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Describing BlackBerry Live/Jam 2013 in one word; Phenomenal. This event was like none other I have been involved with. Not only was this my first time ever going to such an event involving BlackBerry, but I was also going to this event as a BlackBerry Elite member. With permission from the Elite program team leaders [...]
One subject at BlackBerry Live completely cold-shouldered was the availability of BlackBerry 10.(1 or 2) for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Matter of fact, when asked, CEO Thorsten Heins claims the tablet market is a tough business model and are still evaluating its PlayBook strategy. Truth be told, the entire idea of a unified OS in [...]
After years of dominating the mobile space, BlackBerry had reached a level of comfort in which the desire to innovate began to fade. Market share took a steep dive and the numbers of subscribers declined in flocks. BlackBerry knew it had to act and come up with something innovative to not only get them back [...]
Most people think that BlackBerry taking on Alicia Keys as their Global Creative Director was just a last ditch effort to provide some nourishment to a slimming crowd of BlackBerry diehards and hopefuls. We have been closely following her work with the BlackBerry Keep Moving Project in her latest videos from her “Your City” project., but [...]
Fox Business had an interview with BlackBerry CEO and President Thorsten Heins yesterday and very pointedly asked when the U.S. market could expect the release of the Q10. Thorsten’s response was that the target time frame for the U.S. release was the end of May.
Watching the web over the last few days you have most likely noticed an upswing in the hysteria surrounding Skype for BlackBerry 10. Initially released on BlackBerry World for the Q10 with a ‘coming soon’ for the Z10, it didn’t take long for the Z10 to get some Skype love through a downloadable bar file. [...]
Yesterday, it was officially announced that Unity Technologies, developers of the Unity gaming engine, will be extending an open beta for their cross platform development tools to the BlackBerry 10 OS. As a matter of fact, BlackBerry 10 developers will get first access to this open beta. This is groundbreaking news, since BlackBerry has been under the [...]
There has been plenty of rumors of Lenovo acquiring BlackBerry, Thorsten Heins makes it very clear that he dislikes the talk about it going public, period. A while back BlackBerry stated that is just a rumor that was taken completely out of context. Why is the Lenovo acquisition of BlackBerry bad for the company?
BlackBerry’s CEO Thorsten Heins gets it, he understands how fast the mobile market moves, you just can’t sleep for a month or two and expect to be at the top of the market while others are innovating their way into new ideas to keep moving forward, something BlackBerry lacked in the past. It has been [...]
The past couple of years have seen BlackBerry losing its luster and relevance but the company finally has some good news. Data from BrandIndex reports BlackBerry has seen its ad awareness grow in advance of the US debut of its BlackBerry 10 OS, while purchase intent for the rival iPhone and direct comparison has fallen.
Shortly after the Z10′s launch in Canada and the UK, we heard some very exciting news from BlackBerry – they claimed this was the best product launch they have ever had in each country. However, it seems analysts aren’t quite so confident in these statements, with many of them lowering their sales expectations from pre-launch [...]
BlackBerry is set to reveal their latest BlackBerry 10 device, the BlackBerry Z10 in Italy and Germany tomorrow. Europe has always been a great consumer for BlackBerry products, however with recent dips in devices sold last year BlackBerry is hoping they regain the growth of sales and positive feedback of a very solid, powerful [...]
In week 50 of PhoneDog Media’s Official Smartphone Rankings™, Samsung’s Galaxy Note II was ousted from first place by the new kid on the block, the BlackBerry Z10. I’m not even surprised, the Z10 might not be the best on the market but its new, its different and who’s not to love it?
