بلاك بيري تعلن عن 10.1 BB المتداول إلى المستخدمين Z10 لنا في وقت لاحق من هذا الشهر

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="mttextarea" dir="rtl" id="TranslationOutput" style="direction: rtl;"><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar"> </span></b><img alt="BlackBerry announces " data-src-height="411" data-src-width="619" height="424" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/05/livedsc049112-1368538214.jpg" width="640" /></div><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">قد بدأ لايف بلاك بيري 2013، وكشفت هينس تورستن فقط بت الأولى من أخبار جيدة لمستخدمي بلاك بيري. </span><span lang="ar">سيتم طرح أحدث إصدار من نظام التشغيل لبلاك بيري، BB 10.1 إلى Z10 على شركات الطيران الأمريكية تبدأ في وقت لاحق من هذا الشهر. </span><span lang="ar">أن البرمجيات الجديدة معظمها حول تعديل لنظام التشغيل للناس مع Q10 في جيوبهم، فسوف تحصل على المستخدمين Z10 على وضع كاميرا HDR، الدعم لاقتراحات الاتصال والمراسلة رقم PIN لرقم التعريف الشخصي والبريد الإلكتروني مع إرفاق رسائل عندما تحصل على التحديث. </span><span lang="ar">بالإضافة إلى ذلك، يتم تحسين الإخطارات مع إعلامات الرسائل كل حساب وأخيراً سيتمكن المستخدمون للصق المسجلون، وكذلك أرقام الهاتف. </span><span lang="ar">ونحن لا تزال لم يكن لديك موعد تسليم المحدد، كما أنها سوف تختلف حسب الناقل، ولكن على الأقل كنت تعرف ستحصل على سلع برامج جديدة في الأسابيع القليلة القادمة.</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">خدمة بلاك بيري للمؤسسة هو أيضا الحصول على صدم للإصدار 10.1 وهو الآن متاح للتنزيل مجاناً. </span><span lang="ar">معظم المستخدمين لن تبالي كثيرا في منصة إدارة الجوال، ولكن محترفي تكنولوجيا المعلومات وسوف نقدر بالتأكيد إلى أدوات النشر المبسطة التي يمكن لإدارة ليس فقط BB10 من الأجهزة، ولكن أيضا الهواتف الروبوت، ودائرة الرقابة الداخلية. </span><span lang="ar">وهناك أيضا لوحة جديدة لامعة ويقدم جميع أنواع البيانات والإحصاءات. </span><span lang="ar">وحقاً، الذي لا يحب أكوام من البيانات؟</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">بلاك بيري 10.1 للهاتف الذكي بلاك بيري Z10 – يبقى الحصول على أفضل لإبقاء لكم نقل</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">تم تصميم بلاك بيري 10 على التعلم والتكيف مع الطريقة التي تعمل بها. </span><span lang="ar">أنها تساعدك على أن تكون أسرع وأكثر كفاءة وأكثر فعالية. </span><span lang="ar">أنها تتحرك معك تساعدك على أن تكون أكثر نجاحا. </span><span lang="ar">والآن هناك تحديث. </span><span lang="ar">مع 10.1 بلاك بيري، يبقى الحصول على أفضل. </span><span lang="ar">بلاك بيري 10.1 يقدم عدد من التحسينات لجعل مجمل التجربة 10 بلاك بيري أفضل وتحديث إلى 10.1 بلاك بيري مجانية وسهلة للقيام من Z10 بلاك بيري الخاص بك عبر شبكة وأي فأي.</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">ويبرز من بلاك بيري 10.1</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">محور بلاك يدير كافة المحادثات الخاصة بك</span></b></div><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">مركز بلاك بيري يساعدك على البقاء في المنظمة، في السيطرة، وعلى رأس كل من المحادثات الخاصة بك، ومع 10.1 بلاك بيري، أنها مجرد يبقى الحصول على أفضل. </span><span lang="ar">يمكنك الآن عرض رسائل البريد الإلكتروني التي يتم إرفاقها برسالة بريد إلكتروني أخرى، الحصول على اقتراحات الاتصال عند بدء تشغيل معالجة رسالة، وإرسال الرسائل إلى رقم التعريف الشخصي PIN للاتصال المباشر بين أجهزة بلاك بيري الذكية.</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">تخصيص الإعلامات الخاصة بك</span></b></div><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">بلاك بيري 10.1 يسمح لك بإعداد إعلامات مخصصة لجهات الاتصال والحسابات. </span><span lang="ar">تخصيص النغمات والاهتزازات والصمام الخفيفة للمكالمات أو الرسائل من كل من أصدقائك أو الأسرة أو الزملاء. </span><span lang="ar">يمكنك أيضا تعيين إعداد إعلام مختلفة لحسابات مختلفة (مثل لحسابات البريد الإلكتروني المختلفة، فيسبوك، التغريد، إلخ.)</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">انقر فوق لاستدعاء</span></b></div><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">يمكنك الآن النقر على رقم هاتف في بريد إلكتروني أو رسالة BBM إلى استدعاء عدد أو نسخة ولصقه الحق على الشاشة المسجل في التطبيق الهاتف.</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">تحسين التحكم بالمؤشر</span></b></div><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">ويقدم بلاك بيري 10.1 أفضل التحكم بالمؤشر مما يجعل من الأسهل لوضع دقة المؤشر وحدد النص. </span><span lang="ar">فقط اضغط مرة واحدة إحضار لأعلى في التحكم بالمؤشر، والاستيلاء على دائرة زرقاء واسحب حولها إلى نقطة الإدراج التي تريدها. </span><span lang="ar">تحسين التغذية المرتدة البصرية يتيح لك معرفة أين أنت كنت لافتاً. </span><span lang="ar">يمكنك أيضا الاستفادة من جانبي الدائرة التحرك إلى الأمام أو الخلف من حرف واحد في وقت واحد.</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">التقاط صورة محسنة</span></b></div><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">ويضيف بلاك بيري 10.1 تقرير التنمية البشرية (عالية المدى الديناميكي) وضع لالتقاط الصور الجميلة في ظروف الإضاءة صعبة التصوير. </span><span lang="ar">وضع المدى الديناميكي العالي (HDR) يأخذ صوراً متعددة على مستويات مختلفة من التعرض، وطبقات لهم تلقائياً لإنتاج صورة واحدة تجمع بين أفضل المناطق الداكنة والفاتحة. </span><span lang="ar">ويشمل أيضا تحسين العين الحمراء والحد من العين الذهبية في محرر الصور.</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">المزيد من الجهود لاكتشاف مع 10.1 بلاك بيري</span></b></div><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">سوف تجد عددا من التحسينات الجديدة عبر "نظام التشغيل 10 بلاك بيري" مثل الدعم المناظر الطبيعية بالنسبة للتقويم، والمكالمات الدولية أسهل وأكثر من ذلك بكثير. </span><span lang="ar">الخطوة الأولى لاكتشاف هذه الميزات الجديدة على الهاتف الذكي بلاك بيري Z10 لتحديث البرمجيات 10 بلاك بيري الخاص بك.</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">تحديث من السهل</span></b></div><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">تحديث لبلاك بيري 10.1 مجانية وسهلة القيام به. </span><span lang="ar">لتحديث Z10 بلاك بيري الخاص بك الهاتف الذكي إلى 10.1 بلاك بيري ابحث عن التنبيه في القسم إعلامات من "لوحة الوصل بلاك بيري". </span><span lang="ar">يمكنك أيضا التحقق من تحديثات البرامج عن طريق قسم تحديثات البرامج في القائمة إعدادات، أو من خلال برامج سطح المكتب "وصلة بلاك بيري". </span><span lang="ar">وسوف يحدث التحميل في الخلفية وسيتم تطبيق التحديث دون الحاجة إلى إجراء نسخ احتياطي الهاتف الذكي الخاص بك. </span><span lang="ar">وتظل كافة المعلومات الخاصة بك آمنة. </span><span lang="ar">للحصول على مزيد من المعلومات حول كيفية تحديث الهاتف الذكي بلاك بيري Z10، زيارة www.BlackBerry.com/update.</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">توافر</span></b></div><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">بلاك بيري 10.1 تأتي التي تم تحميلها مسبقاً على Q10 بلاك بيري الهواتف الذكية، وسوف تكون متاحة كتحديث للهواتف الذكية بلاك بيري Z10 كدولة حرة تحميل. </span><span lang="ar">الرجاء التحقق مع الناقل المحلي الخاص بك لتوافر.</span></b></div><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">وصلات مفيدة:</span></b></div><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">لمزيد من المعلومات حول 10 بلاك بيري، يرجى زيارة: 10 بلاك بيري.</span></b></div><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">بلاك بيري والمتصلة العلامات التجارية والأسماء والشعارات هي ملك للبحث في موشن المحدودة. </span><span lang="ar">بلاك بيري لا</span></b></div></div></div>

