Category: Blackberry
Great news for anyone with a BlackBerry Z10 device and that is WhatsApp the popular free instant messaging service used my millions all around the world will be available to download from this March. Still no word on when Skype will appear on BB10 but at least we …
The Android lover’s eyes widened with expectation; what had once appeared to be a repulsive idea now seemed intriguing, daring, exciting even. Be gentle with me Mr. BlackBerry, it’s my first time. BlackBerrys have never appealed to me. Even in their heyday, when every third person was tapping …
The BlackBerry Z10 is a new phone on a new platform and it’s a great piece of kit. I’ve currently got one which I posted my initial impressions earlier on in the week which you can read here. Up until now it had only been available through the …
The BlackBerry is one of those phenomena that have totally passed me by. I have never used one, touched one or even within about 4’ of one. So when the whole world erupted with excitement a few weeks ago with the arrival of BB10 and the new flagship …
M8 is a pretty useful alternative to the whole Google Maps set of apps. It offers mapping software, Sat Nav and info about nearby points of interest. MWC is coming soon and having an app to help you find your way around is going to be useful. Telmap …
The BlackBerry Z10 is the device of the moment. We have a couple flying around the offices of Coolsmartphone at the moment. Leigh posted his hands on video yesterday here and I’m going to post my initial impressions very soon. If you can’t wait to get your hands …
I seem to have a got a name for myself somehow. I’m known across the t’interwebs for many things (sorry, I needed the money) but you may know me as “the guy who films videos in the car”. I’ve not done one for a while, so it’s time …
Before the term ‘smartphone’ really meant anything to the mainstream other than using an S60 device and long before Skype or WhatsApp were the forces that they are today, this company Truphone was launched. The fact they’ve stayed true and consistently put out apps for BlackBerrys made me …
It was all so easy for the network operators this year. Everyone bar EE bids for spectrum and then they can roll out LTE. However, OFCOM has released a consultation paper that prospectively will allow the other operators to re-use their existing 900MHz, 1800MHz and 2100Mhz spectrum and …
It was a bit of a surprise when it was announced that the new Blackberry Z10 wouldn’t be available in the USA for another month, and that appears to have instantly created a bit of an “import opportunity”. I must admit when I saw Blackberry’s were going for …
I’ve just got back from three sunny weeks abroad and in that time the biggest news that I seem to have missed is the BB10 launch. And I say big in the relative sense, as in nothing else really happened. From what I’ve seen online, BB10 actually looks quite …
Yesterday we saw the Blackberry Z10 and a white Nexus 4. Not to be outdone, Blackberry also gave us a little teaser of the Q10 in white. Take that LG! Whilst everyone else were crowding around the Z10 for their first look, Blackberry CMO Frank Boulben whipped a …
Yesterday saw one of the biggest names in the mobile industry announce some seriously impressive stuff. New devices and a new OS. BlackBerry 10 is possibly RIM’s BlackBerry’s last chance to be current, competitive and profitable. They should be allowed their five minutes to say their piece and …
We’ll be updating this post with our latest posts on the BlackBerry 10 launch earlier today. So far, we have published: Blackberry 10 – Live with Coolsmartphone BlackBerry Z10 coming to Three UK Developers partner with BlackBerry for BB10 launch Vodafone UK launches its first ‘4G-ready’ phone, the …
EE have been quick off the mark getting a video uploaded to their YouTube channel regarding the recent BB10 launch, showing the new BlackBerry Z10 in all its glory. It also means that EE will have the new device on their 4G network sometime in the near future. …
Something else to come out of today’s BB10 announcement was that Research In Motion are rebranding to become BlackBerry, representing a unification of the devices and the brand behind them. It shows how RIM are playing hard to re-invent themselves in a rapidly changing mobile environment, and I …
If you’ve been following our liveblog, you will have noticed that today RIM have been busy showing off their new mobile platform, BB10. Well, we heard from Three earlier that they would be stocking the new smartphone, but now we’ve got further confirmations from both retailers and networks …
This afternoon we have all seen the new BlackBerry range and as expected various networks and retailers have started to come out and announce that they are going to stock the Z10. Earlier on Three announced this and now it’s the turn of Vodafone. No one has mentioned …
Also announced by BlackBerry today was big brand partners for the BlackBerry World launch on BB10. Along with the tens of thousands of applications submitted over the past two Port-a-thon weekends, Rovio Mobile, 2DBoy (creators of World of Goo) and Facebook are amongst the big names to have …
Brendan from Three has just announced the UK network will be stocking the BlackBerry Z10 which was shown just minutes ago at a live event around the world. The BlackBerry Z10 is the full touch screen handset running the latest BlackBerry 10 operating system We are covering the …
