BlackBerry
Today, TCL Communications has revealed that the company will be losing their BlackBerry brand license, and will stop selling such devices this August. The announcement is a bit of a shock, and what this actually means for the BlackBerry brand as well as BB mobile devices is currently still unclear. BlackBerry phones under TCL had seen a resurgence over the last few years, and one would have assumed the partnership was successful. Whether BlackBerry will be partnering with a different OEM to continue making devices, or if this will be the end of BB devices is something we currently don’t know. The full announcement: When TCL Communication announced in December 2016 that we had entered into a brand licensing and technology support agreement with BlackBerry Limited to...
The TCL Plex Smartphone Hands-On: Dedicated Low-Light Camera for Video
As one of the world’s largest TV manufacturers, with its hands in a lot of other things, TCL is a fairly common name among certain regions of the world...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/5/2019
BlackBerry Acquires Cylance, Gets AI & ML Security Technology
BlackBerry Limited has announced that it had completed acquisition of Cylance, a company developing machine learning and artificial intelligence-based security technology. The move adds valuable IP and technologies to...
22 by Anton Shilov on 2/25/2019
BlackBerry Launch Special Edition Key2 in Red
Following the successful launch of the Cosmic Red edition of the Key2 LE last year, and the many column inches by technology journalists praising the color combination as striking...
0 by Ian Cutress on 2/24/2019
BlackBerry Key2 LE: A Competitive Android Offering
As a person who works on my phone during my commutes to write news and stories, I have always batted around the idea of picking up a BlackBerry with...
36 by Ian Cutress on 9/17/2018
BlackBerry Launches KEYone Black Edition: All-Black, 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB NAND
TCL's BlackBerry Mobile imprint has introduced a revamped BlackBerry KEYone smartphone at IFA trade show last week. The new KEYone Black Edition comes in all-black chassis and has more...
26 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 9/6/2017
BlackBerry KEYOne Announced: Snapdragon 625 with QWERTY, $549
This week at MWC, TCL announced the BlackBerry KEYOne, which follows in BlackBerry's traditional style with a distinctive hardware QWERTY keyboard, but this time a more polished look at...
49 by Anton Shilov on 2/27/2017
BlackBerry Stops Development of Smartphones, Set to Outsource Hardware Development
BlackBerry on Wednesday said it would cease internal development of its hardware and will transfer that function to its partners. While the BlackBerry-branded devices will remain on the market...
37 by Anton Shilov on 9/28/2016
A quick look at Blackberry 10.2 and web browsing performance on Z10
Blackberry has started rolling out OS 10.2 to BB10 devices such as Z10, Q10 and Q5. Update appears to be available in Canada and UK for a start. The...
45 by Rahul Garg on 10/26/2013
BlackBerry 10 Announcement: Live Blog
We're seated at RIM's BlackBerry 10 launch event. Keep your browser parked here for our live blog that should start at 10AM EST.
40 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/30/2013
BlackBerry 10 Teased Kicking Off BlackBerry World
As the lights came up on Thorston Heins opening remarks at BlackBerry World 2012, expectations were... well, low. There was always the possibility that we would hear of some...
24 by Jason Inofuentes on 5/1/2012
BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Available Today
BlackBerry PlayBook OS version 2.0 has been released to the public, according to a Research In Motion press release that was posted today. The new OS version introduces...
12 by Andrew Cunningham on 2/21/2012
All BlackBerry PlayBook Models On Sale for $299
Research in Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet (read our review) is now on sale for $299 in the BlackBerry Store, a price which applies to the 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB...
12 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/3/2012
BlackBerry London Image Leaked: The First QNX Phone
First reported by The Verge and subsequently confirmed by Boy Genius Report, the first image of BlackBerry's first BBX phone has leaked, and it is a significant departure from...
4 by Jason Inofuentes on 11/15/2011
Time for Unification: RIM Announces BlackBerry BBX for Smartphones & Tablets
With its PlayBook tablet RIM introduced a brand new mobile platform built on QNX's Neutrino 6.5 OS. The result was an extremely smooth user experience with great multitasking support...
28 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/18/2011
RIM Offers Free Apps, Month of Enterprise Support in Response to Outage
A week after a core switch failure caused worldwide outages for Research in Motion's BlackBerry servers, the company is attempting to make amends: RIM announced today that it would...
6 by Andrew Cunningham on 10/17/2011
RIM Announces BlackBerry Torch 9810, Bold 9900, Torch 9860 - 2011 Lineup
Almost exactly a year ago, AT&T and RIM announced the BlackBerry Torch 9800, which we reviewed and found brought a much-needed new WebKit based browser and OS update, but...
11 by Brian Klug on 8/3/2011
BlackBerry Bold Touch and BlackBerry 7 OS Headline BlackBerry World Day 1
There’s no getting around it, RIM hasn’t had the best year ever. It's been steadily losing market share to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 7, there's been lackluster response...
27 by Jason Inofuentes on 5/2/2011
The BlackBerry PlayBook Review
I suppose it's fitting that I should be the one to write our PlayBook review. Before Android and the iPhone, there were two mobile platforms/devices that I was hugely...
78 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/13/2011
BlackBerry Bold 9780: Not So Bold
It's been a while since we reviewed the BlackBerry Torch, and today we have a follow up review of the BlackBerry Bold. The long and the short of it...
36 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 3/25/2011
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