BlackBerry To Focus on High End Enterprise Devices For Now – Low End Consumer Devices in 2014
On today’s conference call BlackBerry CEO John Chen made a pretty bold statement. He said that for the foreseeable future BlackBerry would be focusing on the enterprise only high end devices. They hope to one day come back to building consumer devices but for now they will have Foxconn building low end consumer devices…
BlackBerry Live 2014 Gets Cancelled After 12 Years
This is a gut-punch sign of the changing times at BlackBerry. They have just announced that BlackBerry Live 2014 will not be held next year in favor of smaller events throughout the year. This means BlackBerry’s big event of the year is no longer after 12 years. That is a real shame since that was…
BlackBerry Reorganizes Business Into Four Units to Drive Focus & Efficiency
John Chen’s changes keep on coming through at BlackBerry. I was predicting that Chen would split up the company along these lines and now he has divided into operating unit structure. The units will be Enterprise Services, Messaging (BBM), QNX Embedded business, and the devices business. This will allow the company to “drive greater focus…
BlackBerry Announces Strategic Partnership with Foxconn
BlackBerry had some good news for us this morning in the form of a strategic partnership finally forming. They have signed a 5 year joint development and manufacturing agreement with Foxconn. This will let them target Indonesia in early 2014 and other fast growing markets with cheaper devices. Here is what CEO John Chen had…
BlackBerry Releases Earnings – Misses Targets With 4.3 Million Phones Sold
BlackBerry put out some bleak results today missing wall streets estimates with a Q3 EPS of -$0.67 missing by $0.24 and revenue of $1.2 Billion missing by $0.38 Billion. They announced they sold 4.3 million phones but sadly 3.2 billion of those were BlackBerry 7 devices. They now also have $3.2 billion dollars on hand….
Marmalade Brings Free Piggy Biggy Physics Game to BlackBerry 10 & PlayBook
Marmalade has brought another crowd pleasing physics game to BlackBerry 10 and PlayBook users. It needs to be improved a bit for performance but Piggy Biggy is an awesome physics game on the lines of Cut the Rope. You must destroy obstacles in the way of Piggy getting to his golden coins. Its quite…
Headless "Watcher" App Packs Loads of Utilities into One
I am really digging 10soft’s Watcher app on my Z30. Watcher is an all in one utility app that runs in the background (headless) without an active frame. That means these utilities are always running! It includes everything from notification and LED options to profile switching and call blocking. Check out the full feature list…
BlackBerry Shares Upcoming BBM Features for 2014! (BlackBerry, iOS, & Android)
We have suspected quite a few things were coming to BBM on BlackBerry, Android, and iOS shortly. Now Sean Hungerford, a leader of the BBM product management group, laid out many of the upcoming features we can expect in 2014. Sadly there was nothing mind blowing shown but it does confirm where BlackBerry is going…