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BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9981 Review

Chris Davies, Feb 14th 2012 Discuss [0]

At first glance, Porsche Design and BlackBerry might not make obvious bed-fellows. Still, the car firm’s aesthetically-obsessed arm has taken up with Canada’s finest, and the Porsche Design P’9981 is the result: maple syrup by way of Stuttgart. The less forgiving might draw comparisons between Porsche’s legendary reluctance to diverge from its original 1963 car design, and BlackBerry’s struggle to break free of its old OS. The frugal will likely be too busy gaping at the $2,350 price tag. So, Porsche or Pinto? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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RIM’s Blackberry 10 gets new leaked photos

Mark Raby, Feb 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

New pictures of what is reported to be Research in Motion's next-generationg Blackberry operating system have surfaced, and they show a platform that looks like a mix of Windows Phone's large home-screen widgets and Android's app selection menu. In other words, it's a Blackberry OS that actually belongs in the 21st century, but the question is whether or not it's too little too late. Read The Full Story

RIM feared “morons from outside” in CEO hunt says director

Chris Davies, Feb 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM's choice for its new CEO was either look internally to save the BlackBerry business or "hand it over to children, or morons from the outside who will destroy the company" according to one outspoken board member. Roger Martin, who has been on the RIM board for around five years, dismisses suggestions that the company should have junked co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis several years back, telling The Globe and Mail that the best strategy was that RIM "try to build our way to having succession." Read The Full Story

NOAA scraps Blackberry for iPhones, iPads

Mark Raby, Feb 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), otherwise known as the federal agency filled with a bunch of weather nerds, has become the latest in a growing list of major organizations that have decided to cancel their Blackberry contracts. NOAA will instead start issuing corporate iPhones and iPads to its employees, according to an internal memo that has surfaced. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: February 6, 2012

Mark Raby, Feb 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

As we begin the first full week of February, we saw a decent news day but one of the coolest things we saw was this - Google HUD Smart Glasses described as Oakley clone, Google X tie-in. Yep, these glasses are equipped for the future. And speaking of future changes, the service you know as the PlayStation Network is soon to be renamed the Sony Entertainment Network. Read The Full Story

Blackberry getting dumped by Haliburton for iPhone

Rue Liu, Feb 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM may be facing another blow in the enterprise arena that it once dominated. According to a leaked memo obtained by AppleInsider, Haliburton, the world's largest energy service company, is reportedly planning to transition its employees away from BlackBerry devices to iPhones. The transition is expected to roll out in phases over the next two years. Read The Full Story

RIM to abandon multi-platform BBM and BB10 licensing says analyst

Chris Davies, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM is likely to abandon any ambitions of licensing BlackBerry 10 to rivals and ditch the possibility of a BlackBerry Messenger client for iOS and Android, it's suggested, as the company attempts to leverage its "integrated solution" instead. Jefferies analyst Peter Misek says his company's checks found RIM "will delay and possibly abandon its OS licensing plans," Forbes reports, and that despite having met - and liked - new CEO Thorsten Heins, he believes his near-term strategy is significantly flawed. Read The Full Story

PlayBook free per Android App says desperate RIM

Chris Burns, Feb 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM's VP of developer relations Alec Saunders has offered up free PlayBook tablets to Android developers today in exchange for their apps. All they've got to do is make sure they're signed up and have submitted their Android app to BlackBerry's BB AppWorld by the 13th of February. If your humble narrator didn't know any better, it would seem that RIM is desperate not only to get rid of their remaining stock of the PlayBook BlackBerry tablet, but to get Android users interested in working with them, no matter the cost. Read The Full Story

Match.com: Android users more willing to put out

Mark Raby, Feb 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

In honor of Valentine's Day, Match.com decided to figure out what the correlation was between promiscuity and smartphone platform ownership. That's Match.com for you. The result was that 62% of Android phone owners are willing to have sex after the first date. That sets Google's mobile operating system ahead of all other competitors. The least likely? Those stuffy Blackberry owners. Read The Full Story

Google’s Android platform is a favorite among bathroom phone users

Mark Raby, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

Do you occasionally use your phone while you're doing your business? If you said "yes," then statistically you are more likely to own an Android phone than a Blackberry or iPhone. That is, at least, if you believe a new report that was just released from marketing agency 11mark. The results are anything but a wash. Oh, so many puns, so little time. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry 10 Smartphone press photos leaked

Chris Burns, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

The next RIM vision of a BlackBerry smartphone, or Superphone as they’re calling it at the source for this leak, is a fully touch-sensitive candybar-style device. This device comes from CrackBerry and appears to either be code-named London or will be released in London sometime soon. This image also shows off how the device will be thin, will have a single flash and camera on the back, another camera on the front with a sensor or two, and one gigantic display on the front as well.

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BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 launch next month, Android apps due February 6

Rue Liu, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

The long overdue BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 update may finally be arriving in February, if RIM follows through on its latest promise. According to a post today by RIM's Developer Relations team, the update will be available next month, packing the BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps feature that allows Android apps to run on the PlayBook tablet. Read The Full Story