SubscribeElsewhere on GearShrine: GPS | Palm Pre | Palm Treo | Sidekick | T-Mobile G1 | Windows Mobile | Slingbox |
Blogger
GigaOM
GigaOM (gigaom.com) has great BlackBerry news, photos, videos and more
Tuesday, Nov 17
Adobe Flashes Its Mobile Cards With New Releases
Flash 10.1, which was unveiled last month, is designed to run on platforms including Google’s Android, Research In Motion’s BlackBerry, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, Nokia’s Symbian and Palm’s webOS. Today’s beta releases are limited to devices running Windows, Mac or Linux operating...
Monday, Nov 16
Evernote Gets $10 Million in New Funding
Evernote, a Mountain View, Calif.-based company that makes one of my favorite cross-platform apps, called (what else) Evernote, has raised $10 million in new funding. The new round was led by Morgenthaler Ventures, a respected Sand Hill Road firm with a deep history. Evernote had previou...
Friday, Nov 13
BlackBerry Will Remain Market Leader Through 2014: Analyst
Google’s Android OS-based phones and Apple’s iPhone maybe get all the media love, but one analyst firm believes that it will be RIM’s BlackBerry that will be the smartphone king of the U.S. market in five years. Pyramid Research expects the device to be the biggest beneficiary of the move to s...
Tuesday, Nov 10
Apple Shoots Past Nokia As World’s Most Profitable Handset Vendor
Both the Windows Mobile and BlackBerry line of devices are being forced to confront the power of Android, and the open source operating system is likely to provide some significant competition for the iPhone as well. As Stacey pointed out this morning, Verizon and Motorola moved more th...
Sunday, Nov 8
Mobile Location Is Charting a Quick Path to Growth
Data represents location apps from the iPhone App Store, Android Market, Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog, and BlackBerry App World. Kate Imbach is the head of marketing at Skyhook Wireless and co-founder and organizer at Mobile Monday Americas. You can follow her on Twitter @Kate8.
Tuesday, Nov 3
What Are the Downsides to Droid?
UPDATED Verizon Wireless is ramping up for Friday’s launch of the Motorola Droid, and the device has created substantial buzz, thanks to generally positive reviews and the carrier’s big-budget marketing campaign. But some users — including Om — say the handset has been overhyped and is...
Wednesday, Oct 28
Opinion: Did Droid Just KO the BlackBerry Storm2?
I just got off the phone with jkOnTheRun’s Kevin Tofel, and like every other geek, we were talking about Droid and its impact on the market. We were both wondering if Motorola’s release today of its Verizon-focused Droid handset killed the BlackBerry Storm2, the new version of the touchsc...
Monday, Sep 21
BlackBerry Should End This Tour
It will be a long time before I trust BlackBerry products. As it stands now, I wouldn’t even recommend the Tour to my worst enemy. Maybe I should wait for Verizon to launch that rumored Motorola Android phone and get rid of BlackBerry all together.
Tuesday, Mar 31
Review: BlackBerry App World. Verdict: Good Enough.
RIM just launched its BlackBerry App World (BAW), a competitor to iTunes App Store. I download the App World app over my WiFi network and installed it on my my T-Mobile Curve 8900. The download and installation process was painless and relatively smooth — in a Blackberry sort of a way. When I op...
Wednesday, Nov 26
Opinion: For New York Times BlackBerry Storm is a Dud
The first sign of trouble was the concept: a touchscreen BlackBerry. That’s right — in its zeal to cash in on some of that iPhone touch screen mania, R.I.M. has created a BlackBerry without a physical keyboard. Hello? Isn’t the thumb keyboard the defining feature of a BlackBerry? A BlackBerry...
Thursday, Nov 20
Opinion: What’s a BlackBerry Without a Keyboard?
While I can live without a keyboard on iPhone, I cannot do the same on a BlackBerry. One of the reasons I like BlackBerry is the physical QWERTY keyboard. The Bold’s keyboard was one of the reasons I gave that device a big thumbs up. The keyboard and push email make BlackBerry a device to love beca...
