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Those waiting for BlackBerry 10 will need to hold on for a few more months, according to a new report.

BlackBerry-focused blog N4BB reported, citing a source, that Research In Motion (RIM) plans to unveil its first BlackBerry 10 device in August. The company will then release the handset toward the beginning of October. Previous reports suggested RIM might launch its first BlackBerry 10 handset in September.

Details on the first BlackBerry 10 device are slim so far, but N4BB's sources say it'll come with a touch screen. The first QWERTY keyboard-equipped BlackBerry 10 handset will hit store … Read more

Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins has decided he needs some outside input on the company's strategy, according to a new report.

The BlackBerry maker is currently nearing a decision to pick a financial adviser that will help it make strategic decisions, according to Bloomberg, citing sources. JPMorgan Chase is the front-runner in RIM's list of choices, and could be named its adviser within the next couple of days, the news agency is reporting.

RIM's reported decision to bring on a financial adviser comes just a few weeks after the company posted a bleak fiscal fourth quarter that saw the firm lose $125 million, … Read more

Research In Motion has decided to double down on its devices and the upcoming BlackBerry 10. But according to a new report, its former co-CEO and co-chairman had other ideas before he left the company in January.

According to Reuters, citing sources, Jim Balsillie held talks with North American and European carriers prior to his departure from RIM, offering them access to his company's proprietary network. If they had inked a deal, the carriers would have been allowed to route traffic from non-RIM smartphones through the BlackBerry maker's network for a fee. The move, Balsillie reportedly believed, would … Read more

Well, at least one part of Research In Motion's business is on the rise.

Speaking to Bloomberg in an interview published today, Scott Totzke, RIM's senior vice president of BlackBerry Security, said that his company's revenue on sales to the federal government "on whole is up."

"The employee base is shrinking, so if we're looking at a market with fewer employees and our install base is stable to slightly up, that would seem to indicate that we have an increasing market share," Totzke said.

Totzke's comments seem to underscore the unenviable … Read more

Wall Street expected Research In Motion to report weak results, and the beleaguered smartphone vendor didn't disappoint.

The Canadian company today reported a fiscal fourth-quarter loss of $125 million, or 24 cents a share, reversing a year-earlier profit of $934 million, or $1.74 a share. Excluding one-time items, the company reported an adjusted profit of $418 million, or 80 cents a share.

Revenue fell by 25 percent to $4.2 billion.

Analysts, on average, expected the company to post per-share earnings of 81 cents a share on revenue of $4.54 billion, according to an estimate provided by … Read more

Do you hear that? It's the sound of our quickening heartbeats as we wait for smartphone after smartphone to show its glossy black face at Mobile World Congress next month. Join us as we take you on a tour of the phones and tablets to expect, bring you some news that might make you mad, and help one reader find his perfect phone.

Mobile World Congress preview LG Optimus Vu HTC Endeavor/HTC One X LG X3 HTC Droid Incredible 3 Samsung Galaxy Ace 2, Galaxy Mini 2 … Read more

BlackBerry 10 has been missing in action for months, but some images have now leaked on the Web purporting to show the operating system in action.

The blog Crackberry last night posted BlackBerry 10 images it claims to have obtained from a 14-page PDF file prepared by "one of RIM's external ad agency partners." RIM's current generation of BlackBerry devices are included in the images and are all running its upcoming operating system, casting some doubt on their authenticity.

Still, their contents are notable. One image shows the operating system displaying widgets that seem to mimic … Read more

Remember Nokia's concept phone with a flexible screen?

Well, designer John Anastasiadis has applied it to a BlackBerry concept phone featuring a display that wraps around to the back.

The additional screen real estate enables separate work spaces to be set up on the front and back of the phone. Due to the flexible screen technology, the phone is light and has the ability to differentiate between an intentional command and a hand that's just holding the phone. … Read more

If you're strictly comparing the BlackBerry Curve 9370 to what came before, then the update for Verizon is an absolute knockout.… Read more