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BlackBerry Inc. formerly known as Research In Motion have been taking new strides in the past months in other to stay relevant in the smartphone industry. For the most parts, the plan is working and BlackBerry is seeing substantial attention from smartphone enthusiasts in various regions. In fact, company share price that had been nose diving for a while have started ascending significantly from 2015 thanks to the handwork of John Chen the company's current CEO.  With the release of BlackBerry Passport, the last high end BBOS 10 phone for 2015 and the release of BlackBerry Priv, the first Android OS BlackBerry smartphone, the Canadian company were able to turn heads. This year 2016, the company is only going to be making two new android OS BlackBerry smartphone according to information released to CNet by BlackBerry CEO John Chen. One will be a medium end smartphone and the other will be a high end smartphone just like the Priv with exceptional specifications and features....

We have seen mobile phone giants fall to the pressure and heat going on in the smartphone industry; an example is Nokia mobile devices which now runs Windows Phone OS and even released an Android smartphone just to boost sales but yet still struggling compared to the likes of iPhone and Samsung. Another example of a big company abandoning its OS for Android is about to happen again if the rumors going around becomes legit. What's the rumor you asked? Thank you for asking.  Rumor has it that BlackBerry is now considering running android OS on their devices. The Canadian company is seriously struggling to survive in a heated smartphone industry since the beginning of iPhone and the seriousness of Google to dominate the world of mobile devices. Although we saw this coming from the moment the BackBerry company decided to include and allow Android services & apps run on their devices officially, but we didn't think completely shipping a BlackBerry smartphone with android...

BlackBerry unveiled a new smartphone to the world during the 2015 Mobile World Congress (MWC) which started on 2nd March and will end 5th of March. BlackBerry is doing fairly well in the smartphone industry nut its still a long way from becoming the BlackBerry it used to be 10 years ago. The new device unveiled yesterday is known as BlackBerry Leap and even though the name does gather an amount of dislike, the smartphone in itself is decent and well built. According to BlackBerry it is a medium end phone will high-end quality. The BlackBerry Leap has a 5 inch IPS LCD display sporting a 720 x 1080 pixel in resolution bringing it to approximately 260PPI. The Leap is a full touchscreen device with a thickness of 9.5mm making fairly thicker than some more recent flagship smartphone out there. The BlackBerry Leap has a dual core Qualcomm  MSM 8960 1.5 GHz  processor clocked at 1.5GHz and a 1GB RAM, Furthermore, the internal memory is 8GB and has a SD card slot t...

BlackBerry is known for releasing a Porsche Model of their BlackBerry device every year and this year we have an idea of what the Porsche BlackBerry for 2014 will look like. The image and video below shows the Porsche Designed BlackBerry smartphone. This is an unboxing video for the BlackBerry Porsche Designed P'9983 for this year and the price tag is well above $1000. The image which was first seen at the BlackBerry Blog and was quickly removed had information on the design process and the name of this Porsche model was tagged as the Blackberry Porsche Designed P'9983 Khan. More information regarding the specifications would be available today after the official launch that is expected to take place in Dubai. Specifications regarding this device as indicated below falls within the medium end list of smartphones if you compare what the likes of Samsung, LG and Apple are offering for less price. 3.1-inch 720 x7 20 touchscreen 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm ...

BlackBerry Passport is that awkwardly looking smartphone from BlackBerry geared towards the business oriented folks that want to achieve more from their smartphones. This phone was announced in June 2014 and since then it's gotten a lot of attention mostly because of it's shape and look.  BlackBerry have made the Passport a phone to be desired especially with the specifications and the features embedded in the device. This we shall cover below.  The design and shape of the blackberry Passport phone is crazy and awkward enough to catch your attention. However, there's a reason why the smartphone in question is designed that way. Screen Size and Resolution The BlackBerry Passport is a multitouch screen 4.5inch smartphone with a resolution of 1440 x 1440 pixels having 16M colours. One of the reasons for this highly square screen with 1440 x 1440 pixel is due to the fact that research has it that documents viewed on a mobile device is best with a s...

