Blackberry phones

RIM, the name behind the BlackBerry brand, has a lot of work to do if it is to keep pace with the leaders in the smartphone market. The new range of handsets isn't expected anytime soon, with many expecting little until the latter half of 2012. However, thanks to the guys at Crackberry, we have a sneak peak at a possible future release, the BlackBerry London. One of the many accusations levelled at BlackBerry devices is the lack of innovation in design; whilst the traditional BlackBerry look can be considered a classic, and is very practical for heavy messaging use, it...

RIM, the name behind the BlackBerry brand, has announced that founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have stepped down as co-chief executives and co-chairmen, as part of a major leadership shake-up. BlackBerry still has a large fan base, although competition from the Google backed Android operating system and the Apple iPhone is causing many to re-evaluate their communication requirements, and whether BlackBerry is up to the job. At one time the mainstay handset of business users, BlackBerry gained popularity with the teen market, thanks mainly to the BlackBerry Messenger IM service. In recent months there has been a large swing away from BlackBerry...

BlackBerry manufacturer RIM has fallen foul of the UK communications regulator, OfCom, over the way the company filters adult content from being accessed on BlackBerry handsets. The issue arises due to the way BlackBerry services are pushed out across their own servers, rather than across the mobile networks. This makes it almost impossible to filter out the content, unless the networks sign up to the system used by RIM, which so far only T-Mobile has done. It is much easier to filter content on other popular handsets, such as the iPhone, as data traffic passes through the mobile networks' own servers. With...