BlackBerry, formerly RIM, is set to launch its first BlackBerry 10 (BB10) smartphone in India later this month. India is one of the few countries where the BlackBerry Z10 is being launched in the first wave, even before the US where it is expected to be launched sometime in March. This is the first major product launch by BlackBerry in almost two years and in a way the company’s betting its future on it. I believe that BlackBerry 10 has a better chance of succeeding in India than Windows Phone, purely i...

Last night BlackBerry CEO Thorstein Heins took the stage and announced the BlackBerry Z10, the company’s first smartphone running BlackBerry 10. Now from a user-interface perspective, the Z10 is very fascinating and unique when compared to its competitors but from a hardware standpoint it is just matching whatever is available in the market and in some cases it’s not even achieving that. That said, it certainly has solid hardware and can give a decent fight to its rivals on the basis of its unique softwar...

Today’s BlackBerry 10 launch event wasn’t just about the new smartphones – the Z10 and the Q10 – but also about new software features in the operating system that was not shown off earlier. One of them was BlackBerry Remember and the second key feature was the all-new BlackBerry Messenger or BBM as it is popularly known. (more…)Google+

Apart from the Z10, BlackBerry also announced the Q10, which will be the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone with a physical QWERTY keypad. It only goes on sale in April, unlike the Z10 that is available in a couple of countries right away and will be available in India next month. Apart from the physical keypad, BlackBerry is showing off a glass-weave material used for the back cover, which it claims is unique to the Q10 and isn’t available with any other smartphone vendor. Specifications are a bit sketchy ...

Finally BlackBerry Z10 has been officially launched. The flagship BlackBerry 10 smartphone is here with a 4.2-inch display with a pixel density of 356ppi, an 8-megapixel camera rear and a 2-megapixel front cameras and all the connectivity options one can ask for in a smartphone. The BlackBerry Z10 runs on a 1.5GHz dual-core processor in concert with 2GB of RAM. There is also 16GB of internal memory along with a microSD card slot. And yeah, the battery is removable too! (more…)Google+

Thorsten Heins has just announced that the company is being renamed from RIM to BlackBerry during the BlackBerry 10 launch event. “It’s one brand. It’s one promise!” exclaimed Heins before announcing the BlackBerry Z10 and the BlackBerry Q10 smartphones running on BB10. (more…)Google+

RIM’s BlackBerry 10 launch event is still 30 minutes away but the first smartphone is already showing up in stores in the UK. Twitter user @bandozer managed to get his hands on one in a Phones4u store. BlackBerry is expected to launch the Z10 in the UK either later today after the launch event or tomorrow at the earliest. (more…)Google+

There’s just about three hours left before Thorsten Heins takes the stage in New York in a bid to rescue RIM from the hole it has dug for itself. BlackBerry 10 (BB10) is the last option for RIM and it will formally unveil all the new features as well as devices running on the new platform. We expect to see the BlackBerry Z10, the first BB10 smartphone and probably even the X10, which would come sometime later with a physical QWERTY keypad. (more…)Google+

Tonight will be Thorstein Heins’ proverbial judgement day. The CEO of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) will finally unveil what the company has been promising for almost two years – a new operating system built from the ground up, which would finally give RIM an answer to the iPhone 5, roughly six years after Apple launched it. Most analysts, industry watchers and tech commentators are quite optimistic about BlackBerry 10, the new platform, but that amounts to nothing if it does not click...

After a year in the wilderness, RIM is all set to come out all guns blazing with its latest operating system – BlackBerry 10, and a smartphone that will run the new OS, which is rumored to be the BlackBerry Z10.  For the last year we’ve had a pretty good idea what the OS has in store for us through numerous BlackBerry Jam events that have been held throughout the globe and the numerous ‘Dev Alpha’ devices RIM has handed out to developers. This allows us to paint a fairly clear picture on what to ...

RIM’s BlackBerry 10 operating system and new smartphones running on it are the worst-kept secrets, with almost everything there to know is already known. We have already seen scores of photos and videos of the BlackBerry Z10, the first smartphone running on the new OS. However, all of them featured the black variant of the device. But the latest leak, courtesy The Gadget Helpline, gives us a look at the white BlackBerry Z10 just a day before RIM’s global launch event. (more…)Google+

Research In Motion (RIM) today announced that its renamed BlackBerry World store will feature movies and music content from most of the leading publishers and labels. While movie download and rentals will only be available in the US, UK and Canada, RIM will offer its music store in 18 countries, including India. (more…)Google+