BlackBerry stopped shipping phones and tablets with its own software years ago, switching to Android in 2015 before shifting from a hardware company to a software company and outsourcing design of BlackBerry-branded phones to other companies. But if you’ve been hanging onto an older BlackBerry phone running BlackBerry OS, you’ve been able to continue using […]
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BlackBerry could license BB 10 operating system for use on other phones
Every smartphone BlackBerry has released in the past year has run Google’s Android operating system. But the company continues to support older phones that run its own BlackBerry 10 OS, and in an interview with The Register, BlackBerry VP Alex Thurber says the company is open to licensing BlackBerry 10 to other device makers. It remains […]
BlackBerry 10.3.1 update brings Amazon Appstore to all devices
Got a BlackBerry 10 device? If you do, you’ll soon see a notification that there’s an OS update waiting for you. And once it’s installed you’ll have access to a whole lot more apps than you did before BlackBerry 10.3.1. That’s because the Amazon Appstore is part of the update. While owners of the two […]
BlackBerry Passport coming in September, with a square screen
BlackBerry is planning to launch a new smartphone at an event in London in September. What’s unusual about this phone is that it’ll likely have a big, high-resolution, square screen and a tiny keyboard. Update: Here’s BlackBerry CEO john Chen holding the upcoming Blackberry Passport along with a BlackBerry Classic. The Passport is the phone […]
BlackBerry posts $965 million loss, mostly due to unsold Z10 phones
BlackBerry had promised a pretty dismal financial report for the quarter, and the company has followed through on that promise. While BlackBerry brought in $1.6 billion in revenue and sold about 3.7 million smartphones, the company reported a $965 operating loss. Most of that is from unsold inventory of the company’s latest flagship phone, the […]
BlackBerry launches Dev Alpha C developer phone with keyboard
BlackBerry’s newest developer phone is the first BB10 dev phone to feature a keyboard. The BlackBerry Dev Alpha C looks a lot like the upcoming BlackBerry Q10 smartphone (with boxier corners). But the company is calling it a BlackBerry Z10 device — which suggests it will have similar hardware to the BlackBerry Z10 phone which […]
Over 70,000 BlackBerry 10 apps are available at launch
BlackBerry 10 launches today, and there are already more than 70 thousand apps available for the platform. That includes mobile apps such as Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Kindle, and Angry Birds. The company says there are more than a thousand “top” apps already available in the new BlackBerry World… which gives the new platform a bit […]
BlackBerry introduces the first BB10 phones: The BlackBerry Z10 and Q10
The first two smartphones to ship with the BlackBerry 10 OS are a the touchscreen-only BlackBerry Z10 and the BlackBerry Q10 smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard. The BlackBerry Z10 will have a 4.2 inch, 1280 x 768 pixel, 356 ppi display, a 1.5 GHZ Qualcomm Snadpragon S4 Plus dual-core processor, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB […]
Research in Motion changes name to BlackBerry
Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion is changing its name… to BlackBerry. You’d probably be forgiven if you thought that was already the company’s name — but along with today’s BlackBerry 10 software platform, the company went ahead and made things official. BlackBerry 10 is a new operating system based on QNX software. It’s similar to […]
Now you can get music, videos from the BlackBerry World store
Research in Motion is now selling music, movies, and TV shows in the BlackBerry World store (which used to be called BlackBerry App World). The media sections of the store went live last night in advance of today’s launch of the BlackBerry 10 operating system for smartphones and tablets. At launch, music and videos will only […]