RIM’s BlackBerry 7 has been available for over a year now with many different models available. It’s clearly (and obviously) the best BlackBerry operating system that you can buy at the moment. Improving on the previous BlackBerry 6 operating system with hardware accelerated graphics and lots of other minor improvements to the user interface, it’s just a smoother BlackBerry expe... »
DigitalHomeBoy has made his most beautiful concept BlackBerry design to date with the BlackBerry TK5 Justice. I appreciate all the work that went into the styling of this beautiful phone. Unfortunately, it is a 1) a concept and 2) not actually possible without modifications. The dimensions of this deice are very appealing with the 66mm width, same as the Bold 9900. This device would do better to l... »
Nicole Perlroth from the New York Times recently wrote an editorial called BlackBerry as Black Sheep in Smartphones. In this article people were interviewed about their BlackBerrys. One Sales representative said she was ashamed of her BlackBerry. A feeling I do not share, as a sales representative myself, I am far from ashamed of my BlackBerry. When I go into a sales call it is my iPhone that is l... »
I’m late to the party of talking about the BlackBerry 10 apparent delay. Jefferies’ analyst Peter Misek released a research note which Forbs published yesterday. In this report the quote everyone is talking about is this: “We had hoped for a January launch but now see a March launch as more likely,” he writes. That would mean no sales of the next generation phones in the February quarter. “A... »
Research In Motion has had an otherwise saddening story for the last few years of its history. RIM’s stock has fallen nearly 85% in just a few short years after the Storm debacle. Due to the increased competitiveness of the mobile marketplace and RIM’s lackluster response to adopt, it has caused for depressed valuations on its stock. However, RIM’s recent quarter reaffirmed the c... »
Hello N4BB readers, I’d like to lead off my blog career at N4BB with a thank you to Lucas Atkins and team for giving me this opportunity. My primary profession is sales. My job requires I am reachable by mobile since I spend less than 3 days a month in an office and my assistant is in another country. With such a work life I’ve learned how to get the most of my mobile devices. I choose BlackBerry ... »
When we first broke the news on the N-Series, it was discovered that Research In Motion decided to take away the TrackPad. Additionally, RIM planned to remove the rest of the physical action buttons such as call, BlackBerry options, back, and end/power. This has since been confirmed in the recent video leak of the BlackBerry N-Series, which clearly shows the only physical buttons is the keypad. Yo... »
Last Thursday, as the sun set on the heart of silicon valley in downtown San Jose, BlackBerry Jam Americas quietly drew to a close. With the launch of the BlackBerry 10 platform set for early 2013, this was unmistakably one of Research in Motion’s (RIM) most important developer conferences in history. For four days, the San Jose Convention Centre was alive with developers, press and RIM empl... »
Research In Motion has already announced their partnership with TomTom to use the TomTom HD services in BlackBerry Maps and BlackBerry Traffic apps. Apple is also utilizing TomTom’s services in iOS 6. From what we’ve heard on the matter, TomTom just gives the basic information and the companies then have to make additional use of its integration. Apple seems to have done a really poor ... »
The upcoming Apple iPhone 5 was rumored to have Near Field Communications (NFC). However, as it turns out those rumors didn’t pan out and the next iPhone will still not feature NFC capabilities. Apparently having NFC wasn’t even possible on the iPhone 5. The reason is due to the iPhone 5’s all-aluminum-and-glass body, which would block information from being transmitted to a terminal, ... »
BlackBerry 10 is going to be a revolution in terms of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry smartphones: new platform, new developer tools, new user interface, and pretty much new everything else. The new set of developer tools are simply head-and-shoulders above what they used to be, a blessing for most developers. Yet to avoid fragmentation and more work for developers, RIM has decided to enlig... »
Research In Motion’s CEO, Thorsten Heins, recently stated there will be six BlackBerry 10 phones released in 2013. However, these six devices may not be completely different devices. I believe the six BlackBerry 10 phones will include multiples of the same device. The same as it has been for every other BlackBerry, where RIM will have a separate model for the GSM and CDMA variant. This theor... »
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... »
A few years back Research In Motion was awarded a patent for a trapezoidal keyboard design. The concept was designed around the sole use of your thumbs to type. RIM’s official patent for the angular keyboard gives the following abstract: Wireless handheld mobile communication device including a housing with a display above a keyboard exposed for user actuation. A length of the device is grea... »
I’ve been actively following the bulls and bears on their stances of Research In Motion. It’s been pretty obvious that the company has been in a slump. There’s no questioning that. The big question on everyone’s mind is, “Can RIM make a comeback?” While I’m inclined to be bullish on RIM’s comeback potential due to the nature of running N4BB, I found ... »
For awhile now we’ve heard whispers of Research In Motion in negotiations to license the BlackBerry 10 operating system. RIM’s CEO, Thorsten Heins, confirmed during an interview that they are still considering a licensing, but that it might be only for low-end devices. A recap of the interview, Heins said, ”We don’t have the economy of scale to compete against the guys who ... »
After listening in on the interview between Matt Galloway and Thorsten Heins, it was a very critical of all the bad things that have transpired with RIM. But Thorsten Heins remained calm and positive. Heins stated that nothing was wrong with RIM and how they are dealing with the transition of the company. Like any other transition, its taking all the old ways of the company and instituting in new ... »
During yesterday’s Q1 FY2013 earnings call, CEO Thorsten Heins reiterated that the 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook would soon be arriving to market. We heard the delay in its release was due to a hardware revision, but as Heins said, we can expect it ‘soon’. Could ‘soon’ be in a month, end of year, or early next year? Does a 4G PlayBook even matter at this point? In the la... »
I have to admit I feel a little betrayed by RIM. I am sure many of you can say the same. Throughout this year, RIM has firmly stated that the BlackBerry 10 operating system would be released on a device in “latter part of 2012″. With the Q1 FY2013 earnings results, RIM announced that the first BlackBerry 10 device has been delayed to Q1 2013. Delays are nothing new to BlackBerry users ... »
With the preview of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 and RIM’s BlackBerry 10 operating systems, the race for the third place position in the mobile world is heating up. The first thing many may notice about these two is their use of homescreen tiles. Instead of a grid of icons, Windows Phone 8 uses exclusively live tiles on the homescreen as the primary user interface. Images on the tiles c... »
