RIM shot? BlackBerry 10 OS update may get Play Store [Update: it's not]
Update: Google Play store is not coming to BlackBerry 10 OS. A representative from BlackBerry confirms the bad news: “I can confirm that there is no planned support for Google Play on BlackBerry.” The...
View Article6 brilliant smartphones for under R2000
A quick note: most of these phones, in South Africa at least, are rare to find on contract. These are the recommended prices for the phones and as such (especially if the phones are sold brand new),...
View ArticleGoodbye iPhone, hello BlackBerry: my week with the Z10
The day my iPhone left me, it rained. I appreciated the dramatic emphasis provided by the storm outside as I stood clutching the phone’s chamfered edges and postponing the moment I had to hand it over....
View ArticleBlackBerry Z30 review: flagship down
For a while now, I’ve been struggling to enjoy BlackBerry’s latest smartphone, the 5-inch Z30, its “phablet” version of the Z10 (a phone I loved). Where the Z10 excelled, the Z30 fails. With a...
View ArticleBlackBerry OS 10.2.1 update is a big deal, adds radio
Today, BlackBerry’s rolling out OS 10.2.1 with “hundreds of new enhancements and refinements”. While the embattled company says the update is live, none of our BlackBerrys could find the update. Give...
View ArticleT-Mobile stabs BlackBerry in the back with iPhone 5s trade in offer
Use your rusty old BlackBerry as down payment for a shiny new powerful iPhone 5s. That’s what the US telecom giant T-Mobile was hoping its customers would do. This, turned out to be a big mistake....
View ArticleBlackBerry launches $200 Z3 ‘Jakarta Edition’ for Indonesia
BlackBerry is launching its latest smartphone this week. The Z3, also called the Jakarta Edition, is a sub-US$200 smartphone designed specifically with the Indonesian market in mind. Apart from a...
View ArticleBlackberry phones gain Amazon’s Android app store with BB 10.3 OS launch
BlackBerry sealed a deal with Amazon on Wednesday that will allow its mobile device users to access the online retail giant’s Android app store. The agreement comes as a last ditch effort by the...
View ArticleBlackBerry Passport the ‘IMAX of productivity’ says ever-hopeful company
BlackBerry may be onto something square, according to company blog Inside BlackBerry. The company, which has long since been scrubbed from relevancy, is hoping that its latest phone, the BlackBerry...
View ArticleCES 2015 roundup part one: from Acer to MSI
The earliest and (arguably) most important technology extravaganza of the year has come and gone, and while the theme of CES 2015 seemed to be wider, thinner and shinier is better, there were some...
View ArticleBlackBerry Classic now available in South Africa [update]
On the back of the Passport‘s massive success, the company that goes by the name of BlackBerry has launched its latest business-smartphone competitor and blast from the past to the South African market...
View ArticleBlackBerry Classic is a stately, suave blast from the past [Gallery]
I’ve been unnecessarily harsh on BlackBerry‘s design team of late, but have been (pleasantly) surprised with the likes of the BlackBerry Passport. Now, new to the company’s alternative arsenal is...
View ArticleBlackBerry 10.3.1 brings Assistant, Blend and Android app support [update]
Update: The full device list that will receive the BlackBerry’s latest OS update has been outed, and includes the following devices: BlackBerry Passport, Z30, Z3, Z10, Q10, Q5, Porsche Design P9983 and...
View ArticleBlackBerry ‘Slider’ announced at MWC 2015, alongside ‘Leap’
BlackBerry has been lurking around MWC for the past few days now, without revealing so much as a new partnership with Samsung on the Knox encryption tool. Today’s press conference however, the company...
View ArticleUnboxing the BlackBerry Classic [Video]
We’ve been using the BlackBerry Classic now for over two weeks, and it’s a bag of mixed nuts. Cashews and pistachios though. Clearly BlackBerry has been putting in an inordinate level of care when...
View ArticleMWC 2015 live blog: this year’s conference comes to a close
It’s pretty early for those reading from the States and its smack in the middle of the work day for us closer to the Greenwich line, so keeping track of MWC 2015 using the official livestreams...
View ArticleBlackBerry Classic review: expensive nostalgia
Ah BlackBerry. Probably the most misunderstood technology companies on the planet was once a tour de force on the mobile device world stage. Since its massive decline of a few years back, Waterloo has...
View ArticleBlackBerry Leap finally arrives in South Africa
BlackBerry has announced the availability of its next touchscreen smartphone in South Africa — the BlackBerry Leap. The phone is the company’s latest contender in an ever-thickening mid-range market,...
View ArticleApple, Nokia and Samsung trump BlackBerry in South African user satisfaction...
The South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi) has released its latest findings on mobile handsets in South Africa. According to the survey, handsets in South Africa received an average of 77.2...
View ArticleBlackBerry’s Android-powered smartphone GIFs leak on Twitter
We love a good GIF, and even more so when its of BlackBerry‘s purported Android phone. That’s right, the BlackBerry Venice has been spotted yet again, this time in video, thanks to @evleaks, or Evan...
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