Blackberry OS 10 Pre-Release Images

Crackberry guys managed to get a sneak preview of the upcoming Blackberry 10 OS. At a first glance, it looked almost similar to the Windows Phone GUI. I guess RIM really needs to pull this new OS together to revive the Blackberry status back to number 1 position in the smartphone category.

Video call seemed to be one of the new feature in the new Blackberry 10 OS.

Source: Crackberry

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RIM Offers Free Premium Apps Due To Server Down - Detailed Free Apps

RIM apologizes for the outage of service last week and promised a whole range of premium Blackberry app as a sort of compensation. Below are the excerpt of the press release:

The complete selection of premium apps will become available to download at BlackBerry App World over a period of four weeks beginning Wednesday, October 19th.  The selections over this period will include the following (with more to come):

• SIMS 3 - Electronic Arts
• Bejeweled - Electronic Arts
• N.O.V.A. - Gameloft
• Texas Hold’em Poker 2 - Gameloft
• Bubble Bash 2 - Gameloft
• Photo Editor Ultimate - Ice Cold Apps
• DriveSafe.ly Pro - iSpeech.org
• iSpeech Translator Pro - iSpeech.org
• Drive Safe.ly Enterprise - iSpeech.org
• Nobex Radio™ Premium - Nobex
• Shazam Encore - Shazam
• Vlingo Plus: Virtual Assistant - Vlingo

Source: RIM

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Blackberry Server Down

This would be exactly what RIM would want to avoid, especially if you are charging users for your specific Blackberry services. Once known as the sole reliable and secure mobile services are now in trouble. News are circulating that the problem has now persisted for the 3rd day.

At the moment, affected locations are as below:

• Middle East
• Africa
• South America
• Europe
• India

Press statement from RIM:

The messaging and browsing delays being experienced by BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Brazil, Chile and Argentina were caused by a core switch failure within RIM's infrastructure. Although the system is designed to failover to a back-up switch, the failover did not function as previously tested. As a result, a large backlog of data was generated and we are now working to clear that backlog and restore normal service as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience and we will continue to keep you informed.

Source: Engadget

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RIM Launches New Blackberry Curve 9350, 9360 and 9370

RIM today launches the new family of the Blackberry Curve 9350, 9360 and 9370.
Each of the models will be with the new Blackberry OS7 which claims almost 100% browser improvements when comparing to OS5.

Display will be 480x360 with 2.4" and with NFC integrated as well. Much similar to the older brother Blackberry Bold 9900.

The 3 models are identical in terms of outlook but the details are as below:

• BlackBerry Curve 9350 - CDMA with 512MB of RAM / 512MB of storage.
• BlackBerry Curve 9360 - GSM Tri-Band UMTS/Quad-Band EDGE with 512MB / 512MB of storage.
• BlackBerry Curve 9370 - CDMA/EVDO/Quad-Band EDGE with 512MB of RAM / 1GB of storage.

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