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BlackBerry gave its flagship smartphone a price cut for Valentine?s Day. The squarish BlackBerry Passport is available with $100 off in the United States and $125 off in Canada. The discount is available directly in the Canadian manufacturer?s official online store. It will run through Monday, February 16. All three colors of the handset are available - black, white, and red. BlackBerry?s promo pricing means that you can pick up a Passport for as low as $499 in the United States (in black or white). The more eye-catching red color goes for $599. Source View the original article here

CEO drops cryptic hint at desire for 'BlackBerry experience' on Android A few small nuggets of Android news out of BlackBerry's otherwise not-exactly-uplifting quarterly earnings report this morning. We'll break it down here in handy bullet-point form: More than 40 million new BBM registrations have come from Android and iOS in the past two months. BlackBerry didn't break it down any more than that. More than a dozen manufacturers are set to preload BBM on their hardware , as previously reported. The one we're most likely to see here in our neck of the woods is LG , but even that's subject to the whim of the carriers (in the U.S.), most likely. Apparently BlackBerry's new CEO John Chen would like to see some sort of "BlackBerry experience" on Android , which is only fair given that BlackBerry's doing all it can to put the Android experience on its phones.  And that's that. The kids at CrackBerry are covering this as only t...

Hint: It's short on any actual answers. But it's fairly obvious that getting more BlackBerry services on iOS and Android — never mind any sort of "experience"  — might be BlackBerry's best play at this point. Hell, it might be their only play. And gotta love the "best of luck" at the end. read more        

Posted in: BlackBerry, Tablets August 25th, 2012, 17:46 by Peter The BlackBerry PlayBook is on its way out – as far as 7” tablets are concerned, the Google Nexus 7 is getting all the attention, after it stole the spotlight from the Amazon Kindle Fire. But a good deal is a good deal – the 64GB version of the PlayBook is currently going for £129 in the UK. For comparison, a Nexus 7 8GB costs £159, while the 16GB one is £199. Somewhat amusingly, a 16GB PlayBook is £129 or even £169 in some places. Currently three stores offer the BlackBerry PlayBook 64GB Wi-Fi at £129 – Dixons, Currys and PC World (actually those three stores are part of the Dixons Stores Group). Note that those stores offer the 16GB version at the same price and the 32GB at £20 more. You can view the full list of prices in different UK stores for the different versions over at the BlackBerry site. Before you rush to buy one, you should note that this might be the worst time to buy a tablet, even one so cheap. Amazon is...

Red BlackBerry Curve 9320 will be available on O2 UK sometime in August, according to source. As noted, this BlackBerry phone has already arrived on shelves in May 2012 and one of the RIM’s most affordable smartphones. Already we had known that the Curve 9320 is aimed to customers looking to buy their first smartphone handset. Specs-wise, the red version of BlackBerry Curve 9320 is remaining unchanged as the black model. The handset will brings a 2.44-inch (non-touchscreen) display with 320 x 240 resolution, a full physical QWERTY keypad, and runs BlackBerry OS 7.1. The BlackBerry Curve 9320 red edition will have 512MB of ROM, 512MB of RAM, and a microSD card slot (up to 32GB). Other feature is a 3.2-megapixel rear-facing camera, GPS, FM radio, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, HSDPA (7.2Mbps)/HSUPA (5.76Mbps), and a 1450 mAh Li-Ion battery. View the original article here

Research in Motion (RIM) has just launched new BlackBerry Premium Stores in 2 locations in Mumbai. They launched their first BlackBerry Premium Store in Delhi in April and in Gurgaon in May and in Bangalore recently. These two stores located at The Future Shop, 7, Palladium, Phoenix Mills, Lower Parel and The Future Shop, 325, Nawab Building, Dr. D.N. Road –Fort respectively. BlackBerry Premium Store will provide customers the opportunity to discover the BlackBerry experience within special zones featuring consumer and enterprise applications along with product service and a demo zone to highlight the exceptional performance of BlackBerry smartphones. There is a knowledgeable and enthusiastic team in the store that will deliver expert information and advice to create the finest customer experience. The BlackBerry Premium store will be open seven days a week and the company plans to open similar stores in key metro cities in India in a phased manner. Srivatsan Sridhar is a Mobile T...