Tag Archives : BlackBerry

Apple reinvented the Tablet computing landscape with its Tablet iPad, competition soon followed with Dell launching Streak, Samsung  joined the fray with Galaxy Tab, Blackberry became the latest entrant with its PlayBook tablet launched earlier this week. We bring you a feature comparison of these four models BlackBerry PlayBook Apple iPad Samsung Galaxy Tab Dell Streak Screen size 7 [...]

Blackberry PlayBook Tablet At the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco yesterday , Research In Motion’s CEO Mike Lazaridis announced the company’s new tablet named PlayBook. The Tablet PC will hit US stores early next year and  with rollouts after April  in the rest of the world. The PlayBook will run on  an OS created by the recently acquired QNX, it will be called BlackBerry [...]

mobile version of Twitter Twitter’s mobile usage of the service  has gone up 62% in just over four months, and 16% of all new Twitter users are starting out on mobile devices as opposed to web signups according to Twitter’s CEO Ev Williams. “Our Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for BlackBerry clients are now two of the most popular ways to use Twitter. This may not be surprising. [...]

Foursquare Android app users could now check in on Foursquare with their voices. It’s a speech-to-check in feature integrated by Vlingo and this absolutely is a time saver. With the new app, Android users can speak a simple “check in to < place name>” command from the home screen . The command will make Vlingo to automatically pull up the location in question, and other nearby venues, [...]

Blackberry App World BlackBerry maker Research In Motion(RIM) announced  that BlackBerry App World is now available for all BlackBerry owners and is no longer in beta version. Blackberry app developers could offer apps for $0.99 and $1.99, the payment options are either credit card or  carrier billing. User’s BlackBerry ID can be used to manage account information across multiple devices, [...]

Source - OkCupid.com A study by Dating site OkCupid has revealed that people who use iPhones have more sex than those who don’t. Few female iPhone owners had twice as many sexual partners as other smart phone users, the research said. The study looked at the data hidden in the images that users uploaded as profile pictures to see which cameras were used to take them and having many of the [...]

Tablet PC Rumor mills have been working overtime about  Blackberry maker RIM( Research In Motion) plans to introduce its tablet PC which will take on Apple’s iPad. Adding credence to the rumors is  report by Bloomberg News ( citing two people familiar with the company’s plans) which says that RIM  is expected to launch a touchscreen tablet computer in November, which will work closely [...]

Give way, iPhones and BlackBerrys, smartphone customers in U.S. have voted with their wallets and picked Android as their favorite in the second quarter of this year according to NPD , a market research company. Earlier NPD survey has shown Android-based smart phones outselling the iPhone in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2010. NPD  concluding that 33 percent of phones sold during the [...]

Blackberry Torch 9800 At a press event, co-hosted by AT&T Blackberry’s Canadian maker Research in Motion launched the eagerly awaited Blackberry OS 6 and unveiled its first BlackBerry with both a touchscreen and a physical slide-out QWERTY keyboard which comes pre-loaded with the new BlackBerry 6 operating system, the smartphone will be available in U.S. exclusively from AT&T ($199 with a [...]

BlackBerry This one was  just round the corner – few hours ago Blackberry’s Canadian maker Research in Motion launched the eagerly awaited Blackberry OS 6 at a press event in New York . To say RIM has a lot riding on BlackBerry 6 is an understatement. With new kids on the block like Android and iOS stepping in with drool worthy apps and attractive User Interfaces, the BlackBerrys (along [...]