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RIM says open source Blackberry unlikely
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Research in Motion showed working though still glitchy prototypes of its iPhone-like Storm handset at a developers' conference here where it sketched out its future software direction. One thing not expected on the road map anytime soon—availability of open source versions ...
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BlackBerry Curve 8900 hands on
boygeniusreport.com — The size is awesome — totally small enough to be pocketable, but not too small where sacrifices on the keyboard had to be made. Unlike the Bold where some people had trouble hitting the right convenience key since it was too low, on the Curve 8900, ... (more) BlackBerry Curve 8900 hands on
RIM Blackberry Bold has BOM and manufacturing cost of US$169, iSuppli teardown reveals
digitimes.com — The new Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Bold 9000 smartphone represents RIM's first attempt to address consumers directly with a device that is as attractive to average consumers as to its core audience of corporate users. An iSuppli teardown ... (more) RIM Blackberry Bold has BOM and manufacturing cost of ...
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mobilesyrup.com — BlackBerry (RIM) Unreleased BlackBerry 8900 Javelin Video Review! The BlackBerry Curve 8900 “Javelin” is not released yet and is a stellar device… it certainly is the next thing now! Compared to the Bold the dimensions are great deal smaller in size ... (more) N/A
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Open source not gonna happen for BlackBerry
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — Here’s a little tidbit I missed out on by avoiding the sessions at the BlackBerry Developer Conference last week… RIM pretty much shot down any hope of the OS source code becoming available to the developer community at large. “We do have an open source management team that is investigating this,” said Cassidy Gentle, a senior RIM software developer. “I would expect some of our Eclipse or Mobile Tools for Java could be made available on an open source basis, but as for our APIs or other software—that’s a pretty big leap,” Gentle said. The whole BlackBerry Application Storefront ...

No Open Source for RIM BlackBerry OS: Android dominates
Phones Review — With the offensive of the likes of the Symbian Foundation, the Limo Foundation and Google Android all working on grabbing what they can of the market share, one would have thought that most closed source mobile phone platforms would be looking to switch and open up. However, during a recent developer’s conference a developer posed the question of whether Research In Motion would be bringing open source to the BlackBerry, and that at least some BlackBerry developers would like to have a go at Android. RIM’s response was that they already have an open source team which is currently looking at releasing the code for some development tools. However, as for the ...

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