We recently got our hands on the Android app player for the BlackBerry PlayBook. It is very apparent that it is an early build. Nonetheless, a few goodies come with using the app that you’d find with Android. You can access the Android e-mail application, browser, clock, calendar, and more. We did up a short video showing how well it runs. Check it out below: [vimeo 26730940 600 400] »
*UPDATE* Our friend JD has made a one-click install for Android apps. Read more about it here. If you installed the recently leaked Android app player for your BlackBerry PlayBook, you’re probably wondering “So, how do I get apps?” Here’s a quick rundown of the necessary steps to get Android apps on your PlayBook, while using the leaked beta version of the Android app playe... »
Wow, here is a serious surprise for PlayBook owners. Apparently, this was easily found through a changelog in a Desktop Manager update. We’ve been sent a beta build of the Android App Player for the PlayBook. It is a huge file, lags a bit, has no visible back button (you have to swipe left on the bottom bezel), but we’re told nonetheless it works. The app itself is controlled through a... »
[poll id=8] The interwebs were going crazy over the rumors of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) possibly making its way onto Android and iOS. Our only logic behind the move (if it’s true) is RIM wants to put an end to the 3rd party apps that have fiercely attempted at emulating BBM. They likely want to better connect users with BlackBerrys to their friends with Android or Apple products. Likely, wi... »
*UPDATE* RIM has squashed this rumored release date. However, this does not mean we won’t see BBM hit iOS or other platforms in the future. A few weeks back rumors broke that RIM was looking to take the BBM service to other competing platforms. If true, the only logical explanation would be to ‘entice’ the users of Android or iOS to enjoy BBM with hopes they’d get a BlackBe... »
We heard a while back some rumors of RIM possibly adding support for Android apps on the BlackBerry PlayBook. Today RIM has confirmed this, the PlayBook will have support to run Android apps! Full press release below: Press Release RIM Expands Application Ecosystem for BlackBerry PlayBook BlackBerry PlayBook to support BlackBerry Java and Android apps Native C/C++ development support added, in add... »
ShopSavvy published today on their site some pretty exciting news for us BlackBerry users. Apparently they have been asked a large number of times to make a BlackBerry app but they haven’t, so one of their users, someone in Waterloo, Ontario, seems to have got tired of waiting and instead ran the Android app…on a BlackBerry. Though there is no physical proof, the logs from ShopSavvy s... »
We have heard before that RIM and the QNX team were working on ways to allow Android apps to be ported over to the PlayBook. New rumors are suggesting that RIM will choose the Dalvik Java virtual machine as their Java environment for QNX. Dalvik is the same JVM that Google uses for the Android OS. This would mean that Android apps would be even more easily portable to the QNX operating system. The... »
Recently at an enterprise conference in Boston, RIM announced a few new ideas and features they’re planning to implement to BES. One of those was the BlackBerry Balance, we told you about a few days ago. RIM is now considering management support and services for non-BlackBerry devices. Vice president Pete Devenyi hinted in an interview that they are considering this as an option to those who... »
Ok, so we lied, maybe you can’t really buy a BlackBerry Torch 9800 rocking Android MOTOBLUR as the operating system, but according to this advertisement you can! It is always funny to see marketing blunders, especially when they have been mass circulated. We have seen graphics designers put Android next to a BlackBerry Curve 8530, iOS on the Storm2 and vice versa. Nevertheless, the French co... »
