In what would have been a blow for BlackBerry, word broke yesterday that Apple iOS devices and some Samsung Galaxy phones would be approved for use by the Department of Defense. The DoD has now officially issued those approvals, and not only is iOS not mentioned, but BlackBerry 10 devices have...
Apple's left out in the cold... for now
A touchscreen BlackBerry is nice, sure, but what defined Research In Motion's iconic brand (now known simply as "BlackBerry") is the portrait QWERTY keyboard. And here it is, the BlackBerry Q10. Unfortunately, we aren't able to play too much with...
The US Department of Defense is set to approve both Apple iOS devices and the Samsung Galaxy smartphone line for secure use by its more than three million total employees within a few weeks, The Wall Street Journal reports. Security approvals for Apple and Samsung would be a huge move for both companies, as presently, the BlackBerry line dominates the US defense sector, as The Journal notes....
As BlackBerry launches its keyboard-equipped Q10 smartphone, CEO Thorsten Heins is once again downplaying the importance of tablets in the mobile market. "In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore," Heins told Bloomberg in an interview. "Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model." BlackBerry's PlayBook tablet was one of its most notable failures, quickly dropping in price after unsold inventory caused it to take a $485 million loss in late 2011.
Since taking the helm, Heins has slowly backed away from tablets: the company remained "committed" to them in mid-2012, but by early 2013, Heins indicated that their future depended on how well BlackBerry did with its new platform on phones. For BlackBerry, which is struggling to carve out a...
"Tablets themselves are not a good business model." Thorsten Heins
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I feel like we’ve been here before.
In any discussion about BlackBerry, “The Bold is the one you really want” is a line you could’ve used at practically any point in the last five years. And so it is again: When the full-touch Z10 started hitting retail earlier this year to mediocre...
High-end British department store Selfridges has called the BlackBerry Q10 its "fastest-ever selling consumer electronics product." Although it declined to give exact statistics, the store said it was selling thousands of BlackBerry's latest...
Two months after it announced it would support the platform, Skype has launched its BlackBerry 10 app. Currently, the app is available as a preview build and support is limited to the BlackBerry Q10. The new app has been tuned to take advantage of the Q10's smaller screen,...
