Last month, we reported that BlackBerry is porting their popular BBM messaging software to iOS and Android. Now we know that the official date that it will arrive is expected to be June 27th. The details were posted on tweet sent out by T-Mobile U.K. that has been deleted. The tweet contained a screenshot (below) of a BBM conversation running on a Samsung Android phone.
BlackBerry announced on Tuesday that they are launching a BlackBerry 10 powered device with a full QWERTY physical keyboard called the BlackBerry Q5. The Q5 is very similar to the Q10 as it has a 3.1-inch touchscreen and a physical keyboard.
On Tuesday, BlackBerry president and CEO Thorsten Heins announced that the BlackBerry Z10 owners will be able to upgrade to BlackBerry 10.1.
Selfridges is a British department store that is calling the BlackBerry Q10 their “fastest-ever selling consumer electronics product.” As a result, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins expects the Q10 sales to be in the “tens of millions.” Thousands of Q10s are being sold per hour. One Selfridges location sold 2,000 handsets in 90 minutes, according to SeekingAlpha.
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BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins was interviewed in the Australian Financial Review about his thoughts on Apple. Heins criticized the iPhone’s lack of multi-tasking abilities compared to the BlackBerry Z10.
If you want to get your hands on a BlackBerry 10 device and you live in the U.S., odds are that you won’t get one until at least May. Initially BlackBerry was projecting that it would be available in the U.S. starting in March, but that’s not happening. BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins revealed this information in an interview with the Associated Press. The release dates vary from carrier-to-carrier and the company said that the Q10 will arrive in other markets starting in April.
Today at the BlackBerry 10 Live event, BlackBerry announced that the BlackBerry Messenger program will support video chat, voice calling, and screen-sharing. BlackBerry Messenger’s video chat feature competes against Apple FaceTime and Skype. The Screenshare feature lets a friend or colleague view everything that is on your BlackBerry screen. BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said that this is an easier and faster way to share information without having to write an e-mail or send an SMS. Below is a demo of how it works:
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Thorsten Heins, the CEO of RIM, said in an interview with Die Welt that the company is seriously considering the sale of their hardware production business after the BlackBerry 10 operating system is launched. This is not surprising because RIM has been talking about licensing their software as far back as August 2012. In the interview, Heins said “Before you license the software, you must show that the platform has a large potential.” Heins believes that BlackBerry 10 will be “future-proof for the next ten years.”
