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- Walmart Selling BlackBerry PlayBook – Amazon Accepting Preorders
- Nomad Analytics Brings Google Analytics to Your BlackBerry
- SeaBattleSE Battleship Game Adds BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform
- BlackBerry Theme Studio 6 Gold Release Now Available
- Dear RIM, Can We Get Network Activity “Arrows” on the BlackBerry PlayBook?
- Twitter for BlackBerry v2.0 Available to All In App World Today
- RIM Flips AT&T the Bird and Offers PlayBook Bridge Desktop Install Files Directly
- New Xplicit Theme from BB-Freaks – 50 Free Copies!
- RBC Analyst Estimates First Month BlackBerry PlayBook Sales at 250,000
| Walmart Selling BlackBerry PlayBook – Amazon Accepting Preorders Posted: 20 May 2011 03:09 AM PDT
Since RIM announced the retail locations for the BlackBerry PlayBook I have been wondering about a few of the companies conspicuously missing from the list. For example, they had Walmart in Canada but not in the US and Amazon and other competitors like Newegg and Buy.com were nowhere to be seen. Now we can happily report that two more are on board. Corey let us know that he picked up his BlackBerry PlayBook at Walmart a few weeks ago. Walmart.com has all three size variants of the PlayBook and free shipping to Walmart stores if one is closer than a Best Buy, Staples, or Radio Shack. Bla1ze @CrackBerry also spotted Amazon's new preorder pages for the BlackBerry PlayBook which is shipping from them starting June 1st. I am not sure what took these merchants so long to get on board but I am glad they are starting to get in the game. It is kind of interesting to see how easily RIM has grown from a direct to carrier to a direct to channel/consumer sales approach. Let us know if you spot any other retailers carrying the PlayBook! If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, May 20, 2011, 6:09 am. | Walmart Selling BlackBerry PlayBook – Amazon Accepting Preorders | Leave a comment |
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| Nomad Analytics Brings Google Analytics to Your BlackBerry Posted: 19 May 2011 03:10 PM PDT
In case you don't know Google Analytics is a free and very popular website analytics service. Back in April of last year we told you about a Google Analytics client for BlackBerrys but it looks like that app has disappeared. Nomad Analytics let us know about their new self named app that picks up where that app left off. It gives you access to quite a bit of your Google Analytics data in a format that is easy to consume on your BlackBerry.
Features include:
The kind of data queries you can make from the app include:
You can find more info about Nomad Analytics at www.nomadanalytics.com or simply pick it up in App World for $4.99. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, May 19, 2011, 6:10 pm. | Nomad Analytics Brings Google Analytics to Your BlackBerry | One comment |
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| SeaBattleSE Battleship Game Adds BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform Posted: 19 May 2011 10:45 AM PDT
ToySoft let us know that their SeaBattleSE Battleship clone game is the first game to take advantage of the new BlackBerry Messenger v6 Social Platform APIs to form a social network around the game. It lets you invite any player in your BBM contact list into a multiplayer game but the other player must also have SeaBattleSE and BBM v6 installed. Features include:
You can pick up the new SeaBattleSE in the store for a very reasonable $0.99 at this link. Let us know what you think of it! If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, May 19, 2011, 1:45 pm. | SeaBattleSE Battleship Game Adds BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform | Leave a comment |
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| BlackBerry Theme Studio 6 Gold Release Now Available Posted: 19 May 2011 09:16 AM PDT
RIM is rolling out betas into production today. BlackBerry Theme Studio 6 has been in beta for awhile now and just got an update in late January. It is kind of crazy to think that the beta came out months after BlackBerry 6 devices started shipping and now it is releasing into Gold status right before the launch of BlackBerry OS 7 in the next month or two. Still developers have been making themes with the Beta for months now so it really did not make that much of a difference. In case you are a theme developer who has avoided BlackBerry Theme Studio in beta form you can get the Gold Release now with these features:
You can pick up the BlackBerry Theme Studio 6 Gold Release at BlackBerry.com If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, May 19, 2011, 12:16 pm. | BlackBerry Theme Studio 6 Gold Release Now Available | One comment |
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| Dear RIM, Can We Get Network Activity “Arrows” on the BlackBerry PlayBook? Posted: 19 May 2011 09:06 AM PDT
There is one thing I am really missing on the BlackBerry PlayBook that I have always treasured on my BlackBerry Smartphone as far as I can remember. Data activity arrows showing you what is going on when the app does not offer you a progress notification. I can understand that they may be distracting in some apps but when you are in the browser or other apps it would be really nice to be able to visually see that there is something going on. In the browser it would be even better if it could show you the items it is requesting in a bottom status bar kind of like Firefox 4 or Google Chrome does. I am really curious to know if I am the only one missing this "feature" on the BlackBerry PlayBook. RIM could even integrate it into the current top left red arrow style by adding in a top right arrow where it would show a horizontal line for data transfer coming in and a vertical one for data transfer going out. What do you think? If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, May 19, 2011, 12:06 pm. | Dear RIM, Can We Get Network Activity “Arrows” on the BlackBerry PlayBook? | 7 comments |
