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BlackBerry has stopped producing BlackBerry 10 hardware as the company focuses on a more secure Android. While the BlackBerry 10 operating system will live on for at least a couple more years, we’ve likely seen the last of its hardware. Speaking to Gulf News and The National—two English-language newspapers published in United Arab Emirates—BlackBerry CEO…
“As it struggles with a turnaround, BlackBerry sharply missed quarterly earnings estimates Friday and announced plans to make a smartphone based on the Google Android operating system,” Brian Deagon reports for Investor’s Business Daily. “BlackBerry reported revenue of $491 million, well below the consensus of $610.6 million, as polled by Thomson Reuters; it was down…
“BlackBerry reportedly plans to roll out multiple models of Android-based smartphones in the second half of 2015, with Taiwan-based handset ODMs, including Foxconn Electronics, Compal Electronics and Wistron serving as production partners, according to sources at Taiwan’s handset supply chain,” Daniel Shen and Steve Shen report for DigiTimes. “While running on Android OS, the new…
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Evan Blass is a very well known leaker (formerly known as @evleaks) of new consumer technology and we also know that some companies purposely leak information to him. Now he has his hands on a render of what could be the very first Blackberry Android and it’s not that bad looking. From the looks of…
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Be still my beating heart! Could it be? Could my dreams finally be coming true? Could I possibly see BlackBerry hardware sporting Android software? I’ll never forget my very first smartphone – a BlackBerry 7250 on US Cellular. I immediately fell in love with the physical qwerty keyboard, the push email – at the time…
With Blackberry struggling to keep its fingers from slipping off the edge of the cliff, it seems like they are throwing out one more lifeline. Gigaom is reporting that Blackberry is working to bring the Google Play Store to its devices. The leaked images above point to this possibility. Of course this all just more…
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Well, not sure what they hope to gain by selling unlocked devices direct? But if you’re at all interested in a Blackberry device with no contract, now you can have that. Blackberry today announced that customers in the U.S. can purchase unlocked BlackBerry smartphones online directly from BlackBerry on ShopBlackBerry.com. The first models available for purchase…
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“Apple Inc. has all but destroyed BlackBerry Ltd.’s business model and now it’s after the Canadian company’s decimated workforce,” Armina Ligaya and Matt Hartley report for The Financial Post. “Just days after BlackBerry Ltd. revealed plans to lay off 40% of its global workforce amid disastrous financial results, representatives from smartphone rival Apple Inc. hosted…
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“BlackBerry wasted little time in embarking on the layoffs it announced last month,” John Paczkowski reports for AllThingsD. “On Monday, the company began handing out termination notices to 300 employees at its Waterloo, Ontario, headquarters,” Paczkowski reports. “Part of a broader restructuring plan intended to reduce expenditures by 50 percent by 2015, this week’s layoffs…
“A shareholder of BlackBerry Ltd sued the company and its executives on Friday, accusing them of inflating the stock price by painting a misleadingly rosy picture of the business prospects of its BlackBerry 10 smartphone line,” Nick Brown reports for Reuters. “Waterloo, Ontario-based BlackBerry, formerly Research In Motion Ltd, misled investors last year by saying…
