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Porsche Design P’9981 Smartphone from BlackBerry, cost USD 2,000

Porsche Design in collaboration with RIM have announced the elite new Porsche Design P’9981 smartphone from BlackBerry. Designed by Porsche Design, the new Porsche Design P’9981 is the luxury brand’s first smartphone. The new luxury phone is essentially a Bold 9900, but gets a special treatment from Porsche Design. The Porsche Design P’9981 smartphone from [...]

RIM faces lawsuits over BlackBerry outage

Research in Motion(RIM) is facing lawsuits in the US and Canada over the recent global outage which left millions without email, instant messaging and net access. The Canadian and US lawsuit was brought on behalf of all Blackberry owners in the country, and accuses RIM of breach of contract. The lawsuit claims that RIM “is [...]

BlackBerry BBX OS [Comment]

At the BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011, Research In Motion (RIM) unveiled BlackBerry BBX, a new, unified operating system for BlackBerry smartphones, tablets and other devices. BlackBerry BBX is a combination of BlackBerry and QNX platform. The BBX platform will include BBX-OS, and will support BlackBerry cloud services and development environments for both HTML5 and native [...]

RIM Offers Free Premium Apps following Service Interruptions

Research in Motions(RIM) is offering its BlackBerry customers free premium apps worth more than US$100.00 to customers around the world following the recent service disruptions that affected customers in Europe, the Middle East, India Africa, Latin America and North America. Last week, many customers experienced service interruptions and delays over a period of approximately 3 [...]

[Comment] Blackberry Service Disruption

While the disruption to the BlackBerry service is an unfortunate event for RIM, there are wider and more important issues which the company faces. These include capitalising on its growth in the consumer market, maintaining its stronghold in the enterprise, and updating its software platform to cope with increasing competition from Apple, Android and Window [...]

RIM’s BlackBerry service issues caused by a “core switch failure”

BlackBerry smartphone users in Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina experienced a service disruption since Monday. Research in Motions(RIM) said early Tuesday that the problems were resolved and that services were operating normally, but hours later it acknowledged that the disruptions were continuing. The company which operates the dedicated network for BlackBerry [...]

BlackBerry Tag from RIM

Research In Motion(RIM) unveiled BlackBerry Tag, which enables consumers to share contact information, documents, URLs, photos and related multimedia content simply by tapping their BlackBerry smartphones together. BlackBerry Tag, which will be incorporated in the next BlackBerry 7 OS update, will also allow BlackBerry Messenger(BBM) users to instantly add each other as contacts. It is [...]

DiGi Online Store Smartphone Deals

DiG’s Online Store is offering a special discounts on 5 smartphones- BlackBerry Torch 9800, BlackBerry Bold 9780, HTC Desire HD, BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 & LG Optimus One. These offer comes with contract or Malaysia customers can choose to purchase the device(only) at special price:

RIM Buys NewBay For Reported ($)100M

Research In Motion(RIM) said that it has agreed to acquire NewBay Software, a provider of software to help mobile operators and device makers deliver content and services. RIM did not disclose terms of the deal, which has yet to close, but it media and analyst reports put the price it paid for the software company [...]

BlackBerry Curve 9360: DiGi from RM599, as low as RM838 from Celcom

The BlackBerry Curve 9360 is now available in Malaysia. DiGi is selling it for as low as RM599 while Celcom is offering it from RM838 for consumers. Runs on the latest BlackBerry OS 7, the BlackBerry Curve 9360 has a 2.44-inch, 480 x 360 resolution display, 800MHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 5 megapixel fixed-focus camera [...]

Revised for the 3rd time: U Mobile BlackBerry Prepaid Plans

U Mobile Blackberry plans used to be available up to RM40/month without tethering and later the mobile operator offered unlimited(data) tethering as part of a promotion. Less than a month later, it cost RM25/month to use U Mobile Blackberry Internet Service(BIS) plus mobile internet usage up to 1GB. Now the same plan cost only RM19/month.

DiGi BlackBerry Store at SoHo, Mont Kiara

DiGi has unveiled its new BlackBerry Store, the first of its kind in Malaysia, located at the DiGi flagship store, The DiGi 360 Center in SoHo, Mont Kiara. DiGi said it will partner with Research In Motion (RIM) to build a comprehensive and personalised one-stop BlackBerry centre to further enhance DiGi’s users’ experience of their [...]