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The FlightView app has been updated with a number of features to help you travel easier. The FlightView app provides actionable, flight tracking information directly to your BlackBerry. Recently, FlightView announced that their app lets travelers:
The PC innovation boom of the mid-90s was an interesting time. With rapid advancement in processor clock speed, other components couldn’t keep up. What does it matter if you have a good processor, if your hard drive or your memory bus is causing bottlenecks?
In talking with people here at WES, I’ve come to understand a little bit more about BlackBerry, and how it differs from PC engineering. Heat and power-draw can’t be easily engineered around with roomy cooling or big batteries. Engineering advancement on the mobile is a fine art of balancing compromises.
There’s a bit less of a processor focus with the BlackBerry platform. The platform started off as an email device and only recently became a mobile multitasking dynamo. Looking at the last two years of devices, users have begun to take notice of the processor specs.
Continue reading ‘WES 2010: Talking BlackBerry Chipsets and Processing Power’
Tomorrow, co-CEO Mike Lazaridis will give a general keynote, where we expect him to talk about the 9650, 9100 and hopefully a little about BlackBerry 6 and the WebKit browser. It’s going to be a great session and we’ll have coverage from the ground to report.
Today, Mike Lazaridis gave an amazing speech to analysts during Capital Markets about how far the company has come and where the platform’s strength’s lie. To be honest, as someone who writes about BlackBerry every single day, I’ve had my fair share of doubts and frustrations with the platform. Lazaridis’ speech did a lot for my enthusiasm and optimism about the platform, and after reading this summary/impressions post, I think you’ll feel the same.
Continue reading ‘State of BlackBerry: Mike Lazaridis’ Speech and Where We Stand’
With the announcement of the Bold 9650, it’s great to hear the first carrier launch announcement. Sprint have announced they are going to launch the Bold 9650 on May 23rd. With less than a month to go, users will soon be able to grab a 9650 and try it out for themselves. The device will be available for $199.99 with a new two-year service agreement, after a $100 mail-in rebate (taxes & surcharges excluded). Hopefully we’ll be hearing more carrier announcements soon.
UPDATE: Now the audio is available but we still don’t have the video of the touchscreen demo. From the audio, we now know of few more interesting bits of information. For example, we’ll start seeing App World statistics and apparently they’re pretty good (million downloads per day).
While we haven’t heard any press releases or announcements about OS 6 just yet, Mike Lazaridis announced in an analyst call that OS 6, or BlackBerry 6, will be available “in the next calendar quarter.” With WES going down right now, we can expect to hear more about BlackBerry 6 shortly. We’ve seen the screenshots, and apparently Lazaridis gave a demo of a touchscreen interface running BlackBerry 6.
There is also some pretty big news that we’ll have to confirm tomorrow, which is what devices will be eligible for an OS 6 upgrade, as well as the new Webkit browser. Lazaridis apparently said that the company’s WebKit browser is part of 6, and that the rendering engine has implications throughout the platform. This means that the upcoming WebKit browser may not be available for OS 5 devices. We’re not sure exactly which devices will get an OS 6 upgarde, but Lazaridis says that they’ll “do [their] best,” but he’s not making any guarantees.
I’m here at WES 2010 and as you know two new devices were launched today. RIM has set up a solutions showcase to show off the new devices and accessories, and we’ve got some pictures and impressions to show off.
The Pearl colors and accessories had them looking more like consumer electronics than smartphones. Don’t be fooled though, under the hood of the 91XX series are chipsets and memory of a high-end BlackBerry.
The new Pearl device colors look like some of the cutest devices I have ever seen RIM put out. The red gradient, and magenta colors really stand out among all the colorful leather cases and rubber skins. There’s a new leather case that features a built-in mirror that would go well with any modern purse or bag. Some were just skins while others also integrated hard plastics, not unlike the silver edges around the 9650/9700 series. These hard plastics are specifically placed in the impact zones around the edges of the device. For a company that has released a lot of devices meant to look like fierce sports cars, they have shifted gears and made something totally unexpected: purse-candy.
Continue reading ‘WES 2010: Solutions Showcase Featuring the BlackBerry 9100, 9105 and 9650′
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