Odebrecht Purchases for 3,500 BlackBerry 10 Devices on BES 10
BlackBerry scored another big win with Odebrecht in Brazil this week. Odebrecht is a leader in mobile communications agreed to buy 3,500 BlackBerry Z10 and Q5 devices within a year of the contract. Odebrecht has over 190,000 employees and 41.5 billion dollars in revenue in 2012 so its a big win for BlackBerry 10. Check…
Upcoming BlackBerry Messenger Update Adds Highly Requested Improvements
BlackBerry seems to have finally decided to treat BBM like an app that deserves to be constantly updated instead of just once a year. Coming off their huge 10.3 update BlackBerry’s Jeff Gadway has hit their blogG to confirm quite a few more improvements coming in the next BBM release. Specifically this new version adds…
BlackBerry Head of BBM Details Plans for BBM – Deflates Hope for Desktop Client
BlackBerry’s new head of Enterprise and BBM, John Sims, has only been on the job for a few months but he already seems to be detailing his plans. He laid out to CNET some of his plans and goals for BBM and how 40% of BBM users are now on other platforms. He also said…
John Chen Calls Out Good’s CEO Stating “Good Is Not Good Enough”
BlackBerry is finally fighting back in the enterprise space they have dominated for almost a decade. AirWatch, Good, and others have been picking away at BlackBerry with their multiplatform MDM offerings as BlackBerry tried focusing on consumers first. Now that Chen has refocused BlackBerry on their enterprise roots he is swinging for the fences. He…
BlackBerry May Consider Another Tablet but Has No Current Plans
BlackBerry’s VP of global product management, Francois Mahieu, sat down with Pocket-Lint over at Mobile World Congress and hammered out some details about their plans for future tablets. Mahieu confirmed that BlackBerry would consider building a tablet in the future but they are not doing it in the coming months. He specifically went on to…
BBM’s 6MB File Size Transfer Limit to be "Addressed" in Next Version of BBM
Its nice to see BlackBerry finally speeding up the feature roadmap and turnaround for BBM features. The latest update is coming from BlackBerry’s Jeff Gadway in a response to my buddy Bla1ze on Twitter. Gadway confirmed that the 6MB file transfer limit will be addressed in the next version of BBM. He stated that…
BlackBerry Q10 & Z10 Returns to T-Mobile’s Online Store
BlackBerry and T-Mobile have been having a bit of a spat recently with their CEO’s starting to be a bit confrontational. They seem to be trying to resolve things now and one of the changes seems to be that BlackBerry Q10 and Z10 devices are not available again on T-Mobile’s website. The devices are still…
128GB SanDisk MicroSDXC Card Now $120 @Amazon – Shipping in 2-3 Weeks
I really want to know if SanDisk’s new 128GB MicroSDXC cards will work on BlackBerry 10. Technically it should work like a charm especially on OS 10.2.1+ but who knows. Amazon has listed the card for $119.99 with free shipping and is supposed to ship in 2-3 weeks. This is much less than the $200…