BlackBerry is basically running on empty at the moment, with the company on the cusp of accepting a buyout and its latest BB10 handsets pretty much universally recognised as a flop. It may have missed the smartphone ship, but that won't stop BlackBerry chasing the latest big mobile craze, with its Z30 "phablet" hitting the UK tomorrow (27 September). Read More >>
After months—years, really—of speculation about buyers and shutdowns and sales, BlackBerry appears to have found salvation in the form of a $4.7 billion takeover. Whether the company lives on from there or is sold for scraps remains anyone's guess. Under the proposed deal, which will close after due diligence and regulatory approvals, a group of buyers led by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited will become BlackBerry's new dad. Read More >>
Featured comment by Lester__Bangs:
"I would think that if Apple, Google or MS tried to snap them up, there might be issues with the FTC over a potential market monopoly." More »
Last month was spent in a state of upheaval. After seven years on one side of the country, I was heading back to the opposite coast, which had led me to go though of the hundreds of pounds of accumulated junk one accidentally collects in boxes over the years. Read More >>
Look, we all know that BlackBerry is in a tail spin and has been for awhile. And at this point the situation can only become an incredible underdog story or a put the dog out of his misery moment. There's no status quo anymore. But somehow the hole keeps being dug deeper. Read More >>
Featured comment by josh.moulder:
"they kinda were, remember phones like the LG Renoir, they disappeared for a while after that phase, then came back" More »
Even as Blackberry has fallen from grace over the last few years, its proprietary messaging service BBM has remained a solid, well-designed product. A few months back, the company announced plans to bring the product to iOS and Android. We were excited then, and after spending a few minutes with the final build of both apps, we're thinking this could be BlackBerry's foothold into a new future. Read More >>
That's Android this Saturday; iOS on Sunday. The app will allow you to message your BlackBerry (or BBM app)-toting friends and will run on Android 4.0 and higher, as well as iOS 6 and 7. [BlackBerry via Verge] Read More >>
Here's a shocker, a new phone that's not been leaked all over the internet for the last six months; the BlackBerry Z30. It's a 5-inch model, and BlackBerry seems to have correctly identified that power use is a key concern among buyers, claiming the Z30 has the "largest battery ever to be built into a BlackBerry smartphone." Read More >>
Featured comment by dukeinlondon:
"The phones and the OS look nice and I like large-ish phones so I would have been interested if I didn't have serious doubt about the future of the eco..." More »
I guess we're not even surprised at this point. Der Spiegel is reporting that internal NSA documents prove the agency's widespread smartphone data access. And it's pretty exhaustive. Spiegel found explicit mention of information access from iPhones, BlackBerry handsets, and devices running Android. Read More >>
BlackBerry's web people made a bit of a faux pas last night, accidentally making a page advertising its cross-platform BBM apps live before time. They pulled it, but it lives on in the form of incriminating screen captures. Read More >>
Featured comment by OutSpoken:
"Weren't BBM for iOS and Android supposed to be released by summer? which ends tomorrow. I guess no change there then with BlackBerry delays.." More »
BlackBerry Messenger, the one part of BlackBerry that everyone seems to agree is worth trying to keep around in some way, could end up being pulled out into a separate company, as BlackBerry examines ways to survive its never-ending smartphone sales decline. Read More >>
This doesn't come as a surprise to many of us, but apparently BlackBerry's looking at "strategic alternatives" including "possible joint ventures, strategic partnerships or alliances, a sale of the company or other possible transactions". Anyone want to buy BlackBerry? Any takers? Read More >>
Featured comment by baystar:
"I still think there's a place for BlackBerry - at the right price point. Their new phones are great and there's not much difference now between Androi..." More »
It looks like rumours of a new BlackBerry handset, the Z30 (once referred to as the A10), could carry some weight: this hands-on video purports to show off the new device, and it seems convincing. Read More >>
Featured comment by Sharky66:
"I think you need to be a die-hard BB fan. The problem is there isn't anything awesome that is going to tempt users of other OS's back. And the only ti..." More »
It might be too little, too late, but BlackBerry's BBM will finally make it out of its mediocre locked-down BlackBerry-only exhistence by the end of next month. It might launch for iOS first, but at least the Android version won't be too far away if it's not quite time and date with the iPhone. Not that we really need it anymore. Maybe the Canadians'll still love it? [IBN Live via T3] Read More >>
Featured comment by Someone Else:
"I kind of meant in the sense of "regional head trying to make himself look important tells story (where he doesn't actually know all the facts) to rep..." More »
While me and you and everyone we know weren't paying attention, BlackBerry invented a nice big shiny new phone, the A10. It's definitely different! And at this point, that might be just what BlackBerry needs. Read More >>
Featured comment by Gaz:
"Consider yourself very lucky in that case. As with Obi Wan K.O.D. I would say Blackberry repairs were about 3/4's of the workload too" More »
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