بلاك بيري تعلن عن 10.1 BB المتداول إلى المستخدمين Z10 لنا في وقت لاحق من هذا الشهر

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بلاك بيري س 5: هاتف QWERTY بنيت للأسواق الناشئة

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar"> </span></b><img alt="BlackBerry Q5: a QWERTY handset built for emerging markets" data-src-height="411" data-src-width="619" height="424" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/05/livedsc049212-1368539169.jpg" width="640" /></div><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">بدأ هذا الصباح في "بلاك بيري يعيش" في أورلاندو، هينس تورستن الحدث السنوي الرئيسي للشركة مع إشارة موجزة لأحدث جهاز BB10، Q5. </span><span lang="ar">وهو هاتف هينس اقتناع سيكون "ضربة قوية" لجمهورها المستهدف. </span><span lang="ar">الهاتف QWERTY عمودي على خطي Q10 مؤخرا العنان، دمج شاشة تعمل بلمس 3.1 بوصة مع لوحة المفاتيح الجهاز، ولكن بنت أكثر تحديداً: أنها مصنوعة للأسواق الناشئة. </span><span lang="ar">الواجب سيطلق في اثي ألوان (أي، الأسود، الأحمر والأبيض والوردي)، Q5 يجري وضع كجهاز منخفضة الذي يجمع بين القدرة على تحمل التكاليف، BB في التوقيع لوحة المفاتيح الفعلية، وبطبيعة الحال، BB10. </span><span lang="ar">سبب التمهيدية تموز/يوليو الجاري في أمريكا اللاتينية، وأوروبا، والشرق الأوسط وأفريقيا وآسيا. </span><span lang="ar">أما بالنسبة لتسعير، أمي المتبقية للشركة في تحقيق هذه الغاية، ولكن مع اقتراب فصل الصيف بسرعة، ينبغي أن نعرف ما فيه الكفاية قريبا.</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">14 مايو 2013</span></b></div><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">بلاك بيري تطرح الهاتف ذكي شباباً والمرح بلاك بيري 10 مفاتيح، Q5 بلاك بيري، "تحديد الأسواق"</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">واترلو، أونتاريو-(ماركيتويريد-14 مايو 2013)-BlackBerry(R) (NASDAQ:BBRY)(TSX:BB) اليوم قدم Q5 BlackBerry(R)، ذكي BlackBerry(R) 10 شباباً والمرح جديدة لأسواق مختارة. </span><span lang="ar">الهاتف الذكي "بلاك بيري س 5" يتميز بلوحة مفاتيح qwerty مع مفاتيح منفصلة في تصميم شباباً مذهل الذي ثقة وممتعة وجريئة. </span><span lang="ar">كل ميزة، وقد بني كل جزء من Q5 بلاك بيري بتوفير تجربة سريعة، دون عناء أن التدفقات، وينتقل معك للمساعدة في استكشاف وإنشاء وتبادل بينما على الذهاب.</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">"بلاك بيري هو متحمس لإحضار الهاتف ذكي جديد BlackBerry QWERTY، Q5 بلاك بيري، لعملائنا في أسواق مختارة في جميع أنحاء العالم،" وقال ثورستن هينس، الرئيس والرئيس التنفيذي لشركة بلاك بيري. </span><span lang="ar">"س 5 بلاك بيري يمنحك الأفضل من كل شيء مع وظائفه 10 بلاك بيري المتطورة ولوحة مفاتيح مادية. </span><span lang="ar">أنها للمشجعين شباباً عاطفي، وواثقة وجريئة، ويجعل من السهل بالنسبة لهم للحصول على المتعة، وإنشاء وتبادل والبقاء على اتصال. "</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">كجزء من تجربة 10 بلاك بيري، يوفر الهاتف الذكي "بلاك بيري س 5" تجربة الحوسبة النقالة قوية وفريدة من نوعها تتكيف باستمرار مع الاحتياجات الخاصة بك. </span><span lang="ar">ميزات وتطبيقات العمل معا على نحو محكم، مما يسمح الخاص بك كل تحرك في التدفق إلى الذي يليه. </span><span lang="ar">وتشمل الملامح الرئيسية للهاتف الذكي "بلاك بيري س 5":</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">تطور "لوحة المفاتيح بلاك بيري" كلاسيك</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">س 5 بلاك بيري يتميز بلوحة "مفاتيح بلاك بيري" الكلاسيكية مع مفاتيح المنفصلة التي تم إعادة تصميم وتصميم أنيق لمساعدتك في كتابة سريعة، بدقة وبأقل قدر من الجهد. </span><span lang="ar">بالإضافة إلى ذلك مع "إجراءات فورية" اختصارات يمكنك كتابة لأداء المهام بشكل أسرع. </span><span lang="ar">الهاتف الذكي بلاك بيري Q5 يمنحك الأفضل من كلا العالمين--لوحة مفاتيح كلاسيكية للاتصالات المحسنة ولمس 3.1 "لكل ما تبقى.</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">خلق الكمال بالرصاص مع وضع بلاك الوقت Shift و "صانع القصة"</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">إنشاء صورة الكمال بالرصاص مع وضع BlackBerry(R) الوقت Shift، ثم إنشاء وتقاسم قصتك، نسج الصور وأشرطة الفيديو والموسيقى معا في فيلم مع صانع قصة BlackBerry(R).</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">حصة وينظر مع الفيديو BBM مع "حصة الشاشة"</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">على الفور التبديل الخاص بك الدردشة BBM(TM) (BlackBerry(R) رسول) إلى محادثة الفيديو BBM واللحاق وجها لوجه. </span><span lang="ar">يمكنك حتى أن حصة الشاشة، سواء كان صورة أو صفحة في المستعرض، فكرة، أو طريقة عرض من الكاميرا الخاصة بك.</span><span lang="ar">(ط)</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">البقاء على مقربة من ما هو مهم بالنسبة لك مع "محور بلاك بيري"</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">مع محور BlackBerry(R)، كافة الرسائل والمحادثات الاجتماعية واحدة فقط مرر بعيداً. </span><span lang="ar">ليس هناك حاجة وقف ما تقوم به. </span><span lang="ar">مجرد إلقاء نظرة خاطفة إلى "مركز بلاك بيري" من أي مكان مع انتقاد للتدفق دون عناء الدخول والخروج من المحادثات والرسائل الخاصة بك.</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">يسلم العالم بلاك بيري app غنية ومزدهرة، ومحتوى النظام الإيكولوجي</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">اكتشاف ومشاركة كبيرة من تطبيقات ومحتوى أسهل من أي وقت مضى مع توصيات تستند إلى عمليات شراء مماثلة، والوصول إلى أكثر من 100 ألف شخص تطبيقات على الواجهة BlackBerry(R) World(TM).</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">التسعير وتوافر</span></b></div><b><br /></b><div class="force_dir"><b><span lang="ar">الهاتف الذكي بلاك بيري Q5 الجديدة ستكون متاحة في الأسواق المختارة في أوروبا، والشرق الأوسط، وأفريقيا وآسيا (بما في ذلك منطقة "آسيا والمحيط" الهادئ)، وأمريكا اللاتينية، مع بداية توافر المتوقعة في تموز/يوليو.</span></b></div></div>

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Phones4U taking BlackBerry Q10 pre-orders, giving away PlayBooks to first 300 customers

