Articles tagged "RIM"

A couple of months after it was first spotted, the BlackBerry Bold 9790 is again peeking from under RIMs covers. Also known as the Bellagio, the Bold 9790 is similar to the Bold Touch 9900, with a touchscreen display, 8GB internal memory and running...

The GSM version of the BlackBerry Touch Monaco - Monza has escaped in the wild once again. This time it broke loose in Greece and we have a few tasty live pictures for you. Unfortunately there are no new details revealed. Well, the Monza fella...

Mobile market analysts from comScore have just published their monthly report on the market shares of the major operating systems and manufacturers in the US. The data gathered in the three months ending in May 23 point to Android as the biggest...

Still waiting for the BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900? Well, at least we've got a more specific launch date now. According to Amazon UK, the BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 is coming on 15 September. There's a white version listed too, but it will come a...

According to the latest survey by Nielsen, 38% of mobile phone users in the US now own a smartphone. Also, out of all the people who purchased phones in the last three months, 55% purchased a smartphone, up from 34% last year. The current...

The BlackBerry Torch 2 has leaked again, this time in a big way - a pre-release unit was put through a whole preview. The preview confirms the positive impressions of people who have played with the Torch 2 even despite its unfinished status. The...

The BlackBerry Touch 9860 (codename Monza) showed up in some spy shots with a minor facelift – there were four physical buttons under the screen instead of the capacitive buttons we’ve seen in previous leaks. The Monza is the GSM version of the...

The new BlackBerry OS 7 listed browser improvements as one of its major selling points. Some benchmarks from RIM show impressive results – the browser bests Mobile Safari and the Android Browser at JavaScript and page loading times. Tests were...

Today RIM announced two new BlackBerry QWERTY bars to join the Bold lineup - the Touch 9900 and Touch 9930. Both smartphones feature 2.8-inch VGA touchscreens and run on the newly announced BlackBerry OS 7 The BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900...

What was rumored as BlackBerry OS 6.1 was officially announced as OS 7 because RIM felt the improvements were too big for a mere 0.1 update. Bad news for old devices though – they won’t be getting in on the action. BlackBerry OS 7 will launch...

Yet another leak of a touchscreen-packing BlackBerry. This time it’s the BlackBerry Curve Touch – with rumored T-Mobile branding and a possible appearance at the BlackBerry World next month. Unlike the other Curve models, this one drops the...

Two 30-second promo clips of the upcoming BlackBerry Bold Torch 9860 and BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 leaked today. As you'd imagine, the videos show some of the main features of the two phones and reconfirm RIM's intentions of putting them into...

According to the analysts over at Gartner, Android will be the most popular mobile OS in the next four years reaching almost 50% market share. Meanwhile Windows Phone will catch up and overtake the second place from iOS by 2015 with 20% market...

Previously known as Dakota or Montana, the BlackBerry Bold Touch 9930 is just one of RIM’s new lineup of phones scheduled to be released this year. And now the touch bar gets some hands-on love and the initial impressions are not what you’d call...

We all knew Android is the best-selling smartphone OS in the US (and worldwide for that matter), but the latest ComScore report shows that it has gone even further. The published chart shows that the Google OS has just overtaken BlackBerry and has...

And as if the revealing of the 2011 series of BlackBerry phones – the Torch 2, the Dakota and the Apollo Curve weren’t enough, now the curtain from the BlackBerry Storm 3 has been lifted as well. It surely looks like RIM is trying very hard not...