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- Free Western Union BlackBerry App Moves Your Money on the Go
- Developer Shows Off PlayTorrent Beta BitTorrent Client for the PlayBook
- Reuters Suddenly Realizes RIM SVP, Jim Tobin, Left RIM 2+ Months Ago…
- T-Mobile BlackBerry Torch 9810 Dummy Units Arriving
- Connect to TVersity App Promises DLNA / UPNP Streaming to Your PlayBook
- Free HopStop Personal Navigation App for BlackBerry offers Directions in Many Cities
- Official Video of the Porsche Design P’9981 by BlackBerry from RIM
- Crowdsourced List of Android Apps That Work on the PlayBook OS 2.0 Beta (Sideloading)
- Porsche Design P’9981 Shows Up on RIM’s Website & Gets an Official Announcement
- BlackBerry Porsche P’9981 to Officially Be Sold By Porsche Later This Year
| Free Western Union BlackBerry App Moves Your Money on the Go Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:16 AM PDT
Western Union has released a new BlackBerry app this week that helps you move your money around the world. The app gives you access to the main functions you need and you can transfer money to over 200 countries from your credit card. You can also track your transfer around the world and look up fees.
Full feature list includes:
You can pick up the Western Union BlackBerry app in App World If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 28, 2011, 5:16 am. | Free Western Union BlackBerry App Moves Your Money on the Go | Leave a comment |
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| Developer Shows Off PlayTorrent Beta BitTorrent Client for the PlayBook Posted: 27 Oct 2011 02:35 PM PDT Now this is another one of those apps where you wonder if RIM will allow it into App World. PlayTorrent is an on device BitTorrent client for the BlackBerry PlayBook. Cool right? While BitTorrent has many justifiable uses most companies tend to permanently associate it with illegal file sharing. Shahriyar over @BBin.in spotted a video of the PlayTorrent client in action from Behance Network along with a load of screenshots here. Desktop Video Link | Mobile Video LinkSupposedly Behance Network plans on releasing PlayTorrent shortly after it gets out of beta. I am really curious to see if RIM allows it in App World. The only other BitTorrent related app I have seen in App World is a free NASi app that lets you remotely control the Torrent app on your home QNAP network attached storage (NAS). If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, October 27, 2011, 5:35 pm. | Developer Shows Off PlayTorrent Beta BitTorrent Client for the PlayBook | Leave a comment |
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| Reuters Suddenly Realizes RIM SVP, Jim Tobin, Left RIM 2+ Months Ago… Posted: 27 Oct 2011 01:20 PM PDT
You have to love wall streets obsession with RIM remodeling their management structure. First these analysts and investors were clamoring for a shakeup in management and cleaning up house. Now when they see RIM doing just that they complain that RIM is firing people. The latest one Reuters all of a sudden caught on to months later is Jim Tobin who used to be SVP of the Software, Services & Enterprise Markets business unit at RIM. Last I checked he was let go a little over 2 months ago together with Jeff McDowell, who was SVP of platform marketing and alliances. They also let go Vincent Washington who was heading up RIM Sports, Tyler Lessard, Mike Kirkup, , etc along with thousands of others throughout RIM. Some of these employees that were forced out, laid off, quit dramatically, or found better opportunities were extremely talented people but RIM is in the middle of a drastic platform shift and many acquisitions which leads to redundancies… RIM bought a new enterprise platform Ubitexx which is set to replace and prop up BES. They acquired QNX which is RIM's new development platform… These are key pieces that are currently sitting side by side with departments run by the old guard of RIM execs. The thing I don't get is why Wall Street doesn't see the management change up as exactly what they asked for? I cannot read the minds of RIM's upper management but this is something that they started way back in 2009 when they started considering QNX and a whole new platform. The similarities to what they did back when they expanded from enterprise to consumer and their acquisitions back then look awfully like what they are doing now. What do you think? Many of these people will be sorely missed but this seems to be exactly what RIM needs now. You can catch up with Jim Tobin on Twitter or his blog that he started up again two months ago… If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, October 27, 2011, 4:20 pm. | Reuters Suddenly Realizes RIM SVP, Jim Tobin, Left RIM 2+ Months Ago… | 5 comments |
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| T-Mobile BlackBerry Torch 9810 Dummy Units Arriving Posted: 27 Oct 2011 11:21 AM PDT
