Tag Archives : BlackBerry

Smartphones on display Mobile Software Developers are obviously not impressed or affected with Android based smart phones taking over iPhone in sales figures for the last quarter in the United States this is vouched by the fact iPhone and iPad has the largest number of developers working for iPhone and iPad platform. The iPhone dominates mobile app development with more than half of mobile developers [...]

Image via Wikipedia If you think just because iPhone is still every where it tops the sales chart – think again. For the first time since its launch, Android-based smart phones outsold the iPhone in the U.S. in the first quarter  of 2010.  Android  continues to shake up the U.S. mobile phone market, it moved past Apple to take the number-two position among smartphone operating systems, [...]

Image by Neil Boothman via Flickr If you own a Blackberry Storm 2 or a Blackberry Bold 2, you can now catch up on all the world news courtesy the new BBC iPlayer. To be honest, I’m surprised at what took RIM and BBC so long to release the iPlayer for Blackberry. To be fair, it’s now the case of ‘Better Late, than never’. The BBC iPlayer offers a fantastic option to Blackberry users to access [...]

Image by scottpowerz via Flickr Rumours on the internet suggest that the folks at Research in Motion (RIM) have been working overtime on preparing the Roadmap for the new version of BlackBerry OS – 6.0. A Boy Genius Report suggests that the Canadian Phone Maker has now started the development of BlackBerry OS 6.0 and it might be slated for a release in year 2011. Blackberry has been in the [...]

The red carpet has been rolled out by Mplayit to announce the top mobile games in its collection. Mplayit is the maker of the immensely popular Mobile App Catalog that powers Facebook and lets users recommend and rate its games and apps through Twitter and Facebook. Though an official report with the list of winners is expected later, the winners include Tetris, The Sims 3, Wheel of Fortune, Tap Tap [...]

Image by rustybrick via Flickr In its first ever developer conference at San Jose, California, on Tuesday, Verizon Wireless announced its own V cast application store as a direct competitor to Apple and its App Store. The new application is expected to come out in the forth quarter of 2009. The V cast applications store will allow developers all over the world to distribute and monetize [...]

Image via Wikipedia Etisalat is an UAE telecoms firm with over 145,000 users. Recently, it has prompted an update by text. The update was supposedly aimed at improving performance. However, crashes started to appear right after many users downloaded and installed it. Battery life was also significantly reduced. RIM (Research in Motion), the maker of Blackberry, stated that this update was [...]

Pictures of RIM’s new yet-to-be-released version of the Blackberry Storm 2 have been leaked onto the Internet. What we can gather from the pictures so far is that Surepress has been superseded with Truepress, which will surely please many Blackberry fans. Tactile buttons have been replaced by much cooler touch-style buttons. The 3.2mp camera remains in place, but we can see that WiFi has been [...]