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BlackBerryOS.com – BlackBerry News and Rumors

Normally I reserve the BlackBerry issue posts for Friday. The goal of this blog, after all, is to explore BlackBerry devices, so most of the time that means posts about tips, apps, and accessories. But it’s tough to ignore when the internet is abuzz about a new BlackBerry product — especially when the buzz is mostly positive. Yesterday RIM unveiled a ton of details about BlackBerry 10, and it seemed like quite the coup for them. We’re still a few months away from a consumer device, but RIM did provide developers with a device, the BlackBerry 10 Alpha Dev, which will let them get a head start on app development. The whole endeavor looks quite promising.

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For those that blog, this is an especially relevant update. WordPress for the BlackBerry PlayBook has been updated this morning to v2.1. Since PlayBook apps don’t yet have change logs enabled, we’re not exactly sure what has changed or been added in this release. Since it has made the jump from 2.0 to 2.1, we can assume there are some significant new features or fixes in this release. If you’re a PlayBook WordPress user, grab the update form the link below and let us know what you find.

• Download WordPress for BlackBerry PlayBook

The BerryFix.com

If you haven’t taken notice, the BlackBerry PlayBook is selling heavily. Thanks to retailers selling the PlayBook for $ 200, there are many new BlackBerry tablet owners. Retailers such as Best Buy and Staples are sold out, and at $ 200 they could sell out of their restock pretty quickly. This all makes sense. As we’ve said dozens of times, the PlayBook is one fine piece of hardware, and it has the makings of some great software. It’s just a little incomplete right now. We do know, however, that RIM plans an update in early 2012. The intrepid Kyle McInnes of BlackBerry Cool got some answers to PlayBook questions from RIM that shed some light on the PlayBook update, and what other goodies RIM has in store for 2012.

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BBM Music has been talked about for quite some time now and RIM has just made this new application official. BBM Music is a social music experience with BBM integration built right in. With BBM Music you can add up to 50 songs to your music profile and then share that playlist with friends across the cloud. You can also download and listen to the playlists that your BBM friends have created. All music is fully downloadable to your device, so you can listen anytime, anywhere.

BBM Music comes with a one month free-trial and then will run your $ 4.99 per month after that. With the $ 4.99 you get access to your 50 favorite tracks plus the 50 favorites from all your BBM Music friends. You’ll be allowed to change up to 25 track per month if you want to change up your listening habits. BBM Music is opening up as a private beta to begin with and will then open up to all BlackBerry users. We’ll keep you in the know as soon as RIM releases more info and the download links for this cool new service. RIM’s press release on the subject begins below with more screenshots of the app following that.

Press Release

RIM Announces BBM Music – A New Social Music Sharing and Discovery Service

New Cloud-Based Music Service Makes Music a Social Experience

Waterloo, ON – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced BBMTM Music, a new BBM (BlackBerry® Messenger) service for socially connected music fans.

BBM Music is an easy-to-use cloud-based service that enables social and viral music discovery by allowing users to build an evolving, community-based music library that is shared amongst their BBM Music friends. The size of the music library continues to grow as new friends join the community and each user can select music from a catalog with millions of songs from leading music companies – Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI.

“More than 45 million customers already love the social communication benefits delivered through BBM and we are thrilled to be extending the experience into a uniquely social and interactive music service,” said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO at Research In Motion. “We have partnered with leading music companies to provide a „full track‟ music sharing and discovery experience that will provide users with quality music on demand and allow them to connect with friends on a whole new level.”

Key features of BBM Music include:

• Music made social – BBM Music is a cloud-based, social music service that allows you to share and discover music with your friends, creating a continually evolving music library:

• Build a personal music profile with 50 of your favorite songs. You can refresh your profile by swapping out up to 25 songs each month.
• Invite your BBM friends to subscribe to BBM Music and to join your BBM Music Community.
• With each friend that is added to BBM Music, you grow your music collection since the songs from the profile of each BBM Music friend are available to you at any time.
• Up to 50 tracks from your personal profile are shared with your BBM Music Community, and each member of your community shares up to 50 songs from their profile with you.
• Enjoy a truly social community-based music experience – the more friends who join your community, the more songs you can listen to.
• Easily discover music that your BBM Music friends are listening to, and comment on your friends‟ songs and playlists.
• You can create multiple playlists from music in your profile as well as all of your friends‟ profiles, and with one click you can shuffle the entire collection of music from your BBM Music Community. You can even see which friend contributed each song while it plays.
• Within your BBM Music app, you also see a visual timeline that shows the recent updates of all users within your community. It gives you a chronological view of community updates, including who added new friends, which songs were added or removed, which playlists were created and what comments were made by your BBM Music friends.

• Listen to Full Tracks – BBM Music subscribers can listen to full tracks from their friends‟ profiles – not just previews.
• Offline Listening – Music can be saved to smartphones for offline listening, allowing users to access songs even when they don‟t have wireless coverage.
• Topping the Charts – Keep track of how many friends are listening to your tracks.