We have already seen multiple confirmations that the BlackBerry Torch 9810 slider was coming to T-Mobile. Now we just got an image from on of our tipsters holding a dummy unit of the 9810 branded with T-Mobile’s logo. The pic is a bit overexposed but you get the picture… Here is to hoping it comes on the currently rumored November 9th launch date! If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Luis Merlos for ©BerryReview, October 27, 2011, 2:21 pm. | T-Mobile BlackBerry Torch 9810 Dummy Units Arriving | One comment |
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| Connect to TVersity App Promises DLNA / UPNP Streaming to Your PlayBook Posted: 27 Oct 2011 09:36 AM PDT FileArchiveHaven has released a TVersity client for the popular TVersity server that many people use. In case you don't know TVersity is a free server to install on your PC that lets you stream video to devices like the Xbox, PS3, and now the PlayBook. TVersity is a DLNA compliant sharing server in other words and this new "Connect to TVersity" app lets you stream videos, audio, and pictures to your PlayBook. The crazy part is that this PlayBook app is not limited to use to TVersity and actually works with any standard web based DLNA server. The only benefit of TVersity server is that it pre-converts videos to make sure they are playable on the PlayBook due to compatible video types. Sounds cool right? With Connect to TVersity and your TVersity server setup you can:
I have not had a chance to try out this app yet since I have not been home but I will definitely be checking it out. Send us screenshots to our tip line if you get it working! Let us know what you think of Connect to TVersity if you pick it up in App World for $1.99. They also confirm that they have tested it on PlayBook Beta OS 2.0 and it works! PS: I have had limited success in the past getting the PlayBook to simply work with TVersity without a client by just going to http://<tversity ip address>:<port>/flashlib/ but hopefully this is better! If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 27, 2011, 12:36 pm. | Connect to TVersity App Promises DLNA / UPNP Streaming to Your PlayBook | 3 comments |
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| Free HopStop Personal Navigation App for BlackBerry offers Directions in Many Cities Posted: 27 Oct 2011 09:01 AM PDT
In case you are not familiar with HopStop they offer a very useful directions and navigation service. You can use their service to get public transit, walking, taxi, and biking directions in dozens of cities throughout the US, Canada and Europe. I use their website all the time in NYC and its great to see them bring those features to BlackBerry. Features of the app include:
You can pick up the free HopStop app for OS 5.0+ devices in App World. Let us know what you think of it! If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 27, 2011, 12:01 pm. | Free HopStop Personal Navigation App for BlackBerry offers Directions in Many Cities | 2 comments |
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| Official Video of the Porsche Design P’9981 by BlackBerry from RIM Posted: 27 Oct 2011 08:58 AM PDT RIM sent us an official video of the new Porsche Design P'9981 by BlackBerry that we have been telling you about today. It is not a hands on video or anything but it does the classic RIM sliding image thing. Its nice and short to the point if you want to check it out. If you want something more hands on check out a hands on video done by TBreak below the official video. Desktop Video Link | Mobile Video LinkDesktop Video Link | Mobile Video LinkIf you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 27, 2011, 11:58 am. | Official Video of the Porsche Design P’9981 by BlackBerry from RIM | 2 comments |
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| Crowdsourced List of Android Apps That Work on the PlayBook OS 2.0 Beta (Sideloading) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 07:45 AM PDT
Since the Android Player for the PlayBook leaked out and then officially came out in the public OS 2.0 beta users have been looking for which Android apps work on the PlayBook. There were quite a few lists being created and a few repositories of popular apps but now we seem to have something better. A group of hardworking enthusiasts over at CrackBerry forums created a public Google spreadsheet that lists all of the Android apps they have managed to get working on the BlackBerry PlayBook. It also includes links to download most of them so you can sideload them without having to convert and sign them yourself. *** The credit goes out to quite a few people and I wish I could name all of them but since I don't want to offend any of them I will just say you guys know who you are. Keep up the good work! *** Here is how it works (instructions provided by Technomensch and in one of the original threads by Erandhawa)
