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by Simon Sage
Sep 06, 2012
Alright, we've rounded up just about all of the specs on Amazon's new Kindle Fire HD tablets, now let's see how they size up against the competition: Apple's new iPad, the Google Nex...
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by Jared DiPane
Jul 09, 2012
We all know where RIM is right now, and the troubles that the company is facing. But when you find out that its CEO, Thorsten Heins, is also using an Android device on a daily basis ... Well, w...
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by Richard Devine
Jun 21, 2012
We're definitely in the middle of developer season right now across the Mobile Nations. While Google I/O might not kick off for another week, Android's competitors in the mobile space have a...
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by Anndrew Vacca
May 01, 2012
comScore just took the wraps off its data for the first quarter of 2012, and it confirms what we’ve been seeing over the past few months: in the U.S., Samsung and Android are the manufactur...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 03, 2012
The Comscore numbers for the quarter endng in February 2012 are in, and it's no surprise to see that Android is still out ahead of all the other smartphone platforms in the U.S. The late...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 03, 2012
Research In Motion has had a rough go the past little while but they're looking to get things moving in the right direction once again and one of the tools they're deploying to help get them...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Mar 06, 2012
comScore today released its latest MobiLens report, which shows that Samsung is maintaining its lead among mobile phone manufacturers, while Android is continuing to grow at the top of the mobile OS...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 17, 2012
*UPDATED* - The folks from CrackBerry reached out to RIM for further clairifcation on this matter and this is what they found. "Ads will work inside the Android apps the only thing howeve...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 13, 2012
BB10 has shown its pretty face, and we'll be damned if there's not a lot there to love. There should be, as Research in Motion has certainly borrowed more than a bit in the UI department fro...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 07, 2012
Our comrades CrackBerry Kevin and Android Central's own Richard Devine are in Amsterdam this week for BlackBerry's DevCon Europe, and once again new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins has brought u...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 31, 2012
The news coming out of Research In Motion just keeps on flowing. We're just over a week into the reign of new CEO Thorsten Heins, and the latest is this new image of the BlackBerry London secure...
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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
A report from BGR today, citing anonymous sources, stating that RIM was hoping for a $10 billion to $15 billion purchase by Samsung apparently has fallen flat, but not before the Waterloo company...
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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 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 Phil Nickinson
Dec 29, 2011
Analytics firm ComScore just released a new batch of numbers, showing Android extending its lead over, well, everybody in the United States for September through November of 2011.
Out of the 91.4 m...
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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 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
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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 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 15, 2011
We're going to let our pals at CrackBerry do the legwork on this one, but it's a number that needs to be noted here: RIM just announced in its Q2 earnings call that it's shipped just 200,000...
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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 Anndrew Vacca
Aug 30, 2011
ComScore has released its latest round of data, which tracks the smartphone market during the months of May, June, and July of 2011. During this time period, 82.2 million Americans owned a smart...
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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 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...
