CellGuru is, as you know, down at the BlackBerry World Conference in Orlando, Florida, and we have news coming in from him in regard to the upcoming version of BlackBerry Messenger (aka BBM). The new version of BBM, “BlackBerry Messenger 6″ will launch on the upcoming BlackBerry 7 OS (BB7 OS) devices such as [...]

Y’all complained, Rovio finally delivered. This morning during the now infamous keynote, RIM’s co-CEO Mike Lazaridis confirmed what we have all been waiting for: Angry Birds is coming to the BlackBerry PlayBook. Availability and pricing are both still up in the air, but expect it to drop for the same $.99 that is sells for [...]

Just when we thought RIM had showed all their cards early yesterday with the announcements of the BlackBerry Bold 9900, facebook for PlayBook, and the PlayBook update for BBM and Video chat; they come out of left field with this douzer: a new, full integration of Bing search and maps into the forthcoming BlackBerry 7 OS [...]

When the BlackBerry PlayBook was first announced back in September at DevCon, one of the highlighted features was the front facing camera on it. The idea was to be able to use your BlackBerry ID to call other PlayBook users over a WiFi network; similar to the idea of Apple’s FaceTime. Fast forward to April [...]

Good morning world! Welcome to day 2 of BlackBerry World 2011 and one of the most exciting so far, as this mornings session features keynote talks from: RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, Carolyn Everson, VP of Global Advertising Sales at facebook, and Jeff McDowell SVP of Business and Platform marketing at RIM. The event is packed, [...]

So my friends, day 1 has officially come to an end here in Orlando, Florida at RIM’s first annual BlackBerry World 2011 conference (formally WES), and boy has it been a douzie. Its been seemingly announcement after announcement after, yup, announcement, and this is only day 1. Tomorrow bright and early we begin again, covering [...]

  It’s nothing new that BBM has become a staple for BlackBerry, nor is it a bold statement to say that BBM — or any other instant messaging app around, for that matter — has single handedly made text messaging not only irrelevant, but also not the cash-cow for carriers that it used to be. [...]

As per the official release earlier here is a shot of the facebook app for the PlayBook, set to launch this month in BlackBerry’s App World. Hope that feeds that appetite for now.

We just spoke about the update RIM plans on pushing out tonight for the PlayBook, which will bring video chat capabilities but not much other info was immediately known. Well, that has changed now; because as we speak, Mike Lazaridis is talking about all the features being brought to the table via conference call. Below are some [...]

Despite what you may be thinking based on my last few posts, the talk around here isn’t ALL Bold 9900; RIM came out with some pretty big updates for the PlayBook as well. Not only do they plan on pushing out an OTA update to V.1.0.3 — skipping right past 1.0.1.1790 — but also bringing the [...]