Tag: RIM
RIM Announces Third Quarter Provision Related To PlayBook Inventory and Confirms Commitment to Tablet Market; Provides Update to Q3 and Fiscal 2012 Guidance
Research In Motion Announces Third Quarter Provision Related To PlayBook Inventory and Confirms Commitment to Tablet Market; Provides Update to Q3 and Fiscal 2012 Guidance Research In Motion Limited (RIM), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today announced that it would record a pre-tax provision in the third quarter of fiscal 2012 of [...]
More Specifics For BBX, 4G PlayBook and Native PIM Apps
It just keeps getting better all the time. Kevin from BBCool was able to uncover more of the specifics we’ve been waiting for from the BlackBerry Innovation event Q & A RIM had following the event that was held recently. Ronen from BerryReview did a great job of condensing the details to the main points. We’ll share [...]
Will the first BBX Phone be called the BlackBerry Surfboard? We hope not.
Remember that device we talked about a couple weeks ago called BlackBerry London? Well new rumors floating around the internet say that RIM might be looking to brand their first BBX superphone “Surfboard”. Of course these are just rumors, and we will have to take them with a huge grain of salt, until the official [...]
RIM confirms Power Issues with BlackBerry 7 Smartphones
For a while now we’ve been hearing of some BlackBerry 7 smartphones just dying. Most of the time the dead devices are after the device has been charging all night. Well a RIM spokesperson has confirm the power issue with this statement: A RIM spokeswoman confirmed that a “limited number of customers have reported an [...]
RIM introduces the BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380
Early this morning a press release came out from RIM introducing two new BlackBerry 7 smartphones, the Bold 9790 and Curve 9380. The new Bold 9790 brings the familiar design of the popular Bold 9700 and 9780 smartphones, and updates it with a high-resolution touchscreen, 1GHz processor, and 8GB on on-board memory. While the new Curve 9380 [...]
Meet the BlackBerry London, the first BBX Superphone from RIM…
Could it be? Is this a BlackBerry BBX OS powered superphone? RIM’s new BBX operating system is set to be unveiled sometime next year, with their new Superphones being available publicly mid-2012. The Verge is reporting that this could in fact be the first live shots of a BBX smartphone, which will be powered by a TI OMAP dual-core [...]
BBX OS Officially Announced – One Powerful OS for Smartphones, Tablets, and Embedded Devices
The BlackBerry Developers Conference (DevCon) kicked off this morning with RIM’s official announcement of BBX, the next-generation operating system from Research In Motion. BBX combines the best of BlackBerry and QNX and will bring this OS to BlackBerry smartphones, tablets, and embedded devices. Along side with the BBX announcement, RIM announced that the PlayBook OS [...]
RIM Unveils BlackBerry Tag-Coming Soon to BlackBerry Smartphones
RIM sent out a press release earlier this morning to introduce BlackBerry Tag, a easy way to share multimedia and contact information between NFC-enabled BlackBerry smartphones with a simple tap. BlackBerry Tag will be available shortly for BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 and Curve 9350/9360/9370 owners. Key features of BlackBerry Tag: BlackBerry Tag enables effortless ‘tap to share’ exchanges [...]
QNX-Powered Smartphone OS to be branded BBX (BlackBerry X)?
As the BlackBerry Developer’s Conference approches later this month, it is expected we will get a look at RIM’s upcoming QNX-powered Smartphone operating system. The QNX OS will be similar to the “Tablet OS” which is currently found on their PlayBook tablet. The latest rumor of the block is that RIM plans to introduce the QNX-powered OS [...]
RIM Announces Distribution Agreement for BlackBerry Solutions Targeted at Small to Mid-Sized Businesses in the U.S.
RIM and Tech Data Announce Distribution Agreement for BlackBerry Solutions Targeted at Small to Mid-Sized Businesses in the U.S. TDMobility Operated through Tech Data and Brightstar Joint Venture to Offer Value-Added Resellers a Single Source for BlackBerry Devices, Software and Support Services Research In Motion (RIM) and Tech Data Corporation today announced a new agreement [...]
BlackBerry DevCon to Bring PlayBook OS 2.0, QNX Smartphone Demos, and More!
The BlackBerry Developers Conference kicks off on October 18th and it sounds like we will have some very exciting new things to play with. During the Investors Call today the RIM execs talked about some upcoming software updates for the PlayBook, the future of QNX smartphone OS, and the BlackBerry Video Store. I’m very excited [...]
BlackBerry Bridge updated to v1.0.6.5 — OS update to follow?
Earlier this morning, BlackBerry Bridge was updated to version 1.0.6.5 and its now available in BlackBerry App World. Normally when the Bridge application updates, an official PlayBook OS update follows. So with any luck we might see a PlayBook OS update later this evening. Some interesting rumors are floating around that we might even get [...]
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