Earlier last month, BlackBerry started rigorous testing of BBM for Windows Phone OS and later this month the beta version of the app was released to more people for more testing.   Of course, this is long overdue especially since android and iOS devices already had BBM beginning last year October. Windows users can now join in the party of blackberry messenger users.  If you are interested in getting BBM on your windows Lumia or on your windows Phone OS smartphone, then you should click on the link below to download BBM for Nokia Lumia and other Windows Phone smartphones running windows phone 8.0 and above OS. Download BBM from this link Like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter for more smartphone gist

For BlackBerry to continue to stay relevant in the smartphone industry, it has to innovate and release cutting edge smartphones. BlackBerry Windermere is one of those cutting edge smartphone that we believe BlackBerry is working on. The information which was first seen from CrackBerry suggests that the device will have new physical keyboard layout with a lovely 4.5in LCD display to go with it. According to sources, BlackBerry Windermere would have a display resolution of 1440 x 1440; that is 453PPI,  which is very outstanding if you ask me. Furthermore, it is said that the device would have a 13 mega pixel rear camera with image stabilization built it as well as a good 3,450 mAh battery that would allow the device to last longer during use. Finally, leaked information suggest that the device would see a new keyboard layout that would make it faster and easy to type, while the weight and thickness of the device will also be reduced making for a sleek and ...

For what looks like forever, Viber would now be available for BlackBerry 10 devices.  Initially, the team behind Viber says they won't be bringing their Viber app to BlackBery even though they initially had the idea since October 2013. But, new news reaching us now points to Viber becoming available to BlackBerry users soonest.  For those that don't know what Viber is: it's an app that does VoIP and messaging just like the likes of Skype. It's currently available for Android, iOS, Mac and PC.  Functions of Viber include the following: Text with your friends in one-on-one and group conversations Make free calls with HD sound quality Share photos, videos, voice messages, locations, stickers and emoticons Push notifications guarantee that you never miss a message or call, even when Viber is off Support for the Viber Desktop application on Windows and Mac Translated into 34 languages Viber Out Viber Sticker Market No word on when it...

New developments coming from the BlackBerry company, specifically from John Chen, CEO of BlackBerry is that there will be a strong crackdown on those personnel or individual that is responsible for leaking company's confidential information.   According to Chen, leaking information of products that are still at their infancy is more detrimental to the company than the good it can create. He furthermore stress the fact that he understands the enthusiasm and curiosity of fans to want to know about latest developments for BlackBerry products and software in the works but maintains that leaking these information is not good for business.  To this end, BlackBerry will therefore take legal actions against those people involved in releasing leaked BlackBerry OS updates and upcoming hardware both internally and externally.  What this means is that it may become less frequent how often we hear leaked information on BlackBerry's future intentions and activitie...

The struggling Canadian smartphone with manufacturing company have reached agreement to sell most of its real estate holdings in Canada to help the company have enough cash to turn the company around.   According to bloomberg, BlackBerry will sell more than 3 million square feet of space, plus vacant properties and lease back some of it in transaction expected to close by the end of May.  Although the Waterloo based company didn't disclose the name of the company buying over its real estate, it is believed that whoever or which ever company is involved with making the deal with BlackBerry will have to part with as much as $491 million dollar.  This $491 million will be based on sales prices for previous BlackBerry buildings and leaseback agreements as said by Ted Davis a property broker with Avison Young Inc. who specialises in southwestern Ontario.  These are desperate times for BlackBerry which calls for extreme measures by the company to gain ...

I love using BBM for chatting, its very good but when it comes to sending files, i abhor BBM. One of the issues I have with it is that it has a size limit of 6mb before you can transfer file. That means, if you want to transfer a high res image of 6.5mb, you wont be able to use BBM for such transfer to your contact. Well, it looks like BlackBerry have seen the light, heard the thoughts of her users and have decided to release a new BlackBerry messenger that would increase the 6mb transfer limit as seen in the tweet below. Currently, Whatsapp, have a transfer limit of 12mb which we even think its small. Therefore, we expect that BlackBerry will beat the Whatsapp transfer limit and make BBM limit somewhere around 15-20mb. The announcement which came from Jeff Gadway is highly welcomed and we are looking forward to the next BBM update that will see the transfer size limit increased. Like our Facebook page and follow us on twitter for more smartphone news.

BBM 10.3 is the latest BBM update for BlackBerry devices which packs many features; however, some users have not been able to use the update to the error its giving as shown in the  image below. The error is affecting those using BB10 OS below 10.2.1.1925. Consequently, to fix this its just a matter of upgrading the BB10 OS running on y our device.  Download links to get this BB10 OS to fix this error is situated below. Grab it and get on with life. BlackBerry Z10 STL100-1 BlackBerry Z10 – STL100-2, 3, 4, 5 BlackBerry Z30 BlackBerry Q10/Q5 Just so you know, the OS links above are for leaked BB10 OS but will update to the 10.2.1.1925 and fix the lingering BBM error issue. If you encounter any other problem please feel free to drop i t in the comment and we can try resolving it for you.   Like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter for all your smartphone helps and information.

