OS 10.2.1 Leak Shows Off Customizable Quick Settings!
The 10.2.1.1055 leak is a gift that keeps on giving. The latest spotted by the people on the BerryInsider thread on CrackBerry Forums is the customizable quick settings. Yes that means you can customize the bar and put quite a few things on there. That includes battery percentages, flashlight, and more!
OS 10.2.1.1055 Leaks For Certain Devices Packing OTA Android App Installs!!!
It seems like BlackBerry read my article about opening up direct Over The Air installs of Android apps on BlackBerry 10. BerryInsider has just leaked OS 10.2.1.1055 for the Q10, Q5, and surprisingly the Z10 STL100-1 only. They are going to add more devices as they find solid radios. What is crazy is the change…
Great Sample Of BlackBerry "Natural Sound" Technology in Action
I have been working on a post comparing the BlackBerry “Natural Sound” found in BlackBerry OS 10.2 and regular phone calls. It is not an easy task to describe the difference and I even asked BlackBerry for some audio clips that they used to demo the technology. Tom pointed out to me that BlackBerry has…
Check out Podcasts To Go for BlackBerry 10
I have been listening to a few new podcasts recently and wanted to take them on my Z30. Piotr over at BBNews.pl pointed out a cool app that has been around for awhile called Podcasts to Go that remains free as it is in “public beta.” Either way the app works quite well though sadly…
Prem Watsa Never Asked Thorsten Heins to Resign – Mike Lazaridis Wanted to "Go On His Own"
The Globe & Mail keeps on giving us more juicy details on the strategic review and takeover attempts at BlackBerry. We learned now that founder and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis and founder Doug Fregin hired Goldman Sachs as advisors to put together a takeover deal with Cerberus Capital Management that was “Highly conditional” and rejected by…
BlackBerry Picture Passwords, Dashboard, and Fuse Mode Show Up in 10.2.1 Leak
There was a leak of OS 10.2.1.845 a bit back by BerryLeaks that did not come with a radio (due to BlackBerry not allowing 10.2 radios to work anymore) so we did not mention it. Users have been ripping apart that OS leak for a few days now and have found some nice goodies. First…
gNewsReader Packs Loads of Features In Latest Update
One of my most used BlackBerry 10 apps just got a whopper of an update on BlackBerry 10. gNewsReader has been updated with loads of new features. It now has feed list images out of Beta and we now also have favicons for websites showing up in the susbscription list. They have also updated the…
BlackBerry Clarifies More of the Functionality & Limitations of Headless Apps
BlackBerry has finally started making some headway in terms of headless apps. In case you don’t know headless apps are apps that run in the background without an active user interface. Sadly the current implementation will not offer either users or developers what they have been asking BlackBerry for but it is a start. Shadid…