Archive for the ‘Blackberry’ Category

Bad news for RIM (Blackberry) because of Playbook, the tablet

Monday, March 5th, 2012

Bad news for RIM (Blackberry)Saw it coming for months, things are not right in RIM, the company of the Blackberry. His tablet has virtually failed, sales of Blackberry are down and its shares have fallen more than 50%. There is a good horizon in the future of the brand.

Research in Motion Ltd. said it will take a accounting charge of $ 485 million, which is mostly not in cash, in the third quarter of its fiscal year, after reducing the value of its large inventory of tablet type computers playbook.

The company also revised downwards the earnings and revenue projections for the rest of the year, and warned of the continuing drop in sales of BlackBerry.

The office becomes the launch of the playbook, which was affected by negative comments, a confused marketing strategy and weak sales, an important financial milestone for the company in Waterloo, Ontario.

The action of RIM has fallen more than 50% this year. While the company remains profitable and has enjoyed a good cash reserve, some analysts fear that the huge inventories of unsold Playbook could affect earnings and cash for several quarters ahead.

BlackBerry launched its new phone in the middle of 2012

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

 phone in the middle of 2012

The main feature of the Smartphone is open on Blackberry OS 10 (BBX), the new operating system promises to provide all the programming and functionality shortcomings of the above.

The product would be released between the second and third quarter of 2012.

The phone does not have a QWERTY keyboard, but will only touch like the Apple iPhone and most Samsung Galaxy.

You will have a sleeker and slimmer body, which will dual-core processor at 1.5 GHz Other sources indicate that include a camera of 8 to 10 megapixels, but no official data provided by RIM, the production company of BlackBerry.

The New BlackBerry London will be released in June 2012

Monday, February 13th, 2012

June 2012Although RIM has not said when it will bring to market its new OS-based device BBX, rumors and speculations suggest that this could happen sometime in the first half of 2012. Until then, if you want to know what it looks like the new smartphone BBX, I invite you to take a look at the popular BlackBerry London. According to The Verge, who received the photo from an undisclosed source, BlackBerry London should be released in June 2012 and would have a dual core processor 1.5 GHz, an 8-megapixel rear camera, a 2 MP front camera, a memory RAM of 1 GB, and an internal memory of 16 GB. What is intriguing is the London look “thinner” the iPhone 4/4S. recently talked about another phone RIM (without notice), which also appeared as a possible BBX device, the BlackBerry Colt. Indeed, RIM could introduce two smartphones BBX while, but until now nothing has been confirmed.

New BlackBerry Curve Touch, information leaked

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

And the rumors are always getting to us now we have the latest information onThe new BlackBerry Curve Touch and sizesproducts new CDMA RIM already expected.

We had already shared with you information on models Curve BlackBerry Dakota and ApolloNow expected to hit the market at the end of the new touchscreen device calledTouch Curve, codenamed Malibu.

The company RIM endow this new phone with a touchscreen HVGA 3, 25 inches, Qualcomm MSM8655 processor of 800 MHz, 5 megapixel camera with HD video, 512 MD of RAM, 1 GB of storage, has a slot microSD, GPS andtechnology NFCwith which you make payment from your smartphone without a card.

The leaked information from other devices refers to versions CDMA we already know, as the new tablet Playbook we’ll see for sale in the second quarter of this year with its CDMA version.

For those who are interested in this technology, BlackBaerry Montana, codenamed CDMA version of the model BlackBerry Curve Touch,Dakota, is expected in the third quarter, and the BBSedona, the CDMA version of Curve Apollo, is launched later this year.

Both rumor reiterates the question of whether RIM actually has a security system on the information of their upcoming models or filter by the way. In addition to the questions we left late model information filtering.

Is the BlackBerry ” Monaco”, which is integrated with WVGA touchscreen 3.7-inch, 1.2 GHz Qualcomm processor, 5 megapixel camera, WiFi connectivity, Bluetooth and Hotspot, and is expected in the market for summer.

Protect information on your BlackBerry

Monday, February 6th, 2012

Have you ever experienced the unpleasant feeling of losing something very important? Imagine this is your BlackBerry ® Smartphone.
In addition to losing their team, will also miss the important information that may be sensitive for you if outsiders have access, telephone numbers, contact addresses, etc.

Have you ever experienced the unpleasant feeling of losing something very important? Imagine this is your BlackBerry ® Smartphone.
In addition to losing their team, will also miss the important information that may be sensitive for you if outsiders have access, telephone numbers, contact addresses, etc.

Well if your phone is Blackberry and you have internet access you have the option to install the Blackberry Protect program, allowing you to have a way of not losing information and that this does not fall into the wrong hands if your BlackBerry is lost.

The service works as follows: you have to register their devices in Blackberry World and with this account to install the program.

Once installed on your phone, installed the first barriers and protections is to block access to your password, the second makes a backup of your phone’s information on the Blackberry site and provides a place where you can perform remote actions to your phone.

If your phone is lost you will copy your information, and the device will key the thief can not access the information and you may by an order to destroy all data on the device and render it unusable.

