Video: RIM introduces the Elite BlackBerry Porsche design P99982 BB10.2 smartphone.

Video: RIM introduces the Elite BlackBerry Porsche design P99982 BB10.2 smartphone.

Have an exclusive new look at the new Porsche Design P'9982 from BlackBerry. The Inside BlackBerry blog brings you the first official unboxing video.

Juergen Gessler, CEO of the Porsche Design Group had this to say in the press release:

“Engineered Luxury meets Powered Performance – what has been true for the first Porsche Design smartphone is even truer for the all-touch P’9882. Once again the collaboration with BlackBerry has led to a device that implements our Iconic Style credo without compromises. With the P’9982 we extend our range of modern luxury smartphones and establish ourselves as a market leader in this segment”

The P’9982, which extends the Porsche Design luxury brand’s range of modern luxury smartphones, features a satin finished frame forged from the finest quality stainless steel, complemented by a hand-wrapped genuine Italian leather back door. The back door of the limited edition model is hand-wrapped in genuine Crocodile leather. Distinguishable by its special series of PIN numbers, owners of the P’9982 will be instantly recognizable in the exclusive world of Porsche Design smartphone owners. The smartphone carries Porsche Design’s luxurious, iconic styling uniquely through the BlackBerry 10 experience to give you an exquisite handset purposely built to excel at mobile communications, messaging and productivity.

“The new all-touch P’9982 smartphone combines a unique design from an iconic brand with the power of BlackBerry 10. Every aspect of this smartphone has been purposely designed and built for a powerful premium experience.”

Said Alistair Hamilton, Senior Vice President of Design at BlackBerry

Highlights:

The new P’9982 smartphone comes with a customized version of the powerful BlackBerry 10.2 OS, and comes with the key BlackBerry 10 features you’ve come to know:

• BlackBerry Priority Hub – BlackBerry Hub is the one place to manage all your conversations and notifications. The new BlackBerry Priority Hub intelligently filters messages to give you instant access to the conversations and content most essential to you, helping you stay organized and focused on the most important tasks.
• BlackBerry Keyboard – The BlackBerry Keyboard learns how you type, what words you use, and can correct your mistakes on-the-fly. It can also give you next-word suggestions that you can simply flick into your message, helping you type perfect text, every time.
• BBM Video with Screen Share – BBM Video with Screen Share takes video chatting further by letting you simply swipe to share what’s on your display. With BlackBerry Natural Sound your BBM Voice and Video calls will sound like you are in the same room.
• Camera Time Shift mode and BlackBerry Story Maker – The camera’s Time Shift mode starts capturing your picture before you even take it, giving you the power to pick the perfect moment. BlackBerry Storymaker lets you take a collection of photos and videos, and add music and effects, to create an HD movie that you can instantly share.
• BBM Now in any app – BlackBerry 10 continues to refine the unique communications experience of the platform. If a BBM message arrives, you can instantly reply to the message without even leaving the app you’re in.
• Apps for the Porsche Design customer – The BlackBerry World storefront showcases essential apps for the P’9982 smartphone customer, including productivity apps, games, videos and music based on what apps you’ve downloaded. Get the best on BlackBerry World, uniquely suited to you.

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Accessories:

Find your individual look with exclusive Porsche Design accessories that have been specially selected to perfectly complement your new P’9982 smartphone. Inbox, you’ll find everything you need including the premium stereo headset, a polishing cloth, USB cable for high-speed data transfer and an international charging kit. The P’9982 smartphone also offers exclusive after market accessories including handcrafted backdoors made from fine Italian leather that are available in three colors, so you can choose a look to express your individuality.

Availability:

The Porsche Design P’9982 smartphone from BlackBerry will be available from Porsche Design stores, select carriers and retailers around the world beginning on November 21 with the exclusive retail launch at Harrods, Knightsbridge, London. In the UK, it will also be available from Carphone Warehouse and Selfridges. The limited Crocodile edition will be available beginning early December, and will be exclusive to the Porsche Design shop-in-shop at Harrods.

