RIM has introduced three new BlackBerry OS 7 smartphones in the Indian market – Bold 9790, Curve 9380 and Curve 9350. While the Bold 9790 is a slimmer version of Bold 9900, Curve 9380 is the first full-touchscreen phone in the Curve lineup and Curve 9350 is the first OS 7 based CDMA phone. Bold 9790 is priced at Rs.27,490, Curve 9380 and Curve 9350 are both priced at Rs.20,990. All three phones are equipped with NFC, augmented reality and BlackBerry Social Feeds. Read more
Last week, Research In Motion announced its new software platform BBX which is said to support Android Apps. Now, one of the developers working on developer beta of BBX 2.0 has released a video which shows Android apps running on BlackBerry Playbook. The video shows a folder named ‘Android Apps’ which consist of apps like IM+ Pro, IMDb, Gmail, Amazon Kindle, Kik Messenger, TweetCaster Pro, Winamp, Google Places and Opera Mobile. PlayBook’s ability to run Android apps has been in RIM’s talks for some time. Now that the feature has reached developer edition of BBX, RIM may release the feature to consumers in coming months. See the Android Apps running on PlayBook in the video after the jump. Read more
RIM says it is sorry for its 4 day service outage last week, and is now offering free apps worth $100 to BlackBerry users as an apology. RIM would be offering selected premium apps for free which are worth over $100. Currently RIM has listed 12 apps in its press release which would be available for free from Wednesday, October 19th until December 31, 2011. RIM’s list includes games like SIMS 3, Bejeweled and N.O.V.A., photo editor app Photo Editor Ultimate and pay-to-play music service Shazam Encore, to name a few. RIM would also be offering one month free Technical Support.
Weather BlackBerry users would accept the $100 apology is to be seen, but we believe it is a good opportunity by RIM to show its users some of the its great app offerings (an area where it has always been criticized of not having much to offer against Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android).
RIM’s popular instant messaging service BlackBerry Messenger, popularly known as BBM amongst the BlackBerry boys, may no more be limited to BlackBerry phones. If the leaked image above is to be believed, BBM may soon come to Android devices. Read more
CrackBerry has posted what seems like a screenshots of the new BlackBerry Playbook OS V2.0. The screenshot posted by a forum user was originally leaked by a Chinese website. At present, all information available is only the screenshots and should be taken with a grain of salt.
From the pictures, we can see integrated calendar, contacts and messages, separated from BlackBerry Bridge versions. Another interesting finding is the native BBM app which doesn’t look greyed out like the other Bridge apps. A native Email client is also rumored to be releasing with V2.0 which currently cannot be spotted in the pictures. Also, long time rumored Android App Player is nowhere to be seen but we are hoping to see it with the release of V2.0. We’ll keep you posted as soon as we hear an official word from RIM and as the story progresses.
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RIM has been rumored to be working on the white BlackBerry Torch 9810. Rogers and Telus have now made the white beauty official and the device is up for sale. Rogers has priced the device at $549 outright or $199 on a three year contract while Telus is selling it for $599 outright or $129 on a three year contact.
While the pricing of the new white BlackBerry Torch 9810 remains the same as that of original Silver, which one do you find more appealing. Tell us on Twitter or leave a comment on our Facebook fan page.
via [crackberry]
RIM has confirmed that its 7″ tablet, Blackberry PlayBook, would be available in UK next month. The stores would start selling the device on 16th May. PlayBook would come in three capacity variants – 16GB for £400, 32GB for £480 and 64GB for £560. Some UK retailers including Carphone Warehouse, Best Buy UK, Insight UK and Phones4u have confirmed that they would be selling the device on its launch date and have already started taking pre-orders.
For those of you who don’t know, Blackberry PlayBook is a 7″ tablet powered by a 1GHz processor with 1GB of RAM. It has two cameras, 3MP front and 5MP rear. The tablet supports Bluetooth, USB and WiFi connectivity. The tablet is flash-enabled and allows app download from Blackberry App World.
via [Engadget]