by Robb Dunewood | Feb 2, 2007 | BlackBerry, RIM, Rumor Mill
The word on the street, or, at least on CrunchGear is that BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion, is about to buy MusicGremlin, maker of the wireless MP3 player with the same name that allows you to download music directly to the device over a Wi-Fi connection. I heard...
by Robb Dunewood | Feb 2, 2007 | BlackBerry, RIM, Rumor Mill
I just got a note this morning from one our RIMarkable insiders stating that Research in Motion is working on a 3G BlackBerry and has just put up a job posting for a software developer with UMTS experience in the UK. Here is the position summary: Software development...
by Robb Dunewood | Feb 1, 2007 | BlackBerry, RIM, Rumor Mill
Rumor has it that Verizon will get a hybrid CDMA / GSM BlackBerry built on the BlackBerry 8800 series device in Q2. Like the BlackBerry 8800, the new Verizon BlackBerry, code named Cyclone, will have a media player, removable media, AGPS and Bluetooth 2.0....
by Robb Dunewood | Jan 25, 2007 | BlackBerry, RIM
Have you ever noticed that many of the carrier specific applications offered on new mobile devices are absent from the BlackBerry devices specific to those carriers. T-Mobile’s My Faves on the BlackBerry Pearl is one notable exception, however, a lot of the...
by Robb Dunewood | Jan 24, 2007 | BlackBerry, RIM
Yesterday Steve St. Pierre wrote a very good post about RIM’s advertising initiative with the BlackBerry and one of the things he said was that RIM shouldn’t make customers “sick” with “viral” gimmicks but should use blogs...
by Robb Dunewood | Jan 23, 2007 | BlackBerry, RIM
I have been on the record since before the iPhone was announced that it would compete with the BlackBerry much more than many people think it will and today Needham analysts John Lynch and Charlie Wolf “assert that the introduction of the Apple iPhone clouds the...