Source:BlackBerry

The NEW BlackBerry Z 10 pictures and specifications.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

Specifications

16^GB

Internal storage

4.2"

Touch display

8^MP

Rear camera

4G^LTE

Ready

1280 x 768 resolution, 356ppi

Up to 10 hours^* talk time (3G)

Up to 13 days^* standby time

1080p HD video recording

MicroSD memory card

BlackBerry^® 10 operating system

Design

Size

·         Height 130 mm / 5.12 in

·         Width 65.6 mm / 2.58 in

·         Depth 9 mm / 0.35 in

Weight

·         137.5g / 4.85 oz

Navigation

·         All-touch screen, with intuitive gesture based navigation

Keyboard

·         On screen BlackBerry Keyboard (portrait/landscape), featuring contextual auto-correction, next-word prediction, and a personalized learning engine that gets to know the way you type

Dedicated keys

·         Volume Up/Down, Mute, Lock (for Power On/Off)

Display

Resolution

·         1280 x 768 resolution, at 356 PPI

·         24-bit color depth

Screen size

·         4.2" diagonal

·         15:9 aspect ratio

OS & desktop software

Operating system

·         BlackBerry 10 OS

Desktop software

·         BlackBerry^® Link software for your computer to enable synchronization of data and media

Learn more about BlackBerry® Link

Performance

Processor

·         Dual Core 1.5 GHz

Memory

·         2GB RAM

·         16GB Flash

Expandable memory

·         Removable microSD memory card – slot under battery door (Up to 64 GB)

USB Ports

·         USB 2.0 high speed port – allows charging and data synchronization of the device with a USB cable

HDMI Port

·         Micro HDMI for connection to your HDTV or projector

Power

Battery

·         1800mAH removable battery

Battery Life

·         Up to 10 hours talk time (3G)

·         Up to 13 days standby time

·         *Note: Battery life claims are for Model STL100-3

Camera & video

Rear camera

·         8 megapixel auto-focus camera

·         Back Side Illumination for better low-light performance

·         5-element F2.2 lens

·         Dedicated ISP (image signal processor) with 64MB frame buffer

·         Flash, continuous and touch to focus, image stabilization

·         Enhanced Super Resolution Digital Zoom (5x)

·         1080p HD video recording

·         4 DOF (Degrees of freedom) video stabilization

·         Time Shift mode for pinpointing and adjusting individual elements of your picture

Front camera

·         2 megapixel fixed-focus camera

·         Image and video stabilization

·         3x digital zoom

·         720p HD video recording

Multimedia

Image formats

·         BMP, WBMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, SGI, TGA

Audio & video formats

·         3GP, 3GP2, M4A, M4V, MOV, MP4, MKV, MPEG-4, AVI, ASF, WMV, WMA, MP3, MKA, AAC, AMR, F4V, WAV, MP2PS, MP2TS, AWB, OGG, FLAC

Audio & video encoding/decoding

·         H.264, MPEG-4, H.263, AAC-LC, AAC+, eAAC, MP3, PCM, Xvid, AMR-NB, WMA 9/10, WMA10 professional, WMA-LL, VC-1, VP6, SPARK, PCM, MPEG-2, MJPEG (mov), AC-3, AMR-WB, QCELP, FLAC, VORBIS

Apps

Pre-loaded apps

·         BlackBerry^® Hub, Contacts, BlackBerry^® Browser, BlackBerry^®Calendar, BBM, Text Messages, BlackBerry^® World, BlackBerry^®Remember, Docs To Go™, Pictures, Music, Videos, Story Maker, Facebook^®1, Twitter^®1, LinkedIn^®1, Foursquare^®, BlackBerry^® Maps, Games, YouTube^®, BlackBerry^® Newsstand, Voice Control, Weather, Clock, Calculator, Compass, File Manager, Box, BlackBerry^®Connect for Dropbox, Print To Go, Smart Tags, Settings, Adobe^®Reader, Phone, Camera/Video Camera/Time Shift, Setup, Help, SIM Toolkit, Search

