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10-inch PlayBook is in the Works

Back in March, when I first got hands-on with the PlayBook, Ryan Bidan said to me that 7″ will not be the only size that RIM will make tablets in.  RIM has never been a one-size-fits-all device manufacturer, so it comes as no surprise that BGR is reporting that a 10-inch version of the PlayBook [...]

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More PlayBook Release Date Rumors Surface

Last night, we got two pictures of PlayBook displays at Staples that are pointing to an April 17th release date in the US.  The first one (above) looks like it is a display for PlayBook accessories that will go up on April 17th.  It stands to reason that Staples isn’t going to start displaying and [...]

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RIM’s 2011 Software Roadmap Leaks Out

New hardware isn’t the only thing that RIM has cooking for this year.  Earlier today N4BB released what looks like RIM’s software roadmap.  A lot of stuff on here has already happened, like App World 2.1, Flickr reaching end-of-life, BlackBerry Protect, and the FaceBook hotfix release.  Very intriguing is the “BB 7 SN Core Integration”.  I’m [...]

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PlayBook Coming out on April 10th?

I’m going to go ahead and kill your dream right now and say that this is not an official release date for the PlayBook. Now that we’ve gotten that out of our systems, we can continue. BGR today, citing multiple sources, is running the story that the PlayBook will launch on April 10th.  They go [...]

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Storm 3 Coming this Spring… to T-Mobile?

File this under “news I didn’t expect to hear”, but it sounds like the Storm 3 could be bound for T-Mobile as early as this spring.  PocketBerry today reported on an event held for T-Mobile employees called “See BlackBerry Different” where the future of BlackBerry on the nation’s 4th largest carrier.  There were a bunch [...]

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This Week in PlayBook News

Sorry guys, I’ve been fighting a cold for the better part of the week and haven’t been posting as much as I’d like.  There have been a few things that have come out about the PlayBook that I think are still worth mentioning, so I’m going to put them all into one big post. The [...]

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RIM’s CDMA Roadmap Leaks Out

Today, CrackBerry got their hands on some slides from RIM detailing their CDMA lineup for 2011.  In it, you can see the Curve 3G 9330, a CDMA PlayBook for Q2, the Montana (CDMA Dakota Bold touchscreen) for Q3, and the Sedona (CDMA Apollo Curve) and the Malibu (Curve touchscreen) rounding out the year and early [...]

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Storm 3 Specs and Image Leaked!

The guys over at BGR have been all over BlackBerry leaks in the past 48 hours.  Yesterday they brought us the Torch 2, the Montana, and the Apollo.  Today, they have brought us the one that I have been waiting for: the Storm 3!  The specs are below, but this thing is fast!  Not only [...]

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BlackBerry Torch 2 Rumored to Have a 1.2GHz CPU!!

Who opened the leak gates over at BGR today?!?  As if their reports of the Dakota and the Apollo today weren’t enough, BGR is now reporting on the Torch 2.  The big changes, aside from the NFC and magnetometer that seem to be standard on higher-end BB 6.1 devices, the Torch 2 will have a [...]

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Rumors of BB6.1 Devices Start Surfacing

Now that the cat is out of the bag about BlackBerry 6.1, rumors are flying all around today about the devices that are going to launch with it.  First up, BGR has images and specs of the “Dakota” (above left) and the “Apollo” (right).  Bear in mind that these are codenames and will likely not [...]

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