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Phones4U taking BlackBerry Q10 preorders, giving away PlayBooks to first 300 customers " data-src-height="205" data-src-width="554" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/04/bbq101.png" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Know what's better than a shiny new BlackBerry Q10? A BlackBerry Q10 with a 64GB PlayBook thrown in for free, and Phones4U is the place to get it. To be clear, the UK retailer has begun taking pre-orders for the BB10 handset with a hardware keyboard today, and the first 300 folks to pledge their money will get one of BlackBerry's 7-inch slates for free along with it. As for the Q10's cost, it's <span>£36 a month on contract or £549.95 SIM-free, with the black model expected to arrive by the end of April and the alabaster version coming in the weeks after.</span></div></div>

Phones4U taking BlackBerry Q10 pre-orders, giving away PlayBooks to first 300 customers

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يمكن للمستخدمين استخدام BlackBerry Z10 مجانا على متن الطائرة بخاصية WiFi

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><b><span class="" id="result_box" lang="ar" tabindex="-1"><span class="hps"> </span></span></b><a href="http://greenzoneregypt.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="BlackBerry Z10 users can Gogo to Delta for free inflight WiFi" data-src-height="262" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/04/z10-free-gogo.jpg" /></a><br /><b><span class="" id="result_box" lang="ar" tabindex="-1"><span class="hps">التعلق</span> <span class="hps">واي فاي</span> <span class="hps alt-edited">الجزر</span> <span class="hps">تلبية الخاص</span> <span class="hps">من صنع</span> <span class="hps">بلاك بيري</span> <span class="hps">عصا</span><span class="">:</span> <span class="hps">و</span><span class="">Z10</span><span class="">.</span> <span class="hps">ربما لأن</span> <span class="hps">قاعدة مستخدميها</span> <span class="hps">توددت</span> <span class="hps">تقليديا</span> <span class="hps">دعم المشاريع</span> <span class="hps">قوي</span> <span class="hps">- الكثير</span> <span class="hps">التي تتداخل</span> <span class="hps">عادة</span> <span class="hps">مع مجموعة</span> <span class="hps">جيت -</span> <span class="hps">بلاك بيري</span> <span class="hps">التي تقدم</span> <span class="hps">حافزا لل</span><span class="">متبنين</span> <span class="hps">لها</span> <span class="hps">من</span> <span class="hps">BB</span> <span class="hps">10</span> <span class="hps">لؤلؤة</span><span class="">،</span> <span class="hps">منح</span> <span class="hps">دون مقابل</span> <span class="hps">الدخول إلى الإنترنت</span> <span class="hps">جوجو</span> <span class="hps">تعمل بالطاقة</span> <span class="hps">لجميع الرحلات الجوية</span> <span class="hps">دلتا</span> <span class="hps">المحلية</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">أفضل جزء</span><span>؟</span> <span class="hps">الإغلاق على</span> <span class="hps">أن</span> <span class="hps">واي فاي</span> <span class="hps">مجانية</span> <span class="hps">بسيطة مثل</span> <span class="hps">تسجيل الدخول</span> <span class="hps">و</span><span class="">اطلاق النار حتى</span> <span class="hps">المتصفح على</span> <span class="hps">Z10</span> <span class="hps">الخاص بك عندما</span> <span class="hps">انها</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">آمنة للاستخدام</span> <span class="hps">الأجهزة الإلكترونية الخاصة بك</span><span class="">.</span><span>"</span> <span class="hps">و</span><span class="">هذا غيض</span> <span class="hps">يدك</span> <span class="hps">وتحصل</span> <span class="hps">على التحول إلى</span> <span class="hps">BB</span> <span class="hps">10</span><span class="">؟</span> <span class="hps">ربما لا</span><span>،</span> <span class="hps">ولكن هذا</span> <span class="hps">النوع من</span> <span class="hps">تحلية</span> <span class="hps">وعاء</span> <span class="hps">التي ينبغي</span> <span class="hps atn">الاحتفاظ بها (</span><span>فرا</span><span>)</span> <span class="hps">عملاء</span> <span class="hps">بلاك بيري</span> <span class="hps">في جميع أنحاء ل</span><span>فترة طويلة</span> <span class="hps">المسافات</span><span class="">.</span></span></b></div>

يمكن للمستخدمين استخدام BlackBerry Z10 مجانا على متن الطائرة بخاصية WiFi

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PSA: BlackBerry Z10 (finally) arrives on AT&T

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="copy post-body" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/blackberry-z10-sonos-backdrop.jpg" /></div>The American BlackBerry faithful have been waiting and while those with business (and T-Mobile) intentions got there a little early, the Z10 is now available to the more typical pay-monthly masses from AT&T. Priced up at $200 on a two-year contract, you can pick it up from Ma' Bell's for-real stores and online today, just click on that source link for all those carrier details.<br /> </div></div>

PSA: BlackBerry Z10 (finally) arrives on AT&T

The American BlackBerry faithful have been waiting and while those with business (and T-Mobile) intentions got there a little early, the Z...

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BlackBerry Travel for BB 10 launches, lets users track price changes and flight status

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="copy post-body" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="BlackBerry Travel" data-src-height="288" data-src-width="419" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/bb10travel.jpg" /></div>Though the road to BlackBerry 10 was long, it doesn't appear the company's taking the same tack with its app strategy. Today, the BlackBerry World store gains yet another native app: BlackBerry Travel. While the application's nothing new for Waterloo, it has been updated take advantage of BB 10, giving users the ability to log in seamlessly with their BlackBerry ID, share flight and trip status to social networks (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, BBM) and monitor price changes for hotel bookings. As with all new BB 10 apps, it's set to rollout to BlackBerry World <em>within</em> 24 hours. So, if you don't see it yet, relax -- it's on the way.<br /> </div></div>

BlackBerry Travel for BB 10 launches, lets users track price changes and flight status

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WhatsApp lands on BlackBerry 10, offers Z10 owners a BBM alternative

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="WhatsApp lands on BlackBerry 10, offers Z10 owners a BBM alternative" data-src-height="450" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/bbwhatsapp.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Back at the Z10's launch, BlackBerry revealed that WhatsApp, along with a host of other third party applications, would be headed to its BB 10 platform. And as of today, the company's actually delivered on that promise, giving Z10 owners an open alternative to its BBM service. The messaging app, natively built for BB 10, brings with it support for push notifications, as well as integration with BlackBerry Contacts, thus eliminating the need to manually re-enter phone numbers. It's live in the BlackBerry World store now, so go ahead and grab it at the source below or download it direct from your Z10.</div><div class="open" dir="ltr" id="pr_box" style="text-align: left;"> <div id="pr_box_button">Hide Press Release</div><div id="pr_text"> <strong>WhatsApp Messenger Launches on BlackBerry 10</strong><br /> Mar 13, 2013<br /> Mountain View, CA and Waterloo, ON – WhatsApp Inc., the company behind WhatsApp Messenger, and BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB) today announced that WhatsApp will bring a native version of its popular mobile messaging service to the BlackBerry® 10 platform.<br /> BlackBerry 10 provides an ideal platform for social apps such as WhatsApp Messenger to fully leverage innovative new features like BlackBerry Flow, where apps work together, sharing information with each other to quickly lead the customer intuitively to the information they need and to give them the ability to immediately take action.<br /> "BlackBerry has always been about bringing people together in a way that is fast, reliable and impactful," said, Martyn Mallick, Vice President of Global Alliances and Business Development at BlackBerry. "WhatsApp is a leading mobile messaging app that connects people to their contacts on several platforms, and we are pleased to work with WhatsApp to bring their service to our customers."<br /> "BlackBerry has been a great platform for WhatsApp for many years," said Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp. "Delivering WhatsApp on BlackBerry 10 devices is in line with our goals of ensuring that our customers around the world can continue to communicate with the most important people in their lives."<br /> In building a native application for the BlackBerry 10 platform, WhatsApp has been able to provide a fantastic user experience that leverages the true multi-tasking capabilities of BlackBerry 10. WhatsApp Messenger for BlackBerry 10 provides a high quality messaging experience that utilizes real-time push notifications to alert you when you receive messages- even when the screen is locked.<br /> Fully integrated into BlackBerry Contacts, when the customer launches the app for the first time, WhatsApp can automatically scan existing phone numbers in the contact directory and extract the ones using WhatsApp, to help customers build out their contacts list and get started right away.<br /> WhatsApp for BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry 4.6 and higher is available in BlackBerry World (www.blackberryworld.com).<br /> </div></div></div>

