A couple of years ago I wrote a fairly popular post titled ” 5 Reasons That RIM Should Make A BlackBerry That Runs Android “. Today, I feel even more strongly about this so I am doing a follow up with 5 More Reasons RIM Should Build a Device That Runs Android.
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5 More Reasons Why RIM Should Build A Device That Runs Android
Adam over at CrackBerry.com did a comparison video of boot times between the BlackBerry Bold 9700, BlackBerry Bold 9650, and the new BlackBerry Torch 9800 running BlackBerry 6. I am not really stunned by how fast the Torch boots compared to the latest BlackBerry Bold model. It seems on par with (maybe a little slower than) the iPhone and Android devices
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Video: Boot Time On The BlackBerry Torch Running BB6 Is Greatly Improved
A BGR Source has leaked Verizon roadmap plans for the remainder of 2010, 2011, and even a bit of 2012. There is a lot of focus on LTE and Android, however, news about Research in Motion and upcoming BlackBerry devices was not present on the roadmap at all. It is clear that Verizon is putting its money on Android, however, it will be interesting to see if big red, who once accounted for 40% of all of Research in Motion’s revenue, will continue to push BlackBerry devices, or, relegate it’s former flagship smartphone line to “devices they still sell” status. Leaked Verizon 2010/2011 Roadmap In addition to the Motorola DROID and Motorola DROID X, we’re told Motorola will launch a new DROID handset, the Motorola DROID Pro.
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Verizon 2010/2011 Roadmap Leaked… BlackBerry Not Even Mentioned
Episode #31 of the Simple Mobile Review Podcast, It’s a Good Thing You’re Injured, is now up. I’m back from vacation, Brent’s son is married, and Research in Motion dominated the show this week
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Simple Mobile Review Podcast #31: It’s A Good Thing You’re Injured
Meterberry has long been one of my favorite apps for the BlackBerry. While I don’t have the same need for Meterberry on the Bold 9650 as I did on the Storm 9530, I just installed the application again as I really like the data it provides on power usage. Meterberry gives me an easy way to check the percent to which my battery is charged
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Meterberry is Still Valuable with 300MB Free Memory
I was listening to This Week in Google Episode 54 and they talked about new concerns over application security. To give a little background, Android had a recent issue where a wallpaper app was sending user data to some server in China . After the app was pulled from the Android Market, Google did an investigation and it turned out the app was in fact safe (but not necessarily coded as cleanly as it should have been)
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This Week in Google Reinvented BlackBerry App Security
Epidsode #30 of the Simple Mobile Review Podcast , “It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Hurts Me”, is now up. We’ve created a new Twitter account, @SMRpodcast , that you will definitely want to check out. We will be doing free giveaways that will be mentioned only during the show and via Twitter, so, be sure to follow us on Twitter and subscribe to the show … Tweet to Win the Jabra Cruiser Win a free #Jabra Cruiser Bluetooth Car Kit from @SimpleMobileRev & @SMRPodcast Winner to be Announced on August 8th Podcast Hosts: Rod Simmons, Chris Ashley, Robb Dunewood (On Vacation) Recorded: August 1st, 2010 Published: August 2nd, 2010 Duration: 1hr 17Min 44Sec SUBSCRIBE FOR AUTOMATIC DOWNLOADS Standard RSS BlackBerry Users: Simple Mobile Review Podcast App Powered by PodTrapper Instructions to subscribing to podcasts SHOW TOPICS Giveaway We have two Jabra Cruisers to give away. These Bluetooth car kits are awesome speakerphones. All you have to do is follow SMRPodcast or SimpleMobileRev on Twitter and tweet the following Win a free #Jabra Cruiser Bluetooth Car Kit from @SimpleMobileRev & @SMRPodcast Winner to be Announced on August 8th Podcast The winner will be announced on next weeks show!!! Good Luck! A couple of guys are missing from this weeks show.
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Simple Mobile Review Podcast #29: It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Hurts Me
This weekend on the SMRPodcast we will be giving away Two Jabra Cruiser Bluetooth Car Kit, Speakerphone . Details about how to win will be announced on show #30 of the SMRPodcast (Monday, August 2nd 2010) . Chris Ashley over at Simple Mobile Review recently did a review of the Jabra Cruise and it has become one of his favorite tech toys in the car.
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Giveaway: Win a Jabra Cruise Bluetooth Car Kit, Listen to Learn How
I just installed face2face , a cross platform, location aware, social networking client from Promimate Global that combines Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter networks into a single client as well as ads consolidated chat between face2face users, on my BlackBerry, and, although I’ve only played around with it for about 5 minutes, it seems to be a pretty slick app thus far. face2face is a location-aware smartphone app that solves the problems of privacy and safety that have become synonymous with social networking – so that more people can benefit from the advantages that come from knowing which friends are nearby. I probably won’t enable any of the location aware aspects of face2face, and I will probably keep using a dedicated Twitter client on my device, however, face2face could be a candidate to replace Facebook for BlackBerry and LinkedIn for BlackBerry. I can’t say for sure just yet, however, I am impressed with speed and the interface of the app and if it allows me to effectively git rid of Facebook which is slow, and replace LinkedIn which is large, face2face, my find a permanent home on my BlackBerry Storm 9530 which is memory starved
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Free BB App: face2face Combines LinkedIn, Facebook, And MySpace Into A Single BlackBerry App
There is no question that Research in Motion is doing everything they can to make the BlackBerry more popular with consumers. The currently running BBM commercials are in indication of that. It is good to know, however, that RIM isn’t ditching that date that brought them to the dance… Business users.
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Video: The BlackBerry Platform
