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Unannounced BlackBerry 10 devices revealed by developer phone

Unannounced BlackBerry 10 devices revealed by developer phone


Unannounced BlackBerry 10 devices revealed

A number of unannounced devices currently being developed by Research In Motion have been revealed by the alpha software included on the developer preview phone the vendor distributed last week. BlackBerry watcher N4BB discovered a number of code-names referencing unannounced BlackBerry devices in RIM’s BlackBerry 10 alpha software, several of which are expected to run the Waterloo, Ontario-based vendor’s next-generation BlackBerry 10 operating system when they launch in the future. Among the devices referenced are the Colt, RIM’s developer phone that will not be made available to the public, and the London, which is expected to launch in October as the first BlackBerry 10 phone. Other devices referenced in RIM’s BlackBerry 10 alpha code are the Blackforest, thought to be a 10-inch PlayBook tablet, as well as the Nevada, Naples and Nashville, all thought to be upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones.

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BlackBerry 10 screen sharing, video editor, and more hinted at by leaked presentation

BlackBerry 10 screen sharing, video editor, and more hinted at by leaked presentation

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Last week RIM CEO Thorsten Heins was getting excited about the new BlackBerry 10 interface, keyboard, and camera app at the BlackBerry World keynote. However, some slides leaked by CrackBerry Forums member biggulpseh hint at a number of other features still to be announced. The most notable is the OS’s screen sharing ability, which allows you to show someone your screen during video chat, deliver presentations while on the move, or share anything else from your phone wherever you are. It’s a feature that we take for granted on our PCs, but not something that’s made it widely to mobile devices.


Other features shown in the presentation include a notifications system that gradually reveals more information as the phone is picked up, a…

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BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha hands-on; meet the elusive BlackBerry Colt

BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha hands-on; meet the elusive BlackBerry Colt


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RIM made an unprecedented move earlier this week when it gave away pre-production BlackBerry 10 hardware to developers, but it was a smart one. In order to develop for a brand new operating system and help grow develop support for a new platform, you need to be able to test on real hardware. Since this isn’t the phone that RIM will launch in the fall, there’s no issue letting the public see the hardware, right? Well, there’s more to the story.

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The BlackBerry 10 Alpha unit is a device RIM has been testing internally for quite some time. In fact, our sources have confirmed that it’s the BlackBerry Colt handset that RIM originally planned to ship as its first BlackBerry 10 smartphone, which was later canceled.

This is just another insight into how disorganized RIM is — looking at the phone, you can clearly see how much time, effort and money RIM put into it. It’s pre-production, but this is a phone that is set up for the company to ship. It’s manufactured very well, feels good, and has way too many details for this to just be something RIM made to give away to its developer base.

The display is beautiful, and the unit is literally a smaller PlayBook. I have also been told that Mike Lazaridis and other RIM executives have been showing BlackBerry 10 off to partners using this exact device over the past few months — another sign that this was indeed in the running to be RIM’s first real touchscreen device.

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RIM CEO confirms there’s no upgrade path from BlackBerry 7 to 10

RIM CEO confirms there’s no upgrade path from BlackBerry 7 to 10

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We’ve seen and heard a lot about BlackBerry 10 this week, but if you’re a BlackBerry owner excited about the new OS, you’re going to have to get ready to invest in a new handset: RIM CEO Thorsten Heins confirmed once again this morning that the company has no upgrade path for existing BlackBerry 7 devices. In fact, the two seemed destined to co-exist: Heins spoke about the new BlackBerry 9220 (and confirmed the existence of the 9320), using their “successful launch” as an example of how RIM is still “onboarding people from featurephones to smartphones,” a process that will take the next two years or so. The company seems to see BlackBerry 7 as the OS for its entry-level devices, while BlackBerry 10 will occupy the higher end of the…

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Thorsten Heins on BlackBerry 10 in the US: ‘We’re here to win’

Thorsten Heins on BlackBerry 10 in the US: ‘We’re here to win’

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In addition to Thorsten Heins’ discussion of BlackBerry 10 licensing and enterprise support, the RIM CEO also addressed one of the biggest issues currently facing his company: its struggles in the US market. Heins frankly admitted that RIM has an “uphill battle” in the US after missing the mark for the past couple of years. He specifically repeated his tongue-in-cheek claim that RIM was “too innovative on our touch solution,” a reference to the failed “SurePress” system on the original BlackBerry Storm that combined physical movement with a touchscreen. “We are where we are,” Heins said, but he believes RIM will be “a strong contender again” with BlackBerry 10.