WhatsApp lands on BlackBerry 10, offers Z10 owners a BBM alternative

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T-Mobile to begin selling BlackBerry Z10 to business customers March 11th for $249.99 (update)

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="TMobile to begin selling BlackBerry Z10 to business customers today" data-src-height="341" data-src-width="314" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/dsc04276-1361316609.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">The BlackBerry Z10 is finally ready to ship out to customers in the US, as T-Mobile has officially announced that it is selling Canada's pride and joy starting Monday for $250, but only to business customers initially. Deliveries of the device will arrive on doorsteps (or in office mailrooms, perhaps) by the end of the week. As for the rest of the T-Mobile customers anxious to get their hands on the first BB10 handset, we still haven't received any word. News of the launch date was reported by <em>Reuters,</em> and we reached out to T-Mobile to confirm pricing and availability and received the following statement (update: T-Mo sent an updated statement confirming a pre-order date):</div><blockquote dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <i>The BlackBerry Z10 will be available for pre-order for business customers starting on March 11 for $249.99 on a two-year Classic plan. Please note that pricing can be impacted by volume discounts and other factors, making the device even more cost effective. The consumer retail availability date and pricing will be shared at a later date.</i></blockquote></div>

T-Mobile to begin selling BlackBerry Z10 to business customers March 11th for $249.99 (update)

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the BlackBerry Z10 my very own and use it as my everyday device

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="Back to BlackBerry closing time" data-src-height="531" data-src-width="800" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/dsc04286-1361316647.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">I've had the opportunity to use it in every likely scenario, including a nine-day trip to Spain for Mobile World Congress. Now comes the moment of truth: have I become a BlackBerry convert? Is the Z10 my new daily driver?<br /> <br /> Unfortunately, it's not. But before the BlackBerry fan base breaks out the torches and forms mobs, this isn't a denunciation of the phone or its OS. Quite the opposite, in fact. I decided to pursue this experiment for a few reasons: it's the best way to learn a brand-new operating system, I genuinely am interested in how well it handles regular day-to-day use and a month gives me plenty of time to form a solid idea of the platform's potential and future. Is it possible to have a great deal of admiration for a phone while simultaneously rejecting it as my daily driver? Yes. After the break I sum up the highlights of BB10: what works, what doesn't and what simply needs a little nudge or two. </div><h3 dir="ltr" id="title0" style="text-align: left;"> What works for me</h3><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Back to BlackBerry closing time" data-src-height="411" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/dsc04279.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <em>Gestures</em>. BB10's gestures are natural and intuitive. In the first week of my trial, I had become so accustomed to BB10's gesture-based UI that I started trying to wake Android devices by swiping up on the screen. Most gestures on BlackBerry 10 are easy and they give the platform a fair amount of uniqueness that you can't find on iOS or Android.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <em>Active Frames</em>. BlackBerry's multitasking performance is among the best (if not the best) I've used on any phone, as opening any running application is almost always an instantaneous transition -- even with graphics-heavy games. I also have a love / hate relationship with the Active Frames UI; quick access to my recent apps is nice, but having it take the form of a "home page" without any ability to customize it can be frustrating.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <em>BlackBerry Peek</em>. To be frank, my favorite notification method implemented on any mobile OS is the status bar on Android, mainly because it's easily accessible and navigable the vast majority of the time (it gets hidden in certain apps). That said, BlackBerry Peek is also a refreshing departure from standard notification systems; swipe up to "peek" at how many notifications you have, and swipe to the right if you want to view them. They're also easy to ignore if you so desire.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <em>BlackBerry Hub</em>. Although it's not perfect, Hub is the best implementation of a universal inbox I've used so far. Since it's built directly into the OS and has integrated nearly all of my preferred methods of communication, I can catch up on emails, texts and tweet mentions without exiting to different apps.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <em>Emails</em>. I enjoy the email experience on BB10... for the most part. I love having the option to lump my messages all together in a universal inbox or tackle them one account at a time. It handles attachments incredibly easily, HTML5 looks great and mail gets pushed to the inbox right away (I often receive emails on the Z10 before they arrive on my Mac).</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> I also appreciate that a conversation view is offered. But there's one critical flaw that I hope can be tweaked: even though I can go into a specific thread, each response in that thread is presented as an individual email, and there's no way to navigate through the entire conversation without first backing out to the thread list and then going back into the next response. iOS is structured in a similar way, but it offers navigation arrows on the top-right corner to let you quickly move through the entire thread.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <em>The keyboard</em>. This is BlackBerry's bread and butter, and the OS doesn't disappoint here -- at least, when it comes to performance. It's the best stock keyboard I've ever used. However, the inline word prediction feature, while really cool in theory, failed to increase my typing speed. I switched to the in-column view, in which you can choose from three words on the top of the keyboard, and was much happier.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <em>Flash Player</em>. In full disclosure, I'm not an avid user of Flash, but I do prefer at least having the option to use it when I need it. I'm happy that it can be manually turned on or off at any time, thus giving users actual choice. This is a solid competitive advantage for BlackBerry, even though I can't envision many people switching to a different OS just for Flash support.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <em>Sideloading Android apps</em>. Runtime for BlackBerry came through for me on a daily basis because it allowed me to use several Android apps to fill gaping holes in BB World (case in point: Flipboard). Don't worry; native apps will eventually come in to take care of that problem. The problem is, relying on Android ports as a workaround to support your ecosystem is not an ideal long-term solution. Sure, it may encourage a few more devs to think about writing apps for the platform, but it's not going to magically change the industry. Most users won't know or care to sideload apps, so BlackBerry has to work hard to make sure those users don't <em>have</em> to in order to get the best possible experience.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <em>Updates. </em>Before the first month was over, BlackBerry issued a significant update promising to improve power management for better battery life, low-light camera performance and third-party app performance. Given the horrible battery life I've experienced, I'm excited to give it a try; unfortunately, the update didn't arrive in enough time for me to give it a thorough test, so I'll have to report back later. However, a quick look at various BB forums indicates that it does a much better job at retaining a charge.</div><h3 dir="ltr" id="title1" style="text-align: left;"> What needs some work</h3><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Back to BlackBerry closing time" data-src-height="411" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/dsc04285.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <em>BlackBerry World</em>. I'm not going to condemn a nascent ecosystem for its app selection. No market blossoms in the space of one month, and the reality is BlackBerry has actually done a fairly good job of making sure the right pieces were in place for BB10's launch -- at least, it's done better than any other first-edition platform. Most users (especially those on the enterprise / corporate side) will likely be satisfied with what's available in BB World, unless they absolutely need Netflix or Instagram.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> There are a few areas of World itself that could use some improvement. It should check for (and install) updates automatically -- or at least make it an option, if not mandated. More filters are needed without diving deep into subcategories and other seldom-used lists. Lastly, with Android ports comprising 40 percent of World's app selection, each one should be specifically listed as such -- especially when they're paid apps.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <em>Data monitoring</em>. This needs the most work, since I still haven't found any way to monitor my data usage at all. I sorely missed this feature in Spain, because I had a pre-paid data cap and didn't want to run out in the middle of an important event. If BlackBerry doesn't come up with a solution, a third party needs to step up.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <em>Maps</em>. The native maps solution on BB10 is my least favorite of the major platforms. It's way too basic altogether, shunning important features like <span>transit directions, walking options, offline maps, distance between two points, a bird's eye or Street View feature, more POIs and Zagat- / Yelp-style reviews.</span> I preferred the Nokia Here web app; this speaks volumes to Here's impressive capabilities, but I shouldn't have to use it as a replacement to a platform's native maps app.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <em>Using web apps</em>. BlackBerry is using web apps as alternatives to a few native apps, and I hope this is only a short-term solution while the company cooks up other options. There are two examples of this practice that especially need attention: the Facebook app, which takes you into the browser for a large number of its services, and YouTube, which is just a shortcut to its home page. These options are better than nothing, but they fall far short when it comes to the user experience.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <em>Tweakable settings</em>. I like choice. If something doesn't work for me, it's nice to have the ability to tweak it so it does my bidding. Sadly, BB10 lacks a lot of these customizable settings in many core apps, such as the camera, music and video players, maps and more. This could be a symptom of being a first-edition OS, where many minor features end up on the cutting-room floor as the dev team focuses on getting the major stuff right, so hopefully these smaller things will be addressed in the next update.</div><h3 dir="ltr" id="title2" style="text-align: left;"> Conclusion</h3><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Back to BlackBerry closing time" data-src-height="411" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/dsc04723.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> While the Z10 won't be my daily driver, I can answer the questions I raised at the beginning of my experiment: does it fit my daily work flow? How does it hold up against its rivals? And does BlackBerry have a future? First, work flow: I was able to accomplish almost all of my daily work routine -- even when I was in Spain for nine days -- but a large chunk of it was only made possible by sideloading Android apps and finding other workarounds. Basically, I had to make a lot of compromises and do a lot of research in order to get it to function the way I needed, and many tasks became more time-intensive than they would have been on other platforms. I'm happy that these methods helped me get through the month unscathed, but ease of use, accessibility and speed are crucial to me.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Second, how does it hold up against its rivals? There are plenty of good qualities in BB10, but BlackBerry needs a hook -- in other words, iOS and Android users won't hop out of an ecosystem they're comfortable with unless there's a very clear reason to do so. The new and improved BlackBerry is the best first-edition OS I've ever used, but the true competitive advantages are few and far between: solid enterprise / BYOD support (areas in which iOS and Android are quickly catching up) and the BlackBerry Hub. BB10's gesture-based UI and built-in Flash Player get honorable mentions, but I can't see very many people making the jump on those features alone.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Again, this isn't a condemnation of the OS. After 30 days, I've discovered that I like the Z10 and the BlackBerry 10 OS a lot more than I had anticipated, and I believe it will be an ideal platform for a large number of power users, heavy communicators and corporate hotshots. It's just not the most ideal option for me right now. And as every major OS has done over time, it will evolve, add missing features and iron out the wrinkles (BlackBerry has already pushed out its first update, so it's off to a solid start). Which takes me to my final question: does BlackBerry have enough time to keep blossoming? The only way you can drive to your destination is to look forward, not at the car in the lane next to you; I believe BlackBerry is going in the right direction now, but it can't sit idly by and watch its competitors speed ahead again.</div></div>

