RIM already talked about the Playbook 2.0 OS being released in Feb 2012 at CES and not much more than that. But there are talks of upcoming products that will be released throughout the year. So what is to come? 10″ PlayBook releasing in December 2012, will be LTE enabled 7″ PlayBook releasing in April [...]
What’s Next For RIM Products? Two different sized Playbooks, A Blackberry 10 Phone And Curves
January 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
RIM Being Asked For Info From Pakistan On Memogate
January 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
RIM is in a scandal, and it’s about the Pakistani Military. Information-age.com: The Pakistani commission investigating a memo that was supposedly sent to the US government requesting “direct intervention from the US in combating the (Pakistani) military, which it claimed was plotting to bring down the civilian apparatus.” according to Information-Age.
RIM releases statement regarding Intrepidous Group Infiltrate Conference PlayBook Vulnerabilities
January 12, 2012 By 1 Comment
Earlier today there was a report coming from the Infiltrate Conference that the Intrepidous Group had given a talk on security issues surrounding the BlackBerry PlayBook. The group claims to have discovered “several high risk vulnerabilities with RIM’s Blackberry Playbook that allows malicious applications to access personal information, contacts, and emails from connected Blackberry phones.” [...]
Verizon is taking hard stance on smartphones being LTE enabled
January 12, 2012 By 1 Comment
In a day and age where the spectrum we use for our smartphones is becoming more and more strained, it does not come as a surprise that carriers are now asking OEMs to only provide LTE enabled devices. We have recently seen rumors that the BlackBerry Colt was scrapped because it did not have a [...]
Wall Street Journal: Microsoft And Nokia Had An Interest In Purchasing RIM
December 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that both Microsoft and Nokia had an interest in possibly acquiring RIM, according to insiders.
RIM stock falls below $20 a share, ahead of Earnings Call
December 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Sadly today RIM stock share has falling to its lowest amount since May 2004 to $15.08. Not too sure as to what this will mean for the future of RIM but all markets have hickups. Reluctantly Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie will be giving the RIM earnings call for the numbers and projections for RIM. Keep it lock to Nerdberry.net [...]
How to make a BB7 Theme with Theme Builder 6
December 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Leave it to the BlackBerry faithful to turn a very depressing event into something a little complicated, but very rewarding. With RIM announcing that a Theme Builder for BlackBerry 7 wasn’t going to be released until mid 2012, theme builders and lovers alike were thrown for quite the loop. Well it looks like there may [...]
BlackBerry 7 Devices will remain themeless until mid 2012
November 3, 2011 By 3 Comments
Now this is some truly bad news to end the day with. During a recent interview with CIO.com RIM’s new VP of Developer Relations, Alec Saunders, revealed the time frame for an update to the Theme Studio software to allow developers to make themes for BlackBerry 7 devices. Sadly it appears that we will have [...]
RIM Stock Price Declines Below Book Value; First Time in 9 Years
November 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This news upset me to see but it seems that RIM stocks began to back-slid It is not sure for what has caused the decline or as to what it maybe linked to but the Bloomberg Stock has reported that RIM’s stock price has fallen below the book value for the first time in nine years. RIM is now worth less than the [...]
Rumor: Mobile HotSpot working on a Torch 9810 running BlackBerry OS 7.1
November 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
When the rumors first started flying about the new BB7 devices there was one feature that all BlackBerry owners had been waiting for, Mobile HotSpot support. Personally I was sad to discover at the #BB7FanNight in Toronto that the HotSpot functionality had been removed from the operating system, and with no indication of when or [...]
November 9th launch date for the T-Mobile BlackBerry Torch 9810 confirmed again
October 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We have already seen some pretty concrete evidence that shows the Torch 9810 launching on T-Mobile November 9th, and here is some more. As you can see from the internal screenshot business customers will be able to order starting November 2nd, with retail outlets getting the device starting on the 9th. So how many of you are [...]
Class Action Suit launched against RIM for BlackBerry outage
October 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It was really only a matter of time before one of these reared their ugly head, but we now have a class action suit being launched against RIM for the latest BlackBerry outage. The Financial Post reported today that the suit was officially filed by the Consumer Law Group in the Quebec Superior Court “on behalf of individuals [...]
Rumor: New mock up and potential specs for the first BBX BlackBerry “Superphone”
October 25, 2011 By 1 Comment
As you can see the title for this one starts with “rumor” so remember to take this all with a grain of salt. According to N4BB the first BlackBerry BBX based superphone, the Colt, will potential resemble what you see in the pic. The phone is expected to have a 1.2 GHz single core processor, [...]
Rumor: We will see the PlayBook 2.0 update before February?
October 25, 2011 By 2 Comments
According to a source of BGR we may not see the official PlayBook 2.0 update until Febraury of 2012. After DevCon and the release of the beta developer build of the 2.0 update this doesn’t really surprise me. The main issue seems to be revolving around the fact that BlackBerry PIN’s have always been limited [...]
T-Mobile’s Bold 9900 may never get NFC functionality
October 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
While NFC hasn’t been fully implemented as a useful feature yet, it is nice to know that a device has the ability to use it in the future. The T-Mobile BlackBerry Bold 9900 did not launch with NFC enabled, and it looks like it may never receive it either.
Porsche designed BlackBerry set to be officially announced on October 27th
October 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Love it or hate it the Porsche designed BlackBerry that we have seen numerous times is apparently going to be officially announced on October 27th. The BlackBerry Bold 9980, aka the “Knight”, was originally rumored to be a QNX BlackBerry which of course made no sense. After a few more leaks it was determined that the 9980 [...]
RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie confirms the BBX name, and claims it will “leapfrog” the competition
October 17, 2011 By 1 Comment
With BlackBerry DevCon 2011 starting tomorrow it looks like RIM is already putting their game face on. In an interview RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie has confirmed that the next generation BlackBerry OS will receive the BBX name. Jim also went on to state that RIM has had to re-engineer themselves for the future and BBX [...]
Leaked Wind Mobile roadmap shows the BlackBerry Bold 9900, 9790 and the Torch 9810
October 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
If you happen to live in Canada and are somewhere where Wind Mobile has coverage then this may be of some interest. A leaked roadmap for Wind shows that they are planning on releasing three new BlackBerry devices sometime in the near future. The three devices listed on the roadmap are the Bold 9900 and [...]
Upgrade price change expected for the T-Mobile BlackBerry Bold 9900
October 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If you have had plans on picking up a BlackBerry Bold 9900 from T-Mobile on an upgrade you may want to wait till tomorrow. TmoNews got some screenshots that show that you can expect a $50 price drop tomorrow, which will bring the price to $249.99 after the $50 mail-in-rebate. Many people have stated that [...]
BIS outage continues to spread, North America now affected
October 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
Over the last three days there has been a major BIS outage in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. RIM reported that the issue was failure of a core switch and the backup procedure did not work. Well this morning we can now report that Canada, Mexico and the US are now affected. There has [...]