“I’m not here to be just in the game.”

In fact, Heins didn’t shy away from R…

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BlackBerry 10, webOS and the platform predicament

BlackBerry 10, webOS and the platform predicament


BlackBerry 10, webOS and the platform predicament

During the annual Consumer Electronics Show in January 2009, a struggling smartphone company that had once helped shape the mobile industry unveiled its next-generation platform. It was gorgeous. The design was unique and appealing, the gesture-based controls were smart and intuitive, and the company’s new smartphone operating system offered a breath of fresh air in an industry dominated by just two major players, Apple and Google.

On August 18th, 2011, less than three years after this promising new platform was unveiled, it was effectively laid to rest.

During the annual BlackBerry World conference on Tuesday, a struggling smartphone company that had once helped shape the mobile industry unveiled its next-generation platform. It was gorgeous. The design was unique and appealing, the gesture-based controls were smart and intuitive, and the company’s new smartphone operating system offered a breath of fresh air in an industry dominated by just two major players, Apple and Google.

Yes, history is repeating itself.

There are too many comparisons between Research In Motion today and Palm in late 2008 and early 2009 to count. Ignoring the similarities between Palm and HP’s webOS platform and BlackBerry 10 is ignoring the obvious: a sleek UI that deviates from industry leaders and innovates in several key areas, sky-high ambitions, aspirations of pushing the platform beyond smartphones and onto various other products, and a seemingly impossible lead to overcome. RIM is in a much better place than Palm was at that time, of course, with a much larger user base, better performance and more resources at its disposal. Despite these advantages, however, both of these stories may end up sharing the same final chapter if RIM can’t find a way to tip the scales in its favor.

New chief executive Thorsten Heins took the stage on Wednesday and showed the world an operating system that looks absolutely nothing like BlackBerry 7. This is a very good thing. Based on RIM’s PlayBook OS, BlackBerry 10 appears to have the fit and finish of a modern mobile platform at this early stage. The UI is a complete overhaul compared to RIM’s current smartphone OS, and while Heins’s preview was very brief, we saw a number of exciting new features unveiled.

RIM showed us an interesting take on predictive text input that places words above various keys lying in the path of letters the user might type. A simple flick gesture will then complete the word. This solution is more elegant and logical than existing options that place a list of word recommendations across the top of the virtual keypad, and it is nice to see RIM innovating in a space it led for so long.

The camera software in BlackBerry 10 is fascinating as well. RIM’s next-generation smartphones will capture a series of photographs in the background as the user snaps an image. This will allow users to cycle regions of the image forward or backward in time to correct closed eyes or alter other aspects of a photo.

The problem, however, is that features like these won’t sell phones, regardless of how innovative and exciting they might be.

These features are a small piece of a massive puzzle that must be arranged in just the right order to allow a third player to emerge and succeed in today’s market. Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android have tremendous momentum, proven ecosystems and developer support, widespread carrier support and massive marketing budgets helping to sustain their success.

To say RIM has its work cut out for it is an understatement of monumental proportions. Plainly put, right now is likely the worst time in smartphone history to launch a new platform.

Apple and Google lead in the smartphone platform race by a staggering margin, and Nokia and Microsoft have a head start in terms of using innovation, a spectacular product and boatloads of cash in attempt to establish a successful third platform. And in terms of smartphone profits, that’s a two-horse race as well right now.

At some point in the coming years, other platforms will undoubtedly emerge and find success in the smartphone space. The odds are not in a contender’s favor today, however, as Apple and Google are both at the top of their game. To make matters somehow even worse for RIM, its first BlackBerry 10 smartphone will likely launch in the very same month as Apple’s next-generation iPhone, which BGR expects to feature a complete redesign when it launches this fall.