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Back to BlackBerry: international travels

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Dropping a smartphone is an absolutely horrifying experience. And on my first day in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, it happened to me with my BlackBerry Z10.<br /> <br /> As much as I hate to admit, it was a dumb move on my part. Unfortunately, tragedy can strike with as simple an act as brushing one's elbow across the table, and that's all it took for me to knock my smartphone right onto a hard surface -- facedown in a perfectly horizontal position. If you've ever been through such an accident, you know the few seconds it takes to pick up the phone and survey the damage can be incredibly nerve-wracking and one of the most suspenseful moments of your life.<br /> <br /> I'm happy to say that this particular story has a positive ending, as I turned the phone over to see if I would need to call BlackBerry HQ in a panic. To my shock, it was completely fine. There wasn't a single scratch or ding, and the touchscreen was just as responsive as ever. It would've been a different story had it fallen onto a concrete floor, but this still significantly increased my opinion of the Z10's durability.<br /> <br /> Had my Z10 come face to face with concrete, I would've been in a nasty predicament. Not only would I have had to pause or put the kibosh my 30-day trial run with the BlackBerry Z10, but I'm also on the other side of the world in a foreign country. While getting a new phone isn't impossible, it's expensive, time-consuming and frustrating. Yep, this was how my 10-day international adventure began, but how well has it gone for me since?</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <i>Editor's note: This is not a review. If you haven't taken the opportunity to read through our review of the BlackBerry Z10 and the BB10 operating system, now is the perfect time to do so. As I progress through my 30-day BlackBerry trial, I'm writing most of my thoughts with the assumption that you have a basic understanding of BlackBerry's new devices and platform. If you're reading this series for the first time, you can look at my previous posts here. </i></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> I'm going to rewind the tale of my journey to where and when it all began: the flight here. In preparation for the eight-hour venture into the dark black skies, I loaded my phone up with podcasts (via a third-party native app) and plenty of games and music to keep me occupied. Everything worked up to expectations -- and frankly, that shouldn't surprise anyone. Any smartphone that can't pass the basic airplane in-flight entertainment test simply doesn't deserve to exist, and the Z10 does just fine on that end.<br /> <br /> One of the first matters of business after arriving was securing a pre-paid SIM for a few minutes, texts and all of my data needs, since I landed at the airport with no way of communicating with the world without paying outrageous international roaming charges (I'm giving you the evil eye, US carriers; you know who you are). Though some BB10 services offer reasonable offline support, I had a difficult time finding any that applied to me. In fear that I wouldn't be able to get the address of my hotel or pull up a map on my phone at the airport, I made sure to take a few screenshots just to be on the safe side. Accessing the address in an email was easy enough, but the screenshots came in handy when trying to describe my destination to the taxi driver.</div><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="DNP Back to BlackBerry week 3" data-src-height="411" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/dsc04717.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> I promptly got set up with a Vodafone pre-paid SIM. After booting, it became clear that my unlocked unit actually comes with a rather unique trait not seen in many other GSM devices (this is the first phone I've seen work this way): it's able to load up splash screens, ringtones, apps and accounts that are associated with the current SIM's carrier. On AT&T, my Z10 booted up with "Rethink Possible," contained AT&T-specific ringtones, offered AT&T Address Book as an account option and more. Once I inserted my Vodafone SIM, however, all of those disappeared and -- with the exception of the ringtones -- were replaced with Vodafone's versions (including a Vodafone app that magically appeared after my first boot up). This was a pretty cool discovery. It's a feature that I hope is implemented on all of BlackBerry's unlocked devices (all of our units have it), though I'm not expecting handsets that are originally locked to a carrier to have the same privilege. Sure, I'm definitely not a fan of any sort of carrier branding -- <i>especially</i> on unlocked handsets -- but admittedly it was worthy of a small geekout moment.<br /> <br /> Another service I've always geeked out about, despite how long it's been around, is Skype. I'm not the most frequent user of the service, but it's a godsend when I'm overseas because it makes it so easy to video chat with my wife and kids. While there are plenty of similar services available, it's the one that nearly every member of my family uses. I was hoping that Skype's anticipated app would be ready for BB10 by the time I left for Spain, but unfortunately it's still MIA. The only alternate option, FaceFlow, isn't cross-platform (though it offers a web interface), so I've been using the service on my computer instead. Of course, Skype is coming to the platform soon, so most BB10 buyers won't have the same concern for long, but it was one less way for me to take advantage of the OS.</div><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="DNP Back to BlackBerry week 3" data-src-height="411" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/dsc04716.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> A solid few days using the Z10 in Spain haven't changed my mind about BlackBerry 10 -- it's still a perfectly capable platform that just needs improvement in a few key areas -- but I must admit that my experience abroad has been better than I originally expected. To be on the safe side, I brought along an unlocked Android device as a backup, ready to accept my SIM at a moment's notice if I decided the Z10 wasn't successful at keeping up with my excessive work. Fortunately, I never felt it necessary to resort to the backup. Does that mean I had a flawless experience at MWC? Not at all. I had a few struggles, primarily in the area of mapping and app availability, and my desire for pure threaded-email conversations in the Hub dramatically increased when I was faced with twice the email volume and team email correspondence as a normal week.<br /> <br /> Furthermore, my initial concerns with battery life were also magnified as I more heavily relied on the BlackBerry to handle a much larger workload than I usually require; indeed, I made good use of external battery packs as backups, just in case I ran out of juice halfway through the day. I typically got away with only needing one recharge per day. With that said, I want to make it clear that a firmware update is on the way which promises more efficient battery life, but I haven't had the opportunity to receive it yet while I've been on the road. I hope to get my hands on it as soon as possible to properly test it out.<br /> <br /> One other thing I learned during my first few days at Mobile World Congress: four weeks after its initial launch, I was surprised to see a lot of interest in the Z10 when I pulled it out of my pocket. (The gestures seem to be a hit with most people, for what it's worth.) I know that part of this is due to the limited availability of the device so far, but people are still at least talking about it. This is good news for the company in a few ways: it hasn't been entirely dismissed by the mobile community, BlackBerry hasn't been declared dead and it is at least seen with much more curiosity and intrigue than other phones introduced at the show. (Firefox OS, anyone?)</div><h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Wrap-up</h3><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="DNP Back to BlackBerry week 3" data-src-height="411" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/dsc04718.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> During the first half of my international adventure, I've learned that my Z10 is much more durable than I originally expected. The BB10 platform is also at least capable of handling the workload I throw at it, even in high-stress conditions. I can't say that it's been the most efficient method of tackling my trade-show routine, but I've survived so far. As I noted earlier, there have been a few frustrations along the way, but I got through nearly all of my typical chores just fine. (I think it's also important to mention that at this very moment in the platform's infancy, I couldn't pull this experiment off without sideloading Android apps.) A few days in Catalonia have not magically turned me into a BlackBerry convert, but the phones are good enough that I have at least become a lot more confident in the company's future.</div></div>

