We've seen quite a few demos from RIM this week at Mobile World Congress and while some of the stuff we saw was just concept ideas, one thing they've been showing off is already available and that is the media server capability built into BlackBerry 7.1. We're not entirely too sure that what RIM's angle is here. They've never officially announced the media server capability in 7.1, in fact -- it's not even in the currently available carrier releases. We only caught wind of it thanks to a heavy set of OS leaks that showed up previously. Either way, RIM has been showing it off at Mobile World Congress and if you want that capability now, you'll have to install a leaked OS.
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Mobile World Congress trade show gets a U.S. version
The GSMA group, which runs the annual Mobile World Congress trade show, is teaming up with CTIA to launch Mobile World Congress Americas. It will be held September 12-14, 2017 in San Francisco and will replace the CTIA Super Mobility show that year. The 2016 show will still be held on September 7-9 in Las Vegas.
This is BlackBerry's four-pillar device strategy
The last of our interviews with the BlackBerry folks at Mobile World Congress was Francois Mahieu, VP of Global Product Management. He walked us through BlackBerry's device strategy, which is timely given the announcement of the Z3 and the Classic Q20. Mahieu outlined in broad strokes four major categories of phones from here on in. Starting at the lower end are devices like the Q5...
How BlackBerry is defending its enterprise stronghold
At Mobile World Congress, we caught up with John Sims, the president of enterprise at BlackBerry. He filled us in on how BlackBerry is currently defending its leadership in the sphere of business mobility. BBM is becoming a bigger part of the enterprise picture for BlackBerry, but that doesn't mean the more consumer-focused updates don't trickle over. For example, the recent update to...
There will be many BlackBerry "Classic" models like the Q20
Following BlackBerry's Mobile World Congress Press Conference, I had the chance to sit down with the company's VP of Global Product Management, Francois Mahieu. Francois has a broad range of responsibilities at BlackBerry related to bringing new devices to market and we had a delightful conversation of which I'll be following up with more details. While I work on that longer interview...