Tecno customers receive premier access to BBM

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Tecno mobile phones will now preinstall BBM™on TECNO phones running the Android operating system.With BBM preinstalled, customers will be able to easily get started chatting and connecting with friends and family on the popular private social network from BlackBerry®.

BBM, with its privacy, control and immediacy, is very popular in the Nigerian market, where everybody wants a BBM PIN. Continue...

Android OS is Smartphone King With 81% Share, Windows is Growing Steadily

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Android OS hit a record 81 percent of the 251 million smartphones shipped in Q3 of 2013 beating  Apple,  BlackBerry and Windows.
However, Microsoft’s Windows Phone is growing steadily with 10 million smartphones shipped during the period doubling its marketshare and making it the world’s fastest growing major smartphone platform.
Microsoft made history with its over 10 million units in a single quarter.
According to Linda Sui, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments which hit 251.4 million, grew 45 percent this year compared  from 172.8 million units in Q3 2012. There was robust demand for Android and Microsoft OS units especially in Europe and Asia.
However, Android’s lead hit a new peak according to Scott Bicheno, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics. In Q3 2013  4 out of every 5 smartphones were Android while BlackBerry’s unit dropped from 4 percent to 1 percent while Microsoft doubled from 2 percent to 4 percent.  Apple’s promise on price cut could help it gain marketshare as it has limited presence at the lower market segment.
Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics said Microsoft grew its smartphone shipments by 178 percent annually in Q3 2013 and it is currently the world’s fastest growing major smartphone platform. This is almost entirely due to Nokia’s Lumia portfolio.
OS Market Share in Q3 2013 below.

Samsung Confirms BBM™ on Galaxy Smartphones

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Samsung today confirmed that when BBM™, the mobile social network, launches for Android smartphones on the 21st September 2013, it will be available as a free download for Samsung Galaxy smartphones across Africa from the Google Play store.

“We are pleased to officially announce that BBM will be available for Samsung Galaxy smartphones across Africa,” said EmmanouilRevmatas, Director of Hand Held Products, Samsung Electronics West Africa. “We are focused on driving consumer experiences based on customisation to suit every lifestyle. By offering an additional messaging service through our Samsung Messaging Hub, it has never been easier to stay connected. This is another way that we are providing our customers with a more integrated lifestyle experience and a powerful new way of communicating and sharing. It’s really about giving the African market what they want – and what they want is choice.”

BlackBerry unveils new Z30 smartphone

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Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry has unveiled its new Z30, touting it as the company's biggest, fastest and most advanced smartphone.

The all-touch smartphone comes with a 5-inch display and BlackBerry's largest battery so far. BlackBerry says it's designed for people looking for a smartphone geared toward communications, messaging and productivity.

BlackBerry to launch BBM app for Android, iOS devices on Sept 21

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BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), the most popular service from BlackBerry, will be available for download on Android and iOS devices from the coming weekend.

In a statement late on Wednesday, BlackBerry said the BBM app will be available for free download for Android smartphones running Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean operating systems beginning at 7 a.m. EDT (4.30 p.m. India time) on September 21.

BBM for iPhones running iOS 6 and iOS 7 operating systems will be available for each market on the App Store starting 12.01 AM local time on September 22.

BLACKBERRY A10 SPECS REPORTEDLY LEAKED

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So far, we've only had furtive glances of the rumored BlackBerry A10 through basic specs and a short video. However, CrackBerry forum member nereuszeer may have given us much more insight by posting what appears to be a presentation slidewith most of the A10's details. If accurate, they suggest that the 5-inch, 720p OLED screen wouldn't be the only standout feature

Users To NCC: Don't Toy With Our BB,

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The news just went viral last week that the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, was planning to shut down Blackberry services. Although the NCC almost immediately denied the rumour, Blackberry users in the country are still nursing fears that their cherished service may go under the knife of the regulator. Most of them still insist that there is no smoke without fire.
Majority of them who expressed their opinions through pinging messages said that although the ban happened in Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, there is no ground for its success in Nigeria.
Miss Morayo Adebayo - a student: Why would anybody ever thought of it! Banning Blackberry? Its not reasonable in anyway. But I know the way things go in Nigeria, there is no smoke without fire but the truth is that the device has done a lot of good than harm.

Blackberry confirms plan to offer BBM app on rival platforms Android and Apple's iOS operating system

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BBM to be available as a free download in the Apple App Store and Google Play store

Mobile phone giant BlackBerry has announced plans to make its instant messaging service available to those with iPhones or Androids.

BlackBerry Messenger, better known as BBM, was previously only able to be used by those with BlackBerry handsets, but will be working on other smartphones by the summer.

The facility, which allows users to send free real-time messages to any of their contacts via a pin code, has more than 60 million monthly active customers, according to BlackBerry.

More than 51 million people use BBM for an average of 90 minutes per day, it said, while BBM users collectively send and receive more than 10 billion messages each day, nearly twice as many messages per user per day than other mobile messaging apps.

If approved by Apple and Google, BBM will be available as a free download in the Apple App Store and Google Play store.

Blackberry Keyboard Phone To Make Canadian Debut In Toronto

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Canadian BlackBerry users who were hoping to get their hands on the latest version of the keyboard smartphone may have to wait a couple more days, if they live outside of Toronto.
The company (TSX:BB) says the release of the BlackBerry Q10 will begin first in the Greater Toronto Area on Wednesday, before it expands to the rest of Canada later in the week.
Chief operating officer Kristian Tear told The Canadian Press that demand in the country's biggest city has been "very strong" and the company wants to ensure that it has enough phones to supply the market.

BlackBerry sets sights on SA’s app developers

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BLACKBERRY is investigating opportunities to support local mobile software application (app) developers in Africa, in a bid to attract more customers and claw back market share, the phone maker said on Wednesday.
In January, BlackBerry began its comeback bid in the smartphone market with the launch of a new operating system, BlackBerry 10 (BB10), and new smartphones including the BlackBerry Z10.
It launched with 70,000 products in its apps store, and the number has since grown to 100,000.
The company has opened app developer laboratories in Cape Town and Pretoria in the past year to help grow the country’s mobile app developers market.

The Future With BB10

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Imagine a world where a user can tell his phone, "Í am going into the bath, please in ten minutes get me a cab ready because I am going out on an important meeting" and alas in ten minutes, a driver less cab is waiting at the door.
That is where Mobility is moving to; from phone to phone, on to phone to the car, the house and all that.
That is apparently the vision that dove Research In Motion, RIM, to design the new Blackberry 10 device. If mobile phones are rated by mere looks, with its sleeky architectural design and bold screen, the new device would just have passed as another addition to the hordes of latest smartphones dotting the mobile space.
But the latest piece of innovation goes beyond a mere smartphone. It is a technology of the future judging by the features.