Tag Archives : BlackBerry

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 [...]

iPad Killer? Rumors about Blackberry makers RIM (Research In Motion) coming out with a touch-screen tablet similar to Apple’s iPad got more credibility when RIM registered blackpad.com. The latest on Blackpad comes through two anonymous sources saying RIM’s Blackpad is coming by November– and it’s coming to take on Apple’s iPad. The new device will  run the as-yet-unreleased [...]

Apple iPad’s success had reinvented and redifined Tablet PC market and it was a matter of time before its competitors launched tablet devices, Blackberry maker and market leader in smart phones Research In Motion was rumored for quite some time now to be on its way to bring a BlackBerry tablet to the market,the speculation got strengthened  following fresh reports on Internet primarily a research [...]

Kindle Books Amazon.com has launched a free Kindle e-book reader app for Android which will be available via the Android Market. Amazon already offers versions of Kindle for the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac, PC and BlackBerry. It make it seem clear that the real goal for Amazon.com is selling e-books, not Kindle e-readers.  You can get any of the 620,000 books available on the Kindle in the Android [...]

Smartphones on display Mobile Software Developers are obviously not impressed or affected with Android based smart phones taking over iPhone in sales figures for the last quarter in the United States this is vouched by the fact iPhone and iPad has the largest number of developers working for iPhone and iPad platform. The iPhone dominates mobile app development with more than half of mobile developers [...]

Image via Wikipedia If you think just because iPhone is still every where it tops the sales chart – think again. For the first time since its launch, Android-based smart phones outsold the iPhone in the U.S. in the first quarter  of 2010.  Android  continues to shake up the U.S. mobile phone market, it moved past Apple to take the number-two position among smartphone operating systems, [...]

Image by Neil Boothman via Flickr If you own a Blackberry Storm 2 or a Blackberry Bold 2, you can now catch up on all the world news courtesy the new BBC iPlayer. To be honest, I’m surprised at what took RIM and BBC so long to release the iPlayer for Blackberry. To be fair, it’s now the case of ‘Better Late, than never’. The BBC iPlayer offers a fantastic option to Blackberry users to access [...]

Image by scottpowerz via Flickr Rumours on the internet suggest that the folks at Research in Motion (RIM) have been working overtime on preparing the Roadmap for the new version of BlackBerry OS – 6.0. A Boy Genius Report suggests that the Canadian Phone Maker has now started the development of BlackBerry OS 6.0 and it might be slated for a release in year 2011. Blackberry has been in the [...]

The red carpet has been rolled out by Mplayit to announce the top mobile games in its collection. Mplayit is the maker of the immensely popular Mobile App Catalog that powers Facebook and lets users recommend and rate its games and apps through Twitter and Facebook. Though an official report with the list of winners is expected later, the winners include Tetris, The Sims 3, Wheel of Fortune, Tap Tap [...]

Image by rustybrick via Flickr In its first ever developer conference at San Jose, California, on Tuesday, Verizon Wireless announced its own V cast application store as a direct competitor to Apple and its App Store. The new application is expected to come out in the forth quarter of 2009. The V cast applications store will allow developers all over the world to distribute and monetize [...]