BlackBerry Hottest App Giveaway For Canada! $40 Worth of Selected Premium Apps
If you live in Canada, and you have a BlackBerry device running OS 7.1, you can download $40 of selected premium apps for free! We just heard from RIM that their BlackBerry Canada team is inviting users to “warm up” with a hot app offer. Hopefully this awesome promotion is expanded into other markets as…
Verizon Announces OS 7.1 & BlackBerry Curve 9370 Launch
Verizon has finally announced that they are launching the BlackBerry Curve 9370 on January 19th. Just as a reminder the Curve 9370 has double the ram of the other new Curve’s along with sporting both a CDMA and GSM radio so it is a cheaper global phone. Verizon has also announced that BlackBerry 7.1 will…
BlackBerry Java SDK v7.1 Going Gold Today
Well it is all about how you translate today but Alec Saunders of RIM has confirmed that the BlackBerry 7.1 SDK will be going gold today. They are in Singapore so today may mean the next 24 hours but still that means it is coming out of beta. That is nice to see before the…
Current BlackBerry 7 Devices Don’t Have FM Tuner – Future Devices Will…
I am still trying to make heads and tails out of this new FM Radio API that showed up in the BlackBerry OS 7.1 Beta SDK. We ruminated about it a bit earlier today but now we have a tad bit more info. Eric pointed out to us in the comments that Mark Sahom, a…
BlackBerry OS 7.1 Docs Show FM Tuner in BlackBerry Devices – No Sign of Wi-Fi Hotspot
When RIM made the new BlackBerry 7.1 SDK and simulators available the first thing I did was scour through the documentation. In the announcement RIM pointed out that there is a new FM Tuner API which totally comes out of left field. I remember Nokia phones way back in the day had FM tuners but…