CrackBerry Asks: Do you prefer the old or new BlackBerry 10 homescreen app...
L: Old App Icons; R: Current App Icons Which BlackBerry 10 application icon style do you prefer? With Research In Motion providing sneaks peaks of the BlackBerry 10 as they near the 2013 launch, it...
View ArticleBrainstorming BB10: I want to be able to "pin" or "hang" an Active Frame so...
Since BlackBerry Jam Americas, I've been been spending some quality time on the Dev Alpha B hardware. Overall I am loving the Hub and Flow and Peek features that shape the BlackBerry 10 experience....
View ArticleBrainstorming BB10: How should the "Peek" gesture work in landscape?
Continuing down the path of Brainstorming for BB10, another topic I want to tackle is the integration of the Peek gesture in BlackBerry 10 when using the phone in landscape. To date, when the flow...
View ArticleBrainstorming BB10: A closer look at the Flow experience within an app
Continuing our exploration and brainstorming of BlackBerry 10 on the Dev Alpha B developer hardware, I wanted to take a few minutes and highlight the flow experience within an app. Why? Because I LOVE...
View ArticleTen Things We'll Lose in BlackBerry 10
BlackBerry 10. We're EXCITED about it for a LOT of reasons. We have already gone over in detail ten things we're looking forward to in BlackBerry 10 (so far). Beyond new devices, BlackBerry 10 is a...
View ArticleTime for another BlackBerry Messenger Stress Test? On BlackBerry 10?...
* Update: Tomorrow morning's planned BBM Stress Test is going to be postponed a few weeks until mid-November. Stay tuned! * * UPDATE - 9pm EDT, Oct. 25th: Ok CrackBerry Nation, we have a little change...
View ArticleBrainstorming BB10: You control the OS... it doesn't control you
Continuing down the path of Brainstorming BB10 on the Dev Alpha B hardware, next up we're taking a look at how you can really "manipulate" the OS. At this point I think all of us are getting familiar...
View ArticleFocusing on the fine points: BlackBerry 10 home screen needs to be visually...
We've all seen the demos of BlackBerry 10 on dev alpha hardware. It looks good, no question. But I'm worried. The marketing has to be strong. And as a student of marketing, I've come to adopt the...
View ArticleBrainstorming BlackBerry 10: InterActive Frames could take current Active...
We're all counting down the days until BlackBerry 10 is in our hands (notice the nice new countdown clock on the CrackBerry homepage?!), but already our members are thinking ahead about how BlackBerry...
View ArticleBrainstorming BlackBerry 10: Hardware back in black!
Over the last week I've spent a fair bit of time reading and digesting the thoughts in various bullish and bearish analyst reports on Research In Motion. I noticed that most analysts seemed to be...
View ArticleBrainstorming BB10: BlackBerry should out gun Samsung on Facebook
Last week I read a story about Samsung spending $10 million on Facebook ads and generating $129 million in sales of the Samsung Galaxy S3, directly measured against this paid traffic. This story was...
View ArticleBrainstorming BB10: I just realized I never swipe up to see more Active Frames
Prior to the release of BlackBerry 10, we ran a lot of "Brainstorming BB10" editorials thinking about what it would be like to get BB10 in our hands. Now that it's here and we're spending quality time...
View ArticleBrainstorming BB10: Please fix Speed Dialing on the BlackBerry Q10!
* ARTICLE UPDATE* In response to this article, we just received a nice tweet from one of the fine folks on #TEAMBLACKBERRY: "@CrackBerry Hey guys, we've heard you and we are listening. A few already...
View ArticleBrainstorming BB10: Are you using BlackBerry Link, and if so, is it up to snuff?
BlackBerry Link is new but is it good? Before the release of BlackBerry 10 we learned early on BlackBerry would also be revamping their desktop offerings and replacing BlackBerry Desktop Software. The...
View ArticleBlackBerry 10 wish list: Push to talk baked into BBM
When I was a kid my dad bought me a toy Walkie Talkie set. They were always a blast to play with. The technology seemed so amazing back then. Fast forward a decade or so and I’d see people in coffee...
View ArticleBrainstorming BB10: Keyboard shortcuts for selecting text on the Q10
While we continue to brainstorm new and improved features for BlackBerry 10, there are plenty of members in the forums who have some great ideas of their own as well. The most recent I came across was...
View ArticleHow am I supposed to send a video on BlackBerry 10?
Why is this the seemingly most impossible task on BlackBerry 10? This past weekend I took a short video of my dad on my Q10. I recorded it in 720p and it was a mere 21 seconds long, making it just...
View ArticleTen things we're looking forward to in BlackBerry 10.2
With BlackBerry 10.2 hopefully not too far away from being officially released, CrackBerry's Kevin Michaluk takes a few minutes to break down TEN of the new features he's looking forward to the most 51...
View ArticleDear BlackBerry, Please give me the option to bottom align app shortcuts...
Productivity and efficiency. These two words have always been synonymous with the BlackBerry experience, and the ability to get things done FAST was the primary reason I became a BlackBerry fan so...
View ArticleBlackBerry issues security notice to notify customers of BlueBorne impact on...
BlackBerry has investigated the impact of the collection of vulnerabilities on BlackBerry products and issued a security notice outlining the details of any impacted BlackBerry products. Early last...
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