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BlackBerry 7 Devices Already Obsolete?

, Aug 3rd 2011 Discuss [4]

Research In Motion (RIM) unveiled several new BlackBerry 7 OS smartphones this morning including the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930, the Blackberry Torch 9810, and the BlackBerry Torch 9850/9860. All of which will include new touchscreen displays on familiar form factors. These phones won't ship until later this month, but are they already obsolete? Read The Full Story

iPad stays top tablet: Faces growing Android challenge as Amazon circles

, Jul 21st 2011 Discuss [6]

Apple's iPad continues to dominate the tablet market, with global shipments up to 9.3m units according to the latest figures, though its percentage marketshare has declined by over 33-percent thanks to increasing competition from consumer-centric rivals. 61.3-percent of tablets sold worldwide run iOS, analysts Strategy Analytics calculate, with Android taking the lion's share of what remains, at 30.1-percent. Read The Full Story

RIM ignores users and has lazy marketing accuses senior exec

, Jun 30th 2011 Discuss [4]

The scathing open letter penned by what's said to be a senior RIM exec has accused the company's co-CEOs of ignoring end users, relentlessly chasing "slightly more volume" at the expense of innovation, and of being blinkered to how "painful" developing for the platform is in comparison to rival OSes. The letter, published at BGR - who say they have verified the exec's identity - sets out eight key factors that need to change, including rebranding as simply "BlackBerry" so as "to signify our new focus on one QNX product line." Read The Full Story

BlackBerry PlayBook UK release priced and dated

, May 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

RIM isn't hanging around with the BlackBerry PlayBook; the 7-inch QNX slate is up for pre-order in the UK ahead of a June 16 release date. Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy have confirmed pricing for the PlayBook, which will kick off at £399 for the 16GB, WiFi-only model. That, unsurprisingly, matches Apple's 16GB iPad 2 WiFi in the UK. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry PlayBook native code hack beats RIM’s SDK to the punch

, May 6th 2011 Discuss [0]

RIM's native SDK for the BlackBerry PlayBook - demonstrated at BlackBerry World 2011 earlier this week - isn't expected until sometime this summer, but one developer has already figured out a way to bypass the existing Adobe AIR environment and get QNX native code running on the 7-inch tablet. Adam Bell discovered that, with a little tweaking, it's possible to copy QNX apps coded on the QNX desktop environment, aka the Neutrino SDP (software development platform), over to the PlayBook and have them run as native code. Read The Full Story

Android apps on BlackBerry PlayBook gets first demo

, May 3rd 2011 Discuss [2]

RIM has publicly demonstrated Android apps running on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet for the first time at BlackBerry World 2011 this morning, showing how code intended for Google's platform will be packaged and run on the QNX slate. Apps will each run in their own instance of a virtual machine, presented to the user as regular shortcuts and with the emulator automatically - and transparently - loading. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry PlayBook updates “every few weeks” as RIM refines tablet

, May 2nd 2011 Discuss [1]

RIM made life difficult for early reviewers of the BlackBerry PlayBook with almost daily updates of the QNX OS the tablet is based on, improving and tweaking in the run up to launch. The company isn't threatening quite the same pace now that the PlayBook is on the market, but it is committing to very frequent updates: every few weeks, in fact. Read The Full Story

RIM’s BlackBerry 7 a simple OS 6.1 rebadge?

, Apr 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

RIM may be closer to releasing BlackBerry 7, its new mobile OS, sooner than we thought, though it's not quite the software revolution we were hoping for. According to CrackBerry's sources, RIM intends to launch BlackBerry 6 at its BlackBerry World 2011 event next week; however, rather than being the QNX-based smartphone platform rumored before, it's expected to be a more straightforward rebrand of what has, until now, been known as BlackBerry 6.1. Read The Full Story

HP sees “uncanny similarities” between Touchpad and PlayBook UI; RIM blames “optimization”

, Mar 2nd 2011 Discuss [0]

Maybe it's the fast-approaching iPad 2 making them cranky, but HP and RIM have taken time out of their busy schedules for a little back-and-forth over tablet UI design and the settling point of inspiration. HP kicked things off, telling LaptopMag that "from what we've seen in the market, there are some uncanny similarities" between the webOS UI on the HP Touchpad and the QNX interface on the BlackBerry PlayBook. Read The Full Story

RIM considering Dalvik VM for QNX PlayBook: Android apps ahoy?

, Jan 26th 2011 Discuss [4]

As odd rumors go, RIM engineering the BlackBerry PlayBook so that it can run Android apps sounds pretty far fetched, but that's today's mystery. According to "multiple trusted sources" speaking to BGR, RIM is considering using the Dalvik Java virtual machine, as used by Android, and potentially opening the door to the PlayBook and other QNX-based devices to run Android code. Read The Full Story

TeleNav teams up with QNX

, Jan 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

Today TeleNav Inc. announced their partnership with QNX Software Systems. Their plan is to integrate connected GPS navigation to sync with the QNX car application platform. This will vastly expand the possibilities of automakers to help integrate 3D turn-by turn navigation and voice/audio prompts" to a much wider audience. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry PlayBook poses for lengthy video demo

, Dec 9th 2010 Discuss [2]

With RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook not expected until the first quarter of 2011, we'll take any vicarious access to the 7-inch slate we can get. BGR managed to find someone willing to run through a 10 minute demo of the dual-core tablet, and while it's still pre-production the whole thing looks surprisingly stable. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story
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