The BlackBerry Z30 Goes on Sale in the UK With International Shipping
We all saw the BlackBerry Z30 get launched in Malaysia last week, with satellite events in France and India. The Z30 is the Z10 replacement as the BlackBerry 10 flagship device. It boasts a 5-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280 x 768, 1.7GHz dual-core processor with 2GB RAM, BBOS 10.2.0.1442, and a 2,880mAh battery. Other rumoured specifications include…
BlackBerry Touts UK Enterprises Using BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10
Since Fairfax financial is buying into BlackBerry for what looks like their enterprise business its interesting to see a slew of press releases about it today. The latest is some stats for how UK enterprises are taking up or testing BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10. Obviously there is a big difference between testing and actually deploying…
BlackBerry Regional MD for EMEA, Robert Bose, Takes On UK & Ireland
BlackBerrys MD for UK and Ireland, Rob Orr, left BlackBerry last month and now BlackBerry has promoted a replacement. The current EMEA regional director, Robert Bose, is now taking on the UK and Ireland along with his previous responsibilities. Bose has been with BlackBerry since 2006 so he is well familiar with BlackBerrys current struggles…
Chelsea FC Launches Freemium Native App for BlackBerry 10
Another football club just launched a sweet native app for BlackBerry 10. Chelsea Football Club has launched their free app to connect fans with their latest videos, player profiles, live audio match commentary, and more. Its a pretty cool app and includes some premium subscription features for a low monthly cost. Here are the features:…
BlackBerry Q5 Gets Its First Commercial Starting in the UK
BlackBerry Q5 preorders opened up in the UK this week on quite a few carriers. Now BlackBerry UK has followed up with a new BlackBerry Q5 commercial. This is a full 2+ minute commercial showing off everything from story maker to BBM video and more. My guess is it will be cut up into smaller…
BlackBerry UK Managing Director Rob Orr Resigns
BlackBerrys current managing director in the UK and Ireland, Rob Orr, decided to resign this month. The UK is a key market for BlackBerry and Orr did a great job of launching both the Q10 and Z10 there before any other country. Those launches really set the tone for the whole global launch so it…
Analysts Agree BlackBerry Q10 Selling Well in Canada – Flawed Methods in UK
Last week I was chuckling when I read the latest analyst report from Deutsche Bank’s Brian Modoff about how BlackBerry sales in Canada were “positive” while running into a “tepid reception” in the UK. Personally I don’t give analysts reports much weight but at least they are mostly agreeing on Canada. What I truly found…
BlackBerry Q5 Preregistration Opens Up @ Phones 4U & Carphone Warehouse – Shipping in July
Both the Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U have just opened up preregistration for the upcoming BlackBerry Q5 lower tier BlackBerry 10 device. The devices is set to start shipping from both in July though neither have pricing out yet. It should be interesting to see what price point BlackBerry can get the devices to….