BlackBerry 10 is shaping up to be an impressive platform, and we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg. It looks elegant, well thought-out and very powerful — just like webOS. Whether or not RIM can avoid a similar fate for its mobile platform remains to be seen, but unfortunately, we haven’t been shown anything compelling or significantly differentiated thus far that suggests this will be the case. For RIM’s sake, and for the sake of smartphone users everywhere who are hungry for a viable new platform, let’s hope that changes.

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Live from RIM’s BlackBerry World 2012 keynote!

Live from RIM’s BlackBerry World 2012 keynote!


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Research In Motion has its work cut out for it. Apple and Samsung went from dominating the smartphone industry to completely owning it in the first quarter this year, and RIM’s struggles continued as its BlackBerry 7 smartphone lineup really started showing its age. All eyes are on BlackBerry 10 as industry watchers try to determine whether or not RIM has a real shot at a comeback, and RIM has to be especially impressive at this year’s BlackBerry World conference since its first BlackBerry 10 smartphone likely won’t even launch until some time in October. RIM president and CEO Thorsten Heins will take the stage in just a few minutes when RIM’s BlackBerry World keynote kicks off at 9:00 a.m. EDT / 6:00 a.m. PDT, so hit the break to follow all the action as it unfolds and don’t forget to refresh the page for the latest updates.


