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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 30, 2012
Android's No. 1, apparently, when it comes to No. 1 and No. 2. That's right, a survey of 1,000 Americans by marketing agency 11mark has found that Android users are more likely to pick up th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 27, 2012
To say it's been an interesting year for Research in Motion and BlackBerry would certainly be an understatement. It was about 10 months ago that we first learned that RIM's tablet would be c...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 17, 2012
Research in Motion never released a long-rumored Android client for its BBM service. Samsung never got around to purchasing HP's webOS. So it only makes sense that the latest and greatest anonym...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 13, 2012
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Not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, and we just had to share this one. BlackBerry fanatic, Mobile Nations chief media officer, and all around...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 11, 2012
Rogers iPhone customers have been taking advantage of Visual Voicemail for quite some time now but the company quite honestly has been rather slow to roll the services out to other devices across th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 01, 2012
We really do have a hard time without using the word "BlackBerry" in a sentence without also using the words "dying," "obsolete" or "time to switch." But we&#...
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by Richard Devine
Dec 07, 2011
The Android love affair with the Blackberry Playbook continues, as the latest to come from the Dingleberry rooting exploit is full access to the Android Market.
RIM have as expected, quickly ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 05, 2011
Dingleberry, the exploit package that roots the BlackBerry PlayBook (and has one of the coolest names ever) has gone public, and everyone who bought a PlayBook can now root the QNX operating system ...
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by Jared DiPane
Nov 29, 2011
Many large companies who offer corporate devices tend to offer employees BlackBerry devices because they could control password settings, and other policies on the devices. With recent growth in oth...
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by Jared DiPane
Nov 18, 2011
Sure looks extremely similar to a BlackBerry device, doesn't it? Well, the Motorola Admiral is far from a BlackBerry device, in fact it is an Android 2.3.4 powered device that offers a 3.1-inch ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 11, 2011
Black Friday looks to be full of free Android phones at Best Buy, including the Samsung Stratosphere in white. While a store offering "free" phones after you sign a two-year contract...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 08, 2011
Want a real Gmail app? A man's Gmail app? Not like you were ever really going to find one on a BlackBerry, but what those poor clunkers did have is going the way of the dinosaur, as Google's...
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by Chris Parsons
Oct 26, 2011
The folks over at CrackBerry have done some investigating in regards to just how Android and Android apps will work on the BlackBerry PlayBook and future BlackBerry smartphones. A few tidbits of inf...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 24, 2011
A big question we've had since RIM first announced that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet would be able to run some Android applications was "Why?" Another question has been "Would a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 18, 2011
By the way ... As if there wasn't enough going on today, our CrackBerry cousins are in the middle of their DevCon conference in San Francisco, where the topic of BBM on Android came up. RIM VP o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 18, 2011
Just as we described earlier. It's a lot like someone developing an app so you can transfer your MP3s to cassette tapes, we reckon.
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 18, 2011
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Are you a developer who wants to resign, repackage and submit your Android apps to a dying BlackBerry platform for use on devices that are barely selling? RIM's...
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by Jared DiPane
Oct 17, 2011
Tomorrow marks -- among other things -- the start of BlackBerry DevCon, the BlackBerry Developers Convention of the year, and this year they will be doing something a bit different. We all know that...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 26, 2011
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Dunno about you, but if I were looking for a job with Research in Motion -- as in the folks who make the BlackBerry -- I'm not sure if I'd turn t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 07, 2011
What's all this, then? Research in Motion -- aka BlackBerry-maker RIM -- is sponsoring 50 meetups nationwide to help woo Android developers in to making their apps available on the BlackBerry PlayBoo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 19, 2011
Our podcast feed Download Directly Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe in Zune Mobile Nations 5: A wedding and a funeral Phil, Kevin, Derek, Dan, Georgia, and Rene talk HP dumping...
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by Richard Devine
Aug 18, 2011
October sees Android developers decend on London for Droidcon 2011, with a new sponsor now in tow ... RIM The Blackberry makers have signed up as a gold sponsor for the event which takes...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 12, 2011
Well, now, that's embarrassing. It seems Sprint's decided not to sell the BlackBerry PlayBook (that's the one that doesn't actually have an e-mail client on it) after all. According to the Wall Stree...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 10, 2011
Our pals at CrackBerry are marveling in their first new device in, well, forever, and your old pal Bla1ze is putting them through a bit of a browser battle. Above, you see the iPhone 4, the new Black...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 25, 2011
Egads! Our pals at CrackBerry have uncovered this picture of Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt apparently wielding a BlackBerry at a conference in Indonesia. And this isn't the first time th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 22, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewingBlackBerry fans everywhere were astonished Thursday when an early version of the Android Player for the PlayBook leaked out and their little tablets suddenly became usab...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 21, 2011
Our pals at CrackBerry are in the midst of testing a recently leaked version of the Android Player app for the PlayBook tablet. And guess what: It's running a newer version of Android than some 8...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 19, 2011
RIM's loss is Samsung's gain, apparently, as BlackBerry senior product manager Ryan Bidan apparently has taken a job with Samsung as director of product marketing, according to his LinkedIn profile. ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 05, 2011
Should Google purchase RIM and BlackBerry? That's the question our pals at CrackBerry are asking, offering just shy of a dozen reasons why acquiring the struggling Research in Motion might be app...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2011
Another day, another chart showing Android's spectacular growth. What you see above is Gartner's numbers for the first quarter of 2011. And in those three months, some 36.2 million Android device...
