BlackBerry 10 Time Shift Camera. Pretty Cool.

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BlackBerry 10 Time Shift Camera. Pretty Cool.

You don`t have to worry if you didn`t smile on a picture, the new BB10 photo app has a time shift option to fix that and you don`t have to return to your pictures gallery to see it again just swipe it up to enlarge the pic again. Pretty cool. Crackberry made a video to demo the app:

RIM Blackberry 10 smartphones line release plans unveiled.

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RIM Blackberry 10 smartphones line release plans unveiled.

Research In Motion Ltd. plans to release its new BlackBerry 10 smartphone lineup on six continents in the first quarter, seeking to capitalize on the company’s lingering strength in overseas markets.

RIM has already met with 30 carriers to show them the BB10 operating system and the response has been very positive, Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben said in an interview from the BlackBerry 10 Jam conference in San Jose, California.

“We’ve been hearing things like, ‘unique, revolutionary, really slick,’” said Boulben, who had just returned from a trip that included stops in Singapore, Mumbai and Johannesburg -- some of the markets where the BlackBerry remains popular.

Applications

RIM has already given out 6,000 BB10 prototypes to developers to help them build apps, and it’s making more, he said. There are also about 25,000 apps available for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, which runs on software similar to BB10. Most of those should work on the new phones, RIM has said.

Facebook, Twitter

BB10 will work with apps from the top social-networking companies, including Facebook Inc. (FB), Twitter Inc., LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD) and Foursquare Labs Inc., Alec Saunders, vice president of developer relations, told an audience in a presentation to developers in San Jose.

BlackBerry Balance App.

Heins demonstrated some of BB10’s new features, including BlackBerry Balance, which lets users flip between work and personal screen displays, and a retro-orange alarm clock that you set by rotating your finger around the dial.

Q1 2013 launch.

RIM is planning to have a splashy event early next year to introduce the BB10 phones, which will include touch-screen versions and more traditional qwerty keyboard models. Before that, RIM will have a “progressive reveal” of BB10’s strengths with corporate information-technology chiefs, technology experts and media, Boulben said.

Bloomberg

BlackBerry 10 L-Series smartphone pictures leaked.

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BlackBerry 10 L-Series smartphone pictures leaked.

Softpedia via BlackBerry Italia are reporting some pictures of the multitouch slab smartphones BB10 L-Series. Early rumors of 6 to 10 BB10 devices multitouch slabs and with qwerty keyboard were reported:

RIM is preparing BB 10 models L-Series all-touchscreen and N-Series w/keyboard. Here the pictures:

RIM licensed patent to Microsoft and shares jump.

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RIM licensed patent to Microsoft and shares jump.

Microsoft said the patent being licensed by RIM greatly expands the size of files that flash memory devices can handle and increases the speed at which those files can be accessed. The technology also provides the ability to seamlessly transfer data between a variety of different devices.

"This is potentially money out of RIM's coffers for the right to use the ex-FAT patent in its technology. But what it does for investors and others is provide a glimpse into what the BlackBerry 10 devices can do," said Kevin Restivo, a mobile device analyst at global research firm IDC.

RIM hopes the BlackBerry 10 will help it regain market share that has been ceded to snazzier devices such as Apple's iPhone and others that run on Google Inc's Android operating system.

Speculation has been around from sometime now about what and how many BB10 devices will RIM launch in early 2013:

RIM is preparing BB 10 models L-Series all-touchscreen and N-Series w/keyboard.

RIM readying two BB10 beta devices for USA carriers.

RIM shares closed 21 Canadian cents higher at C$7.24 on Tuesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange. On Nasdaq, they closed 2.3 percent higher at $7.42.

($1=$0.97 Canadian)

Source: Reuters

RIM readying two BB10 beta devices for USA carriers.

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BB10 start screen. Photo courtesy of Crackberry.

RIM readying two BB10 beta devices for USA carriers.

RIM`s CEO Thorsten Heins  said to the WSJ the company  will start delivering nearly complete versions of its new smartphones to USA  carriers next week.

He also indicates RIM is soon set to take two beta devices to carriers.

 "The physical shape and feel of the new phones is finished and the software nearly complete" and "We're near the finishing line."

The carriers noted in the article are Verizon Wireless and AT&T with comments coming from Mark Siegel, AT&T spokesman: "We value our relationship with RIM and look forward to working with them on existing and new products."

Crackberry site is pointing out RIM will roll out six phones eventually, three that are all-touch screen and three with physical keyboards and will have replaceable batteries and that RIM is about to or already has started inviting internal employees to take part in beta testing of the devices as well. RIM`s CEO Thorsten Heins is now carrying a BlackBerry 10 device.

In our before post  we said RIM is preparing BB 10 models L-Series all-touchscreen and N-Series w/keyboard. in June 26,2012.

Samsung NOT licensing BB10 or buying RIM.

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Samsung NOT licensing BB10 or buying RIM.

"Samsung Electronics has not considered the acquisition of Research In Motion or licensing BB10," the company said in a statement to several media outlets. This is not the first time speculation has swirled around Samsung as a potential suitor for RIM. However, the latest round of rumors seems to have been sparked by a research note earlier this week from Jefferies analyst Peter Misek.

"Given recent management comments in the press, it now appears that RIM is realizing what Wall Street has been saying for some time: they are a subscale manufacturer and desperately need a partner," Misek wrote. 

"We believe RIM is attempting to revive discussions with Samsung regarding a BB10 licensing deal." The speculation sent RIM's shares up as much as 10 percent yesterday, and the shares were trading up again this morning.

Last week RIM CEO Thorsten Heins effectively admitted that the company cannot effectively compete against larger mobile device manufacturers and that RIM is considering a move to license its forthcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system to those same rivals. Heins has held out licensing the platform for months as one of the strategic options RIM is considering as it moves toward the platform's launch, now expected in the first quarter of 2013.

"We don't have the economy of scale to compete against the guys who crank out 60 handsets a year," Heins told The Telegraph. "We have to differentiate and have a focused platform. To deliver BB10 we may need to look at licensing it to someone who can do this at a way better cost proposition than I can do it. There's different options we could do that we're currently investigating."

Heins stated RIM is still considering its options, adding "it's way too early to get into any details." However, he said "you could think about us building a reference system, and then basically licensing that reference design, have others build the hardware around it--either it's a BlackBerry or it's something else being built on the BlackBerry platform ... We have to also model this from a finance perspective ... Either we do it ourselves or we do it with a partner. But we will not abandon the subscriber base."

Heins said in July at RIM's annual investor meeting that the company will launch four BlackBerry 10 smartphones, two high-end models and two mid-range models, early next year.