Google Hyperdrives to Andromeda, and Blackberry Black-holes | #PNWeekly 220

Posted on by Juan Carlos Bagnell

Will Android and Chrome OS finally just merge already? What’s going on with Android Wear, and will Huawei jump ship to Tizen? Can Blackberry survive by giving up on in-house hardware? This week we’re joined by Trisha Hershberger to discuss these stories and answer your questions, so make sure you’re charged and ready for the Pocketnow Weekly!Watch the live video broadcast from 2:00pm Eastern on September 30th (click here for ...

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BlackBerry officially halts ‘internal’ hardware development, outsourcing the ‘function to partners’

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Having trouble grasping our euphemism-packed headline, taken almost verbatim from BlackBerry’s latest quarterly financial report? In layman’s terms, it basically means BlackBerry phones as we know them are dead.No, the recently released DTEK50 and fast-approaching DTEK60 don’t technically count, setting up a new stage in the once thriving Canadian company’s evolution, where its brand and actual hardware production ...

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And there you have it: clearer BlackBerry DTEK60 renders surface, revealing fingerprint scanner

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Forget forgetting the BlackBerry DTEK60, aka “Argon”, as rumors of the Canadian company’s smartphone production resignation will likely be officially quashed… yet again as soon as October 11.Possibly even sooner, if the newly speculated D-Day proves to be the high-end 5.5-incher’s commercial ...

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Plenty of signs suggest at least BlackBerry DTEK60 launch is still on

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

How many times does BlackBerry CEO John Chen need to stress his company’s commitment to hardware production in general and physical QWERTY devices in particular? Or how often? Will FCC and Wi-Fi certifications suffice for now to prove the end isn’t 24 hours or, probably, a few ...

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Forget DTEK60, will BlackBerry quit smartphones on September 28?

Posted on by Jules Wang

BlackBerry CEO John Chen promised that two Android smartphones would come before the company’s fiscal year went out. He made the promise in the midst of collapsing investor confidence in Waterloo’s money-losing hardware unit. Chen has repeated his belief that he could sell

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iPhone build costs, say hello to Allo, and a Comcast MVNO? | Pocketnow Weekly 219

Posted on by Juan Carlos Bagnell

How much does it REALLY cost to build an iPhone? Can any software truly be intuitive? Why is Comcast getting into the carrier game? We say hello to Google’s Allo messenger, and we have a BUNCH of smartphone announcements to chat about from Huawei, LeEco, and Blackberry! These stories plus your questions, so make sure you’re charged and ready for the Pocketnow Weekly!Watch the live video broadcast from 2:00pm Eastern on September 22th (click

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