY keyboard and the BlackBerry 10 operating system. It will land this July in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. It will be available…
Alongside the Lumia 925 smartphone, Nokia also announced new software, including the new Nokia Smart Camera mode and Hipstamatic, both of which will be available for other smartphones in the Lumia series. The former is described as the “next generation imaging software” made to “capture clearer, sharper pictures and video, including the best low light…
Verizon scored the Lumia 928 and T-Mobile USA will sell the newly announced Nokia Lumia 925. The Deutsche Telekom-owned operator issued the following statement to spread the good news: T-Mobile is excited to continue building on our partnership with Nokia and Microsoft by bringing customers another exclusive device – T-Mobile’s flagship Nokia Lumia 925. T-Mobile’s…
Nokia has officially announced a new member of its smartphone range – Lumia 925. The device is pretty much improved version of the existing Lumia 920, dumping polycarbonate for more durable (and sexier) aluminum. The new Lumia is also thinner and lighter than its predecessor, while the rest of the specs are pretty much the…
Japan’s SoftBank has announced the Sharp AQUOS 206SH, a fancy-lookin’ Android 4.2 smartphone with features that include a 5-inch full HD screen, Qualcomm’s quad-core processor and 13.1-megapixel camera. All this comes as standard in similar products sold elsewhere (i.e. Samsung Galaxy S4, Sony Xperia Z, etc); what doesn’t is an enormous 3,080mAh battery, which is…
If you’re a developer looking to enter the mobile app market, you’re probably thinking to develop for iOS and Android first, and only later follow-up with an app for some other platform. But which of the two most popular mobile platforms to start with? While iOS is still a leading mobile OS, Android is quickly…
Today in a London press event, Nokia introduced its latest Windows Phone handset, the Lumia 925. One of the flagship features of the 925 is its PureView 2 camera, which offers 8.7 megapixels of resolution and 30FPS 1080p HD video recording. It has optical image stabilization for both photos and videos. It also sports the new…
According to a report in AllThingsD, the Nexus Q won’t be mentioned in this week’s I/O developers conference. The Q was a media device that tied into Google Play and let users control playback with their Android smartphones. The black sphere had an attractive black matte design, but its $300 price tag and limited support…