Items tagged with BlackBerry
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Jun 26, 2025
For a segment of smartphone users who fondly remember (and secretly crave) the tactile satisfaction of a physical keyboard, look no further than the Unihertz Titan 2, a device that proudly resurrects the iconic form factor of the...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, Jan 05, 2024
There's a cool new accessory that will give your iPhone 14 and 15 a physical keyboard just like an old-school Blackberry. Ideal for typists who lament using on-screen keyboards, Clicks Creator is available now... as long as you can stomach...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 31, 2021
Remember when BlackBerry was THE smartphone brand, back before the rise of Apple and Samsung as the dominant players (and now others)? It was a good, long run. Some of you may still own and use legacy BlackBerry devices, and if you do, be...
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Nathan Ord - Tue, Jul 27, 2021
If you want to be stealthy, perhaps not wearing a hot pink suit is a good choice. When it comes to cybersecurity, avoiding computer languages that people have come to know and recognize is a good idea as well. Threat actors have seemingly...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, Aug 19, 2020
It isn’t often that you can bring something back from dead, moreover, multiple times. For BlackBerry, though, this isn’t the case. BlackBerry is partnering with OnwardMobility and FIH Mobile Limited (a Foxconn brand) as they plan to make a...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Feb 03, 2020
It looks as though it's the end of the line for BlackBerry smartphones, as the company’s existing licensing deal with TCL Communications is coming to an end on August 31st 2020. TCL first entered into to an agreement in December 2016 to...
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Brittany Goetting - Fri, Aug 16, 2019
Is your Bluetooth connection secure? Researchers recently discovered a Bluetooth vulnerability that could allow hackers to intercept and manipulate a user’s communications. The researchers tested and found seventeen vulnerable Bluetooth...
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Shane McGlaun - Mon, Jul 15, 2019
Fans of the defunct Blackberry Passport who fancy the idea of a similar device that runs Android will want to check out the new device from a company called Unihertz. The smartphone is the Unihertz Titan, and it looks almost just like the...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Jun 07, 2018
When it comes to smartphones, it seems as though the downfall of the [mobile] physical keyboard was inevitable with the arrival of the original iPhone in 2007. However, 11 years later, BlackBerry is still producing smartphones with a...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Mar 06, 2018
BlackBerry has seen better days, but it is trying to prove that it still has some life left in it by suing one of the biggest names in tech: Facebook. BlackBerry alleges that Facebook is infringing on its patents relating to BlackBerry...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Oct 09, 2017
The phone formerly known as Krypton has not officially launched as the BlackBerry Motion. Though you will not find any reference to the new handset on BlackBerry's website, the company announced its newest smartphone at GITEX Technology...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Oct 06, 2017
The company that once upon a time was known as Research in Motion (RIM) is getting ready to release a new smartphone, the BlackBerry Motion. Known internally as Krypton, what looks to be an official press rendering of the new handset has...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Apr 27, 2017
We have not heard a whole lot from BlackBerry lately, but if you're rooting for the Canadian smartphone maker, you'll be happy to know that it has not thrown in the towel. Just the opposite, it prepping the release of another smartphone...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Apr 02, 2017
It has been quite the tumultuous journey for BlackBerry, the company formerly known as Research In Motion (RIM). After a series of failed attempts to claw its way back into relevance through various hardware releases and software...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Jan 25, 2017
BlackBerry isn’t ready to completely throw in the towel on the smartphone market just yet. Even though its market share has fallen to below one percent in recent years, BlackBerry is still soldiering forward with a new Android-based...
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Brandon Hill - Sun, Dec 04, 2016
If you’ve been longing for an Android smartphone that has a built-in QWERTY keyboard, but weren’t too impressed with BlackBerry’s Priv, the Canadian company is apparently back at it again with a new QWERTY model. But unlike the Priv, whose...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Oct 25, 2016
BlackBerry is no longer designing and manufacturing its own smartphones, which means that we’ll no longer see daring designs like the Priv or Passport. What this does mean, however, is that those that are still firmly in the BlackBerry...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Sep 28, 2016
If you liked recent, unique smartphone designs like the Passport and the Priv, you won’t be seeing anything like them in the future from BlackBerry. Buried in the company’s fiscal Q2 2017 earnings report is news that BlackBerry is exiting...
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Brittany Goetting - Fri, Jul 29, 2016
Last week we reported that Apple’s self-driving car project, code-named “Project Titan”, was experiencing a big shakeup. This week, however, it seems that Apple is trying to get the ball, or should we say tire rolling. Apple, has hired...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Jul 26, 2016
Although BlackBerry has definitely seen better days, that isn’t stopping the company from pushing ahead with new Android-based smartphones following the late 2015 launch of its Priv flagship. We’ve known for quite some time that BlackBerry...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Jul 05, 2016
Just before the holiday weekend started, there were some fireworks going off in BlackBerry land when word leaked out that U.S. Senate staffers would no longer have access to the company’s smartphones. It was reported that there were only...
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Brittany Goetting - Sat, Jul 02, 2016
The reign of the Blackberry on Capitol Hill has come to an end. Blackberry phones had long been the phone of choice for members of Congress, but Blackberry recently informed Verizon and AT&T that production of all BlackBerry OS 10 devices...
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