http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/blackberry-avoiding-tablets-with-bbm-android-and-ios-launch/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/blackberry-avoiding-tablets-with-bbm-android-and-ios-launch/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 09:45:41 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=166670 The arrival of BBM on Android and iOS will be a slightly limited affair, with BlackBerry deciding it’s best to focus solely on smartphones — meaning the messaging app won’t work on the iPad, Nexus 7 or any of the other large-screened devices that are currently dominating the tech world. Speaking to Trusted Reviews, Vivek Bhardwaj, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/blackberry-avoiding-tablets-with-bbm-android-and-ios-launch/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/blackberry-is-bringing-bbm-to-ios-and-android-this-summer/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/blackberry-is-bringing-bbm-to-ios-and-android-this-summer/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 15:04:46 +0000 Mario Aguilar http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=165804 Today, at the BlackBerry Live Keynote, the company announced that it will be launching BBM on iOS and Android this Summer. This is a big move for the company that has found itself increasingly trapped in a prison of its own making. Now, BlackBerry will make one of its most popular features available to users [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/blackberry-is-bringing-bbm-to-ios-and-android-this-summer/feed/ 31 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/blackberry-q10-priced-at-579-sim-free/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/blackberry-q10-priced-at-579-sim-free/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:15:58 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=155438 BlackBerry’s either extremely confident about its forthcoming Q10‘s chances of success or desperate to pull in any money while it can, with the new QWERTY BB10 model now up for pre-order in the UK at the astonishing price of £579. That’s a super-high price usually reserved  for established smartphone kings Samsung and Apple. An audacious [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/blackberry-q10-priced-at-579-sim-free/feed/ 17 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/blackberrys-bbm-music-is-dead/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/blackberrys-bbm-music-is-dead/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:15:47 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=155072 Shock news for the 10 of you who actually used BlackBerry’s incredibly dumb BBM Music – it’s going the way of the dodo, and after less than two years’ existence, too. Come June 2nd, BlackBerry’s going to pull the plug, meaning your songs are going bye-bye. [CrackBerry]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/blackberrys-bbm-music-is-dead/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/mike-lazaridis-calls-it-a-day-and-retires-from-blackberry/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/mike-lazaridis-calls-it-a-day-and-retires-from-blackberry/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:45:48 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=153795 BlackBerry’s just released its latest set of financial figures for the last year, showing it sold roughly six million smartphones and “approximately” one million BB10 devices. But the real shock news is the decision of co-founder Mike Lazaridis to resign his positions of vice chair and company director. And he’s not doing it to spend more [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/mike-lazaridis-calls-it-a-day-and-retires-from-blackberry/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/blackberry-boss-reveals-plan-to-take-bb10-to-another-level/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/blackberry-boss-reveals-plan-to-take-bb10-to-another-level/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:15:12 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=152528 BlackBerry boss Thorsten Heins is already bigging up the smartphone company’s next new thing, claiming there’s some super-secret “new product” he’s really excited about. But obviously he’d rather lots of people bought the Z10 before he tells us any more about it. The quotes come from an interview with Cnet, in which Heins said the [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/blackberry-boss-reveals-plan-to-take-bb10-to-another-level/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/bb10-fails-uk-government-high-security-testing/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/bb10-fails-uk-government-high-security-testing/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:45:32 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=151897 The new BlackBerry ecosystem has might have failed a government security test, meaning it is, for now, unlikely to win itself any large-scale government orders. George Osborne’s going to have to carry on using his insecure ASDA Alcatel for the time being. The tests were supposedly carried out by the Communications-Electronics Security Group, which ratifies [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/bb10-fails-uk-government-high-security-testing/feed/ 15 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/watch-blackberry-rock-out-in-yet-another-staggeringly-awkward-music-video/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/watch-blackberry-rock-out-in-yet-another-staggeringly-awkward-music-video/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:00:53 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=151315 BlackBerry 10 is here at last and so, of course, there’s another BlackBerry-tastic music video from VP of Developer Relations, Alec Saunders. Now that BlackBerry’s actually delivered on those promises from the first song, you can’t fault ‘em for wanting to take a victory lap, even if it’s really hard to watch. You gotta appreciate [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/watch-blackberry-rock-out-in-yet-another-staggeringly-awkward-music-video/feed/ 11 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/blackberrys-ceo-says-the-iphone-is-outdated/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/blackberrys-ceo-says-the-iphone-is-outdated/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:30:59 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=151246 With the launch of the last-chance Z10 around the corner for the rest of the world, BlackBerry is giving itself a pep talk to keep those hopes high despite not exactly doing great on our shores. And according to CEO Thorsten Heins, the iPhone’s hardly in the race BlackBerry’s fixin’ to win because it’s old [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/blackberrys-ceo-says-the-iphone-is-outdated/feed/ 12 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/youre-going-to-have-to-pay-a-yearly-fee-to-use-whatsapp/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/youre-going-to-have-to-pay-a-yearly-fee-to-use-whatsapp/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:30:32 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=151141 The WhatsApp, err, app may be free, but the service isn’t. You’re going to have to pay a yearly subscription fee to keep messaging people, even if you’re an iPhone user. Up until now, users on non-Apple platforms have supposedly had to pay a yearly subscription fee to use the service, but none of our [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/youre-going-to-have-to-pay-a-yearly-fee-to-use-whatsapp/feed/ 