In some phones with GPS may track it while it is on. If you own a Blackberry I recommend you install this application you never know when you may suffer a robbery.

BlackBerry, a little history

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

BlackBerry, a little historySomehow and for the success in recent months seem to BlackBerry is a relatively recent development, however these devices have been in business since 1999.

A BlackBerry as we know it is a portable device that supports wireless email, mobile phones, SMS, web browsing and other wireless information services. Its creators are the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM), and to convey information based on wireless data networks of mobile phone companies.

If we were to talk about the real popularity of the devices, BlackBerry , we would focus on the present century, and particularly since 2004, in November this year, Research In Motion announced that it had more than two million users worldwide (early years had a million). It took five years to get the first million, and only 10 months to have twice as many users. Obviously the system was becoming a success.

In May 2005, less than a year later, BlackBerry had 5 million users, the growth rate was increasing, which has been confirmed and exceeded during the past two years, in which RIM has added another 9 million subscribers. BlackBerry currently has around 14 million subscribers.

The first model of the family was the 850 , which was actually what we refer to here as a pager. We were in 1999, the AOL Internet era and was just deployed mobile telephony, but the need for a workforce less dependent on a permanent post was that this device will begin to make sense, offered an organizer, calendar, e BlackBerry, and wireless Internet (WAP).

As a curiosity the device only had two batteries, and in 2005, PC World chose it as the gadget # 14 of the last 50 years.

These models are now looking more to what we know today as BlackBerry. The screen increases going from 6-8 lines to 16-20, includes rechargeable lithium battery, doubling the internal memory of 4 MB to 8 MB ??flash and 512 KB of SRAM to a full megabyte. It seems that with these models RIM found her working model for the future.

His models were next update 5790/5810 . First BlackBerry with Java support, were not particularly successful, but we must emphasize that the 5810 was already integrated telephone.

Devices in a country GSM CDMA
RIM’s global success, although the company is Canadian, began in the U.S., and was from 5000 and 6000 series models, initially prepared for GSM, when RIM started making CDMA versions of its terminals . The 6750 was the first prepared for Verizon Wireless CDMA.

CDMA versions of the series continued in 7200 (with color display) with 7250 (in the picture below). It was also the first BlackBerry model with Bluetooth. At this point, the devices were made ??to the two networks, GSM and CDMA, the nomenclature used in recent XX50 to be differentiated.

The 7270 were the first company wifi devices and 7500 had support for Motorola’s iDEN network, highlighting the 7520 with integrated GPS.

Appears SureType
If anything distinguishes the BlackBerry is its full QWERTY keyboard, however, some people find these terminals a bit bulky, so they decided to create SureType , a keyboard with two letters per key (reducing the size of the unit) . The first model with this performance characteristic was the 7100t , offered for sale by T-Mobile in late 2004. From 7100t CDMA and iDEN versions emerged.

SureType finished off in 2006 with the launch of the BlackBerry Pearl . The breakthrough that accompanied the Pearl was a trackball. The Perl was small enough to start this experiment, since it is possible to operate the trackball while holding the device in one hand.

The original Pearl was designed for GSM, but in late 2007, gave the Pearl 8130 supports CDMA networks. Soon after, models have emerged as the 8110 with GPS, or the 8120 with Wi-Fi.

The 8000 family
before the success of the Pearl, and when the world was filled with Smartphones, BlackBerry hit the market with another series, 8700 . Sleek devices that were announced in November 2005, and helped RIM to reach the figure of 5 million users in March 2006.

There are three models in the series 8700 , a GSM network with EDGE, one for GSM networks without EDGE (UMTS in the United Kingdom, Italy, Hong Kong and Singapore, W-CDMA in Japan), and one for CDMA EVDO networks.

On February 12, 2007, was presented the series 8800 . This is the first BlackBerry conventional trackball, CDMA version would be called 8830, and 8820 for GSM networks, which was added WiFi.

And finally, Curve
Although the 8700 and 8800 are very complete devices had some shortcomings from competition, such as the lack of camera, the idea was not to include RIM cameras, because from the professional point of view was not well seen , you might consider an item to the BlackBerry uncomfortable in certain circumstances. On second thought, in May 2007, RIM decided to market a model with 2 Mega pixel camera, the Curve , in September of that year, T-Mobile added a variant with WiFi, the 8320, and also a version that works CDMA networks.

The 9000 series and beyond
with the 8000 series grew older, it seems high time that RIM teach something new, and is speculated to be in August this year when we have new model. There have been patents with slide out keyboards or touch screens, and sure some of these options will be attending the 9000 series.

The line for RIM dividide general consumers who need a business tool is becoming increasingly blurred, so that the next model certainly will not forget any. We look forward to the next chapter in the history of BlackBerry.

RIM and Academy Award Academy Awards
As anecdotal detail comment that RIM won the technical progress in 1999 in the Oscars, the award was involved Mihal Lazaridis, president and CEO of the company.

Conclusion
I guess the most knowledgeable in areas lacking BlackBerry know that many models in this list, but somehow I wanted to comment on a timeline leading models of global shape, I hope at least that has served to recall information, or have learned more about the BlackBerry.