Let us know if you find any other solid resources! If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, October 27, 2011, 10:45 am. | Crowdsourced List of Android Apps That Work on the PlayBook OS 2.0 Beta (Sideloading) | One comment |
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| Porsche Design P’9981 Shows Up on RIM’s Website & Gets an Official Announcement Posted: 27 Oct 2011 06:52 AM PDT
Until now all we have been hearing about the Porsche Design P'9981 has been coming second hand. Now we have an official press release from RIM about the Porsche Design Smartphone P'9981 from BlackBerry and the details are in along with tons of pictures. RIM has also confirmed the Knight codename in the names of the images on the sites below. You can check them out below or simply see the whole deal over at the two local sites RIM setup for the device:
Introducing the Porsche Design P’9981 Smartphone from BlackBerry Engineered Luxury Meets High-Powered Performance STUTTGART, GERMANY and WATERLOO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Oct. 27, 2011) – The Porsche Design P’9981 smartphone from BlackBerry is instantly identifiable as a Porsche Design product. The exclusive material choices for this unique smartphone include a forged stainless steel frame, hand-wrapped leather back cover, sculpted QWERTY keyboard, and crystal clear touch display. This customized Porsche Design P’9981 comes with an exclusive Porsche Design UI and a bespoke Wikitude World Browser augmented reality app experience. It also includes premium, exclusive PINs that help easily identify another P’9981 smartphone user. "Since 1972 Porsche Design has presented milestone products with iconic style, and the P’9981 smartphone from BlackBerry will be our next landmark," said Dr. Juergen Gessler, CEO Porsche Design Group. "The pure and distinctive design, coupled with authentic materials and an emphasis on the manufacturing process, perfectly match our philosophy and complement the Porsche Design product assortment." "This collaboration stems from a shared belief that form equals function," said Todd Wood, SVP for Industrial Design, Research In Motion. "The Porsche Design P’9981 is a truly modern luxury smartphone, where the timeless style of Porsche Design meets the unmatched mobile experience provided by BlackBerry." Powerful hardware and software The Porsche Design P’9981 is built on a performance driven platform that features a 1.2 GHz processor, HD video recording, 24-bit high resolution graphics, and advanced sensors enabling new augmented reality applications. It comes with 8GB of on-board memory, expandable up to 40GB with a micro SD card. BlackBerry(R) 7, the operating system for the new Porsche Design P’9981, includes a next generation BlackBerry(R) browser with a fast, fluid web browsing experience that is among the best in the industry. It also features Liquid Graphics(TM) technology, which delivers a highly responsive touch experience with incredibly fast and smooth graphics. The Porsche Design P’9981 includes built-in support for NFC (Near Field Communications), which will enable many new and exciting capabilities. The Porsche Design P’9981 smartphone from BlackBerry will be available from Porsche Design stores later this year. For more information please visit www.BlackBerry.com/ae/P9981smartphone orwww.BlackBerry.com/sa/P9981smartphone About Porsche Design If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 27, 2011, 9:52 am. | Porsche Design P’9981 Shows Up on RIM’s Website & Gets an Official Announcement | One comment |
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| BlackBerry Porsche P’9981 to Officially Be Sold By Porsche Later This Year Posted: 27 Oct 2011 04:36 AM PDT
Well that Porsche Design BlackBerry finally has a name. It looks like RIM is calling it the BlackBerry Porsche P'9981. It is similar to the BlackBerry Bold 9900 but is built with stainless steel keypad and front and a leather back. They also get a unique PIN number starting with 2AA along with a custom Porsche font and redesigned icons. We have not spotted anything official on RIM's website yet but CNews Russia and BB.in managed to score some details and pictures. Supposedly the Porsche Design P'9981 will be available at Porsche Design Stores before the end of the year. Are you going to pick one up? Anybody want to guess how much one of these will set you back? The device was announced at a special event in Dubai and @ajafarali snagged two shots:
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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 27, 2011, 7:36 am. | BlackBerry Porsche P’9981 to Officially Be Sold By Porsche Later This Year | 8 comments |
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