35 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/blackberry-sells-one-million-handsets-to-unnamed-partner/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/blackberry-sells-one-million-handsets-to-unnamed-partner/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:00:04 +0000 Lily Newman http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=151040 BlackBerry’s demise, much talked about and somewhat goaded, is on hold while the world reacts to the BlackBerry 10 OS and two handsets launching on March 22. And already someone has come forward to buy a million units. So that’s…unexpected. The purchase is the biggest single order in BlackBerry history. It’s not clear who all [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/blackberry-sells-one-million-handsets-to-unnamed-partner/feed/ 8 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/the-new-smartphone-war-7-apple-and-samsung-challengers/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/the-new-smartphone-war-7-apple-and-samsung-challengers/#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:00:05 +0000 Laptop Magazine http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=149399 You might call it a lack of ambition. Or you could just call it being very pragmatic. At a recent roundtable with reporters in Tokyo, the head of Sony’s mobile business professed his desire to be the No. 3 player in smartphones behind Apple and Samsung. BlackBerry’s CEO said the same thing heading up to [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/the-new-smartphone-war-7-apple-and-samsung-challengers/feed/ 9 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/blackberry-10-which-apps-will-and-wont-ever-be-there/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/blackberry-10-which-apps-will-and-wont-ever-be-there/#comments Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:00:58 +0000 Peter Ha http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=148441 Earlier this week it was reported that Netflix has no plans to develop a BlackBerry 10 app. While that specific nugget of news wasn’t surprising, we began to wonder what other popular apps may or may not be coming to BB10. After all, BlackBerry did say at launch this past January that BlackBerry World had [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/blackberry-10-which-apps-will-and-wont-ever-be-there/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/at-least-blackberrys-actually-going-to-update-the-z10/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/at-least-blackberrys-actually-going-to-update-the-z10/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:15:10 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=147031 It’s only really just launched, but there’s already an update for the BlackBerry Z10, which apparently enhances battery life, improves the camera, and quashes a few bugs. Good to see BlackBerry’s committing to rapid updates. Something tells me it’ll need it just to survive. [TechRadar]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/at-least-blackberrys-actually-going-to-update-the-z10/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/hardware-comes-last/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/hardware-comes-last/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:59 +0000 Brian Barrett http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=146618 Google’s Chromebook Pixel is aspirational in nearly every way. It’s designed within an inch of its life, a physical specimen worthy of Rodin. Its lines are sharp, its display is crisp. And nearly every review has had the same takeaway: It’s amazing. Don’t buy it. It’s enough to give you whiplash, or at least a [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/hardware-comes-last/feed/ 40 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/blackberry-is-testing-a-mobile-money-messaging-service/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/blackberry-is-testing-a-mobile-money-messaging-service/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:30:03 +0000 Leslie Horn http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=146145 It’s no secret that BlackBerry has seen better days, despite the recent introduction of new phones. But one of its bright spots is BlackBerry Messenger, and now, according to Bloomberg, it’s looking into adding a money transfer service to this product. For now it’s just a test, and it’s only happening in Indonesia for one [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/blackberry-is-testing-a-mobile-money-messaging-service/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/native-instagram-app-for-bb10-not-on-the-horizon-says-source/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/native-instagram-app-for-bb10-not-on-the-horizon-says-source/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:00:59 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=145248 Owners of the new BB10 phones are going to have to look elsewhere for a means of capturing, editing and distributing photographs of their duck wraps and Thai chilli fish cakes, as sources claim Instagram is currently steering clear of the new OS and not working on a custom native app. Sources speaking to tech [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/native-instagram-app-for-bb10-not-on-the-horizon-says-source/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/blackberry-security-flaw-could-compromise-enterprise-servers/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/blackberry-security-flaw-could-compromise-enterprise-servers/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:00:42 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=144180 If you associate BlackBerry with top-notch security, time to think again. The company has released news, which warns of a vulnerability that could expose enterprise servers to massive malware attacks. Listed as “high severity”, the flaw could allow attackers to leverage a loophole in the way TIFF image files are rendered to take down servers. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/blackberry-security-flaw-could-compromise-enterprise-servers/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/blackberry-z10-review-not-good-enough/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/blackberry-z10-review-not-good-enough/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:00:44 +0000 Kyle Wagner http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=144048 Everybody knows what’s at stake for BlackBerry. The Z10 is its shot to stop its considerable bleeding and shut everyone up. But launching a brand new OS with brand new hardware isn’t easy. And it’s even harder to match expectations when both have been delayed again and again.   What Is It? A touchscreen smartphone [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/blackberry-z10-review-not-good-enough/feed/ 13 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/blackberry-z10-teardown-a-samsung-galaxy-siii-by-any-other-name/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/blackberry-z10-teardown-a-samsung-galaxy-siii-by-any-other-name/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:45:04 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=142572 BlackBerry’s new all-touch Z10 may have only been announced a little over a week ago, but some intrepid nerds have already torn the phone to shreds. And inside? It looks a lot like a Samsung. The teardown, by UBM TechInsights, isn’t the most thorough, but at least it’s a start. Taking a peek inside, they [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/blackberry-z10-teardown-a-samsung-galaxy-siii-by-any-other-name/feed/ 4