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AllThingsD: No native BlackBerry 10 Instagram app in sight

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><hr dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" /> <div class="copy post-body" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="AllThingsD: No native BlackBerry 10 Instagram app in sight" data-src-height="532" data-src-width="800" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/01/rim-2013-01-24-600-12.jpg" /></div>The mobile OS that needs more big name apps to tether their wagons to insure a boost in user adoption is less one key photography app. According to <em>AllThingsD</em>, there is no native Instagram app in development for BB10 handsets -- at least for the foreseeable future. Quoting sources close to the popular social / photo filtering app, the report goes on to say that future development is also uncertain. Of course, the outfit is working on an Android port that will be usable on BlackBerry's latest, but with significant compromises to user experience to come as the cost of admission. The new operating system did secure native support from Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn and Twitter at launch.<br /> </div></div>

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Back to BlackBerry: a whole new UI world

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><hr dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" /> <div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="DNP Back to BlackBerry week one" data-src-height="411" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/dsc04214-1360340806.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <i>Editor's note: This is not a review. If you haven't taken the opportunity to read through our review of the BlackBerry Z10 and the BB10 operating system, now is the perfect time to do so. As I progress through my 30-day BlackBerry trial, I'm writing most of my thoughts with the assumption that you have a basic understanding of BlackBerry's new devices and platform. </i></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> If you were to ask me what the most significant changes are in BlackBerry 10, I'd likely go into detail about the user interface, gestures, the Hub and the ecosystem. It's an amazing improvement over previous BlackBerry devices in most cases. It's not too difficult to learn, either: just three days into my 30-day trial, I found myself unsuccessfully swiping up on a friend's Android phone to turn it on. But now that I've had the chance to set up all of my accounts, do some hardcore messaging and play around with the device, what are some of my thoughts about those major differences? Join me after the break and learn some of the best and worst things I discovered so far.</div><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="DNP Back to BlackBerry week one" data-src-height="450" data-src-width="570" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/bbsetup1.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> The setup began with my BlackBerry ID, which was so old that I was surprised when the phone accepted my password. I added all of my email and social networking accounts in just a few minutes, but adding my inboxes to the Hub took several additional minutes. No special BlackBerry data plan was required; all I had to do was simply slide my AT&T micro-SIM card into the phone, boot up and it gave me full access to everything I need.<br /> <br /> Even in the setup process, BB10 offered a few smart touches seldom seen on other platforms. For instance, my Facebook account is attached to one of my old Yahoo Mail accounts that hadn't been set up on my Z10 yet. When I added my Facebook logins to the BlackBerry Hub, it instantly recognized that I was using a different email address and asked me if I wanted to set that account up as well. All I had to do was throw in my password and I was ready to go. It's something that seems like common sense, but it's still a rarity in the mobile world.</div><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="DNP Back to BlackBerry week one" data-src-height="411" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/dsc04210.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Once my Z10 was set up and ready to go, I had a chance to get introduced to the user interface. It's modern and beautiful, and the swipe gestures are a great touch. Despite its learning curve, I was used to the BlackBerry Flow gestures after just a couple days -- and it got even easier over time.<br /> <br /> Flow is much more intuitive than I originally expected. Going back and forth between the Hub and recent (or running) apps is just a matter of a couple finger swipes, which made multitasking much faster and easier once I became acclimatized to the UI. However, the phone would occasionally ignore my gestures; I've also experienced the complete opposite scenario, like during attempts to swipe up on the keyboard's space bar, which the phone interprets as the "home screen" gesture. Also, it seems odd that an OS dedicated to simple swipe gestures doesn't let me swipe up to get rid of running applications on the main screen (à la webOS).</div><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="DNP Back to BlackBerry week one" data-src-height="450" data-src-width="270" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/img00000056.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Speaking of which, the recent apps screen (seen above) doubles as the UI's home panel, which was a little jarring at first; being accustomed to diving straight into the standard apps, this new style has involved a solid amount of adjustment time. I started using the recent apps much more frequently than I ever had before, since it was so easily accessible. This quick access, as well as the ability to get into apps almost immediately, has provided me with one of the best multitasking experiences I've ever had on a smartphone.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Once I began exploring the app pages, found on the right side of home, I was reminded of iOS, which features a static grid with apps and folders. To the left of home is the Hub. Here, all of my accounts are together in one place (and filterable to specific inboxes for better organization), but it's a half-baked effort. It lacks the numerous customization and communication options from previous BlackBerry devices, and app notifications can be erratic. It's also supposed to fully integrate with native apps, but two-way communication between the two elements is quite lackluster. As an example, after looking through my mentions on the native Twitter app, they remain as unread notifications in the Hub that need to be cleared out (a time-intensive process). Because of this, I have less interest in using the Hub, and only visit it to check my emails. (<strong>Update:</strong> a commenter pointed out that it's possible to long-press dates in the Hub, which reveals a "Mark prior read" option.)</div><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="DNP Back to BlackBerry week one" data-src-height="450" data-src-width="537" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/bbm1.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> What about the ultimate BlackBerry staple, BBM? After setting the messaging service up -- easy to do, since it already had my ID -- and chatting with a few of my colleagues, the interface and feel seemed immediately familiar. The two-way video chat and screen-share features are handy, and BBM is just as pleasant to use as I remember. Unfortunately, the feature lacks cross-platform capability, limiting the number of potential friends and family members that I can talk to on the service. (Not to mention video chat is definitely no stranger to the smartphone world.) Unless millions of people flock to BB10 over the next year or so, I simply won't have a lot of opportunities to take advantage of BBM -- and I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> I couldn't even make it through a day before I was setting out to find worthy replacements to the "native" Facebook and Twitter clients. Since Facebook hasn't committed to pushing out its own BB10 app, BlackBerry built one; at best, the application is a horribly implemented Android version wrapped up in BB10 code, and some sections of the app take you to the site on the mobile browser. As for Twitter, I've never been able to refresh my feed without fully exiting and re-entering the program. (Not everyone has experienced this bug, but numerous attempts to reinstall the app haven't made a difference on my device.)</div><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="DNP Back to BlackBerry week one" data-src-height="450" data-src-width="537" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/bbhub1.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> As a hardcore emailer, the Z10 has proved to be somewhat cumbersome in real-life use. My inbox is organized into a "conversation view," but when I click on the email thread it takes me into an individual-message view and I can't hop from one email to the next without jumping out of the email first. I haven't found a way to preview the first line or two of text before jumping in to the message, and the only way to multi-select my messages is to jump into the menu and press "select more" before proceeding. These complications make for a more time-intensive experience.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> While I got push emails through IMAP, syncing my account with Google's server wasn't instantaneous. There are a few settings that let me change how often the phone will communicate with Gmail, but whenever I read my email from my desktop, it would take ages before the phone knew about it. As soon as I switched to Exchange, though, everything began syncing much more quickly. On a more positive note: push email works great; BlackBerry Peek helps me see how many email notifications are waiting; viewing / saving attachments is easy; and my experience reading HTML emails is pleasant. Typing messages on the new virtual keyboard is also fast and smooth, though my experience using the word-prediction feature is right on par with our review.</div><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="DNP Back to BlackBerry week one" data-src-height="450" data-src-width="537" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/bbworld1.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Once all of my essential accounts and social networks were set up, it was time to play around in BlackBerry World. The store, which flaunted 70,000 apps at the time of its launch, still looks amazingly bare. Additionally, BB World isn't easy to navigate, so app discovery was rather difficult. Several times I've exited the store in disgust because I couldn't find anything close to what I was looking for. Only a handful of "featured apps" are shown on the first page, and "trending apps" typically displays just 10-15 of the apps BlackBerry wants to show off. To get to the meat, I have to dive into the categories, which are then broken up into subcategories. The silver lining is that once I get there, at least there are filters that narrow down my choices and let me change the sorting order.</div><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="DNP Back to BlackBerry week one" data-src-height="450" data-src-width="537" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/bbflipboard1.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> What if the app you really want isn't available on BlackBerry World? Welcome to the immediate future, folks. The ability to port Android apps over to BlackBerry has been a lifesaver. Once I learned how to sideload Android apps to my Z10, I installed Flipboard and used it to keep up on the usual feeds (I can access Google+ and Instagram this way). Additionally, I found apps for Remember the Milk, Google Voice, speed tests and podcasts, to name a few.<br /> <br /> This doesn't mean the use of repackaged Android apps is a flawless experience. Some are clunky, unresponsive and don't give me an experience as smooth as programs written natively for BlackBerry. Since Runtime for Android only supports Gingerbread or older versions (this will be bumped to Jelly Bean eventually), I've dealt with an archaic UI and apps that don't work. Many of the sideloaded files didn't launch. On multiple occasions, some of the apps that actually did work would freeze, forcing me to exit the app completely or reboot the phone. However, since it only takes a couple minutes to sideload an app, the additional functionality you receive is worth the gamble.</div><h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Wrap-up</h3><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="DNP Back to BlackBerry week one" data-src-height="411" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/dsc04209.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> While I'm fully committed to spending 30 days with BlackBerry 10, the first week onboard the new OS hasn't converted me into a dedicated user. I'm not saying my decision to do a month-long challenge was a mistake or that I loathe every waking moment with the Z10, but BB10 simply doesn't offer many competitive advantages that would take me away from the other platforms. The UI and gestures are refreshing and fun to use, but the Hub feels a little too basic for my email needs. I'm also willing to give the ecosystem some more time to grow, but it's not a good sign that I have no other choice but to sideload Android apps to fill massive holes in BlackBerry World. Granted, I believe BB10 is the best first-gen version of any mobile OS on the market, and it has a lot more potential than I originally thought. How well -- and how soon -- it lives up to that potential is a completely different story.</div></div>

