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January 30th, 2013 marks the beginning of a new era for RIM. It will put to rest those doubters who questioned whether the company could survive long enough to complete its painful transition away from BlackBerries past and onto BlackBerry 10. The question then becomes what the market will do with this wholly new OS — whether RIM can be more successful at regaining its former smartphone stature than Microsoft has thus far proven to be with its own mobile OS reboot. If there’s one person who has put more thought into that situation than any other its RIM President and CEO Thorsten Heins, a man who will be celebrating something else in January: his first anniversary at the top. How has culture changed at RIM over that year and what can we expect from the company in the weeks and months to come? Answers to those questions and more in our full interview below.

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Research in Motion‘s upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphone is a source of contention, with RIM CEO Thorsten Heins predicting a successful entrance amidst critics proclaiming that the BB phone will flounder. No matter which side of the debate you sit, you can check out the phone’s sleek operating system thanks to a video posted over at Muy Computer, giving us a ten minute glimpse into the OS. The video is in Spanish, but don’t let that stop you.

The folks over at Muy Computer spent ten minutes with RIM’s Regional Senior Product Manager Claudio Roselli, who gave them a detailed tour through the BlackBerry 10′s OS via a Dev Alpha B handset. In the video, you can see the adaptive lock screen that morphs around the user’s finger as it is swiped, as well as a screen dedicated to “efficient multitasking” and a look at BlackBerry Hub. Viewers also get a nice tour of the app store.

In addition to getting this excellent video, the folks at Muy Computer also spoke with a couple different RIM associates at the BlackBerry Jam 2012 for Enterprises event. The event’s purpose was to demonstrate the BB OS 10 and the ease at which developers can both create and port apps. According to one of RIM’s managing directors, the mobile operating system works in conjunction with the hardware platform and cloud services to create an efficient, all-around effective device.

Jorge del Casar, a “BlackBerry Developer Evangelist,” had this to say on the subject. “Developers have access to several affordable and free solutions for bringing their projects to the app store. An Android app can be ported from the cloud or created by installing a plugin in Eclipse that automatically generates the application for BlackBerry.”

[via Muy Computer]

BlackBerry OS 10 shown off in 10 minute video tour is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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RIM will be officially launching Blackberry 10 come 30^th of January, and the company is hoping to get their phones out to the masses within 30 days of its launch. If that is the case, then reports of manufacturers getting ready for production would only make sense. According to a report from Digitimes, it seems that Taiwanese suppliers such as Silitech Technology, Ichia Technologies and ODM Winstron are gearing up for production of Blackberry 10 devices. These manufacturers are expected to begin a small volume of production in December, and we expect that the volume will only increase as the launch date gets closer.

The report has also suggested that RIM’s manufacturers are a bit cautious when it comes to building up components for Blackberry 10. As some of you might recall, despite the Blackberry Playbook featuring some pretty decent hardware, the tablet did not take off the way RIM had expected, leaving a surplus in their Playbook inventory which ultimately resulted in pretty drastic price cuts. Hopefully Blackberry 10 will be a different story!

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: RIM’s CEO believes it will only take a minute to sell customers on Blackberry 10, RIM expected to start selling Blackberry 10 smartphones in February 2013,

Welcome to Wednesday evening everyone. Today Samsung rejected rumors that it’s been charging Apple a 20% premium on processors for iDevices, saying that since the prices are determined and agreed upon at the beginning of the year, it would be pretty difficult to change them. Speaking of Apple, the company confirmed today that it will soon open its first store in South America – the store will be located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to be exact.

We learned today that Call of Duty: Black Ops II sold 1 million copies at GameStop alone on launch day – news that shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone – and Rockstar delivered the second trailer for Grand Theft Auto V after weeks of new screenshots and news for the highly anticipated game. RIM CEO Thorsten Heins is confident that BlackBerry 10 will be a big hit when it arrives early next year, while the HTC Windows Phone 8X and Nokia Lumia 820 landed at T-Mobile today.

Steve Wozniak expressed his fear that Microsoft is doing more to innovate than Apple is, while we learned that text messaging is showing a decline for the first time ever. The HTC DLX – better known by the name of HTC DROID DNA here in the United States – will be launching in China on December 6, while AT&T launched its 4G LTE network in a number of new markets today. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been added to the Queen’s royal collection, and sadly, the final issue of Nintendo Power has been finished, which means that the magazine’s offices have gone dark.

We heard the very sad news that Texas Instruments plans to lay off 1,700 workers in an attempt to save some cash, while Google added one-click app installs to Google Plus feeds today. One father went to the trouble of changing the text in The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker to show his daughter that it isn’t always boys who get to be the hero, some EA Origin members are having issues with hijacked accounts, and the Facebook Pages feed is ready for some time in the spotlight.

Finally tonight, we have a couple of different reviews coming your way, both from Chris Burns. First up we’ve got a review of Roger Dean’s Dragons Dream for iOS, followed by a review of the HTC Windows Phone 8X from T-Mobile. That does it for tonight’s Evening Wrap-Up, enjoy the rest of your night everyone!

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: November 14, 2012 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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RIM’s BlackBerry L-Series smartphone has been caught in the wild again, with the BlackBerry 10 handset this time cosying up to Apple’s iPhone 5. The image of the all-touch handset, shared by BBin, does not show it functioning – though a video demo back in October did – though it does give an idea of scale in comparison to Apple’s latest iOS device.

With an iPhone bumper applied, however, the two phones are surprisingly similar in their dimensions. That’s down to very similar screen sizes, predominantly, with the iPhone 5′s 4-inch panel just slightly smaller than the 4.2-inch LCD screen we’re expecting on the L-Series.

However, the BlackBerry will have a more pixel-dense panel, thanks to a higher resolution; it’s tipped to run at 1280 x 768, just as on the 10 Dev Alpha units RIM has been distributing to developers. That works out to a pixel density of 355ppi, versus the iPhone 5′s 326ppi.

The iPhone 5 will likely win on thickness, though, at 7.6mm; in contrast, preliminary specifications for the “London” L-Series pegged the all-touch device at 9mm thick.

The L-Series is believed to be one of two devices RIM is readying for launch, the other being a QWERTY-equipped N-Series. RIM will officially reveal the first BlackBerry 10 phones on January 30, the company has confirmed, with senior executives saying that sales should begin “not too long after” that

[via Crackberry]

BlackBerry L-Series caught cavorting with iPhone 5 is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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