BlackBerry 10.2 Brings New Identity Service Library for BBID & Offsite Settings Storage
One of the cool new additions in the latest BlackBerry 10.2 SDK release is the Identity Service Library. This library allows developers to tie into a external identity provider, like BlackBerry ID or even Facebook/Twitter/etc, to log into their app. This way you can allow users to use the authentication information they already have in…
BlackBerry PlayBook Listed as OS 10.1 Compatible in Vendor Portal
Wow, if there is one thing we have all been waiting for it is BlackBerry 10 for the PlayBook. It has been a subject much scrutinized over time, and always on the tips of the tongues of our hungry followers. Well Lucas over at N4BB posted a screen cap of the BlackBerry World Vendor Portal…
Analyst Claims BlackBerry Z10 & Q10 Sales Are "Much Stronger Than Thought" By Wall Street
Those of you with BlackBerry stock saw a nice jump yesterday as Societe Generale’s Andy Perkins upgraded the stock to a buy. I just thought it was worth mentioning after the fact because his stock “checks” show that BlackBerry has sold more Z10’s and Q10’s in the last month than Wall Street is expecting….
Android Open Accessory Protocol Support Coming in BlackBerry OS 10.2
I dug a little bit further into the new Peripheral Discovery Library in BlackBerry OS 10.2 and discovered something very interesting. It seems like BlackBerry has specifically called out support for the Android Open Accessory Protocol which allows devices to easily be detected and setup communication with your BlackBerry 10 device. This protocol was specifically…
BlackBerry 10.2 Adds Screenshot & Peripheral (USB, Printers, etc) & Identity APIs
I was digging through the change logs for the latest BlackBerry OS 10.2 SDK and found some nice additions beyond the big updates BlackBerry mentioned. First of all I was glad to see BlackBerry add a Screen Capture screenshot API both in native and Cascades. This just allows apps to save a picture of…
BlackBerry 10.2 Packs Android Hardware Acceleration (Jelly Bean – Project Butter)
One of the main updates in BlackBerry 10.2 is the upgrade of the Android runtime to v4.2.2 of Jelly Bean. This will add support for many more applications and better UI elements but there is one major feature that really sticks out which is Hardware Acceleration. Hardware Acceleration came to Android in v4.1 to v4.2.2…
Apple’s iMessage Servers Decide Whether you get your SMS or Not if you Switched to BlackBerry 10
Bla1ze of CrackBerry posted a very interesting article this morning about iMessage giving users who have switched to BlackBerry 10, as well as to other platforms SMS issues. Because iMessage is nothing more than glorified text messaging that goes through their servers, some BlackBerry 10 users are reporting that they are not getting their messages….
Verizon Starts Rolling out BlackBerry 10.1 for the Z10
Verizon has jumped on the band wagon of releasing 10.1 to its Z10 users. Now what’s the big deal with 10.1 when all of yesterdays events were focused on 10.2? 10.1 is current, it brings a slew of upgrades and changes to the customer, and puts them on par with everyone else who has it….