FierceWireless reported on Wednesday that Blackberry is pulling out all the stops to get people to upgrade from whatever Blackberry product or service that they are running, to BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 platform. For those not in the know BES10 is the platform used by their newest line of phones (now about two years old) [...]
(image: engadget) Thursday marked the first Blackberry earnings call with CEO John Chen where Chen has been at the helm for the entire reporting period. Chen seems to have stunned most of the technology and investment community by reporting stronger than expected results. The Waterloo based smartphone company, that was once at the [...]
When Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher and the entire AllThingsD crew left the Wall Street Journal you weren't thinking those hot seat interviews were dead, were you? Well new Blacbkerry CEO John Chen was in the hot seat on Wednesday at the inaugural re/code Code Conference the new conference starring the former AllThingsD team. Re/Code co-founders [...]
In some rare good news for BlackBerry, the company just won a court case against Typo. We told you a bit about this injunction back in January. Anyhow, as we wrote, "In a nutshell, the Typo Keyboard – backed by none other than Ryan Seacrest – gives users a thumb-style physical keyboard for theiPhone 5 and 5S. The Typo Keyboard [...]
On April 1, 2014, the T-Mobile/BlackBerry debacle officially came to an end. In an announcement on the official BlackBerry Press website, the Canadian phone maker noted that it, "will not renew the T-Mobile U.S., Inc. license to sell BlackBerry products when it expires on April 25, 2014."
BlackBerry is about to get back to its tried and true hits. BlackBerry told Reuters in a report from Friday, March 28, that they plan to "introduce high-end smartphones that cater to keyboard aficionados in the coming 18 months, in an effort to win back core corporate and government clients who have shunned the company's touch-screen devices."
The next release of BBM will support photo sharing in multi person chats. This comes as an addition to existing sharing options that exist in multi person chats – sending voice notes, sharing your location powered by Glympse, and sending files from your Dropbox account.
On February 25, 2014, at Mobile World Congress BlackBerry announced two new devices. The first, the BlackBerry Z3 (pictured above) will be exclusive to Indonesia for some reason. The second device, BlackBerry Q20 will feature the company's physical QWERTY keyboard, as well as the "‘Menu’, ‘Back’, ‘Send’ and ‘End’ buttons and the integrated trackpad to enable the fast efficient navigation and one-handed use that has endeared the brand to its QWERTY customers."
On Friday, February 21, 2014, in what can only be characterized as grasping for straws, BlackBerry announced that the newest version of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) will now offer stickers. Revolutionary.
On 12 February 2014, the International Data Corporation (IDC) released some data from their Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. There is some really interesting data in the report for the smartphone market as a whole, as well as some telling data on the various mobile operating systems.
