All’s going good for RIM at the moment. Apart from selling more than 50 million Blackberry phones, the company posted positive results for the last quarter which ended on Feb 28. The quarter which included the holiday season as well posted a revenue of US$3.46 billion, up 84 percent from the same quarter last […]
Blackberry App World goes live
As expected, the Blackberry App World has gone live. All Blackberry users having OS above 4.2, trackballs or Surepess (Storm), Paypal account with a lot of balance can download the App World right away and delve in the software goodness. And yes, the BAW is opened only to BB users from US, Canada and […]
Blackberry App World to launch on April Fools Day
BusinessWeek has spilled the beans regarding the impending launch of RIM’s Blackberry App World. According to them, April 1 which also happens to be the first day of CTIA is the destined date where the floodgates will be thrown open for Blackberry users to delve in the world of apps, presumably quality ones. RIM […]
Blackberry Gemini 8325 pictured live
So the Gemini we previously thought as 9300 turns out to be Blackberry 8325. Being in the 8xxx series means that this cross breed between Curve 8300 and 8900 drops 3G and looks to be cheaper than 8900. Other features it will feature are: – 320×240 resolution screen – Quad-band GSM, EDGE – BB […]
Blackberry Niagara 9630 surfaces
Hail the guys at Crackberry because they have scored the first live picture of Blackberry Niagara 9630. A crossover of Curve 8900 and Bold 9000, the Niagara 9630 is a CDMA and quadband GSM based world edition phone packing GPS, possibly 3G but no Wi-Fi. [Via Crackberry]
RIM gets ready with Blackberry App World
We already knew Research in Motion had plans to open their own app store but now their plans look more concrete with the announcement of the official name and the developer’s page going live. The Blackberry App World follows the same funda – allows users to buy and install apps and games from a […]
Lenovo, RIM tie up to bring Constant Connect for ThinkPad
Lenovo and Blackberry maker revealed a nifty solution for people using Blackberry device and Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks. Called as Constant Connect, it is a card that can be inserted in the laptop that automatically synchronizes all the e-mails from Blackberry to the PC via Bluetooth. The functioning of the card is pretty simple. As […]
Verizon to introduce buy one get one free offer for Blackberry
Companies do interesting stuff to sell their wares and when RIM & Verizon does it, you gotta notice. Starting from today, when a customer buys a Blackberry device from Verizon he’ll get another one (same or lesser value) for free. Yes, the Storm is also included which is kind of surprising considering it is […]
iSuppli: Blackberry Storm hardware costs come at $203
You know, deriving price of the handsets on the basis of hardware purchases is actually baseless but iSuppli loves to do it, and so do we. This time they have stripped down Blackberry Storm and calculated the cost of each component present in the device. The study says that $203 is the total cost […]
RIM co-CEO says buggy phones are part of a “new reality”
While one CEO reckons Blackberry Storm to be a small netbook, another one says faulty software is a part and parcel of complex phones, including their Storm. In an interview with WSJ, RIM’s CEO Jim Balsillie confessed that software glitches in the Storm are part of the “new reality” of large volume production of […]