2012 BlackBerry Roadmap BBX Phones and More

AppId is over the quota AppId is over the quota Kevin over at CrackBerry posted an interest post this morning about suspected phones for 2012 as well as the 10? PlayBook.  There are no leaked images, or concrete specs, but insight on form factor and estimated release months.We have all see the leaked BlackBerry London, but now we have more code names to go by Lisbon, Milan, Nevada, and Black...

2012 BlackBerry Roadmap BBX Phones and More

AppId is over the quota AppId is over the quota Kevin over at CrackBerry posted an interest post this morning about suspected phones for 2012 as well as the 10? PlayBook.  There are no leaked images, or concrete specs, but insight on form factor and estimated release months.We have all see the leaked BlackBerry London, but now we have more code names to go by Lisbon, Milan, Nevada, and Black...

App World 3.1 Now Available in the Beta Zone

 RIM has another holiday gift for us. They already let us know that App World v3.1 will be available on December 15th but now they have the 3.1 version in the Beta Zone for you to try. The new version includes some interesting features likeRequesting a Gift – No more ugly sweaters from Aunt Ethel and Uncle Norm – now you can request they purchase the latest and greatest applications available...

BlackBerry PlayBook Dingleberry Root Exploit Scheduled to be Released Today

  Don let me know that Chris Wade posted on his Twitter account that he plans on releasing the Dingleberry PlayBook root exploit today. Just as a reminder this is the same root exploit (aka Jailbreak) we have been hearing about for awhile so it should be interesting to see what comes of it. I am not as excited about the security as I am about the ability to poke around the PlayBook OS 2.0 beta...

Cheap Zombie Road Game for the BlackBerry PlayBook (Marmalade)

  Marmalade has put out another game for the BlackBerry PlayBook built on their Marmalade SDK. This one is called Zombie Road which is a cheap yet addictive side scrolling game. It has you cleaning your road of zombies while stocking up on money and bullets. Its not the most graphically intensive game or even a complex game but its good cheap addictive side scrolling fun. You can pick up Zombie...

Drunk RIM Execs Ground Air Canada Flight to Bejing

  You have to love the stuff that gets into the news nowadays. This is not really something we would usually cover but hey its worth a good laugh. It turns out that George Campbell (45) of Conestogo, Ontario and Paul Alexander Wilson (38) of Kitchener proceeded to get crazy drunk on an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Beijing. The flight had to make a stop in Vancouver with its 314 passengers...

eBay for BlackBerry v2.0 Comes Out of Beta

  Just before the weekend RIM finally brought their eBay for BlackBerry app out of the Beta Zone and on to App World. RIM introduced this new version of eBay for BlackBerry in September with BlackBerry OS 7.0 support, selling features, and more. It adds the ability to post your winnings on BBM along with sharing your listings and better searching. It went through a few updates in App World over...

Flickr Sync & Smug Sync Auto Download Your Albums to Your PlayBook

   We told you earlier this month about Daniel Bigham’s Picasa Sync app and he mentioned that there were other variants coming. The app syncs back your online albums back to your PlayBook though sadly does not upload your pictures you take to your online album. The original Picasa Sync app worked with Picasa but now Daniel has released Flickr Sync for Flickr albums and Smug Sync for SmugMug...

Free Angry Pirate Game for BlackBerry Smartphones

  Contlex Ventures has released a slick new game for the holidays. The game is called Angry Pirate and has you setup as a lone pirate on a cursed island full of skeletons. You are simply shooting skeletons with fun physics and bullet trajectories. There are three level packs that should keep you entertained. You can pick up Angry Pirate FREE in App Wo...

Free Christmas Bubbles Edition Game for the Holidays

  Karmic apps has made a holiday port of their popular Bubbles Burst game this year. The game is called Christmas Bubbles and essentially just adds some fun snowflakes to the gameplay. Nothing crazy but a good time waster for the holidays. Don let us know that we have never mentioned Bubbles Burst so I thought it would be a good chance to introduce both.The game is a classic bubble matching...

Free GPS Waypoint Manager Beta 2 Released With Import & Export

   GPS Waypoint Manager by Skylab is one of those apps that you either need or don’t. They released a beta of GPS Waypoint Manager awhile ago and now they have pushed out their second beta. This app lets you save and categorize waypoints on your BlackBerry and view them in either Google Maps or Google Maps mobile. This new beta fixes bugs along with adding the ability to import and export...

iSpeech Translator is Latest Free App in RIM’s Outage Gift Catalog

  Tomas let me know that RIM has dropped another app into their free “Thank You Gift” category in App World. They promised that they would release these apps and it looks like this might be the last on their list. This latest app is iSpeech Translator Pro which is not bad but still does not hold a candle to Navita translator or FancyTran.Either way you can pick up iSpeech Translator Pro in App...

Jawbone Icon + The Nerd: An Idiot-Proof, Skype-Loving Headset

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota The Jawbone Icon is a great small headset that we reviewed earlier this year. But now Jawbone has re-packaged the Icon with the “Nerd”–a USB dongle so you can also connect the Icon to your computer. For those without a Bluetooth connection on their computer, the Nerd brings a whole new source of communication to the Icon. But even for those with a Bluetooth...

PingChat Renamed “Touch” With 12 Million Users & New Touch.com Website

   The relatively popular cross platform messaging PingChat just got a revamped name and website. The developers, Enflick, have renamed their app Touch and is focusing it on tight group integrations. According to AllThingsD Enflick picked up the http://www.touch.com/ domain name for $100,000 and rebranded the product around it.Check out the new Touch.com website or check out their intro...

RIM Taking $485 Million PlayBook Q3 Provision – Miss Q3 and Full Year Guidance

  As I said before it is going to get worse for RIM before they have a chance to make it better. They just announced today that they will be recording a pre-tax provision in Q3 fiscal 2012 of approximately $485 million, $360 million after tax, related to its inventory valuation of BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. This is mostly not cash which is good and it looks like RIM is doing this to value the...

RIM’s Former Indonesia Chief Also Named a Suspect in 9790 Launch Craziness

  The drama surrounding the chaos and kerfuffle from the BlackBerry Bold 9790 launch and discount in Jakarta, Indonesia continues. Ron Ish pointed out an update in The Jakarta Globe indicating that RIM’s chief executive in Indonesia, President Director Andrew Cobham who has since left that post, has been named a suspect in the investigation. They did not arrest Cobham since his negligence only...

Rogers Offering 65% Off Select PlayBook Accessories

  For our readers living up north Rogers has a nice deal going on this week. MobileSyrup noticed a tweet from the Rogers Buzz team linking to a coupon for 65% off select BlackBerry PlayBook accessories. It seems to include all of the accessories except for the BlackBerry Premium Charger.You can find the coupon here and it expires December 8th. Also worth noting is they have a $20 off a BlackBerry...

$199 BlackBerry PlayBook is Not Sustainable

For the past week or so the BlackBerry PlayBook has been selling extremely well at the discounted price of $199. This low price is helping the PlayBook get into the hands of more people, and making the user base not only bigger, but also more diverse. Trying to help a friend buy one, has left me unable to find a 16GB version for sale anywhere online. As a developer this is all candy and rainbows as...