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8:55AM:OK everyone, we’re inside and seated, waiting for the last few seats to fill up before the show starts in a few minutes.
8:58AM:According to the announcement over the PA the presentation should begin shortly. I’m going to be very disappointed if it doesn’t include everyone’s favorite Futurist, will.i.am.
9:03AM:It’s a packed house, all of the seats are full and folks are starting to stand at the back of the room. The excitement is palpable as attendees awkwardly rock out to some generic house music.
9:07AM:We’re about to get started, starting off with some users describing how they use their BlackBerry devices.
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9:09AM:Thorsten Heins is taking the stage and welcoming the audience – the BlackBerry People. You can also watch the conference online at blackberryworld.com.
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9:11AM:Thorsten is discussing his first three months as CEO, and the outreach to customers–business, enterprise, consumer–and his own employees he’s done.
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9:12AM:65% of smartphone users access organizational tools daily compared to 91% of BlackBerry People.
9:13AM:Thorsten is claiming that the BlackBerry has a great camera. We’re not off to a great start.
9:13AM:“55 million BBM subscribers, and the best integration of LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook”
9:14AM:“BlackBerry is all about success. BlackBerry creates their success, BlackBerry empowers their success. [Users] are more productive with a BlackBerry.”
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9:15AM:“77 Million BlackBerry People. BlackBerry helps people save time.”
9:16AM:Thorsten is emphasizing the simple interface, data efficiency for manageable bills, battery life and security. Cloud Computing is hot, and he’s justly describing the BlackBerry as the BlackBerry Cloud.
9:16AM:“Everything we do now with the PlayBook and BlackBerry 10 is to help simplify your life and leverage this infrastructure”.
9:17AM:Thorsten is welcoming Clarence So, Senior VP, Strateg of salesforce.com
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9:18AM:salesforce.com has been using BlackBerry since 1999 with the pager models, and continues to run their company on BlackBerry today.
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9:19AM:Clarence is referring to the “social enterprise” as a way to encompass the various channels of communication used by customers.
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9:21AM:Welcome Chuck Robbins, Senior Vice President, The Americas, Cisco.
9:22AM:Chuck is giving a rundown of the Cisco applications that are running on the BlackBerry including WebEx, Jabber and MVS. His developers are excited to begin working with BlackBerry 10.
9:23AM:Cisco is working on several applications for BlackBerry 10 including WebEx and AnyConnect, Cisco’s SSL-enabled VPN. This is huge for enterprise users, the PlayBook has relatively poor VPN options.
9:24AM:“We’re taking our time to be sure we get this right” – Thorsten is asking what the platform for BlackBerry 10 should be.
9:24AM:“We’re making incredible progress on BlackBerry 10″, fueled by acquisitions such as RIM TAT, Gist, Tungle, and QNX.
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9:25AM:He’s introducing the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha device. It looks familiar.
9:26AM:BGR will have an extensive hands-on with the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha device shortly
9:26AM:Thorsten is emphasizing that the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha device is not final hardware, it’s a vehicle to get BlackBerry 10 into the hands of developers.
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9:27AM:“It’s critical that we get this into the hands of developers around the world so they can begin getting their content and applications to you”.
9:27AM:RIM is doing a great job of reaching out to developers, and pre-release alpha hardware is a great way to generate excitement and enthusiasm.
9:28AM:This is definitely a new RIM. I can’t say that anyone is missing the old familiar faces.
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9:29AM:Vivek Bhardwaj, Head of Software Portfolio at RIM is taking the stage with Thorsten.
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9:31AM:Vivek is showing off the the new Glance gestures that will be part of BlackBerry 10.
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9:31AM:Emphasis on full, true, background multitasking.
9:32AM:“You just flow through [the feeds]. You have a flow across all of your applications”.
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9:32AM:Active and agile.
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9:33AM:“This is why we invented push, and this is why we all love BBM”. Someone is still a little bitter about the NTP patent lawsuit.
9:34AM:We’re about to get a demo of the new keyboard in BlackBerry 10. Spoiler, flick gestures.
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9:36AM:Two-thumb typing is key, but what if you need to type with one hand? A not so subtle shot at massive Android devices like the Galaxy Note.
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9:36AM:As you’re typing the autocomplete words pop-up on the keyboard, and you can flick them up into the main screen.
9:38AM:“Never miss a magic moment” – the camera allows you to go back in time!
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9:39AM:“It’s all about agility and being nimble” – Thorsten is reminding everyone that this is just a preview and there is more to come.
9:40AM:The keypad is adapting, and will adapt to your fingers, your style of typing. Just another reminder that the iOS autocorrect is utter shot.
9:41AM:The intent and objective of BlackBerry 10 is to build the next mobile computing platform. It’s an engine, not just a smartphone OS.
9:42AM:Thorsten is showing off the connected QNX car with TVs, telemetrics and two other things I didn’t catch.
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9:43AM:60% of cars on the road are running QNX. Marketshare calculations will get very interesting in a few years.
9:43AM:Reliability and security are definitely important if my car’s OS can be updated remotely.
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9:45AM:The entire company is laser focused on delivering BlackBerry 10 on time, and exceeding customer expectations. And Thorsten is committed to keeping everyone up to date on the progress of BlackBerry 10 development.
9:45AM:Another quick peek at BlackBerry 10.
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9:47AM:“Have a great BlackBerry World and let’s rock and roll this!”
9:48AM:We’re welcoming VP of Global Alliances and Business Development Martyn Mallick to the stage.
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9:49AM:“RIM is 100% committed to application partners on [RIM's] platform”. BlackBerry 10 is meant to be seen as proof of that commitment.
9:50AM:More emphasis on BlackBerry 10 as a platform. This is in line with their emphasis on developers and developer relations.
9:50AM:Platform, Tools, Distribution.
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9:51AM:Performance, security, integration. The platform excels on tablets, smartphones and in cars.
