Koodo Mobile this week launched the RIM BlackBerry Curve 9320. This latest addition to the Curve family features a dedicated BBM key to quickly access RIM’s social network. Running BlackBerry OS 7.1, it comes with 3G connectvity, a dedicated QWERTY keyboard and a 2.44-inch QVGA (320×240) display. Koodo is offering the BlackBerry Curve 9320 for CA$50 on the Tab or […]
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RIM to announce BlackBerry 10 touch and QWERTY keyboard models simultaneously
In an interview with CrackBerry, Research In Motion CEO revealed that the company will announce both the all-touch BlackBerry device as well as one with a physical QWERTY keyboard (the first L-Series and N-Series devices?) at the same time: “We will announce them together and not in sequence. We’ll just come out and say full touch available at (this date) […]
RIM BlackBerry PlayBook second most popular tablet in Canada in Q1 2012
RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook appears to have found a following here in Canada, thanks in part to the fact that it now sells at a significant discount. According to a quarterly survey conducted by Solutions Research Group (SRG), the most popular tablet in Canada remains the Apple iPad but the PlayBook accounted for 19% of the Canadian tablet market in Q1 […]
RIM loses US$147.2 million patent suit against Mformation
Research In Motion has been dealt another blow. It lost a patent case against mobile device management company Mformation and was ordered this past Friday to pay US$147.2-million (a US$8 royalty per devie for some 18.4 million BlackBerry devices sold in the U.S. that connect to RIM’s BES). Mformation sued RIM back in 2008, alleging that RIM was infringing two […]
RIM BlackBerry 7 to coexist with BlackBerry 10
Research In Motion yesterday held its annual shareholder assembly. While there was not much that was new, one interesting topic that came up was what would happen to BlackBerry 7 once BlackBerry 10 came out. It appears that retirement is not in the cards just yet for the older operating system. RIM did not provide many details on this dual-strategy. […]
First BlackBerry 10 device coming in January according to RIM CEO
Research In Motion recently announced that the launch of BlackBerry 10 devices would be delayed to Q1 2013 to allow it to ensure that it was ready for release. In an interview with CIO, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins shed a bit more light on the delay and on exactly when we will see the first BlackBerry 10 device, an all-touch […]
Rumour: BlackBerry M-Series to be third RIM BlackBerry 10 device series
Rumours have already suggested that RIM will have two lines of BlackBerry 10 devices, the L-Series and N-Series. Multiple devices will be offered eventually in both series. It also appears that the Milan slider, which had been cancelled some time ago as RIM focused on a smaller number of devices, will be resurrected as the BlackBerry M-Series. The BlackBerry M-Series […]
3 billion apps downloaded from RIM BlackBerry App World
Some good news from Research In Motion today: The BlackBerry App World has topped the three billion app download mark. It took just over three years to hit this milestone. Three billion app downloads averages out to over 2.5 million downloads each day. What’s even more important – and impressive – is that the number of daily downloads continues to […]