By Todd Haselton |
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings recently sat down with The Canadian Press to discuss a variety of topics ranging from the new season of Arrested Development to BlackBerry 10. Hastings hinted in his interview that his company isn’t preparing to deliver Netflix support to BlackBerry 10 in the near…
By Todd Haselton |
Last month we had a sneak peak of an alleged entry-level BlackBerry 10 device. The “entry level” title doesn’t make sense though because, let’s be honest, when the Z10 is the only BlackBerry 10 smartphone available in the U.S. right now then it is the entry-level device. Plus,…
By Todd Haselton |
The Department of Defense recently gave a green light for Samsung’s Knox-enabled smartphones and BlackBerry 10 devices for employee use. “This is a significant step towards establishing a multi-vendor environment that supports a variety of state-of-the-art devices and operating systems,” Pentagon spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Damien…
By Todd Haselton |
T-Mobile announced in an email to TechnoBuffalo on Wednesday that it will begin selling the BlackBerry Q10—the first BlackBerry 10 device with a full QWERTY keyboard—beginning on April 29. The device will only be available to its business partners at that time, however, so consumers…
By Todd Haselton |
The BlackBerry Q10 was recently spotted cruising through the Federal Communications Commission’s approval process by the folks over at Engadget. We know that the BlackBerry Q10 is eventually going to launch on several U.S. carriers, although each one of them has been mum as to an…
By Todd Haselton |
The BlackBerry Z10 was launched with much fanfare back in January, but consumers aren’t digging the phone. At least not according to two new reports published by analyst firms that suggest sales of the BlackBerry Z10 make up less than 2 percent of all sales…
By Todd Haselton |
A recent survey by MKM Partners revealed stunning details on consumer awareness about new mobile platforms. The company surveyed 1,500 smartphone users in the United States and a stunning 60.5 percent were unaware that Windows Phone 8 is an available option for a new smartphone.…
By Todd Haselton |
BlackBerry just announced that two retailers are now accepting pre-orders for the BlackBerry Q10 in the United Kingdom. Interested customers can walk into Carphone Warehouse or Phones 4u and order the Q10 for Orange, O2, T-Mobile, Three, EE, Vodafone or TalkMobile. The device will be…
By Adriana Lee |
Whether you’re sold on BlackBerry 10 or not, you might be curious about the all-new platform from the company formerly known as RIM. After all, BlackBerries used to be a dominant player in the mobile space, and the company has been struggling to reinvent itself…
By Adriana Lee |
BlackBerry Messenger integration can be a handy way to auto-push updates to your BBM contacts. Maybe your friends and family like knowing what music you’re enjoying right now on your BlackBerry Z10, or when you’re watching videos on the handset. After all, it’s yet another…
By Brandon Russell |
BlackBerry has taken a slow and steady release approach so far this year, with the Z10 and Q10 the only devices (that we know of) coming out in 2013. We’ve heard rumblings of other BlackBerry 10 handsets possibly coming out at some point in the…
By Todd Haselton |
BlackBerry fans on Verizon, your day has finally arrived. The new BlackBerry Z10 is now available from Verizon Wireless for $199 with a new two-year contract. We haven’t spent much time with Verizon’s model yet, but you can read our full review of the international…
By Todd Haselton |
BlackBerry purposefully built BlackBerry 10 to support Android applications in an emulator, and thanks to that move the company has found that 20 percent of its 100,000 applications were built on Android. It was a wise decision, especially because all eyes are on BlackBerry 10…
By Todd Haselton |
Earlier this month a mystery company purchased one million BlackBerry 10 smartphones from BlackBerry. It was was a notable transaction because BlackBerry 10 just launched and because it was the biggest single order BlackBerry (formerly RIM) has ever received in one fell swoop. AllThingsD said…
By Todd Haselton |
iFixit took out a few screwdrivers and tore into BlackBerry’s Z10 recently. The specialists had a few nods of approval for BlackBerry’s design engineers, pointing to the headphone jack on the top of the phone and the removable battery. There were a few surprises, however:…
By Todd Haselton |
The BlackBerry Z10 is available on AT&T and T-Mobile and Verizon will begin selling the device this week. The Z10 global launch is still ongoing, but at least one analyst is worried about BlackBerry’s ability to keep up against competitors Samsung and Apple over the…
By Todd Haselton |
BlackBerry 10 makes its debut in the United States in the form of the BlackBerry Z10 on AT&T today. TechnoBuffalo spoke with Richard Piasentin, vice president and managing director for U.S. at BlackBerry about the company’s launch plans, how it plans to compete with new…
By Todd Haselton |
A recent report claimed that BlackBerry 10 and the BlackBerry Z10 are “not secure enough for essential work” and that the platform and the smartphone were rejected by the British government. The Guardian published the news earlier this week, noting that BlackBerry 7.1 was allowed by government…
By Brandon Russell |
One unnamed company is so confident in BlackBerry’s reinvented image that it purchased 1 million BlackBerry 10 devices. BlackBerry refrained from divulging which company actually did so, but it’s apparently the single largest purchase order in BlackBerry’s history. Let’s give the Waterloo company a round…
By Todd Haselton |
BlackBerry introduced a limited edition red BlackBerry Z10 smartphone in February, when it said that the device would be available to developers who met specific criteria. Now, the phone is beginning to arrive on doorsteps, as we can see in the above image that was…
By Todd Haselton |
Sprint already said it won’t sell BlackBerry’s new Z10 smartphone and will instead wait to offer the full-QWERTY keyboard Q10 later this year. That doesn’t necessarily mean that Sprint’s not going to provide a BlackBerry that offers a full touchscreen, however. AllThingsD learned on Monday that…
By Todd Haselton |
AT&T just announced that the BlackBerry Z10 will be available to all of its customers beginning on March 22 for $199 with a new two-year contract. Pre-sales will begin on March 12. Pre-sales are available to all AT&T customers, new or with an existing consumer…
By Todd Haselton |
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins recently said that his company does not have any interest in selling devices in the $50 range. We’re a bit shocked, mainly because the company already does sell handsets priced well below that mark. They are, admittedly, the company’s older BlackBerry…
By Brandon Russell |
Your BlackBerry 10 may never know the sweet, sweet feeling of streaming Netflix content, according to a new report. The Los Gatos-based company confirmed to AllThingsD it won’t develop a native or port a Netflix app for BlackBerry 10. Not now, or even a few…
