News and Rumors

Veronica O, PR for RIM, sent me a message today to let all of you know that with BlackBerry Jam Americas now being less than a month away, there are some important things you should consider to prepare yourself, whether you have already registered to attend, or not:

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RIM, in efforts to cut costs and like they had promised to do, have ended their partnership with Flextronics to manufacture BlackBerry phones. Flextronics' Malaysia plant will no longer be manufacturing BlackBerry smart phones but their employees will be sent to work on other phones ...

In the latest of RIM's BlackBerry promo videos, we get a groovy melodic beat composed of the sounds of BlackBerry Messenger. The video is in Spanish and touts the statistic that BBM is composed of more than 55 million users. The video also links viewers to the BlackBerry.com/BeBlackBerry ...

RIM is fighting back with confidence into the mobile market as carriers are giving them great feedback on BlackBerry 10. This is due to RIM's executive team going out and showcasing the powerful multi-tasking OS:

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In a rare paparazzi photo shoot event when all of her clothes are on, Lindsay Lohan is seen holding a BlackBerry P'9981 device while frolicking around NYC. Just so you know, a BlackBerry Lohan spotting is a rarity. The last one we saw was back in 2009 is when she took some semi-nude pics of herself with her BlackBerry Bold 9000 ...

On Wednesday, T-Mobile announced that they were introducing a new 4G unlimited nationwide data plan. This plan will include no data throttling and truly unlimited 4G data usage. The cost? Well it seems incredibly reasonable, actually. The price will be $20/month when you add the unlimited ...

In a sequel game to Falling Fred, Union Games has just released the second installment of the series called, Running Fred. Here is a description and a few details about the game:
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WordPress for BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook has been updated today. Smartphone update version is v1.6.4, and for PlayBook is v2.1.5. Didn't see a changelog for the PlayBook version, however, the smartphone version says an issue was fixed where users were unable to share links and pictures. Get updated and let us know in ...

RIM has been pretty tight lipped regarding the looks of their latest project, BlackBerry 10, and even more elusive to what kind of hardware the super-phones will have. However, we do know that RIM has standardized screen resolutions for full touch devices to 1280x720 (16:9), and 720x720 ...

Smarter Apps has contacted BlackBerryOS.com to let us know that they are on the verge of almost 10 million unique Blackberry users and growing! To celebrate and give thanks to the Blackberry Nation they are making their most successful BlackBerry app, Angry Farm, free!

Thats right all 250 LEVELS in the Angry Farm Free ...

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So you have a BlackBerry smartphone. Do you wonder if you're CDMA, GSM? How about UMTS? Does your phone show EDGE and you wonder why you're a tad slow..? Want to get the new 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook??? Want to know what LTE stands for before you buy?

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The Senior Director of Open Source at RIM, @Pelegri, has announced via Twitter that the BlackBerry archives of open source code samples is now at 237, not including the backlogs.

It's nice to see BlackBerry expand this list and bring on samples that will help making apps that much easier. Here are the numbers so far of samples for each ...

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