“A major component of online music continues to be about community, and the ability to discover new artists and music through word of mouth,” stated Rob Wells, President of Global Digital Business for Universal Music Group. “BBM Music dynamically and elegantly integrates the excitement of this social music discovery process with a high quality music service, enabling tens of millions of BlackBerry users to experience new music and to share those experiences with their friends virtually anywhere and at anytime.”

“We are pleased to be partnering with Research In Motion on their BBM Music service. RIM and its large base of BlackBerry Messenger users represent an exciting platform for expanding the reach of commercial digital music around the world,” stated Thomas Hesse, President, Global Digital Business, U.S. Sales and Corporate Strategy, Sony Music Entertainment. “The combination of a premium music solution and instant messaging will enable viral music discovery and emphasize the social power of digital music. It also offers an effective way of serving younger consumers by integrating music into the fabric of an important hub of their digital activity.”

“A dynamic social music experience is a powerful way for our artists to connect with fans and also for fans to discover music by interacting with each other,” said Michael Nash, Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy & Business Development, Warner Music Group. “Addressing more than 45 million BlackBerry Messenger users with a service tailor-made for its mobile community, BBM Music has the opportunity to reach a broad and engaged audience.”

“We are very excited to work with Research In Motion to bring our artists‟ music to BBM‟s huge and very loyal user base,” said Mark Piibe, Executive Vice President of Global Business Development at EMI Music. “BBM Music‟s unique social discovery experience offers fans a great new way to discover music, share their favorite tracks with their friends and build a stronger connection with the artists they love.”

“The widespread adoption of mobile devices provides the perfect foundation for consuming and sharing music. Brands that want to deliver a unique interactive experience must create services that are mobile, social, and contextual,” said Maribel Lopez Principal at Lopez Research and Constellation Research Group.

A closed (limited) beta trial of the BBM Music service is starting today in Canada, the United States and the UK. The BBM Music service is expected to be commercially available to customers later this year for a monthly subscription of $ 4.99 USD* in Australia, Canada, Columbia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, the United Kingdom and the United States.

For more information about BBM Music, and to sign up to be notified of its availability in your country, please visit www.blackberry.com/bbmmusic.

* Pricing may vary by country and will be announced upon availability in each country. Data charges may apply if music is downloaded over wireless networks in conjunction with limited data plans. Check with your network operator for the terms of your data plan 

Source: InsideBB

The BerryFix.com

For the BlackBerry, some features have been a long time coming. Users have expressed frustration since time immemorial over the inability to do certain simple tasks in the BlackBerry OS. One of the most prominent issues has involved adding numbers to existing contacts. That is, when you get a call from an unknown number that actually belongs to one of your contacts, you’ve had to go through a mini process to add that number to their card. We’ve seen a few app developers try to solve this. We once featured Add Contact, which has since gone kaput. The latest one, ATEC, might not be far behind. RIM has finally added the feature to the BlackBerry OS.

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T-Mobile is yet to officially confirm that they will be stocking the Curve 9360 when it arrives in the US in September; however, they already have branded units running around in the wild. The above photo shows a T-Mobile branded Curve 9360 and is said to be from a T-Mobile employee event that detailed the new device. There are a couple more pictures after the break and one even gives a side-by-side comparison of the 9360 with the new Bold 9900. This comparison is stunning considering how thin the Bold 9900 is and the Curve 9360 is even thinner. We’ll let you know as soon as T-Mobile officially announces that the Curve is coming.

Source: PocketBerry

The BerryFix.com

BlackBerry Bridge is an essential app for those that own both a PlayBook and a BlackBerry Smartphone. That essential link has received an update tonight to version 1.0.5.6. We don’t know what this update brings in terms of changes, but we can be sure that it will fix some bugs that are in the current version. This may also be a good sign for the PlayBook because generally we see a Bridge update just before we see one for PlayBook.

• Download BlackBerry Bridge from App World

The BerryFix.com

Telus is the latest carrier to throw their name into the list of BlackBerry Curve 9360 carriers. Telus has listed the Curve 9360 as “Coming Soon” on their website and they have the full specifications, along with some Telus branded pics there as well. If you’re looking to get a new Curve 9360 it looks like you’ll have plenty of choice when it comes to carriers .

• Check out the Curve 9360 at Telus

Source: MobileSyrup

The BerryFix.com

When RIM released BlackBerry 6, and then BlackBerry 7, they put a new emphasis on the home screen. With multiple panels users could place more content right in front of them, without the need to go into the all-encompassing applications menu. It was the single greatest achievement of any BlackBerry OS. As I said in the BlackBerry Torch 9810 review, BlackBerry 7 contains few surface upgrades over BlackBerry 6, there is plenty under the hood that you’ll find in time. One of the new homescreen-based features I’ve taken to is the ability to add media directly to the home screen.

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