It’s no secret that RIM has been in a lot of trouble getting people to actually care about them as of late. The PlayBook, while featuring nice hardware and generally awesome software, has failed to catch the general public’s interest (firesale aside). But at MWC 2012 RIM took another step towards making the PlayBook and their entire ecosystem as a whole a more complete experience by unveiling their BlackBerry Video Service. The new service is powered by content...
Don’t expect to get your monthly Netflix fix from a BlackBerry device anytime soon. After months and months of waiting, repeated emails and constant tweets, Netflix responded today saying that they “currently don’t have any plans to release/support the BlackBerry platform, including the PlayBook”. While it could be a matter of not enough people to support BlackBerry and QNX on top of the other platforms, it’s more than likely Netflix...
RIM’s foray into the tablet space has been anything but peachy. To start off, they were late. On top of that, their first tablet, the PlayBook, shipped with a barely 0.5 version of software that ironically for a company who made their name on mobile email, lacked a mobile email client of its own. But through several promised (and missed) release dates later, we finally have PlayBook 2.0, a better, more complete experience. Email, Contacts & Calendars The...
RIM’s path over the last 2-3 years has become increasingly difficult thanks to quantum leaps by their competitors. The PlayBook was, in short, RIM’s answer to the iPad. It’s no iPad. But, it does have potential — the OS at least. PlayBook 2.0 builds upon the foundation of the PlayBook OS and brings with it a host of enhancements that quite frankly, should have been in 1.x (and released ~1 year earlier). But alas. Bickering now won’t do anything...
Excited for the latest BlackBerry 7 hardware? *Crickets* Well, if you’re one of the few people that are, BlackBerry is poised to wow you come March 15th with some new hardware for T-Mobile users. The invite sent out above doesn’t detail anything more than the event’s exclusive client list, but does elude “what’s next”. The “7″ logo and previous comments from RIM saying that BlackBerry 10 devices are at least 6 months away...
