Tag: Research in Motion
BlackBerry PlayBook WILL support Android apps
The BlackBerry PlayBook will have compatibility with Google's Android Market apps, despite no longer supporting the Dalvik platform, Bloomberg are reporting. Sources "close to the matter" now believe that RIM have come up with their own software solution to make…
BlackBerry faces ban from India after missing government deadline
BlackBerry could miss out on one of the fastest-growing mobile markets in the world after missing a data sharing deadline set by the Indian government. India's authorities had given Research In Motion (RIM), the owner of BlackBerry, until 31st…
New Blackberry Storm Specs Leak
It looks like the Blackberry Storm Line isn't under the axe after all. Today specs of an amped up Storm 3 were leaked. The phone which is expected to be out in September is already looking a million times…
BlackBerry Torch 2 joins the latest RIM leaks
A revamped version of last year's flagship RIM handset, the BlackBerry Torch, is on its way according to BGR. We've already seen the Dakota break cover, and while its form factor may prove to make it the preferred RIM BlackBerry…
VIDEO: Another day, another BlackBerry PlayBook video preview
Here is yet another BlackBerry PlayBook tablet video, this time showing off the RIM device's 1080p playback skills. Not that we're complaining; on the back of these preview vids, RIM seem to have put together a very tasty little…
VIDEO: BlackBerry PlayBook goes multitasking mad
Here's another sneak-peek video of the soon-to-be-released BlackBerry PlayBook tablet from RIM. Looking to bring the fight head-on with Apple's iPad, it's another impressive showcase of the tablet's multitasking abilities. Caught here at the Rogers TabLife event in Canada, RIM…
RIM to Apple: "You don't need an app for the Web"
Steve Jobs is sitting smugly in the knowledge that Apple have passed BlackBerry makers RIM in smartphone sales during the last quarter. "I don't see them catching up to us in the near future!" he gloated recently at an Apple…
RIM? Never heard of them say 37% of BlackBerry users
While BlackBerry handsets still dominate US smartphone sales figures, new research from www.rightmobilephone.co.uk has revealed that BlackBerry owners are far less zealous in their love for the RIM brand than their Apple counterparts. Of 1,024 BlackBerry owners quizzed, only 37%…
BlackBerry tablet "confirmed", might not be very impressive
Newly uncovered details seem to confirm that a BlackBerry tablet is in the works. However, rather than a fully fledged, independent device, BlackBerry's tablet looks to be an oversized add-on to their smartphone. Stealing your BlackBerry's Wi-Fi or 3G signal…
Android phones now beginning to outsell iPhone
It may have been relatively slow out of the blocks, but smartphones running Google's Android OS outsold the iPhone for the first time ever during the first quarter of 2010, a new report by the NPD shows. During the first…