Pocketnow Daily: iPhone with 5G legal cost, Pixel 3a and 3a XL leaked (video)

On today's Pocketnow Daily, we talk about the Apple and Qualcomm settlement, the leaked Google Pixel 3a and 3a XL renders, and more.

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After Facebook, BlackBerry also wants Snap to pay for messaging patent infringement

Canada-based BlackBerry Limited may be out of the mobile phone-making business, but it's certainly not out of the tech company-suing business, setting its sights on Snap Inc shortly after Facebook.

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BlackBerry wants Facebook to pay for alleged infringement of messaging app patents

BlackBerry Limited is on a suing spree, and the Canadian company's latest target is also its most high-profile yet. Facebook doesn't seem willing to settle either.

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BlackBerry graduates BBM Channels from beta, goes big-league

This past spring, BlackBerry announced BBM Channels, a new social extension to BlackBerry Messenger, letting users create pages of their own content – the titular Channels – that others can then subscribe to. It’s been in beta testing on BlackBerry platforms ever since, but today we finally see the company pull all the stops and go forward with plans to leave the Beta Zone, bringing BBM Channels to all its users. Actually, it hasn’t happened just yet, but it’s been confirmed for today, and availability should ...

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BlackBerry Messenger arrives for Android & iOS; better late than never?

It seems like the past couple months of BlackBerry news have been dominated by two main stories, neither of which painted the company in a particularly favorable light: we had all the business concerning plans to sell off the company, as well as the totally botched cross-platform BlackBerry messenger launch. BlackBerry blamed the issue on users attempting to connect to the service early by means of leaked client apps – though if they couldn’t ...

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Cross-platform BBM launch hits a snag

Last week, after months and months of waiting, BlackBerry finally confirmed the public launch of its BlackBerry Messenger apps for iOS and Android, set to arrive this past weekend. Well, if you’re poking around your app store this morning wondering just where these programs are, you’re not alone; on Saturday, BlackBerry announced an unexpected delay, leaving us wondering just when we’ll finally get a crack at these guys. You might have heard about a leaked copy of the BBM Android app. It seems that ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 062: iPhone launch day, Xperia Z1, Lumia 1520 & more

It’s iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s launch day, and we can’t think of a better way to commemorate the event than with a Pocketnow Weekly podcast. Actually, yes we can: it would be great to take a look back at Apple’s pre-iPhone days with the spectacular failure that was the Motorola “iTunes phone” of 2005 – fortunately, we already took care of that yesterday. So we’ll discuss the MOTOROKR E1 a little bit on today’s Weekly, before delving in to the ...

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iPad 5 Touch ID rumors, CyanogenMod Inc, BlackBerry layoffs & more – Pocketnow Daily

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about NVIDIA’s new Tegra Note platform, and what we can expect from it. Then we talk about YouTube’s plans to enhance their mobile application to allow offline video on mobile devices. CyanogenMod is next as the service has now officially become a company dubbed CyanogenMod Inc. and plans to enhance their user experience with Android. BlackBerry is next as we talk about their new BlackBerry Z30, specific dates for BBM to reach Android and iOS, and then the sad news that 40% of their work force will get laid off. We end ...

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BlackBerry Messenger Android, iOS ports just days away? (Confirmed)

While we all know that BlackBerry Messenger is coming to iOS and Android, the details have been anything but certain. Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen Samsung already start getting in to promoting BBM in Africa, heard any number of rumored dates for the release of these apps, and even seen some fakes make it to app stores. We may finally be getting to the end of this tale soon, as rumors talk about ...

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Cross-platform BBM availability rumored, as one carrier sours to BB10?

The next few days will likely be big ones for Android, and Apple could be just over a week away from announcing its new iPhones. Then Windows Phone has GDR3 and all that quad-core, 1080p jazz to look forward to in the coming months… so where does this all leave BlackBerry? Today we get a couple of updates on where the company’s heading, hearing rumors both about a possible release for the Android and iOS ports of BlackBerry Messenger, as well as talk about T-Mobile showing a ...

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BlackBerry serves up cross-platform BBM signup page; so when’s the launch date?

A cross platform version of BlackBerry Messenger has been teasing us at the periphery of our vision for weeks now. We know the app’s coming to iOS and Android, we’ve heard about wide-scale testing being underway, and Samsung looks anxious to get started promoting the service in Africa. All that’s left, so it seems, is for it to finally leave testing and go public. While we still lack any hard date – or for that matter, even rumors of a specific date – we ...

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Samsung teasing BBM for Android; so where is it, already?

BlackBerry Messenger is coming to iOS and Android; the only question is when. We’re already aware of testing that’s underway, and even saw the BBM app user manuals go live on BlackBerry’s site. Everything points to public availability coming quite soon, but it’s been difficult to elucidate just when. We’re still not quite there, but today brings another development making a launch sound imminent, with Samsung already promoting ...

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Samsung teams with BlackBerry to promote BBM in Africa

BlackBerry Messenger is coming to Android and iOS: that much is a given. Following years of rumors, BlackBerry confirmed its intention to deliver BBM ports for Android and iOS phones sometime this summer. Sure, BBM is hugely popular among BlackBerry users, but would people on these other platforms similarly take to it? A couple months back, we heard of one idea for increasing the app’s visibility, with word that BlackBerry ...

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Moto X launch, iPad 5 and iPhone 5C leaks, BBM for Android & more – Pocketnow Daily

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the BlackBerry Messenger finally reaching beta for iOS and Android. Later it’s HTC talk as we have a blue variant of the HTC One almost confirmed. Later it’s all about the iPad 5 and iPhone 5C as we now have some leaks of the products. Motorola follows the news with a new Chrome extension for Motorola phones that’s kind of cool. We end today’s show talking about the Moto X launch, our video coverage, and our first impressions. All this and more after the break. Stories: -

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