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- BlackBerry Bold 9900 OS 7.1.0.523 Officially Released by AIS Thailand
- Spotify for BlackBerry Comes Out of Beta for Certain BlackBerry Devices
- Smart Lock Combines Slide to Unlock Screen With Profile Switcher
- More Confirmation That RIM Will Disable & Replace Dev Alpha’s After Launch
- Nintendo 64 (N64) Mupen64Plus Emulator for the BlackBerry PlayBook
- Devs: Second Cascades UI Development Webinar Starts Next Week
- BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour New York Recap
- Nokia Confirms Scalado Camera Commitment to RIM But No Others
- TalkBox Updates Voice Messenger Beta App to v0.930 (Change Log)
- Union Releases Trial Xtreme 2 and Pocket RPG for the BlackBerry PlayBook
| BlackBerry Bold 9900 OS 7.1.0.523 Officially Released by AIS Thailand Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:34 AM PDT It has been awhile since we saw a big jump in official OS versions for the 9900 but thanks to AIS Thialand we have one. Mackie let us know (via BerryShout) that AIS Thailand has just released OS 7.1.0.523 for the BlackBerry Bold 9900. No word on what is new but if you were waiting for an official version here is your chance. Download OS 7.1.0.523 for the Bold 9900 @BlackBerry.com Warning: This OS will NOT install on any other BlackBerry besides the one mentioned above. If you do not know how to upgrade your BlackBerry OS please start by reading this step by step guide. Don't forget to delete the vendor.xml file located in c:program files>common files>research in motion>apploader to install it on a different carriers device. Don't forget our usual warnings: do not download and install these updates if you don't know what you're doing. Incorrect procedure or just bad luck could render your BlackBerry inoperative or unstable. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, June 22, 2012, 4:34 am. | BlackBerry Bold 9900 OS 7.1.0.523 Officially Released by AIS Thailand | Leave a comment |
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| Spotify for BlackBerry Comes Out of Beta for Certain BlackBerry Devices Posted: 21 Jun 2012 03:21 PM PDT Spotify has been running a public beta of their BlackBerry app for awhile now and Deb let us know that it is now out of beta. The app lets you listen to your Spotify music but is sadly only supporting certain BlackBerry models on GSM networks. Specifically it claims to support the 9900 Bold, 9780 Bold, 9700 Bold, 9300 Curve, 9000 Bold, 8520 Curve and specifically says that Torch models or CDMA phones are currently supported. You can download the Spotify app now in App World as long as you live in a country where Spotify is available. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, June 21, 2012, 6:21 pm. | Spotify for BlackBerry Comes Out of Beta for Certain BlackBerry Devices | 3 comments |
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| Smart Lock Combines Slide to Unlock Screen With Profile Switcher Posted: 21 Jun 2012 02:55 PM PDT
A friend of mine showed me Smart Lock on his BlackBerry Torch 9860 and I was impressed. It combines the overdone Slide to Lock/Unlock replacement screen with a few twists. First of all it adds a slide to change profile option which is especially useful on the 9860 that does not have a keyboard for you to hold down the Q button. It will also show you BBM, SMS, and email notifications along with the senders name. Features include:
Check out Smart Lock in App World for $0.99. Let us know if you spot any other apps that do something similar. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, June 21, 2012, 5:55 pm. | Smart Lock Combines Slide to Unlock Screen With Profile Switcher | 2 comments |
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| More Confirmation That RIM Will Disable & Replace Dev Alpha’s After Launch Posted: 21 Jun 2012 11:57 AM PDT While we were at BlackBerry 10 Jam 2012 in Orlando RIM mentioned that they will be replacing the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha devices they were distributing. The catch was you had to submit a BlackBerry 10 app to App World and then you were eligible for a special edition BlackBerry 10 device at launch. Lucas @N4BB received confirmation from RIM again that they will be disabling the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha devices after the launch of BlackBerry 10 when it will automatically brick itself. As RIM promised before you can then send it in for your replacement BlackBerry 10 Special Edition device if you have an app accepted in App World. Lucas did hear that the BlackBerry London is an earlier revision of the BlackBerry 10 final hardware and is what RIM will be giving out as a working special edition BlackBerry 10 device. I Think that would be a pretty sweet deal though personally I like the softer edges of current BlackBerry devices. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, June 21, 2012, 2:57 pm. | More Confirmation That RIM Will Disable & Replace Dev Alpha’s After Launch | Leave a comment |
