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Brainstorming BB10: Are you using BlackBerry Link, and if so, is it up to snuff?
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Brainstorming BB10: Are you using BlackBerry Link, and if so, is it up to snuff?

Posted by Bla1ze on 10 May 2013 9:46 pm
Before the release of BlackBerry 10 we learned early on BlackBerry would also be revamping their desktop offerings and replacing BlackBerry Desktop Software. The new app was to be called BlackBerry Link and would come with a revamped UI and was meant to be more user friendly than the aging BlackBerry Desktop Software solution, as well it was built to offer some additional features like remote...
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Brainstorming BB10: Please fix Speed Dialing on the BlackBerry Q10!

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 8 May 2013 3:50 pm
OK, time for a friendly rant in the spirit of Brainstorming BlackBerry 10. This one is about speed dialing on the BlackBerry Q10. It's driving me nuts. Compared to speed dialing on an older BlackBerry like the Bold 9900, speed dialing on the Q10 has taken a step backwards that I *hope* can be fixed up soon. Be sure to watch the video above for the walk through from A to Z, or you can keep...
Latest report from Bluefin supports a bullish stance on BlackBerry
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Latest report from Bluefin supports a bullish stance on BlackBerry

Posted by Chris Umiastowski on 8 May 2013 6:17 am
So far this week we’ve seen some negative comments out of the usual bearish Wall Street analysts.  If you follow the stock, you know who these guys are. They tend to avoid any kind of balanced analysis, always hammering on whatever negative points they can find. Wall Street analysts are not typically experts on how to gather supply chain data, nor are they experts in how to measure sell through...
Will Q10 demand drive a huge turnaround in BlackBerry’s financial results?
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Will Q10 demand drive a huge turnaround in BlackBerry’s financial results?

Posted by Chris Umiastowski on 6 May 2013 1:02 pm
Last quarter, with only one month worth of Z10 shipments, BlackBerry shipped one million devices running the new BlackBerry 10 platform and posted better than expected results - particularly gross margin.  Now that the Q10 has hit a few markets, could things get even better? Could BlackBerry return to a level of profitability worth of Wall Street respect in the next couple of quarters? I suspect...
Vining for attention
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Vining for attention

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 5 May 2013 4:32 pm
I confess. I like Vine. I used it yesterday for the first time and have been having some fun the past 24 hours making my own Vine creations (yes, I've been walking around the past 24 hours with 3 phones in my pocket... Z10 / Q10 / iPhone 5). You can check out my first Vine attempts below. The roof top one is pretty epic. *Note - It appears embedded Vines don't seem to play too nice on the CB10...
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Drunken Drop Test with the BlackBerry Q10

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 4 May 2013 12:46 pm
Since posting our BlackBerry Q10 Review, I have been using both the Z10 and Q10 as I try to determine which phone I actually want to use as my main BlackBerry 10 phone for the months ahead.  All week I've been working on a longer Which Should I Buy: BlackBerry Z10 or BlackBerry Q10? editorial piece that will be hitting the CrackBerry blogs in the next few days, so I've been putting the Z10...
One Week with the BlackBerry Q10
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One Week with the BlackBerry Q10

Posted by James Richardson on 2 May 2013 8:54 am
I was lucky enough to get my hands on the BlackBerry Q10 a good few days before it first went on sale at Selfridges in London. To say I was excited would obviously be an understatement. But what I was looking forward to the most was seeing if I could go back to using a hardware keyboard after getting so used to the wonderful one on the Z10 that I've had for around four months. You'll find my...
I highly doubt Thorsten Heins thinks the tablet market will die
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I highly doubt Thorsten Heins thinks the tablet market will die

Posted by Chris Umiastowski on 30 Apr 2013 3:24 pm
Yesterday, according to Bloomberg, Thorsten Heins dropped the following snipped:  "In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore.”  As usual, the media is jumping all over this with headlines that take the comments to an extreme.  Hey, whatever gets the click for those guys. I’m all about the balance.  We reached out to BlackBerry to get some kind of clarification on...
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From the Editor's Desk: A week to remember

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 30 Apr 2013 8:05 am
  I'm a little late getting up my weekly From the Editor's Desk post, but you can't blame me - it was a CRAZY week. Between having a good chunk of the Mobile Nations team in NYC for #TM13 at the same time as we had to work on our BlackBerry Q10 Review, it made for a non-stop week of action. No complaints from me though. I love being BUSY, and we had some special guests join us last week which...
What tens of millions of Q10 sales mean for BlackBerry
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What tens of millions of Q10 sales mean for BlackBerry

Posted by Chris Umiastowski on 29 Apr 2013 6:42 pm
If you haven’t yet watched the interview with Thorsten Heins on Bloomberg, you should definitely watch the short clip. Adam already posted a summary here and the video is embedded. “We expect several tens of millions of units”, said a confident BlackBerry CEO on camera. That’s a huge statement to make, and from what we’ve seen of the man so far, he is a man of action. He is not one to exaggerate...

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