Research in Motion is starting to show off its BlackBerry 10 operating system this week, and the company is actively courting developers in hopes of bringing some high quality apps to the new operating system. But what if you already have a phone that’s running the recently released BlackBerry 7 operating system? Will you be able to upgrade to BlackBerry 10? No. PhoneScoop reports that… Read more »

Research in Motion is launching its BlackBerry 10 software platform for smartphones today, and the company is providing developers with a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha smartphone to kick the new operating system’s tires and develop apps for the new platform. Eventually RIM plans to offer the same operating system for both phones and tablets — but for now the company is emphasizing on the smartphone… Read more »

Research in Motion announced recently that its next-generation BlackBerry phones and tablets would run the same software, and it would be called BBX rather than BlackBerry OS or BlackBerry Tablet OS. There’s just one problem: A company called Basis International owns the trademarket for BBX. This week Basis announced that it’s won a temporary restraining order against RIM’s use of the BBX name, and at… Read more »

Research in Motion is starting to look beyond the BlackBerry smartphone. For years the company’s mobile phones had dominated corporate settings, but Android and iOS devices have been chipping away at BlackBerry’s enterprise market. But RIM isn’t just a phone maker, and today the company introduced a forward-looking product that could help the company survive even if nobody ever buys a BlackBerry phone or tablet… Read more »

RIM is expected to give the BlackBerry Playbook and future BlackBerry smartphones the ability to run Android apps as well as native BlackBerry applications. The ability to run Android software will come through an “App Player” released directly by RIM to select devices, only one of which is currently on the market (the Playbook.) While the PlayBook will get the App Player through a software… Read more »

Update: RIM has temporarily pulled the update after users reported issues with the BlackBerry Bridge app. A new update will be available later this week to address those issues. Nearly a month after the the last software update for the Blackberry PlayBook tablet, RIM has bumped BlackBerry Tablet OS for the PlayBook to version 1.07. While those of you who took the plunge and picked… Read more »

Years ago, pocket translators were woefully unhip, LCD-screen-packing, single-purpose devices. Fast forward to today, and our smartphones and tablets have given rise to a whole new generation of on-the-go translation apps. For the BlackBerry crowd, iSpeech Translator is well worth checking out before leaving on your next journey away from home. The app supports both text entry and speech input, and it’s fairly good at… Read more »

Research in Motion has announced that there’s a new beta release of Facebook 2.0 for BlackBerry which adds a few new features including the ability to receive push notifications and other data over WiFi, thus alerting the world to the fact that the previous beta only worked over a cellular connection. Who knew? Sure, the feature probably should have been included right out of the… Read more »

The latest BlackBerry Torch OS leak was recently analyzed by the BlackBerry community, which extracted new and updated versions of RIM’s native IM apps. For users of these native IM apps, which include Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk and AIM, this software find could significantly cut down their wait time for the next round of updates. A major disappointment, however, is that these updates to… Read more »

The flurry of activity at BlackBerry World has been an encouraging sign for new (and potential) PlayBook owners, and we’re finally starting to see some nice tablet apps appearing in the BlackBerry App World. One I’ve recently installed is PlayText, a barebones editor which syncs with your Dropbox account. Install and launch PlayText and you can enter your existing DropBox credentials or sign up for… Read more »