Research In Motion today announced at its BlackBerry Jam keynote that it will guarantee developers earnings of at least US$10,000 on their BlackBerry 10 apps in the first year. If they make less, RIM will cut them a cheque for the difference. BlackBerry 10 apps will earn $10K in the 1st year or RIM will write a cheque for whatever […]
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BlackBerry World 2012: RIM announces BlackBerry 10
Research In Motion today announced its vision for the BlackBerry 10 platform as it launched its next generation operating system. At the BlackBerry World keynote today, CEO Thorsten Heins spoke about RIM’s focus being on helping “BlackBerry people” succeed on a daily basis. The new interface focuses on application flow. For example, notifications can be pulled from the side with […]
No BlackBerry 10 smartphones at BlackBerry World 2012
One of the biggest expectations for BlackBerry World is that Research In Motion will show off some BlackBerry 10 devices. That will not be the case unfortunately. “We are not unveiling any BlackBerry 10 hardware,” a company representative told CNET today. RIM will instead focus the event on the BlackBerry 10 software itself. The new operating system, based on QNX, […]
BlackBerry World keynote to be webcast live
BlackBerry World 2012 kicks off tomorrow and it hopefully marks the start of Research In Motion’s renewal. The upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system is set to take centre stage along with its new CEO, Thorsten Heins. For those of us unable to make it down to Florida for the event, RIM will offer a live webcast of Heins’s keynote presentation […]
Rumour: RIM to announce first BlackBerry 10 device in August
Research In Motion has so far only committed to the launch of a BlackBerry 10 device sometime in the “later half of 2012.” N4BB has now learned that RIM will announce this first device by mid-August and then launch it in the first half of October. The timeline lines up well with news that BlackBerry 10 phones will begin undergoing […]
Rumour: RIM still working on BlackBerry 10 slider
Older rumours suggested that Research In Motion was at one point working on several different BlackBerry 10 devices. Then came word that RIM was cancelling all but one BlackBerry 10 device codenamed London. Among the casualties was a BlackBerry 10 slider codenamed Milan. It now appears that RIM may still be working on such a device. According to a N4BB […]
Carrier testing for BlackBerry 10 devices to start this summer
A good sign that Research In Motion remains on track to release at least one BlackBerry 10 device by the end of the year came during the analyst call that followed its latest financial results. RIM CEO Thorsten Heins revealed that BlackBerry 10 phones will begin undergoing carrier testing this summer with the first device still on schedule to be […]
Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10 show up on HTML5 test site
The development of Window Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10 is progressing well enough that builds are now being tested and benchmarked. Both operating systems and their respective browsers have popped up on the HTML5 test site and results are promising. The site measures support for the HMTL5 standard and related specifications and both browsers fare well. Both operating systems handily […]