Today, US carrier T-Mobile has outlined its strategy to appeal to customers looking for an alternate to Verizon, AT&T and Sprint. In the press release, T-Mobile plans to add 4G LTE service to over 200 millions American by the end of the year, providing much needed competition in the high-speed mobile market. In another awesome move, T-mobile has plans to carry the latest 4G LTE devices to w... »
Smartphones are amazing. Packed with a vast array of sensors, they can hear, see, feel the world around them just like we can. With BlackBerry 10 smartphones, this is no exception. RIM is building BlackBerrys with many different sensors to allow developers to create powerful and connected apps. To make it easier for developers to make the richest apps possible, RIM is actively engaging and cat... »
Today CIBC and Rogers Communications performed the First Mobile Creditcard transaction using a BlackBerry Bold 9900. I was lucky enough to be in attendance to witness this First for mobile payments, this marks the beginning of a new era in how we Canadians pay for everyday purchases. This historic transaction took place at Tim Hortons 56 wellesly St. W, Toronto Ontario. Simon Whitefield, a Canadi... »
KoziNet Apps have let us know that they released a new application called Mouse Mobile for BlackBerry smartphones. The application acts as a mobile mouse and keyboard and lets you fully control your PC from your BlackBerry smartphone. Here’s what else you can do: Control the keyboard/mouse Control the mouse with movement of the phone (on devices with an accelerometer) Access all keyboard key... »
With smartphones rapidly replacing feature phones, mobile data usage as increased. This is especially pronounce in Asia, where smartphone growth is in the hundreds of percent. Despite Nokia having a dominant role in the Asian mobile market, BlackBerry has a strong presence when it comes down to smartphones, suggesting that there is significant growth in BlackBerry smartphones sales and usage. Wi... »
You probably have been hearing a lot about BlackBerry 10 lately. It’s the “make-it-or-break-it” chance that Research in Motion(RIM), the makers of the BlackBerry smartphone, has at reclaiming its mobile greatness. The idea is to create a brand new QNX-based operating system to replace the Java-based one of current BlackBerry smartphones. This should allow for better memory management, better m... »
Yup, you read that right. BlackBerry is the perfect and does a great job at combining mobile and social. StephenBB81 shared with us over at the forums the slides from a presentation by Volker Hirsch, RIM’s Global Head of Business development – Games, where he talked about BlackBerry mobile and social. Hirsch shows in these slides how games have become a huge deal on BlackBerry since th... »
Lost in the woods? Your religion requires you to pray to the East or to Mecca? Maybe you really just couldn’t navigate yourself out of a paper bag. In any case, there is hope for you BlackBerry 7 users out there. The BlackBerry 7 Torch and Bold series smartphones are equipped with digital compasses (or magnetometers) which can sense the earth’s magnetic field and point the way north (and also to t... »
Horace Deidu of Asymco has provided a chart detailing the recent progression of Research In Motion’s respective shares of mobile phone industry shipments, revenues, and profits. It’s not a pretty sight. Do you think RIM can pull out of this crashing wave? »
