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T-Mobile BlackBerry Torch 9810 priced for November 7 launch

Chris Davies, Nov 2nd 2011 Discuss [2]

T-Mobile USA has announced pricing and availability for the BlackBerry Torch 9810, the BlackBerry 7 smartphone that pairs both a sizable touchscreen and a slide-out physical keyboard. Set to hit the carrier's 3G network on November 7, the T-Mobile Torch 9810 will be priced at $249.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate. Read The Full Story

AT&T BlackBerry Bold 9900, Torch 9860 and Curve 9360 dated

Chris Davies, Nov 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

AT&T has announced pricing and availability for RIM's most recent cavalcade of BlackBerry smartphones, the Bold 9900, Torch 9860 and Curve 9360. The Bold and Torch will each support AT&T's HSPA+ network - which it continues to brand 4G, despite having recently rolled out LTE -while the Curve will be limited to regular 3G. Read The Full Story

Motorola rakes in $228M in cash from patent deal with unnamed company

Shane McGlaun, Nov 1st 2011 Discuss [1]

A recent SEC filing from Motorola has unveiled that it has raked in $228 million from a company resulting from a patent licensing deal between the two firms. For some reason Motorola won’t spill the beans on what company has paid it so much loot in licensing fees. This has caused speculation to run rampant on what the unnamed company is. The rumors floating around right now are claiming that RIM was the company that paid out so well. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry PlayBook now free (with a small catch)

Chris Burns, Oct 28th 2011 Discuss [15]

If there's one tablet out there that's simultaneously had the most bad press (not all of it its own fault) and reinforcement from its maker, it's been the BlackBerry PlayBook - and this week we're seeing a whole new door being opened: buy 2, get 1 free. In what RIM is calling its Back to business offer aimed at, what else, small businesses, the BlackBerry PlayBook will from now until the last day of 2011 be part of an offer that effectively makes it 33% off when purchased in sets of three. And that's not all! Read The Full Story

BlackBerry monitoring reportedly pacified India; Skype & Twitter next in sights

Chris Davies, Oct 28th 2011 Discuss [1]

RIM quietly set up a Mumbai data center, so as to allow the Indian government easier surveillance of BlackBerry users' messages, according to sources, though official demand for access continues to outstrip what the Canadian company offers. Facing threats of deactivating BlackBerry service nationwide, RIM supposedly established a small facility to specifically deal with disclosure requests, the WSJ's sources tell them; the Indian government must follow a set, legal procedure demanding message decoding on a person by person basis. Read The Full Story

RIM Porsche Design P’9981 gets official

Shane McGlaun, Oct 27th 2011 Discuss [5]

I hardly think a cool design is going to be enough to lure people back to the Blackberry smartphone from more popular devices like the iPhone. We mentioned the Blackberry Porsche Design smartphone a few weeks ago when the first details of the device started to surface. The device was said to be coming on October 27. Today being the 27, RIM did in fact offer up some of the details on the Porsche Design smartphone. Read The Full Story

Price-cut PlayBook still unpopular

Shane McGlaun, Oct 27th 2011 Discuss [13]

The Blackberry PlayBook has been a sales disappointment for RIM since it was launched. Consumers simply didn’t buy the tablet and those that did aren't happy that the Playbook lacks the basic features that you expect in a tablet like email and others. RIM recently confirmed that the Playbook OS 2.0 wouldn't come until February 2012 bringing email and Android app support to the tablet. Read The Full Story

Angry consumers start class action suit against RIM over outage

Shane McGlaun, Oct 27th 2011 Discuss [2]

Earlier this month the network behind the popular Blackberry messaging service was out for days leaving users of Blackberry smartphones with no access to email, IM, and web surfing. RIM admitted at the time it had no idea what was causing the outage, but hacking was not the cause. After the service came back, RIM tried to soothe angry customers with free apps. Read The Full Story

RIM confirms PlayBook OS 2.0 Feb 2012 release

Shane McGlaun, Oct 26th 2011 Discuss [0]

Rumors were flying this week that RIM was pushing the much anticipated PlayBook OS 2.0 update out to early 2012. At the time, the rumor was making rounds there was no official word from RIM on the fate of the OS update. PlayBook OS 2.0 is the update that will bring with it support for native email, PIM access, and Android apps. Read The Full Story

RIM Playbook OS 2.0 now rumored for mid-February

Shane McGlaun, Oct 25th 2011 Discuss [5]

RIM's PlayBook tablet didn’t do very well on the market, but it is still available unlike the TouchPad. RIM has recently shown off the second version of the PlayBook OS reports BGR and the final version of the OS for PlayBook users to download is said to be landing by the middle of February 2012. This is the update that lots of PlayBook owners are dying to get that brings support for two key things to the tablet. Read The Full Story

White BlackBerry Bold 9900 revealed: We go hands-on

Chris Davies, Oct 24th 2011 Discuss [16]

RIM’s white BlackBerry Bold 9900 has been revealed, with carrier Vodafone UK the first to commit to offering the pale-hued QWERTY smartphone. We grabbed some hands-on playtime with the new variant, to see if a new color option could be enough to persuade us to stick it out with RIM for another contract cycle. Check out our first impressions after the cut.

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RIM speaks on user defections: Buy our new stuff

Chris Davies, Oct 21st 2011 Discuss [2]

RIM has responded to allegations that a significant number of its enterprise customers plan to defect from the BlackBerry platform in 2012, suggesting that they're probably unhappy because they're not using the latest models from its range. The Canadian company has not had a chance to review the EMA findings - which discovered 30-percent of businesses with 10,000 or more BlackBerry users intend to ditch the platform next year - it said, but "would be interested in finding out" whether those questioned were using BlackBerry 7 phones on Enterprise Server v5.0.3. Read The Full Story