Security

·         Password protection, screen lock, and sleep mode

·         BlackBerry^® Balance™ offering dedicated profiles to keep work and personal data separate and secure

Alerts & notifications

·         Tone

·         Vibrate

·         On-screen or LED indicator

Voice input/output

·         Integrated hands-free speakerphone

·         Hands-free headset capable

·         Bluetooth headset capable

Network & connectivity

Network bands

·         Up to 4G LTE

·         Quad band LTE 2, 5, 4, 17 (700/850/1700/1900 MHz)

·         Tri band HSPA+ 1, 2, 5/6 (850/1900/2100 MHz)

·         Quad band HSPA+ 1, 2, 4, 5/6, (850/1700/1900/2100 MHz)

·         Quad band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)

Wi-Fi®

·         802.11 a/b/g/n

·         2.4 GHz / 5 GHz

·         4G Mobile Hotspot

Bluetooth®

·         Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (LE)

GPS

·         Assisted, Autonomous and Simultaneous GPS

·         Preloaded with BlackBerry Maps application

NFC

·         BlackBerry® Tag with NFC technology enables communication between BlackBerry smartphones and other NFC-enabled devices with a tap

Sensors

Advanced Sensors

·         Accelerometer

·         Magnetometer

·         Proximity sensor

·         Gyroscope

·         Ambient light sensor

Accessibility

·         BlackBerry^® Magnify, for customers with partial vision - 

Learn more

·         Adjustable screen brightness, scalable fonts

·         Teletypewriter (TTY) Support - 

Learn more

Video: BlackBerry 10 Camera: A Closer Look with Time Shift.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.        

Video: BlackBerry 10 Camera: A Closer Look with Time Shift.

Donny from Inside BlackBerry blog sat down with Arun Kumar, Senior Product Manager, Multimedia at BlackBerry, to take a deeper dive into the BlackBerry 10 camera:

http://blogs.blackberry.com/2012/11/blackberry-10-camera-video/ .

The new BlackBerry 10 camera will feature a time-shift mode HD video recording and more.

Video:RIM`s Frank Boulben CMO articulated the BlackBerry10 marketing strategy

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Video: RIM`s Frank Boulben CMO articulated the BlackBerry10 marketing strategy.

In a recent interview with Forbes, RIM`s Frank Boulben CMO articulated the BlackBerry10 marketing strategy. He  feels confident in BlackBerry’s brand equity around the world as well as in the innovative functionality of the BlackBerry 10.

"We need to be absolutely clear about which customers we intend to serve, and why we are going to serve them better than the competition". The BlackBerry people are about getting things done, being hyper-connected and being multitaskers. "They want to do on their smartphone what you do at your desk". 

He notes that RIM is true to their "BlackBerry DNA" but will take things to the next level with BlackBerry 10. "To be participating in what could be the greatest comeback in tech history is very appealing".

Forbes

RIM sends out official invitation for January 30 BlackBerry 10 global launch.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.       

RIM sends out official invitation for January 30 BlackBerry 10 global launch.

RIM is to get a global launch on 30 January of its Blackberry 10 platform and devices, with events planned for New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Johannesburg and Dubai, according to invitations currently being sent out to the press. 

The global roll-out includes  both touchscreen and Qwerty keyboard models thereafter.

Initial rumours have suggested that the new touchscreen device will be in shops some time in February while the Qwerty model, based on the current BlackBerry Bold, will come later.

BlackBerry 10: Type, swipe a word and don`t look back for space. Video.

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BlackBerry 10: Type, swipe a word and don`t look back for space. Video.

RIM has posted a video on youtube to explain the advantages of its BB10 keyboard, you can type, swipe a suggested  word. You also don`t need to worry about a missing space between the words you are typing, the software makes it for you, not needing to look back. That is really innovation in software.

