Tag: Blackberry
iPad 2 to beat the BlackBerry Playbook to stores?
RIM's BlackBerry Playbook tablet may have he wind knocked out its sales by Apple before it even hits stores. The suggestion comes as rumoured manufacturing delays may mean that the tablet will not hit stores until March, whereas it had…
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…
RIM buy a load of TAT to revamp BlackBerry UI
RIM, the manufacturers behind the BlackBerry range of handsets and forthcoming PlayBook tablet have bought the Swedish design team The Astonishing Tribe (TAT). With TAT specialising in the design of mobile interfaces, it's believed the acquistition will lead to an…
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…
BlackBerry Bold 9780 gets a makeover from designer Bill Amberg
Bill Amberg has put his name to a limited edition run of BlackBerry Bold 9780 handsets. With just 60 individually numbered handsets available, these colourful phones are a Selfridges exclusive, with a mighty price tag of £1,000 for each of…
BlackBerry Playbook gets cheap-as-microchips launch price
The BlackBerry Playbook, RIM's answer to the iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab tablets is looking like a must-have purchase for the BlackBerry-wielding business man about town. That must-have purchase just got all the more attractive too as it has today…
Steve Jobs under fire again, this time from RIM boss
It's been quite a catty week so far in the world of tech. First Apple's Steve Jobs and Google's Andy Rubin traded verbal blows over what truly contitutes an open-source platform, and now Jobs is under fire again as RIM…
Dated or dapper? RIM prep the BlackBerry Style 9670 clamshell phone
Think clamshell flip-phones had died the death? Think again: RIM have got a brand new one waiting in the wings in the shape of the BlackBerry Style 9670. Product manager Randy Carson seemed to have spoken to my Mum during…
10 of the best QWERTY mobile phones
This month saw the high profile launches of two QWERTY keyboard packing smartphones from both Nokia and HTC. Nokia threw out the E7 slider, while HTC crammed a hardware keyboard into their lush Desire Z handset. With so many phones…
Amazon Kindle headed to PlayBook tablet, and BlackBerry Video Messenger too?
Amazon have announced that they will be bringing their Kindle e-book reading smarts to RIM's just announced BlackBerry Playbook tablet. "Amazon.com today announced that it will launch a Kindle app for the new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer", the company said…