BlackBerry says they are gonna Android and iPhone users a new BBM app that will involve some features found in the BM for BlackBerry 10 devices. Yesterday, that promise was fulfilled with BlackBerry releasing BBM 2.0 which brings BBM Channels, BBM Voice and other nice enhancements to both BBM on Android and iOS devices. BBM Channels BBM Channels is that platform where BBM users can chat with another in any topic that interests them; more or less a forum where you can share thoughts, ideas and even experiences.  The forum has different topics ranging from Sports, Entertainment, Technology, movies and other interesting topics. The good part is that you can create Channels too and share it with  your friends so everyone can discuss whatever it is that catch their fancy. Location Sharing The boys behind BBM development for non-BlackBerry devices have added a new feature to BBM. This new feature allows you to share your location for a limited amount of time....

BlackBerry have released an update to their popular BBM app for Android and iPhone. According to Jeff Gardaway, head of product and brand marketing for BBM, BBM now includes a new Find Friends feature that allows you to discover people you know that are also using BBM and invite them to your BBM contact list, from within the app.  The Find Friends feature will detect which contacts in your smartphone’s contact list are already using BBM, and allow you to quickly send them an invite to join your BBM contact list. For those contacts that don’t yet have BBM, you can invite them to download the app with an email or SMS invite. This is not a bad development and update from BlackBerry. However, we are still expecting that promised BBM Channels and Voice for Android and iOS devices to drop, perhaps in the BBM 2.0 that is in the works. You can download the latest BBM update from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store as it applies to you. Like our Facebook pa...

BlackBerry is now making plans to release BBM for older Android devices specifically those running Android Gingerbread 2.3 on their phones. This was unveiled in a message sent to Blackberry messenger beta testers as shown in the image below.  While those running Android version 4.0 and above on their devices are happy those running Android Gingerbread 2.3 feel like an outcast and that has generated into an outcry from these set of users.  They have petitioned BlackBerry to make BBM available to Android 2.3 users and it seemed like that petition is accepted and now work have started to grant that wish. If this plan actually pulls through, the immediate result is that there would be a surge in the number of users on the BBM sever. What are your thoughts about this? Is it a welcomed development? Drop your comment in the space below. Like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter and stay up to date with smartphone news.  ...

It's now a normal thing for smartphone manufacturers to sue one other over patent infringement  However, it's not yet very normal to see a big smartphone company suing a small start-up company over patent infringement. BlackBerry at this point is suing not a smartphone manufacturing company but phone accessory company.  Perhaps you have heard of Typo Keyboard Cover and if you haven't heard of it, a quick summary will suffice.  Typo Keyboard Cover is an iPhone accessories which has both a case and a physical keyboard bundled with the case to enable one type on the iPhone using the physical keyboard.  The company behind Typo Keyboard Cover is called Typo Products LLC, original formed by TV personality Ryan Seacrest and Entrepreneur Laurence Hallier.   The design of the Keyboard is a very good look alike of the Blackberry keyboard in which BlackBerry have patented just as shown in the image above.  This serious total resemblanc...

Finally, the old year 2013 is gone, it has become history, one we have to refer to in the past tense.  It didn't go without a lot of notable events either good or bad.  In 2013, there was rise and fall of individuals, products and companies. Some products stood out and some that didn't really raise eyebrows.  In January 2013, BlackBerry unveiled its BlackBerry 10 range of devices, the Z10 and Q10 which at first seemed like a flop but quickly gathered momentum and steadily rising to its success stage, Nokia also started with the Lumia series with Lumia 520 releasing in February. Samsung didn't waste time in announcing their Samsung Galaxy S4 in March while Google announced their Moto X for August and one of the most anticipated release of 2013 was the iPhone 5S which was announced in September.  Also in September, October and November, Infinix Mobility, the French company released the Infinix X570 and Infinix X520 smartphones respectively ...

BlackBerry recently released an update to the BBM application for both BlackBerry 10 OS devices and older Blackberry devices.  The new update comes with the much anticipated BBM channels which is almost like tumblr. However, the new update wasn't too good for those running the old BlackBerry devices because it was too slow. If you are one of those that updated to your BBM to 8.0 and its really slow you wanna downgrade, follow the steps below to get it done. Procedures 1. Delete the new BBM 8.0 by going to Options/Device/Application Manger and then locate BlackBerry Messenger from the list. 2. Delete BBM and reboot device. 3. Open your default BlackBerry Browser and use the links below depending on your OS type. To download this app, visit this page from your Blackberry browser and use the OTA link(s) below: OS6 devices OS7 devices OS7.1 devices Alternatively, you can use the following offline installer packs: OS6 devices OS7 devices OS7....