Typing, only better. Check it out. Can’t see images on your BlackBerry? Press Menu › Get Images View online

Typing, re-invented. The BlackBerry® Keyboard learns how you write and adapts to how you type. It understands what you want to say and suggests words to help you type faster, more accurately and with the least amount of effort. Whatever your style – get the best typing experience. Discover more  ›

Leaked Blackberry 10 accesories list.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.

Please click on the image below to enlarge the view:

The Hungarian site berryblog is posting a list of  Blackberry BB10's accessories which also are going to be a lot of cool , and which have already started to produce RIM's partners. 

The list is as usual, batteries, docking station, and wine, but there are also a number of product categories, for the time being we do not really know where to (Flip Shell, Hard Shell Transform).

The different frames regarding the choice of colors for the time being in the black, white, gray and red colors is limited, and in addition will cause skin microfiber fabric carrying case is also a choice.

Although it is not clear from the list, in all likelihood, the L-series accessories have been added to the table, at least in this series has designated the L-S1 battery code.

No specific info on release dates and pricing has been provided as of now.

Source: Softpedia

New Blackberry 10 smartphones will have virtual keyboard only.at launch. With physical keyboard later.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.

New Blackberry 10 smartphones will have virtual keyboard only at launch. With physical keyboard later.

The first BlackBerry device running Research In Motion Ltd.'s new operating software will not have a physical keyboard, only a touch-screen one.

The BlackBerry 10 software will be offered on devices with physical keyboards in the future, but RIM spokeswomen Rebecca Freiburger declined to say when. RIM is expected to start selling BlackBerry 10 touch-screen devices this year.

Top-selling smartphones these days, including Apple Inc.'s iPhone and several running Google's Android software, also lack physical keyboards. But RIM's attempts in the past to offer touch-only phones have largely flopped.

Many corporate users have stuck with the BlackBerry solely because of its physical keyboard, given a perception that it's harder to type emails on a touch screen. The BlackBerry 10 system has already been delayed about a year, and with additional delays to get a physical keyboard, those people may not be willing to wait any longer, especially as the iPhone makes greater in-roads in corporate settings. Those users may simply get the new iPhone expected this fall.

RIM's hopes hang on the BlackBerry 10 system, which is meant to offer the multimedia, Internet browsing and apps experience customers now demand. The Canadian company is preparing to launch the new software later this year, just as North Americans are abandoning BlackBerrys for iPhones and Android devices.

Colin Gillis, an analyst with BGC Financial, called it puzzling that RIM isn't leading with its strength by releasing a keyboard BlackBerry first.

"The physical keyboard is the most dominant item that separates out Research In Motion from its competitors," Gillis said. "If you are not playing to your historical strengths you may find it more difficult to get traction."

Gillis said there is a spot in the market for RIM but the company "just got to get it together."

But Jefferies analyst Peter Misek said BlackBerry 10 is all about touch and closing the gap with Apple, so people should not be surprised that the initial model will have only a touch screen.

"They are going to build a BlackBerry device with a keyboard, but it's just going to take longer," Misek said. "Maybe it will come a month or two after, but frankly it might be already too late."

RIM once dominated the corporate smartphone market but failed to adapt to the emerging "bring your own device" trend, in which employees use their personal iPhones or Android devices for work instead of relying on BlackBerrys issued by their employers. As the movement caught on, the iPhone made the BlackBerry look ancient.

RIM's future is far from certain as its flagship devices rapidly lose market share to flashier phones. With more than $2 billion in cash, bankruptcy seems unlikely in the near term. But RIM's U.S. share of the smartphone market fell sharply from 44 percent in 2009 to 10 percent in 2011 according to market researcher NPD Group.

RIM said Wednesday it has started laying off employees as part of a restructuring plan aimed at saving about $1 billion this year.

RIM's stock fell 27 cents, or 2.6 percent, to close Thursday at $10.07.