Tag: Blackberry
Blackberry announces “Leap” and “Slider”
Over at MWC, Blackberry has just announced a new handset. Blackberry Leap is a sleek attempt at doing a fully touchscreen phone again. It has a 5" display, 2800mAh battery and runs the Blackberry 10 OS. Whether it will make an impact remains to be seen, though could conceivably be attractive to business users who…
Why would Samsung want to buy Blackberry for $7.5bn?
There's a rumour doing the rounds today about how Samsung has apparently approached Blackberry about buying the firm for around $7.5bn. Since the rumour emerged, and the Blackberry stock price shot up, Blackberry has since denied that talks have taken place. Though that said - it does raise what would certainly be an interesting development…
Boeing and Blackberry reportedly creating a “self-destructing phone”
If there's one brand you probably don't want to associate with the words "self-destructing", it is probably Boeing - but that doesn't seem to have stopped the company from partnering with Blackberry to develop a super secure phone. According to The Telegraph, the phone will be designed for government agencies that need high levels of…
Blackberry Classic is official – and available now in the USA
We knew it was coming - but Blackberry has finally made it all official. The Blackberry Classic is the latest phone from the troubled smartphone maker and takes its inspiration from the past - retaining a physical keyboard - whilst boosting the insides to compete with modern devices. The phone, which runs the Blackberry 10…
Blackphone launching a “privacy focused” app store
Blackphone is hoping to lure business users with promises of a more secure app store, it has emerged. According to The Guardian, the store which will launch in January will carry out a higher degree of vetting on potential apps - checking that they actually do what they say they will. This means that if…
BBM getting message retraction and Snapchat-style timed message features
Blackberry has started rolling out some interesting new features on BBM - making a move to ape snapchat, and also let you recall messages sent in error. If you've ever sent a message to the wrong person, you know how awkward it can be - so if you're a BBM user you could be in…
Blackberry Q20 looks familiar in leaked photos
Images of Blackberry's latest offering has appeared on China's Weibo network (think Twitter but with more state censorship) and it looks... rather familiar. The Blackberry Q20 is to be part of the company's recovery strategy. After having a disastrous few years, the company is gambling that some mobile users would prefer the familiarity of a…
BlackBerry announces new Passport 'phone'
BlackBerry – yes, it still exists – has announced its next new model, the Passport … which looks to be more phablet than smartphone. Company CEO John Chen said on Thursday that the phone was set to launch in September…
Blackberry's big new plan: Internet of things!
Blackberry has announced that it is working on a platform for "internet of things" devices – could this be a way out of the company's problems? "Internet of Things" is the name giving to what is expected to be the…
Blackberry: Still not dead; Unbox the Z3
Blackberry have lifted the the lid on a brand new phone – let's party like it's 2008! Though Blackberry's mobile business is widely regarded to be a dead man walking, rather than put it out of it's misery with a…
