This is great publicity for RIM. The BlackBerry PlayBook has made CNet Asia’s list of “Most Anticipated Tech Products of 2011!” At the beginning of this week the PlayBook made Yahoo Finance’s “Top 5 Gadgets Worth the Wait.”On CNet’s “Most Anticipated Tech Products of 2011.” The BlackBerry PlayBook is in first place! Other tech gadgets [...]
BlackBerry PlayBook One of the “Most Anticipated Tech Products of 2011”
January 26, 2011 By 1 Comment
RIM to sell 6 million BlackBerry PlayBook in 12 months!?!
January 25, 2011 By 3 Comments
RBC Capital Markets GM Mike Abramsky, suggested that RIM could sell as much as 6 million BlackBerry PlayBook’s the fist year! In an independent survey of 1,100 consumers conducted after the CES 2011 (Consumer Electronics Show) RBC found that 6% of respondents were likely to purchase the BlackBerry PlayBook once it comes available. This represents [...]
PlayBook to Have Longer Battery Life than iPad – 4,000 3rd Party Apps at Launch
January 25, 2011 By 1 Comment
More details have emerged on the BlackBerry PlayBook’s battery life and App’s expected at launch. Reuters spoke with Jeff McDowell, RIM’s senior vice-president for business and platform marketing in regards to the Blackberry PlayBook’s battery life. There has been a lot of concerns surrounding the PlayBook’s battery life since Kaufman Brothers Analyst Shaw Wu said [...]
Rumor: AT&T 3G BlackBerry PlayBook?!?
January 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
When the BlackBerry PlayBook is finally released it will be WiFi only, With the 4G WiMax PlayBook on Sprint to follow this summer. There is now a rumor floating around that the BlackBerry PlayBook will show up on AT&T sporting 3G by the end of March or early April. Then “sometime soon after” AT&T is to [...]
RIM to Ship 1M Playbooks Q1????
January 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
So word on the proverbial street is that RIM is gearing up to produce and ship 1M yes million Playbooks during Q1. Those are some pretty big numbers to push to the streets in 3 months. We shall see. Source: BlackBerryCool
Is RIM planing on releasing a management tool that would control devices and services beyond BlackBerry?
January 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It appears RIM is considering the possibilities of developing a a management tool that would allow IT departments to use the BlackBerry management software to manage all smartphones on a company IT policy. RIM’s VP Pete Devenyi States: “BlackBerry is and will continue to be dominant in most corporations,” He went on to say, “If the right [...]
PlayBook is still ‘great’ without tethering a BlackBerry
January 17, 2011 By 3 Comments
I have talked to a bunch of people about RIM’s latest product the BlackBerry PlayBook and they all seemed to have the same question.: Why do we have to tether our BlackBerry? Well we cananswer that question. The answer is the PlayBook must be connected wirelessly to a BlackBerry smartphone in order to access PIM-related functions [...]
Adobe AIR SDK updated to v0.9.2 – Now supports custom splash screens and portrait mode
January 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
Well the title tells it all… The Adobe AIR SDK has been updated to v0.9.2. If you are developing applications for the BlackBerry Playbook this update now supports custom splash screens and portrait mode. Alot of developers have been waiting for this update for a while now. We can’t wait to see what apps will [...]
RIM has Extended the offer for a free BlackBerry PlayBook!
January 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
RIM has released the BlackBerry® WebWorks™ SDK for Tablet OS today, They also have extended the deadline for the free BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet offer! ”Offer is open between 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) on December 7, 2010 and 11:59 p.m. ET on March 15, 2011 (“Offer Period”). Research In Motion Limited (“Sponsor”) reserves the right to extend the [...]
RIM Releases New Developer Tools and Services for PlayBook OS and BlackBerry Smartphones at BlackBerry DevCon Asia
January 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
With CES over, Everyone seems to have started to look at what DevCon will bring this year. With that said, RIM has now released BlackBerry WebWorks SDK (beta) for tablet OS, and New Services and Tools for BlackBerry Smartphones. The WebWorks SDK will provide Developers with: RIM’s powerful WebKit web rendering engine (which is at the [...]
