FAA Taking Another Look At In-flight Use of Electronics Including Smartphones
I am not sure how I feel about this latest turn of events from the FAA in the US. The Federal Aviation Administration is creating a new cross government industry group to study if smartphones and other electronics will be safe to run during flights. This essentially could do away with flight mode though the…
Review: Simple to Use BlackBerry Music Gateway With NFC
RIM’s latest addition to the BlackBerry accessory line is the BlackBerry Music Gateway. The device is fairly small and lightweight which makes it convenient if you want to play your media using the Music Gateway either on your car stereo, or home media center or audio instruments equipped with auxiliary input. The Music Gateway is…
RIM Releases Analytics Service WebWorks Extension for Smartphones
RIM released their useful analytics service awhile back but limited to Java developers on BlackBerry smartphones. Now a member of RIM’s developer relations team, Tim Windsor, has released a new WebWorks extension for smartphone app developers to track analytics. That means devs can use it to track events like clicks and purchases and everything in…
RIM Unveils BlackBerry BBX-Combines BlackBerry and QNX For The Next Generation Platform
Today at DEVCON RIM announced their next platform that will combine the BlackBerry OS and QNX for the future of their Tablet and BlackBerry devices. Read the press release below: RIM Unveils BlackBerry BBX-Combines the Best of BlackBerry and QNX to Provide a Next Generation Platform for BlackBerry Smartphones and Tablets Additional announcements and highlights…
RIM Reconfirms that PlayBook Charger Charges Smartphones Twice as Fast
We told you last month that RIM’s ShopBlackBerry store practically confirmed that the BlackBerry PlayBook Rapid Charger can charge BlackBerry smartphones twice as fast. Now we have even more proof from RIM on that front. They put up a new knowledge base entry titled “BlackBerry smartphone compatibility with BlackBerry PlayBook charger.” According to that…
RIM Confirms BlackBerry PlayBook Premium Charger Charges Phones 2X Faster!
There has been a bit of confusion about using the BlackBerry PlayBook Premium charger and charging BlackBerry smartphones. Kevin @CrackBerry speculated a few months back that the Premium Charger that ships with the Playbook charges phones faster but RIM was mum on the subject and we speculated on our own. Now RIM has confirmed…
RIM Q2 Fiscal 2012 Conference Call Wrapup – More Details!
RIM didn’t go into much detail in their press release before but both Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie were on the investor conference call that just ended. They had quite a bit to say including the fact that 35% of sales for Q2 were for BlackBerry 7 devices in the last few weeks of Q2. …
Facebook v2.0 for Smartphones & PlayBook Released
In one fell swoop RIM has updated both Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones and for the BlackBerry PlayBook to v2.0. This new version brings different features to the different devices along with some BBM integration for smartphones and Facebook Places and Events for the PlayBook. Definitely worth a download if you are a heavy Facebook user.Download…