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Blackberry Priv Receives Permanent Price Cut
The current smartphone sector is extremely competitive and it’s a huge challenge to produce something which has widespread mass market appeal. At the higher end, Samsung and Apple remain the dominant force but there is competition from other leading manufacturers. The LG G4 and its predecessor received superb user reviews…
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BlackBerry Lays Off 200 Employees in Restructuring Programme
BlackBerry’s position in the global smartphone market has been extremely fragile due to the rise of iOS and Android devices. Additionally, the BlackBerry 10 operating system was a commercial failure and struggled to entice app developers to the platform. Personally, I quite like Blackberry 10 but it’s difficult to make…
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BlackBerry Adds Stickers to its BBM Instant Messaging Applications To Attract Users
One of the best features of an instant messaging application, besides all of your friends using it, is stickers. Just like Viber, it appears that BBM is starting to offer this service to its users. BBM is planning to take advantage of the oversized emoticons phenomena to attract more people…
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BlackBerry Bringing BBM Voice And BBM Channels To iOS And Android Users This Year
People all over the world were overly excited with the launch of BBM services on iOS and Android. Millions were waiting in line for a spot to get connection through BlackBerry’s IM service, where you had to wait for an e-mail to confirm your account. BlackBerry literally got flooded with…
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Windows Phone’s Marketplace Will Not Get BlackBerry’s BBM Anytime Soon
BlackBerry’s BBM is available for iOS, Android, as well as BlackBerry itself. Though, nothing is heard about the newly rising Windows Phone operating system. Microsoft’s WP Marketplace has been short of applications, including well-known and used applications. This is the case for BBM too, whereas the app will not be…
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Micromax Canvas Turbo with 5-inch 1080p display, 2GB RAM, 13MP To Launch In India
Micromax has launched the most expected Canvas Turbo, the company’s latest flagship smartphone in India. It has a 5.0-inch having a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, CGS (Continuous Grain Silicon) IPS display, powered by 1.5 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6589T processor and runs on Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean. It has…
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BlackBerry Tries To Reassure Customers With Open Letter
In an attempt to reassure worried customers and investors, Blackberry has issued an open letter addressing customers, partners and fans. The open letter is trying to deliver the message that “You can continue to count on BlackBerry” despite the company’s troubled performance this year. The most recent incident that caused people…
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BlackBerry Pauses BBM Release On Android And iOS
BlackBerry have paused the global launch of its BBM app for Android and iOS because it has had too many users to deal with. Apparently the unreleased Android version of the app is to blame and as soon as the BBM servers for Android came online the service became strained.…
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BBM For Android And iOS Coming September 21st
Blackberry have announced that BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) will be available on Android and iOS from September 21st. To run BBM on your Android or iOS device you must have iOS 6 or iOS 7 and Android 4.X or higher. BBM is a BlackBerry-developed messaging platform that has over 60 million…
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BlackBerry Phones with the Longest Battery Life
One of the biggest complaints right now about smartphones is the short battery life. For good reason, people think they’re cellphone battery should last the entire day. However, that’s a challenge for many owners that use apps or surf the Internet a lot. So, if you’re in the market for…
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BBM For Android Will Not Be Samsung Exclusive Says BlackBerry
Android Central reports that BBM for Android will not be a Samsung exclusive like previously reported. An official Samsung Twitter account recently tweeted that this was the case and that Samsung had secured a 3 month exclusivity deal with BBM but BlackBerry have dispelled such claims, stating that: “The tweet,…
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