Video: QNX Car concept integrates with PlayBook hands-on
January 10, 2011 By 1 Comment
RIM was not the only company at CES 2011 displaying the BlackBerry PlayBook. QNX was also displaying the PlayBook inside the QNX concept car. The QNX concept car was showing how the BlackBerry PlayBook intergrates with a car. The demo shows us how media can be displayed on the cars main from multiple devices. Terminal Mode will be used to replicate the [...]
Video Q&A: BlackBerry PlayBook tablet Product Manager Ryan Bidan
January 10, 2011 By 2 Comments
Mobile Link Inside BlackBerry Posted the above video yesterday featureing BlackBerry PlayBook Product Manager, Ryan Bidan holding a Q&A session. The questions were sent in by readers as well as comments about CES. The Q&A includes: Do you need a BlackBerry to get a PlayBook? An explanation of BlackBerry Bridge Will we be seeing apps like [...]
Texas Instruments (TI) 1Ghz OMAP 4430 Processor in BlackBerry PlayBook
January 10, 2011 By 1 Comment
Engadgetmanaged to speak with a RIM rep on the floor at CES 2011 and confirmed the BlackBerry PlayBook was indeed running TI’s OMAP 4430 1Ghz dual core processor. Ronen Halevy over at Berry Reviewhas a great point “The thing I did notice is that TI already has a successor to the 4430 in the 4440 which [...]
Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis Talks About The Future Plans For BlackBerry – “Super Phone”
January 6, 2011 By 1 Comment
In an interview with PCMag’s Sascha Segan at CES, RIM’s Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis had a lot to talk about. Mike Lazaridis went into some details about RIM’s plan for a BlackBerry “super phone” stating: We are in Vegas let’s party!! Haha Just kidding. The future BlackBerry ”super phone” will run a scaled down version of RIM’s QNX OS running on [...]
Pairing PlayBook with Your BlackBerry
January 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Mobile Link For those of you that have already set aside the money to pick up a PlayBook on release day; here is your video tutorial of the steps needed to pair you smart phone with your “smart” tablet. Watch it as many times as you need to so that you can pair these two [...]
Playbook Accessories on Display at CES 2011
January 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We knew from all of the fancy signage on the outside of the expo hall that the BlackBerry Playbook would be a HUGE part of CES this year. We have received some pictures of the Built for BlackBerry PlayBook accessories that are on display from our buddies over at CrackBerry. First up is the Charging [...]
Video: 3 New BlackBerry PlayBook Commercials
January 6, 2011 By 1 Comment
Mobile Link “From work to play and everything in between, you can take it all—everywhere you go—on the new, ultra- portable BlackBerry® PlayBook.™” With CES 2011 in full swing RIM has Posted 3 new videos of the BlackBerry PlayBook! This morning RIM anounced that the BlackBerry PlayBook will be heading to Sprint this spring. [...]
Press Release: BlackBerry 4G PlayBook Coming to the Sprint 4G Network
January 6, 2011 By 1 Comment
RIM has officially release a press release at CES 2011 stating the BlackBerry PlayBook will be heading to Sprint this summer and it will be running on 4G! WooHoo RIM way to go! I can’t wait to get my hands on the newest edition to the BlackBerry lineup. Are you on Sprint? Are you going [...]
Huge BlackBerry PlayBook Presence at CES 2011
January 5, 2011 By 1 Comment
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, Well I say this picture is worth a million words. Jessica Dolcourt of CNET uploaded this picture showing a huge BlackBerry PlayBook at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES)in Las Vegas. It looks like RIM is taking the PlayBook very seriously, Ads have been popping up every at CES 2011. [...]
RIM gearing up the Playbook for CES
January 5, 2011 By 1 Comment
Just in time for CES RIM has released yet another Video of the Playbook. This time showing off the depth of its web fidelity. They show off HTML5, Facebook, Flash and a host of other newer technologies that other tablet devices cant do yet. I’m dieing to get my hands on one for a real [...]
