Palm Pre fake tires of waiting for webOS 2.0, takes up iOS and BlackBerry OS lookalikes instead
We feel your pain: you love your BlackBerry at work and your iPhone for personal use, but as hardware goes, nothing gets your motor running quite like the Pre's pebble-esque shell. Trust us, we've all been there! Well, a new clone out of China seeks solve all your technological woes by combining an iOS-inspired user interface and the Pre's body -- with an iPhone home button thrown in for good measure, of course -- and when the time comes to throw on the suit and tie and head to work, you can switch the UI over to BlackBerry mode
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, blackberryos, china, interface, kirf, qwerty, skin, slider, technological, tie, user
RIM and AT&T event next Tuesday — BlackBerry slider and OS 6 en route?
Well well, what's this? We just got an invite to a joint RIM / AT&T event next Tuesday, and we'd guess that means we're about to see the official unveiling of the well-leaked BlackBerry 9800 slider with a side dish of BlackBerry OS 6 . Either that, or RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis is going to explain how working two-way Gmail sync is a real problem that affects every smartphone and give us a tour of RIM's top-secret email integration labs, but yeah -- we've got our bets on new hardware.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: black, BlackBerry, blackberry 9800, blackberry 9800 slider, blackberryos, blackberryslider, covering-every, event, explain-how, friend-via, os6, os6.0
BlackBerry 6′s WebKit-based browser bests the competition in a good ‘ol standards showdown
It's been almost a year since RIM picked up Torch Mobile and locked its newly acquired division in a closet, telling those coders to not come out until BlackBerry had a world-class browser. Early tests from Salomondrin, the self-described "007 of the Phone World," indicates that those tired engineers can now finally go home and get some sleep. The new WebKit-based browser, a part of BlackBerry OS 6.0 , managed a score of 208 on the Acid HTML5 tests, measuring browser compliance and performance.
Categories: BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, blackberryos, browser, competition, iphone, only-question, phone-world, the-competition, torch-mobile, web-browser
BlackBerry Tour goes to OS 5.0 on Verizon, right on time
Actually, saying that this update happened "right on time" might be a bit of a stretch considering the wide variety of BlackBerrys across multiple carriers that have already been boosted to OS 5.0, but this does match up with previous rumors that we'd be seeing an upgrade for Verizon's Tour today, especially considering the announcement that users would have access to push-to-talk services this week. Indeed, Tour owners across the land are now being pushed BlackBerry OS 5.0.0.591 with improvements to Bluetooth, messaging, calling, and camera features, so even if you're not into PTT, it seems like a decent download, especially considering that it's painlessly available over the air
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: 5.0, 9630, BlackBerry, blackberryos, engadget-mobile, especially-considering, mobile, result, tour, verizonwireless
BlackBerry OS 6.0 leaked?
Are these grabs from RIM's refreshed BlackBerry OS 6.0 or just fanart from some sleepy design school student meant to trick the tech press? We don't know, but BBLeaks claims that they come "highly regarded as real from one of our best connects." But before getting too worked up, it's worth noting the bizarre similarities between these grabs (San Francisco, the weather widget colors, Haiti tweet, and font) and the slide pulled from that "Super Apps" developer webinar back in February -- images that RIM called nothing more than mockups of nothing important at the time. Still with a consumer-focused, BlackBerry slider rumored to be making its first appearance next month at RIM's own WES show, well, who knows
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: Appearance, bizarre, blackberryos, clinical, engadget, Grabs, haiti, images, leak, school-student, slider, talladega, widget-colors
BlackBerry OS seemingly ported to Nokia 5700 for some strange reason
First, a disclaimer: we don't really know what's going on here.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: 5700, believing-some, BlackBerry, blackberryos, engadget-mobile, entry, images, mobile, nokia, pearl, pearl8220, result, xpressmusic