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RIM Shows Off Native Email and Android Apps on the PlayBook

In addition to announcing the Bold 9900-series smartphones at the BlackBerry World Conference, RIM also showed off their native email and their support for Android apps for the PlayBook.  In the first video (above) Doug Soltys from the Inside BlackBerry Blog got a demo of a PlayBook running native PIM apps like email and calendar.  [...]

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Video Chat Arrives for the PlayBook

The hits just keep on coming today.  In addition to the announcement of the Bold 9900-series and a native Facebook app for the PlayBook, RIM has also announced the arrival of PlayBook Video Chat.  This functionality will come to PlayBook users in the form of a software update in the next 24 hours.  Key features [...]

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Native Facebook App Coming Soon to the PlayBook

In addition to the new Bold 9900-series devices, RIM also announced today the addition of a native Facebook app to the PlayBook.  While the Facebook website loads fine on the browser, and has full functionality, the app will have a more optimized UI for browsing Facebook on your tablet.  No word yet on if it [...]

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RIM Announces the Bold 9900 and 9930

Well, it’s official!  Just ahead of the BlackBerry World Conference starting up tomorrow, RIM has dropped a bunch of announcements on us today, including the announcement of the Bold Touch.  Now called simply the Bold 9900 and the Bold 9930, depending on the cell network, it has pretty much everything that we read that it [...]

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