9:52AM:RIM is building a set of core tools for native development and HTML5 and making them available to partners. Who are the partners though? Developers? Carriers? Alliance members?
9:53AM:Distribution – applications can be distributed in multiple ways. Mobile Fusion (formerly BES) allows direct distribution within the enterprise. App World allows global distribution, and supports multiple payment methods including credit cards, PayPal and carrier billing.
9:53AM:App World also allows enterprises to have their own tab in the store, similar to the carrier tabs found in Android Market.
9:54AM:It should be obvious by now the themes of the conference – Enterprise and Developers.
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9:55AM:Jonas Norberg, Co-Founder and CEO of Pacemaker is joining Martyn on stage to discuss using Cascades to develop an application for the PlayBook.
9:56AM:Cascades allowed Pacemaker to easily connect their new interface to an incredible amount of legacy C++ code.
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9:58AM:The Pacemaker DJ application will be available tomorrow at their booth on Wednesday between 1:00 PM and 2:30 PM EDT, for free. Attendees of BlackBerry World will be among the first in the world to have this app before it launches in June.
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9:59AM:Candemir Orsan from Occipital is on the stage. Occipital created the Red Laser app for iOS, as well as 360 Pano, my personal favorite app for creating panoramic photos on my iPhone.
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10:00AM:Candemir says his team was able to build a demo of 360 Pano for BlackBerry 10 in only 7 days.
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10:02AM:For anyone wondering if the 360 Pano app for BlackBerry 10 uses the still camera or the video camera, it’s the still camera. The entire audience was treated to a slew of shutter sounds as Candemir took the panoramic picture.
10:03AM:“Rovio launched Angry Birds Space a few weeks after it came out for iOS”. Great, but why did it take them about 10 months to launch Angry Birds for PlayBook after Mike Lazaridis announced at BlackBerry World in 2011?
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10:04AM:An enthused developer from Gameloft is taking the stage to discuss developing games for BlackBerry 10.
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10:06AM:Gameloft is bringing 11 games to BlackBerry 10. Perhaps former Senior Director of Global Developer Relations Mike Kirkup didn’t fully kill the platform by pushing game development for the PlayBook over everything else.
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10:07AM:We’re joined by Michael Schade, Co-Founder and CEO of Fishlabs. 70 million downloads of Fish Labs games to date. Another successful company with two founders, and only a single CEO.
10:09AM:Schade is demoing Galaxy on Fire 2 HD. I think he might have inadvertently leaked the next Samsung Android phone.
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10:10AM:This is the most high-definition version of the game available. It actually looks like it’d be fun to play.
10:11AM:Brian and Mark from pixelmags are on stage to talk digital publishing.
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10:12AM:The pixelmags ethos is “You create, we deliver”. Publishers upload content to the CDS – Content Delivery System – and pixelmags handles the distribution to the desired channels.
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10:13AM:Pixelmags is focusing on branded applications, so if a user downloads the Esquire application, it’s actually a pixelmags app.
10:13AM:Pixelmags is releasing a News Stand application on BlackBerry 10. Every BlackBerry 10 will get 10 free minutes every month to read anything they want on the News Stand.
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10:15AM:Users can upgrade to unlimited viewing for $ 9.99 per month whenever a data connection is active, or a mobile offline plan for $ 14.99 per month.
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10:17AM:Nick Barnett from mippen is on stage, touting the performance of the BlackBerry app platform. BlackBerry downloads account for 70% of all downloads of apps created with the mippen application generator.
10:18AM:Mippen is releasing a BlackBerry App Generator in beta today, you can sign up at www.blackberryappgenerator.com
10:19AM:Mippen allows anyone to build a native app in less than 10 minutes. I’m glad to see the focus on quality apps remains.
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10:21AM:Whoops, Titanium just showed an iPad in their demo.
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10:23AM:Jeff Haynie, Co-Founder and single CEO of Appcelerator is on stage to talk about their Titanium development tool.
10:24AM:Haynie, “After talking with customers it’s clear that they want BlackBerry. BlackBerry is definitely one of the top three platforms we support”. So you’re saying it’s #3?
10:26AM:Embracing the cross-platform application generation tools is a giant shift for RIM. Several years ago there was a marked distaste for them, with RIM Developer Relations members being quite cold to developers using those tools.
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10:26AM:App submissions are up 226% in the past year, and PlayBook app growth is up 240%.
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10:28AM:“It’s really important that we don’t focus too much on consumer or just enterprise. We’re seeing the industry beging to focus on enterprise, and we welcome that…”
10:28AM:RIM is looking to the partner community to make the platform a success. Developers, developers, developers?
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10:31AM:Robin Bienfait, RIM CIO is taking the stage. I’ve had the honor of walking in late to a briefing she was running and having her interrupt her presentation to call me out for it.
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10:32AM:“By next time this year for BlackBerry World, we will offer three solutions for Mobile Fusion”
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10:33AM:Mobile Fusion will be available on-premise, hosted and managed, or fully in the cloud. In about a year. What was it Thorsten said about delivering in a timely fashion?
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10:35AM:Alan Panezic, VP of Product Management at RIM is introducing Stephen Rollins, VP of IT at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.
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10:36AM:Martha Stewart has two BlackBerry devices – one for email, and one for a phone. That’s different.
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10:37AM:Mobile Fusion has been out for about three weeks, and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia have had it fully in production for over a week.
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10:44AM:Panezic says that securing enterprise data on at-rest for third-party devices is on the roadmap. For those of you keeping score, that’s a shot at Visto, owners of the NTP patents, and Good Technologies who offer a secure email and PIM client for iOS and Android.
10:44AM:And we’re done, thanks!

