Yesterday we got a look at the hardware keyboard that should grace RIM's upcoming N-series BlackBerry 10 handset. We're still waiting for the opportunity to see a fully-assembled N-series phone, but in the meantime we have some new pics of the platform running on RIM's L-series hardware, showing off some changes to BlackBerry icon design. RIM announced the changes to its icon design standards on the BlackBerry developer blog a little under two weeks ago. It decided to move from 150 x 150 icons to the more petite 114 x 114 you see here, offering a slightly less cluttered look. Though the ...

BlackBerry 10 really is going to be the million-dollar question of early 2013. RIM has so much invested in its success, the company's future very nearly rides entirely on the platform’s successful launch. While RIM has had plenty of nice things to say about its OS, and claims that carriers and other entities that have had early exposure to the hardware and software are loving what they see, there's still a lot of convincing to be done. We may want to hold off on judgment until we get the opportunity to put BB10 through its paces ourselves, but it looks like some of RIM's BB10 optimism is ...

It's not often that news of the latest BlackBerry software manages to catch our attention. Especially lately, when it's seemed like the only interesting thing RIM is doing is preparing for the launch of BlackBerry 10, run-of-the-mill software updates tend to get swept to the wayside. Today marks an exception to all that, though, as RIM has released a new beta of BlackBerry Messenger that delivers one very useful feature: voice chat. BBM is a huge part of the BlackBerry experience for dedicated RIM fans, so adding new functionality to the app has the potential to reach a major slice of the ...

Yesterday,we got some of the first big news from RIM in a while, upon learning that the company was scheduling its BlackBerry 10 launch event for the tail end of January. While that was good to hear on its own, especially as we're so eager to finally get the full picture on BB10 and see how it's going to shape up against its quite fierce competition, it didn't really give us any insight into just when the hardware would actually become available; just look at the situation Samsung's facing with the WP8-running ATIV S, and the three solid months between its announcement and release, for ...

Smartphones are no strangers to studies attempting to link them to health concerns. While most credible research continues to insist that there's no link between the radio waves they propagate and any sort of illness, some users still treat them with caution. What about health effects that aren't related to EM fields, though? One group warns that some smartphones may be safer than others when it comes to users with specific allergies. The American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology took a look at some iPhones, Androids, and BlackBerrys, checking the phones to see if they contained ...

HTC's apparently been feeling a bit nostalgic lately, and recently took a trip down memory lane for the creation of this "Evolution of the Smartphone" infographic. It's a nice, if brief look back at how we got to the mobile device landscape we have now. HTC can't seem to help itself from making a few jabs at its competition along the way, even while calling out their achievements. The company's already made public its distaste for hardware QWERTY keyboards, and here it decries BlackBerry for building a brand around such features. The whole thing's a bit tongue-in-cheek, and this doesn't ...

A few hours back, we got to check out a newly-leaked T-Mobile roadmap, detailing some of the carrier's release plans over the next couple months. We specifically looked at two of the most interesting devices from that leak, the LG Optimus L9 and HTC's Windows Phone 8X, but that's all the roadmap revealed. Now, some more details have come in on the rest of the models depicted, along with some images of the hardware. The first phone listed in the leak was a BlackBerry device with codename Armstrong. Reportedly, this will be the Curve 9315. It sure looks a lot like the Curve 9220/9320 we ...

So far, we've been looking forward to BlackBerry 10 hardware in two main families, the touchscreen-only L-series, and the hardware keyboard N-series. If you've been playing really close attention, you might have caught wind of an R-series, of which we currently know little, but today we've got a new one for you, upon a leak revealing some hardware specs for the A-series BlackBerry Aristo. From the sound of things, the A-series could be more touchscreen-only models, but perhaps consist of higher-tier devices. That's certainly how we'd characterize the phone described by these specs, at ...