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BlackBerry Z10 goes under the knife, reveals innards similar to Galaxy S III LTE Mobile

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><hr dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" /> <div class="copy post-body" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="BlackBerry Z10 goes under the knife, reveals innards similar to Galaxy S III LTE" data-src-height="390" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/blackberry-z10-comm-front.jpg" /></div>BlackBerry Z10 devices have only been out in the wild for roughly a week, but the folks at <em>UBM TechInsights</em> have already forced one of the handset's open to figure out just what parts make it tick. Prying the device apart revealed the expected Snapdragon S4 Plus and three other parts from Qualcomm accompanied by Samsung-made RAM and storage. What stands out most to the dismantlers, however, is that the Z10 packs many of the same components in Samsung's Galaxy family of devices, particularly those of the LTE-toting GS3. It's not the most scrutinizing tear down, but you can hit the bordering source link for the entire parts list and full set of images.<br /> </div></div>

BlackBerry Z10 goes under the knife, reveals innards similar to Galaxy S III LTE Mobile

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Nikkei: BlackBerry to stop selling phones in Japan, no longer able to justify

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><hr dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" /> <div class="copy post-body" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/01/rim-2013-01-24-600-5.jpg" /></div>It looks like Japan won't be a part of BlackBerry's BB10 launch plans now or anytime in the foreseeable future. According to a report from <em>Nikkei</em>, BlackBerry has decided to stop selling phones in the country, at least in part because it wasn't able to justify the cost of making the necessary language modifications to its new operating system. As <em>Nikkei</em> also notes, however, BlackBerry has seen a particularly steep drop in market share in Japan, where it now stands at just 0.3 percent. We've reached out to BlackBerry about the news and are awaiting comment.<br /> <strong>Update:</strong> We've received a statement from BlackBerry confirming that it has no plans to launch to launch BB10 devices in Japan at this time, although it adds that it will continue to support its customers in the country. The complete statement is as follows:<br /><blockquote> We are in the process of launching BlackBerry 10 globally in key markets and we are seeing positive demand for the BlackBerry Z10 in countries where it has already launched. Japan is not a major market for BlackBerry and we have no plans to launch BlackBerry 10 devices there at this time. However, we will continue to support BlackBerry customers in Japan.</blockquote></div></div>

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Editorial: BlackBerry slumps into history of Super Bowl tech ads

