The Huawei Mate 10 and ZTE Axon M for AT&T got their launch events this week! We talk about those and BlackBerry's latest moves with CrackBerry Kevin!
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If you’re still looking for a BlackBerry-made smartphone these days — either because you’re in government, you’re a fan or an archiver — and would like a good price for the experience, consider heading to ShopBlackBerry.com.
Through November 30 at 3am Eastern, you can take advantage of big price cuts on some of the latest and oldest BlackBerry devices, including:
If you decide on taking in a BB10 device, you might not have much to deal with in terms of apps, but at least you have software support from the company.
Also note that the new DTEK60 has not gotten a discount for the season — we figured it wouldn’t happen anyways, but you do hear a tiny sigh coming out of us.
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It’s not over until… CEO John Chen explicitly says it is. BlackBerry may have issued an official press release a little while back corroborating rampant rumors of the financially struggling Canadian company’s “plans to end all internal hardware development”, but apparently, a very important part of the story was left out.
Namely, Chen’s “promise” to build at least one more “keyboard phone” in-house, which the outspoken executive still intends to uphold. He won’t say exactly when, just that it’s not going to be “that long”, and everything from the market moniker of the device “coming” soon to its design, hardware specifications and software type also stays under wraps.
Mind you, BlackBerry could go one of a few different paths in integrating a physical QWERTY keypad, perhaps following in Priv’s, Passport’s or even Classic’s footsteps. And although Android feels like the most logical platform choice going forward, the security specialist’s proprietary BlackBerry 10 OS is technically not dead yet.
It remains to be seen if maybe the recently leaked DTEK70 design hasn’t been outsourced to TCL after all, and we’re also interested to hear more about the two companies, one from China and the other from India, currently running neck and neck in a race to launch the next BlackBerry-licensed phone.
Oh, and if you’re curious what John Chen thinks of Donald Trump’s “shocking” US election win, there’s roughly 8 minutes of that too in the same Bloomberg interview.
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With both the US President and Senate apparently finally past the long-celebrated super-secure but out-of-fashion BlackBerries, an iconic design discontinued and unlikely to yield a direct successor, as well as
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President Obama dropped his BlackBerry — somewhat against his will (and to his liking) — and so will plenty of Capitol Hill staffers.Specifically, employees of the Senate will no longer be issued BlackBerry phones. Why? BlackBerry has stopped the factories and AT&T and Verizon are clinging onto little inventory.In a notice sent to Senate administration, the Sergeant at Arms ...
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Forget everything you thought you knew about BlackBerry’s short-term hardware business-rebooting plans. It turns out there are not just two, but three security-focused Android phones in the pipeline, codenamed Neon, Argon, and Mercury instead of Hamburg, Rome and some other large European city.Only the
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Remember how BlackBerry promised the first significant Priv discounts would be offered “around” MWC? Well, we kind of inferred the “significant” part, as BB never talked numbers or percentages, and we may have read the signs all wrong.The security and productivity-focused Android smartphone is now on sale stateside through its manufacturer’s official online store, but sadly, the savings are hardly substantial. Typically ...
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Nothing says “I love you” quite like a special BlackBerry Priv bundle. That’s obviously not true, with diamonds and Deadpool tickets more guaranteed to hit the mark as Valentine’s Day gifts for women and men respectively, but if you’ve been looking into probably the most secure Android smartphone in the world, now’s the perfect time to pull the trigger.You can think it through as well, and wait to see if this is what BB meant by
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Who said non-Android BlackBerries lack access to popular, fun, useful or affordable apps? Now, granted, the BlackBerry World library pales in comparison to Google Play or the iOS App Store. But if you’re one of the (very) few holding on to a Passport, Classic, Leap, Z30, Z10, Q5 or Q10, you can still crank up the out-the-box security, productivity and entertainment.At pretty great prices too, as part of a “Happy Holidays Sale” featuring close to 40 titles stateside. Unfortunately, none of those are available for free, instead requiring between $0.99 and $6.99 payments apiece.The ...
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The plague of recently-released devices means that those devices will most likely skip out on the whole “dealdom” of Black Friday. Hey, these companies have blessed us consumers with new wares and we’re apparently going to like them ...
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Step back from the food court, I repeat, step back from the food court. Move away from the deals. Seriously, though, you might be on a sales safari come this weekend or a cyber chase on Monday. If you’re the type of person to give away phones and smartwatches for the holidays, though, it helps to actually consider what you’re getting and how it fits the person you’re getting it for.Like a sommelier does with wine, we’re given you our suggestions on what phones to look for when you’re talking about your dorky cousin Jane or your stylish uncle Jebidiah. Well, at ...
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With all the gossip this summer about BlackBerry testing the waters and thinking about releasing an Android-powered smartphone, it can be easy to forget that BlackBerry’s still very much interested in coming out with BlackBerry 10 phones. One of the most resilient such models we’ve seen over the course of the past year has been the BlackBerry Passport, and after the launch of the original edition last fall,
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Right after the first rumors arrived last month about BlackBerry’s supposed plans to release a smartphone running Android, we started hearing a lot of reports that, while they didn’t necessarily conflict with each other, sure seemed to be going off in different directions. Would that keyboard-equipped slider the company showed off at MWC evolve into BlackBerry’s first Android handset? Would the first such model be low-end or more advanced? And would we see Android editions released for any presently available BlackBerry hardware? Rumors touched on all those points, and on ...
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BlackBerry rumors have been heating up over the course of the past week, all circling around an idea that’s either outright crazy or just crazy enough to be true: that BlackBerry could produce an Android-running smartphone. After first hearing about this notion of the company dropping its own BB10 OS for a forthcoming model, the story evolved with the new angle that this device could be a joint ...
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This past fall, Blackberry introduced the Passport, its Snapdragon 801-powered flagship. With a hardware keyboard, square display, and harshly-angled exterior, it wasn’t a smartphone for everyone – though to BlackBerry’s credit, the company’s not afraid to do things differently from the rest of the smartphone pack. But with the new year upon us, we’re also getting a slightly tweaked new edition of the Passport, as BlackBerry smooths-out those corners and prepares to bring a slightly softer-looking Passport to AT&T.Inside, it’s the same Passport that ...
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