How to get Android apps on BlackBerry from the Amazon Appstore
Amazon offers lots of great free and paid Android apps which can run on your BlackBerry Z10, Q10, Q5 or Z30 - here's how to get started!
Amazon offers lots of great free and paid Android apps which can run on your BlackBerry Z10, Q10, Q5 or Z30 - here's how to get started!
If your BlackBerry Z10, Q10, Z30, Q5 or P'9982 has been updated to BlackBerry OS 10.2.1 or higher, you can now install Android apps directly onto the phone. Here's how!
One thing I mentioned in my review is that the battery door on the BlackBerry Z30 is particularly snug. Kevin's finally got his mitts on one, and he bumped into the same problem of popping the door off. As simple as the problem might be, we want to make sure we're helping out every new Z30 owner as much as possible. The only real starting point for opening the rear of the BlackBerry...
Michael McHale usually works on chandeliers with old pipes and gas fittings, but for this project, he's made quite a piece from old BlackBerry models. You'll spot the Tour, a couple of 8800s in there, and some 8500-series devices dangling all purdy-like. The custom-made Ozymandias Chandelier borrows its namesake from a Percy Shelley poem popularized by a recent Breaking Bad episode. It...
Yankee Group recently published a report that tallies up the second quarter results from Motorola and HTC, and found that BlackBerry is still outselling them, despite having a large write-down of Z10 inventory. Not everything is rosy, though; Yankee's poll of 375 IT decision-makers show only 11% prefer BlackBerry, leaving 39% to iPhone and 45% to Android. Microsoft's platform sits at 4...
So you thought S4BB was crazy for having over 46,000 city guides for BlackBerry 10? Well, they're about to quadruple their app count by submitting three additional apps for each of their city guides. Two of them will essentially be free "lite" versions of their premium $2.99 city guides, offering separate nightlife and dining reference tools. There will also be a paid business search...
Though the BlackBerry Z30 has a lot of cool stuff going for it, like stereo speakers and new antenna tech, what's most exciting for early BB10 adopters is the OS 10.2 update the Z30 brings in tow. We've touched on most of the new features in our extensive review, but let's dive a little bit deeper into the features that Z10, Q10, and Q5 owners will also be getting to enjoy later this...
Rotund with turkey and other Thanksgiving goodness, I rolled myself downtown last night to talk with CBC to talk about the open letter BlackBerry plans to put into newspapers today. They only used a small snippet of our conversation, and spent more time on background and talking with folks on the streets of Toronto, but you can find my bit at the 4:40 mark in the video below. To be...
For those that missed my BlackBerry Z30 review, or skipped over the video when reading it, take a look! I used a dolly and voice-overs and background music and everything. It's pretty fancy. Okay, so I messed up at a few points when reading, but you get an overall feeling for the size of the device, how it smoothly it runs, and the big features: namely big screen, big sound, and big...
An incoming update to MMMOOO's Translator app will include quick reference to geolocated Wikipedia articles thanks to some fresh BlackBerry Maps integration. The idea here is that folks using a translator are already traveling somewhere foreign, so more information about nearby spots is clearly useful. As always, Translator also lets you translate text between 50 languages with one of...
Forgive the tardiness here, folks. Between BlackBerry Jam Asia and checking out the BlackBerry Z30 in Waterloo, I haven’t had much of a chance to round up the best BB10 apps launched in September, but we’re here now! September was actually pretty busy for BlackBerry World. Let’s dig in. Evernote Evernote finally got its own stand-alone app for BlackBerry 10. The integration with...
After getting a good look at the Z30 hardware, Michael Clewley, BlackBerry's director of handheld software product management, walked us through some of his favorite features in OS 10.2. A lot of these are old hat for those that have been tinkering with the leaks, but let's take a look anyway. First up, Michael highlighted the detailed lock screen notifications. By tapping on icons on...
One interesting app I found at BlackBerry Jam Asia was FlockMe. These guys are trying to make something of a social event matchmaking service on BlackBerry 10. Users connect their Facebook account, and based on their interests, are presented with events happening around them so they can meet like-minded people. The goal here isn't so much dating (though that use case is still pretty...
The guys from ARKick were at BlackBerry Jam Asia 2013 showing off a distinctly different kind of app than their augmented reality browser. Pastry Push is a deceptively simple puzzle game where players have to slide a cupcake into a monster's mouth through a series of teacup. Players are scored out of three stars based on how many swipes they make, and are challenged to pick up bonus...
While visiting at Waterloo this week, I caught up with BlackBerry's Michael Clewley who showed me around some of the more prominent features on the new BlackBerry Z30. Obviously the 5-inch screen demands a lot of attention, but there's a lot more going on than just increased size. The S-Stripe pixel layout makes text particularly sharp, which is a must when enjoying longer web pages and...
BlackBerry's senior VP of design, Todd Wood, kicked off his talk about the Z30 by looking at tennis rackets. It obviously seemed like a weird analogy at first, but when he showed how over the course of three generations, the rackets got larger, it meant the sweet spot for hitting the ball had grown. Similarly, Todd saw the Z30's 38% increase in screen real estate as an equivalent growth...
This is by far the coolest thing that I saw at BlackBerry Jam Asia 2013. Our good friend Gary Klassen, inventor of BBM, had a session on Tilt UI, a part of Cascades that's available now and allows developers to use device orientation to show useful information. This hearkens back to something the old TAT crew made years ago called Horizon. In one demo app, users can keep tabs on...
BlackBerry's Chris Smith gave gave us a closer look at Jam Asia's BBM on PC tech demo, except this time they had it up and running for SMS, and he indicated they could have done it with any number of their apps. Unfortunately, they wouldn't let us shoot video, but check out the keynote video below in action. Basically it projects the mobile app onto Windows securely through Link's...
Epicue is an interesting check-in app that aims to make sure the restaurants you go to don't have a massive wait time, and we got a sneak peak at BlackBerry Jam Asia 2013. Users check in to establishments with the app and give the place a red, yellow, or green wait time rating. They can also check into Foursquare, Facebook, Twitter, and BBM at the same time, as well as upload a picture...