BlackBerry Hub Adds Next/Previous Overlay & Plain Text Options (Leaked OS)
I am slowly digging through the latest BlackBerry 10.2.1.1055 OS and the new feature I am digging is the overlaid next and previous buttons. I turned it on and I have to say I like it. When you open an email the hub overlays a Back and Next arrow button in the lower left…
BlackBerry Possibly Resizing Images Before Sending in Future BlackBerry 10 Builds?
One of the features I have been waiting for BlackBerry to implement on BlackBerry 10 which I had on BlackBerry OS 5.0 is to resize images before sending them. Every time I take a picture with my BlackBerry Q10 I end up with a 1.1MB image which is a whopper to send via email. This…
Selenium WebDriver Support Shows Up in OS 10.2.1 Leak for Web Developers
BlackBerry keeps on pushing more dev tools into the BlackBerry 10 browser. The latest addition spotted in the browser is the inclusion of the Selenium WebDriver. Selenium is used by developers and others to automate browsers. This lets you automate regression or other testing in a browser by sending the commands to the device. This…
Contact Groups Show Up in Latest BlackBerry OS 10.2.1 Leak
I mentioned in the past that it sometimes feels like the developers working on BlackBerry 10 have never used a legacy BlackBerry 7 device. This seems to be finally changing if what we see in the latest OS 10.2.1.1055 leak is officially released. One of the features legacy BlackBerry users have been asking for is…
Google Play Store Whitelisted In New OS 10.2.1 Leak as BlackBerry Denies Plans
This OS 10.2.1 leak is just full of changes. Some of you may know that BlackBerry has long been blacklisting certain Android application files that are required for certain Android apps to run. The most frustrating are the Google Play Store app and the Google Play Services. MoneyToo over at CrackBerry forums found that the…
BlackBerry 10.2.1 Leak Does NOT Allow for OTA Native App Installs
I was happy when I first learned that BlackBerry followed my suggestions in my previous rant and opened up OTA Android app installs. Sadly they did not take it all the way and tear down the BlackBerry App World wall. As you can see in the screenshots above and below BlackBerry has allowed users to…
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…