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| Nintendo 64 (N64) Mupen64Plus Emulator for the BlackBerry PlayBook Posted: 21 Jun 2012 11:32 AM PDT
Nintendo 64 fans can celebrate. We now have a N64 emulator for the PlayBook courtesy of CatalystG. He posted on OSBB about the release of the new emulator (Thanks Mackie for the tip). The emulator is based on the TouchPad emulator by Metricity and works quite well. I finally got a chance to set it up on my device and it is working quite well. You can download the Mupen64Plus BAR file here from OSBB (source on Github) and follow the instructions below:
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Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, June 21, 2012, 2:32 pm. | Nintendo 64 (N64) Mupen64Plus Emulator for the BlackBerry PlayBook | Leave a comment |
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| Devs: Second Cascades UI Development Webinar Starts Next Week Posted: 21 Jun 2012 09:53 AM PDT This week RIM kicked off their first webinar on the Cascades SDK in BlackBerry 10. They are still doing some reruns this week but starting next week they are moving on. I received an email about a new webinar next week titled "Astonishing UIs using the new BlackBerry 10 framework continued." This is a deeper dive into the inner workings of Cascades including custom UI components, animations, and lists. Here are the details:
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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, June 21, 2012, 12:53 pm. | Devs: Second Cascades UI Development Webinar Starts Next Week | Leave a comment |
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| BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour New York Recap Posted: 21 Jun 2012 08:58 AM PDT Over a hundred people gathered in the Millennium Broadway Hotel in Midtown Manhattan this Tuesday as RIM brought its BlackBerry 10 Jam Tour to New York. The tour, which was making its seventh stop (out of a scheduled 23), was designed to acquaint developers with the new BlackBerry 10 (due out later this year) so as to help them in their goals of creating useful applications for BlackBerry users. As RIM VP Martyn Mallick said (and as the proceedings confirmed), RIM is committed to developers, which ultimately leads to being committed to end users.
Coming out as committed to its developers and end users was a shrewd move by RIM, as various speakers were clearly aware of the negative public perception which certainly helped cause its recent stock dive. (RIM's stock value of 10.33 is less than half of what it was a year ago.) Mallick even took the interesting angle of bringing up myths about Blackberry development so as to debunk them – his counter-arguments were convincing, but it was extremely telling that at this gathering of BlackBerry app developers an RIM VP had to convince the developers that developing for BlackBerry is neither very confusing nor a shrinking field. Somewhat similarly defensive sentiments were expressed by Gary Klasset who said that the BB 10 was RIM's opportunity to correct its mistakes and build and extend on its past experiences. While there may have been something of a thread of re-branding sewn in different speeches, it was hardly the theme of the morning. The theme, perhaps, was the user-friendliness of both the new BlackBerry 10 and its app development. The user-friendliness of the product was demonstrated by showing off some of its really cool features. Supreme among these (and the precipitator of the greatest round of applause of the morning) was the ability to roll back in time a portion of a picture in which different people had themselves readied at different moments. Another compelling feature showed was the touch screen keyboard which anticipates the user's next words (i.e. suggesting words like "tomorrow" and "later" after you've typed in "Let's meet"). This feature seemed to be both helpful and easy to use. Simpler but important things like a user interface with much fewer buttons than previous models (allowing greater room for content) and what seemed to be an incredibly easy flow from inbox to email to attachment were also demonstrated. The ease of development for the new BlackBerry 10 will be real, as RIM has already set up developer sites to help its app-builders construct their apps. Ease of use is also, of course, an inherent benefit of BlackBerry 10's