Research In Motion (RIM) executives received tough questions from its investors during its annual meeting on July 12, with RIM co-CEO Mike Lazardis insisting that the new BlackBerry devices will help the company triumph in the competitive smartphone environment. According to The Guardian, RIM said that it will release seven new BlackBerry smartphones running its new BlackBerry...
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The official release date for the Blackberry Playbook is 16th June 2011, however keen buyers can snap one up a day earlier in the UK from the Carphone Warehouse. The mobile phone retailer has announced that they have an exclusive deal that has allowed them to set the release date as June 15th 2011. But you can’t pick it up from any Carphone Warehouse store, only five...
Insight UK, PC World, Dixons, Carphone warehouse, Best Buy and curry’s have all started rolling out pre-orders for the Blackberry Playbook tablet PC. It will cost £399.99 when it launches on June 16th, a release date that many feel is long overdue. RIM are touting the Blackberry Playbook as the “world’s first professional-grade tablet”. Which they feel sets it...
Blackberry World in Orlando, Florida is in full flow and new updates and announcements have been occurring all day. One such announcement involves the insanely popular Angry Birds franchise which is set to spread it’s wings and land which much applause on the Blackberry Playbook tablet. RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis has confirmed that the bird firing app will be available...
The 2011 Tablet Wars are well and truly here, what with the iPad 2 press release yesterday and the Motorola Xoom, Blackberry Playbook and HP Touchpad all launching in the very near future. As with many tech release dates these are based on external sources and industry experts ramblings. This page will be updated with news and specs as and when we hear of them. Where...
This week has been a real eye opener for the big players in tech, with a distinct change from being very much independent to a ‘if you can’t beat them, join them mentality. First Nokia partnered up with Microsoft and now it seems RIM have done the same thing with Google. RIM, who are the parent company behind the Blackberry Playbook is said to be developing their...
RIM entered the tablet market with the sole aim of hitting it big, their Blackberry Playbook will go head to head with the Apple iPad and Motorola Xoom in March. They are obviously pretty confident that their tablet will be popular revealing that 1 million units will be shipped in the first month alone. The one million unit estimate trumps the Motorola Xoom which is...
Over the past month if you had said the Apple iPhone 4 is the most popular smartphone of the moment, you wouldn’t be have been alone. However, a recent survey by goodmobilephones.co.uk has shown that among the top searched mobile phones the Apple iPhone 4 only ranks sixth, trailing behind three HTC devices. HTC performed very well in the survey, which used data taken...
Blackberry owners whose own handsets running at least 4.5 can now download the updated version of the Facebook application from Blackberry App World. The updates include the ability to read messages in a list, a tidy up of your friends list and users can now search for people and places. The most notable update has to be the inclusion of Facebook places. The service, which...
It could be the confirmation you were looking for or the reason you need to go out and buy an iPhone rather than a Blackberry or an Android mobile phone. According to a survey conducted by dating site OkCupid.com iPhone owners have more sex and with more partners than owners of other smartphones – wow, there’s an app for that? Male owners of the Apple wonder...