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BlackBerry launches $200 Z3 ‘Jakarta Edition’ for Indonesia

BlackBerry is launching its latest smartphone this week. The Z3, also called the Jakarta Edition, is a sub-US$200 smartphone designed specifically with the Indonesian…

T-Mobile stabs BlackBerry in the back with iPhone 5s trade in offer

Use your rusty old BlackBerry as down payment for a shiny new powerful iPhone 5s. That’s what the US telecom giant T-Mobile was hoping…

BlackBerry OS 10.2.1 update is a big deal, adds radio

Today, BlackBerry’s rolling out OS 10.2.1 with “hundreds of new enhancements and refinements”. While the embattled company says the update is live, none of…

BlackBerry Z30 review: flagship down

For a while now, I’ve been struggling to enjoy BlackBerry’s latest smartphone, the 5-inch Z30, its “phablet” version of the Z10 (a phone I…

Goodbye iPhone, hello BlackBerry: my week with the Z10

The day my iPhone left me, it rained. I appreciated the dramatic emphasis provided by the storm outside as I stood clutching the phone’s…

6 brilliant smartphones for under R2000

A quick note: most of these phones, in South Africa at least, are rare to find on contract. These are the recommended prices for…

RIM shot? BlackBerry 10 OS update may get Play Store [Update: it’s not]

Update: Google Play store is not coming to BlackBerry 10 OS. A representative from BlackBerry confirms the bad news: “I can confirm that there…

BlackBerry Curve 9320 — cheap but flashy

BlackBerry today announced the release of the Curve 9320 and 9220, more of the same but with a dedicated BBM button. Take a gander:…

BlackBerry Curve 9320, more of the same with a ‘better keyboard’

The new BlackBerry Curve 9320 leaves nothing to the imagination. It runs BlackBerry OS 7.1, has the same look of previous Curves but with…

Waze: the app that saves you from traffic and fines [Review]

Let’s be honest: I drive a car. I hate traffic. I get lost a lot. So when I heard there was an app that…

BlackBerry Curve 9380: Death by touch screen [Review]

When the BlackBerry Curve 9380 arrived, it sat quietly on my desk for about five minutes, just looking beautiful. The soft light from the…

BlackBerry PlayBook tablet OS 2.0 review

BlackBerry fans, rejoice. Your reason for believing in the beleaguered Canadian manufacturer is here. The PlayBook was throwaway nonsense, an expensively wrapped tablet with…

PlayBook to receive BlackBerry 10 says RIM

“When it’s ready” the BlackBerry PlayBook will get BB10 OS, says RIM. Rob Orr, RIM’s vice president of product management says, “We’ve said publicly…

Chrome for Android: the web weighs in

Chrome, the popular browser from search giant Google, has been officially released for Android 4.0, known as Ice Cream Sandwich. The web weighs in…

BlackBerrys brutally dropped, bent and submerged

This article is for both the BlackBerry haters and lovers out there. The Hardware Support Lab at RIM posted three videos giving some insight…

BlackBerry reveals new smartphone, the ‘London’

London’s calling. From the leaked slideshow of the BlackBerry Roadmap of 2012 comes the revelation of the anticipated BlackBerry “London”. November 2011 saw the…

Bwahaha… Sorry. Just. Bwahaha… The US$2 350 BlackBerry P’9981

I’m not paying $2 350 for a BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 in drag. With a repugnant design and even worse looking BlackBerry OS 7 theme,…

Gearburn’s BlackBerry Torch 9810 Review

It feels like RIM’s current range of products is dwarfed by the melodrama of a flailing company desperately trying to reinvent itself. Pundits are…

Root PlayBook, get Android Market

Reports last week showed a trio of hackers breaking the BlackBerry PlayBook security and getting root – now they’ve released the tools that allow…

iPhone 4S to land in South Africa on 16 December

“Please Santa, stick an iPhone 4S in my Christmas stocking,” say the hopeful South African Apple lovers. Santa may not be real, but Vodacom…

Now spying on you — Android phones

If you thought that Apple’s secret tracking of the iPhone cell tower and WiFi access point location information was the be-all and end-all of…

Not so secure PlayBook say crackers

Three security researchers have created a tool called DingleBerry that lets users get root access on their BlackBerry PlayBooks. The exploit is not yet…

India to monitor BlackBerry communications

In an effort to better its Blackberry services RIM has set up a new monitoring facility in Mumbai. The Canadian manufacturer, along with the…

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