Follow the action as Research in Motion unwrap their latest operating system, BB10. We’ll be covering it live below! Have your say on matters over in our forum, we’ll be taking the best posts and injecting them into the stream as the event progresses. We’re split across platforms, …
Tomorrow you’ll all hear about the new BlackBerry Z10. It’s a hotly anticipated phone but it’ll be appearing in shops straight away. We’re already hearing that Vodafone will be selling the device tomorrow here in the UK, but we’ve also got some exclusive information about O2. I’ve received …
Not long to go now until the big unveiling of Blackberry 10 and the official launch of the new Blackberry range of handsets. We’ve had a hands on video and now, while you anxiously wait for lift off, another image of the new Blackberry Z10 has leaked out …
The RIM CEO, Thorsten Heins, has spoken in an interview to the German site De Welt (The World, for those of you less versed in the German language), revealing some rather interesting proposals for the future of Research in Motion. Having finally found a use for the German …
The time of reckoning for Rim is drawing ever closer. The launch date for BB10 is all set to be 30th January however details have leaked out with details of the new L Series. The L Series is to launch under the model number Z10 and will have …
RIM are about to launch a massive attack on the iOS and Android dominance in the mobile industry with their new BB10 operating system, and for the once-mighty manufacturer this new launch cannot come soon enough. Having been totally rebuilt using new modern technologies, the new BlackBerry devices …
Reports around this morning that the BT network has failed nationwide and by extension, so have the Blackberry services. This effects messages, email and internet. It’s not clear what has happened but we have a few Blackberry devices that are showing signs of this. Is your blackberry misbehaving? …
Last summer we got ourselves involved in the release event for M8 in London (details here, review here). M8 is a free mapping, Sat Nav and local places app that really helps you see what is around you and lets you interact as well, through either Facebook or …
Continuing the theme of our wishlists for 2013 here is my list of things I’d like to see in then next few months. 1. This is easy. Its at the top of the list: battery life. I’m really tired of being given decent handsets that don’t last the …
I’ve always been a two handset user whenever possible for more years than I’d like to think about. It helped me balance any deficiencies in any one handset, and whilst I’ve had a preference for one type of handset over the other for certain things, there was never a …
Earlier we posted about some new BB10 photos of the Z10 which is the touch screen only BlackBerry due to be announced on the 30th January. BlackBerry are known for their awesome keyboards though and a BB10 handset is also in the making we believe to be called …
Now I wont lie, I have not been much of a BlackBerry fan in the past for the main reason the OS seemed very old and outdated even with updates to 7.0 and more recently 7.1. However I have to admit BB10 has got me pretty excited helped …
We picked up the news on Christmas eve, but some of us weren’t able to post up in a timely fashion (I was busy doing Christmas things, my bad). However the BlackBerry has been spied and that traditional blurrycam has the pictures to prove it. As an …
In a totally unexpected twist a few of the networks today have announced they are going to be selling BB10 devices next year. Not that this is totally unpredictable. A network selling devices on a new OS. Well I never. It has started with official announcements from EE, …
It won’t even be officially announced until the end of January, but preorders are already up for BB10 devices. Unfortunately for us in Blighty, its for the Rogers network in Canada, so they’re likely to be the CDMA variant of the handset, but at least there’s one network …
If you just saw the exciting news that WhatsApp is now available on Windows Phone 8, now for some not so exciting news and that is it looks like WhatsApp will not be coming to BlackBerry 10 OS which launches around the world on January 30th 2013. This …
As the build up to the January’s release of BB10, the leaks and info for devices, specs and features will slowly start to build. This week some pictures of the Blackberry 10 London have leaked out. It looks like a black iPhone with some sort of Motorola style …
Hands up those who think BlackBerry handsets get a raw deal? Well, you’re not the only ones, because Vodafone are giving ‘Freebees’ to pay as you go Blackberry owners in the UK who top up at least £10. Amongst other things, you will get free BBM and 100MB …
There’s been a bit of a discussion amongst the CoolSmartPhone writers. Some of us still think RIM has a future in the two-and-a-half horse smartphone race that the end of 2012 is seeing, so when the Waterloo company announced the official launch date of BB10 will be Jan …
Well we might just have the ideal phone for you. Expansys have been in touch to let us know that the BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9981 is back in stock for a staggering £1209.99 which you can get here. It certainly makes me wonder who owns one of these. …