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BlackBerry making games catalog fruitful with Jetpack Joyride, Sonic, and more

BlackBerry making games catalog fruitful with Jetpack Joyride, Sonic, and more

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BlackBerry is leaping into the gaming ring with the announcement of major additions to its games catalog. Along with yesterday’s launch of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light on PlayBook, RIM is adding Jetpack Joyride (and four more titles from Halfbrick), Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1, Smash Cops, Star Marine, Kami Retro and Galaxy on Fire 2 to PlayBook and BlackBerry 10.

The announcements come from the BlackBerry World 2012 conference, running this week in Orlando.

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Even with BlackBerry 10, RIM is still dead

Even with BlackBerry 10, RIM is still dead


BlackBerry 10 and RIM are DOA

I sat at my computer in amazement a little earlier. Most of me knew that RIM is too damaged and too slow to pivot, and just too out of touch with its customers to know it actually has a chance. But, there was this small part of me that was genuinely excited for BlackBerry World’s announcements. Then I saw Thorston Heins start off the company’s most crucial keynote ever with Salesforce and Cisco.

This company has not changed, and won’t change. The parts of BlackBerry 10 demoed are slick — capturing a series of images and combining different elements from each one before you save a photo seems genuinely incredible, though how is that done, with an EDoF camera, so no autofocus? What we saw wasn’t truly innovative, though. It wasn’t compelling enough, and it’s unfortunately too late to try and gain enough traction and support for a third mobile ecosystem.

RIM is a company that has failed to deliver for the last eight years, and it doesn’t deserve another chance to mess it up. My live-tweets are embedded below so you can follow along to my instant (rambling) thoughts.

Also of note: RIM declined to make its BlackBerry 10 Alpha device available for BGR. Coincidentally, two publications that had early access to the smartphone also have advertising campaigns from BlackBerry running.

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Even with BlackBerry 10, RIM is still dead

Even with BlackBerry 10, RIM is still dead


BlackBerry 10 and RIM are DOA

I sat at my computer in amazement a little earlier. Most of me knew that RIM is too damaged and too slow to pivot, and just too out of touch with its customers to know it actually has a chance. But, there was this small part of me that was genuinely excited for BlackBerry World’s announcements. Then I saw Thorston Heins start off the company’s most crucial keynote ever with Salesforce and Cisco.

This company has not changed, and won’t change. The parts of BlackBerry 10 demoed are slick — capturing a series of images and combining different elements from each one before you save a photo seems genuinely incredible, though how is that done, with an EDoF camera, so no autofocus? What we saw wasn’t truly innovative, though. It wasn’t compelling enough, and it’s unfortunately too late to try and gain enough traction and support for a third mobile ecosystem.

RIM is a company that has failed to deliver for the last eight years, and it doesn’t deserve another chance to mess it up. My live-tweets are embedded below so you can follow along to my instant (rambling) thoughts.

Also of note: RIM declined to make its BlackBerry 10 Alpha device available for BGR. Coincidentally, two publications that had early access to the smartphone also have advertising campaigns from BlackBerry running.

BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech

May 1, 2012 0 comments Read More