Tag: blackberry

We all loved BlackBerry, so BB10 and the Z10 gets a chance

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Ewan Spence

Some of my thoughts on the love in the room for BlackBerry, and not Windows Phone, over on All About Windows Phone: Anyone watching the online coverage of smartphones over the last month can’t have helped but notice something peculiar. There’s a huge amount of love in the room for BlackBerry (formerly Research in Motion) and their ‘comeback’ smartphone the Z10. That love has given BlackBerry a fair amount of leeway over many issues in the handset (not least battery life and the unfocused UI elements), and I can’t help wondering how Windows Phone’s last two years would have been

Instagram to hit BlackBerry before Windows Phone?

Posted on February 4, 2013February 4, 2013 by Ewan Spence

Reports are coming in that Instagram will be available as a listed in the BlackBerry app store. With a huge caveat that BlackBerry’s new OS allows Android apps to run, so this might be a very easy implementation for the Instagram devs to push out, it raises two points. Consumers who ‘want Instagram on their phone’ because that’s what everyone on-line tells them they must have, will have no fear in picking up a BB10 handset. More importantly, it shows the love in the room for BlackBerry, because two years later Windows Phone is still waiting…

Of course I love you BlackBerry, I’ll never look at an iPhone again

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Ewan Spence

Alicia Keys becomes a Global Creative Director for BlackBerry at yesterday’s launch, and she tweeted to tell everyone the great news. From her iPhone. And then apologies in her first ‘official’ tweet… from a BlackBerry. Classy.

BlackBerry’s Stephen Bates and his version of The Two Ronnies on Mastermind

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Ewan Spence

I get the feeling Stephen Bates has attended a lot of media training to deflect questions. The Two Ronnies went for “answering the question before last”, while Bates this morning went for “answering the question he hoped he was going to be asked, and not the difficult one that was asked.” Here it is, on BBC Breakfast News. I think he got away with it…

Developers, Blackberry 10, and my reaction to a Cnet story

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Ewan Spence

And here’s where it starts to get interesting for Cnet. There’s a great interview today with Alec Saunders on Cnet today, where he talks about the challenges of getting developers on board and apps in the store ready for the launch of the new BlackBerry 10 devices in a week or two. Now RIM has has to win back consumers who have long abandoned their BlackBerrys for iPhones and Android devices. It’s planning a media blitz, complete with Super Bowl commercial. At the same time, BlackBerry has to compete against another upstart mobile operating system, Windows Phone by Microsoft, which is

"[Blackberry] came together at the right time, the right place, with the right technology"

Posted on July 13, 2011July 13, 2011 by Ewan Spence

Disappointing reading on the rise and fall of Research in Motion. But at the same time the laser-like focus at RIM that appears to have hobbled them feels like the same laser-like focus at another company; it’s just that Apple aimed slightly differently with the iPhone.