Launch a 3G BlackBerry playbook and four new handsets for 2012

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Last week we discussed some rumors pointing to a possible agenda for 2012 RIM launches. Among them, talk about the existence of a tablet PlayBook 2 and one 10-inch screen, and a terminal 10 and two BlackBerry models in the Curve. Now, the news website BGR, RIM says, indeed, such an agenda has the full year 2012 and the first quarter of 2013.

The information leaked last week becomes established and are already several tech news sites that have provided data on the release schedule planned by RIM for the next 15 months. So while the first devices running BlackBerry OS with 10 expected from the fall, the company plans to launch handsets with BlackBerry 7 for emerging markets.

Thus, RIM will market two new teams Curve range (touch screen qwerty keyboard hardware) in the coming months: BlackBerry Curve 9230 and 9320. The first is a smartphone with EDGE technology and the second implement HSPA.

Regarding the models outside the range Curve, there was speculation that September could get called BlackBerry Milan, touch screen phone vertically sliding keyboard. Now BGR, BlackBerry also speaks of London, with dual-core processor at 1.5 GHz and 4.3-inch screen, which could also be released that month.

As for future models with the BlackBerry operating system 10, it seems that there is another smartphone in the pipeline which could be launched in December 2012. Be part of the Bold series and, therefore, will have among its features with touch screen qwerty keyboard. Beyond the speculation and rumors, and what we finally on the market, the important thing is that RIM is working on new products, smartphones and tablets, to try to raise its head, especially if we consider the change that has produced on the board this weekend.

New Blackberry Bold 9900, with touch screen.

Friday, January 6th, 2012

The incessant rumors always have a point and this has been fulfilled as I was saying lately about RIM and its new Blackberry Bold, which has just been presented in partnership, and noted to include a capacitive touchscreen.

The new BlackBerry Bold 9900 combines classic qwerty keyboard so entrenched in the brand, along with a capacitive touch screen of 2.8 inches (640 × 480 pixel resolution) as demand today, all without forgetting to continue to maintain the central trackpad, which we consider a success. His improvements do not end here, and which has also been revamped its appearance with the phone resting on a steel chassis in one piece and has become the new Blackberry Bold 9900 in the finest ever made so far, its thickness is only 10.5 millimeters thick.

Its benefits go further, since it also renewed its internal components. Starting with the processor, we’re talking a 1.2 GHz processor accompanied mononuclear 768MB of RAM, plus 8GB of internal storage available but are expandable via MicroSD card reader, up to 32GB maximum. It has 720p video recording with its 5 megapixel camera, WiFi N, Bluetooth and even NFC. Note also that come with the Blackberry OS 7 operating system.

Although both models have been presented (there is another model for the U.S. market and CDMA networks, the Bold 9930) that come to our continent (for 3G/4G networks) will do for the summer at a price still unknown, and how operators will exclusively for sale.

Blackberry Playbook reduce their prices

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

Either way I was going to start happening. Tablets were around 500 euros before now begin to reduce their prices. Offers very good models offer features far more attractive prices for consumers.

Who now joins the sales is RIM Blackberry Playbook with your model. Looking to increase sales and preparing the market for new models, has decided to lower their prices significantly different versions. So if you live in Spain you can buy different models with the new prices.

For starters, we have the most basic model, the 16 GB, which happens to cost 499 euros to 299 euros cost. But if this discount is interesting, higher-capacity models even more surprised. The 32 GB Blackberry Playbook goes from 599 euros to 309 euros each. Finally, the 64 GB model, priced from 699 euros before-now have a final price of 319 euros.

From the official website you can see the new prices that will make the Blackberry Playbook sales increase considerably the next day. With less than 1.3 inches thick and 1 GHz processor, dual core, this is a tablet with very interesting features and a much more attractive.

Is this the beginning of a new price reduction by the companies? With the tremendous growth that has the tablet market would not be surprising that the older models begin to have really attractive discounts for users. Good news for those who think that 500 euros is a very high price for such gadgets.

Movistar launches Blackberry service Imagenio

Sunday, January 1st, 2012

These days we have been testing the new version of Imagenio Movistar just joined after their Blackberry phones do the same for Android. The operator hung up the corresponding application from which you can access a range of 23 TV channels among those Gol TV, CNN, Fox, National Geographic and Calle 13.

The service costs five euros a month (2.5 euros if you are already a customer of Imagenio at home) and is only available to customers of the operator. Technical requirements just have. They can run the application all the terminals RIM OS5 or higher operating system and have installed Blackberry Messenger 6.

The application has precisely the incentive to integrate with BBM. Just rotate the screen to open the chat room and talk about what we’re seeing with any other user of Blackberry messaging service. From Movistar say that in February, the application also integrates with Facebook, Twitter and Myspace.

Imagenio Mobile for Blackberry, curiously, does not work over WiFi. Only on 3G. Fortunately, the data traffic generated by the application has built-in cost of service and not Prei count toward the limits of the tariff plan you have. Currently not available for the Playbook.