For the past couple of years now we’ve all heard of rumors and reports that BBM (Blackberry Messenger) will make it’s way into the Android platform. This was in the works for quite some time now and we’ve even seen screen-shots of it on an Android phone. And now after all this time, we can finally put it to rest and confirm that it is after all not coming… Read more
New results comparing worldwide smartphone market shares in Q1 of 2011 and Q1 of 2012 have been released, and they’re quite surprising. Nokia’s Symbian platform held 27.7% of the market share, which in one year, dropped down to a low 8.6%. Also, Windows Phone dropped from 2.6% to 1.9%. Things really aren’t looking good for Nokia, especially considering… Read more
If you’re an Android user but you’ve long wanted to see features of your Blackberry handset make their way over to the Android platform. According to TechnoBuffalo, RIM’s uber-popular BBM service is once again spotted in the wild running on an Android handset. Are the images legit? TechnoBuffalo says so though their source isn’t aware of how far along… Read more
Research in Motion has announced their plans to stop allowing Android apps to be side loaded on the Blackberry Playbook says Alec Saunders, Vice President of Developer Relations for Blackberry. Saunders said that RIM wants to avoid “duplicating the chaotic cesspool of Android market.” RIM’s comments are an obvious dig at the Google Play Android app… Read more
One of the bullet points for Research In Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook, the company’s very first tablet device, is that they have always planned on running Android applications on it. That’s great for those developers out there who want to keep their development model strictly Android, but wouldn’t mind promoting their applications in other markets. To… Read more
When the BlackBerry PlayBook was about to launch, Research In Motion made it a point to outline the fact that the tablet device would have support for Android applications. So, while the BlackBerry PlayBook probably wouldn’t have many applications made specifically for it, the tablet would be able to share the benefit of applications made for Android. Great… Read more
RIM’s Blackberry Playbook tablet can download (via App World) and run (via the App Player) Android applications. They launch and run as any other BB application, and for the user, there is no distinction between BB and Android apps, once the App Player is running. As you can see, performance is impressive and the experience does indeed appear to be… Read more
Whispers and statements of Android apps running on the BlackBerry Playbook circulated for months until RIM finally announced it would be happening. The press release for the announcement discussed how it would work at a system level, but exactly how the buttons and compatibility issues would be solved hasn’t exactly been discussed in length until now…. Read more
Rumors have always swirled and evidence has popped up here and there, but RIM has finally put out a press release and made it official: The BlackBerry PlayBook will support Android Apps. In a move to woo developers, RIM has announced that not only will the PlayBook run BB Java, Native C/C++, HTML5, Flash, and AIR, but there will also be a “high… Read more
Any time a decent non-SMS messaging app comes out for Android, one of the first things always said is how the app stacks up against BlackBerry Messenger. There are plenty that have been really good, but RIM has it down. Of course as time goes on, those messaging apps are improving — so much so that they’re being bought up by companies like Facebook. So… Read more
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