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><hr dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" /> <div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Editorial BlackBerry slumps into history of Super Bowl tech ads" data-src-height="337" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/screen-shot-2013-02-04-at-6.04.42-pm.png" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> The comparison is obvious: BlackBerry's already-infamous "Can't Do" commercial in this year's Super Bowl vs. Apple's legendary "1984" spot in the 1984 game. Let's do the comparison anyway, and consider some other tech advertising over 35 years of Super Bowls.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> BlackBerry is taking scorn for its capricious ad depicting several fantastic scenarios created by, or solved by (it's not always clear what the heck is going on during the montage), the upcoming Z10 smartphone.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Analysis from the commentariat complains that the ad fails to illustrate what the phone <em>can </em>do, which you might think would be good market preparation for its March US debut. Such criticism, though, disregards the traditional role of Super Bowl advertising, which is to make a memorable brand impact. Uninformative, absurd, nonsensical commercials are standard, even expected.</div><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Editorial BlackBerry slumps into history of Super Bowl tech ads" data-src-height="334" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/screen-shot-2013-02-04-at-6.10.00-pm.png" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> More to the point is the lack of a jolt, big statement, brand shaping, majesty or even pop. I don't mean to pile on; as I've written before, I'm rooting for BlackBerry. But this is where the Z10 commercial suffers a patent and predictable comparison with Apple's "1984." The setup is roughly the same: both commercials are prologues to imminent product launches (the Macintosh in Apple's case). It might seem unfair to contrast any modern commercial with a piece of creative work that has, over time, accrued luster as one of the great TV ads in and out of the Super Bowl. But remember, BlackBerry's CEO said at the BB10 launch event last year "We are at the beginning of a new era of mobile computing." If, now that TV advertising has begun, the product messaging cannot carry forward that level of aggrandizing rhetoric, it is a branding failure.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> The truth is that BlackBerry does not have a category-changing product on its hands -- classy, smart and effective though the device is. Did Apple know that the Macintosh would change computing and (arguably) justify the titanic imagery of the "1984" ad? The company was conflicted internally, with execs battling the board, which opposed airing the piece. Notwithstanding the extent to which the Apple ad was a gamble, it reached for the glory of extreme hyperbole, and brazenly set user expectations to the sky. There were no product spec details, but the 60-second drama promised revolution and salvation.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> The "Can't Do" ad (dreadful title, by the way) promises only that the Z10 phone can do unspecified things, and too many of them to describe in a commercial. That's a vague dispatch. Other tech commercials are also necessarily concise, but some focus their messages on solving problems.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Amy Poehler's flirtatious energy enlivens Best Buy's pedestrian retail message: the salespeople are helpful. "THANK YOU!" she screams at the end, exiting the store wearing noise-canceling headphones. The spot resonates with an ethos of the venerable <em>...for Dummies</em> book line -- tech is fun and we can make you understand it.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> GoDaddy.com, a veteran of controversial ads, stirred two commercials into this year's stew. The first mocks would-be entrepreneurs who fail to act on their ideas (solution: we make it easy to protect your new trademark). The second veers onto the company's well-trod ground of sexploitation to promote a hybrid view of the brand as both sexy and practical. The service's two sides are cemented by a long kiss between a swimsuit model and a stereotyped geek. A kiss by itself not being sexual enough for GoDaddy's shock tradition, the scene is recorded with a high level of lip slurps. Queue Twitter explosion of disgust.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> GoDaddy has stepped into the big game before, but E-Trade is the champion of Super Bowl website advertisers with the placement of seven ads in six games. This year's entry is disappointingly weak and unfunny in my opinion, but look again at the first talking-baby commercial from 2008, with its laconic voicing, low-fi webcam production value, expert editing and surprise ending.</div><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Editorial BlackBerry slumps into history of Super Bowl tech ads" data-src-height="297" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/screen-shot-2013-02-04-at-6.11.52-pm.png" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> E-Trade placed its first Super Bowl spot in 2000, the bubble year for Web 1.0 ad invasions. The 2000 game featured messages from Buy.com, HotJobs.com, Computer.com, Epidemic.com, LifeMinders.com and the notorious Pets.com spot -- the emblem of the dot-com bust. And while E-Trade is known best for the talking babies which came later (the greatest of which might be this one -- "What, I can't flex the golden pipes?"), in 2001 it presented a remarkable symbolic eulogy of doomed dot-coms from the year before in a commercial called "Ghost Town."</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Going back further, the 1976 Super Bowl featured a Xerox ad that set a template for future insouciance and cleverness. Entitled "Monks," the spot depicted a scribe saving his aching hand by machine-copying 500 replicas of an illuminated manuscript -- at two pages per second. ("It's a miracle!") The opening line of the ad's script foretells a good amount of contemporary tech culture: "Ever since people started recording information, there's been a need to duplicate it." Could be an ad for BitTorrent.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Back in this year, SodaStream represented the quirkiest tech ad in the 2013 game. The home-carbonated drink maker put out a confusing environmental message of conserving bottle consumption with DIY beverages. It would have made more sense to introduce this product to millions of new people by emphasizing fun, unique flavors or cost-saving benefits. But we certainly get a splashier commercial when stacked crates of soda in a warehouse suddenly lose their bottles and fizzy liquid pours everywhere.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Samsung had the most delightfully loopy messaging of this year's ad crop in tech, with a couple of loose, self-deprecating, 60-second riffs featuring Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen. They hook into the Galaxy line and its existing "Next big thing" tagline. But the attitude remains too cool to attempt making a point, selling a feature, solving a problem or caring whether we receive a coherent message. The opposite of Apple's long-ago aspirational epic, Samsung's nonchalance also skewers BlackBerry's earnest deflection.</div></div>

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Jelly Bean update planned for BlackBerry 10 Android runtime

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><hr dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" /> <div class="copy post-body" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Confirmed Jelly Bean update planned for BlackBerry 10 Android runtime" data-src-height="412" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/rim-2013-01-24-600-12-1360083758.jpg" /></div>It's official: BlackBerry 10's Android runtime layer will be updated to Jelly Bean. Reports of the announcement, which should please users looking to shore up the platform's app selection, surfaced this morning, apparently stemming from the company's developer-focused BB Jam Europe event in Amsterdam. We've since reached out and received confirmation that it is indeed true, although no timetable has yet to be announced. In the meantime, current Z10 owners can continue to sideload Gingerbread-based apps -- which the runtime layer currently supports -- while they wait for those big name, third-party apps to land in the BlackBerry World store.<br /> </div></div>

Jelly Bean update planned for BlackBerry 10 Android runtime

It's official: BlackBerry 10's Android runtime layer will be updated to Jelly Bean. Reports ...

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Back to BlackBerry: one editor's 30-day trial run

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><hr dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" /> <div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="BlackBerry 10 for 30 days" data-src-height="532" data-src-width="800" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/01/rim-2013-01-24-600-12.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> I confess, I'm intrigued by BlackBerry 10. Surprised? So am I. It's been easy to pre-emptively count BlackBerry out of the smartphone wars based on its performance over the last two or three years, but there's an element of mystique and personality that have made me quite curious to give the new OS a shot. While Wednesday's BB10 launch answered a lot of questions, it also raised a lot of new ones. Most of the mysteries revolve around its ecosystem, hardware quality, competitive advantages / disadvantages and if the platform can persuade Android and iOS users to switch. As a former Pearl and Curve owner, I want -- nay, <i>need</i> -- to determine for myself how well BlackBerry's latest effort holds up against its rivals. Thus, I have decided to use the BlackBerry Z10 as my sole device and daily driver for thirty days.<br /> <br /> From now until March 3rd, I'll experience nearly every aspect of BB10: the UI and its learning curve, its performance and battery life, BlackBerry World, the highly praised virtual keyboard and how well it can handle my work load. I'll even use the phone at MWC, a major international trade show in which I'll be even more dependent on my mobile than usual. Throughout this process I'll be documenting my thoughts, feelings and emotions and deliver them in a regular series of weekly posts. By the end, we'll see whether or not BB10 can win my heart; is it a suitable replacement for the average iOS or Android user, or does the company still have a difficult path ahead of it? Time will tell, and I'm eager to find out.</div></div>

Back to BlackBerry: one editor's 30-day trial run

I confess, I'm intrigued by BlackBerry 10. Surprised? So am I. It's been easy to pre-emptive...

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BlackBerry Q10 flashes pearly whites in brief debut

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><hr dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" /> <div class="copy post-body" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Blackberry Q10 flashes pearly whites in brief sortie" data-src-height="413" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/01/blackberry-q10-white-1-31-13.jpg" /></div>A previously unseen BlackBerry Q10 in alluring white made a blink-or-you'll-miss-it appearance at last night's BlackBerry 10 Experience event in New York. <em>Crackberry</em> was on hand to snap a few photos before the 3.1-inch, dual-processor toting device went back into the pocket of BlackBerry CMO Frank Boulben. The color certainly lends it a heaping dose of <em>James Bond-esque</em> elegance, to our eyes -- as for our other thoughts on the physical-key toting handset, check our recent hands-on.<br /> </div></div>

BlackBerry Q10 flashes pearly whites in brief debut

A previously unseen BlackBerry Q10 in alluring white made a blink-or-you'll-miss-it appearance at l...

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BlackBerry Z10 priced at £480 SIM-free by purported Carphone Warehouse database leak (update)

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><hr /> <div class="image-container" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="BlackBerry Z10 purportedly hits Carphone Warehouse database, 480 unlocked" data-src-height="266" data-src-width="616" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/01/47-am.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> With all the BlackBerry 10 leaks as of late, it seems inevitable that pricing info would get ousted in the lead up to January 30th. Thanks to an anonymous tipster, it appears that the SIM-free version of RIM's Z10 will cost UKers a cool £480 at Carphone Warehouse (for perspective, a 16GB iPhone 5 would run you just roughly £30 more). The leak comes from what's said to be a snapshot of the company's internal database, listing the white variant. The attached BLAZ10WHI model number also syncs up nicely with the previous slip from the retailer. At this rate, not much is going to be left to the imagination when RIM officially unveils its devices come Wednesday -- who likes surprises anyway, right?</div><div style="text-align: left;"> <strong>Update:</strong> We've updated the post to reflect that the phone was touted to us as "SIM-free," specifically.</div></div>

BlackBerry Z10 priced at £480 SIM-free by purported Carphone Warehouse database leak (update)

With all the BlackBerry 10 leaks as of late, it seems inevitable that pricing info would get ousted ...

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