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| Twitter for BlackBerry v2.0 Available to All In App World Today Posted: 19 May 2011 07:06 AM PDT
Twitter for BlackBerry v2.0 hit the Beta Zone at the beginning of this month and it is now ready for prime time. RIM let us know that this new version will be rolling out to everybody in App World in the next 24 hours. This new version is part of RIM's new iterative development approach where they release smaller updates more frequently which is kind of cool. We told you before that this new version features simplified navigation but here is how RIM describes the new update:
Keep on hitting the Twitter for BlackBerry app link in App World for the update. I know the "up to 24 hours" wait sucks but imagine if only RIM had a technology that would allow them to push updates immediately… If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, May 19, 2011, 10:06 am. | Twitter for BlackBerry v2.0 Available to All In App World Today | 7 comments |
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| RIM Flips AT&T the Bird and Offers PlayBook Bridge Desktop Install Files Directly Posted: 19 May 2011 06:56 AM PDT
RIM is having some fun with AT&T over the BlackBerry Bridge feature on the BlackBerry PlayBook. AT&T is the only holdout carrier for BlackBerry Bridge and RIM blocks AT&T customers from downloading the Bridge app in App World. While others have already extracted the app and made it available to AT&T customers there are many who don't trust other sources including enterprise customers. Turns out RIM feels their pain and made the BlackBerry Bridge desktop installation files available directly from RIM. You will need desktop manager on your computer to install this app using RIM's download but it works like a charm.
The interesting part is that RIM says:
I really hope RIM does not give AT&T a way to charge for the Bridge feature. Once they let that dam break all hell will break loose. You can pick up the install files at the bottom of the page at this link. Now if only RIM would simply let all customers download the Bridge application from App World. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, May 19, 2011, 9:56 am. | RIM Flips AT&T the Bird and Offers PlayBook Bridge Desktop Install Files Directly | 14 comments |
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| New Xplicit Theme from BB-Freaks – 50 Free Copies! Posted: 19 May 2011 06:30 AM PDT
The latest release from BB-Freaks is something hot and versatile! Xplicit, available in 8 colors is “is a smooth theme with a simple design that will make easier the way to browser through your blackberry while enjoying your favorite wallpaper or picture on the home screen background. The home screen features a hidden dock with 7-9 customizable slots where you can put all your favorites needs, the order of the slots is according to the order on the menu. **To show the hidden dock you have to press the space bar key for non-touch devices and touching the dock area for touch devices, to hide it just press the escape key. ** The theme only needs less than 1,0MB for Non-Touch and ~1,4MB for Touch devices, it runs very smoothly on any blackberry model.” Available for a variety of BlackBerry devices at a sale cost of $3.99, BB-Freaks is doing this awesome giveaway of 50 free copies for the BLUE color version only. Simply visit the Berryreview Store, select your device and enter coupon code BRX2XB at checkout. Please thank BB-Freaks if you are a winner! Also, for those who want to purchase one of the other colors, go to this link and select accordingly. All of us would like to give a BIG THANKS to BB-FREAKS!!
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Posted by Vicky for ©BerryReview, May 19, 2011, 9:30 am. | New Xplicit Theme from BB-Freaks – 50 Free Copies! | One comment |
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| RBC Analyst Estimates First Month BlackBerry PlayBook Sales at 250,000 Posted: 19 May 2011 05:32 AM PDT
I am always curious how analysts make these estimates but the latest one is coming from RBC analyst Mike Abramsky. He estimates that RIM sold 250,000 PlayBooks in the first 30 days since launch. He also claims that they might sell 500,000 in the first quarter after launch. These "estimates" are based on "Checks at 180 Best Buys show 14 percent of the 16GB model sold out, 71 percent of the 32GB model sold out, and 84 percent of the 64GB model sold out; however, 32GB/64GB stock-outs appear allocation-related." I am not a mathematician or anything but that does not seem very scientific but I guess that is why it is an estimate. I am not sure what sort of extrapolations Abramsky is using but it seems to be missing big players like Staples, Radio Shack, and the many other retail locations. On top of that checking at Best Buy stores totally disregards the business market which does not head on over to Best Buy store to pick up multiple devices. What do you think? Even at 250,000 that is a pretty nice following for the PlayBook and RIM only has more features to come. via AllThingsD If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, May 19, 2011, 8:32 am. | RBC Analyst Estimates First Month BlackBerry PlayBook Sales at 250,000 | 5 comments |
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