support of development in C++, Adobe Air, Android Runtime as well other SDKs. The buzzwords of the morning session were clearly "Flow, Connect and Extend." "Flow" is the goal of the BlackBerry 10 – to seamlessly integrate the user experience with other devices and life as a whole. "Connect," on a more basic level, is what essentially all mobile devices are for – connectivity. BlackBerry 10's social media integration as well as its incredibly popular BBM (56 million active users) are designed to help its users connect and interact with other Blackberry users as well as users of other devices. "Extend" represents the integration with other facets of life – beyond the smartphone. Before the lunch break, various developers pitched their ideas to the whole audience in what were referred to as "lightning pitches." I was personally interested in an app that one gentleman created which, utilizing GPS signals, would sound an alarm at a pre-determined distance from a train stop to prevent over-sleeping. (I’m not sure if this app is really geared for the drowsy or the intoxicated.) The other interesting pitched apps included two stock apps (one which researched the prices of stocks at given times, the other which would tell you what, say, a 100-year-old $50 investment in Coca-Cola would be worth today) as well as apps for photo-lovers and even the segment of app-users which is attracted to horticulture. All in all, the event was informative and exciting, displaying an array of awesome features on the stunning new BlackBerry 10 device as well as providing important information for the enrichment of developers. As RIM's video introduction stated at the beginning of the event "The waiting is the hardest part!" If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Shlomo for ©BerryReview, June 21, 2012, 11:58 am. | BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour New York Recap | One comment |
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| Nokia Confirms Scalado Camera Commitment to RIM But No Others Posted: 21 Jun 2012 07:59 AM PDT Recently Nokia acquired Scalado which is behind many photo technologies including the cool time warp feature RIM showed off in the BlackBerry 10 camera. After RIM showed off this feature at BlackBerry World it was confirmed that RIM licensed this technology/IP from Scalado for BlackBerry 10. After Nokia's acquisition of Scalado some were worried what this would mean for RIM and BlackBerry 10. While the obvious answer was that the license would remain intact others needed more. Well now we have it. The Verge has confirmed with Nokia that :
On the other hand Nokia said that they have no plans to license the technology further especially to their Windows Phone competitors. That actually turns out to be good news for RIM since now that IP will be a more differentiating feature with limited use beyond BlackBerry 10 and Nokia phones. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, June 21, 2012, 10:59 am. | Nokia Confirms Scalado Camera Commitment to RIM But No Others | 2 comments |
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| TalkBox Updates Voice Messenger Beta App to v0.930 (Change Log) Posted: 21 Jun 2012 06:47 AM PDT
Right after we mentioned TalkBox's updated public beta of their app yesterday they released a new version 0.930. At that time we did not have the change log for that recently released update so we asked the developer. At first I didn't think I was going to post it but after trying the new 0.930 version I saw it was worth mentioning. The new update flows much faster and overall feels much snappier. The change log for v0.930 includes:
Check out the beta at this link as long as you have OS 5.0+ and an SD card. As a reminder the main features of the app include:
Here are some better screenshots too:
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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, June 21, 2012, 9:47 am. | TalkBox Updates Voice Messenger Beta App to v0.930 (Change Log) | Leave a comment |
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| Union Releases Trial Xtreme 2 and Pocket RPG for the BlackBerry PlayBook Posted: 21 Jun 2012 05:43 AM PDT
Union continues with their rapid release of BlackBerry PlayBook games. Their latest releases are the motorcycle stunt game Trial Xtreme 2 along with the full role playing dungeon crawler Pocket RPG. Both games are definitely worth checking out though Pocket RPG really catches my eye. Check them out below: If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, June 21, 2012, 8:43 am. | Union Releases Trial Xtreme 2 and Pocket RPG for the BlackBerry PlayBook | Leave a comment |
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