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All the news that fits won't print as the New York Times closes its BlackBerry 10 app next month

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BlackBerry  and its faithful had high hopes for BlackBerry 10. After all, the company that developed the operating system, QNX, received high marks for its work on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. BlackBerrywas so impressed that it bought the company and had it get right to work on its next-gen operating system for smartphones, later dubbed BlackBerry 10. While the gesture based OS shared some of its capabilities with webOS, and there were some who loved the software, the hardware was a let down for many.  Instead of offering top-shelf handsets to compete with Apple and Samsung, BlackBerryproduced mid-range models that left a wide gap in performance. And speaking of gaps, BlackBerry users had to contend with the huge app gap as many popular Android appswere not developed for BlackBerry 10. One that was made available for BB10 users, the  New York Times  app, will no longer enjoy BlackBerry 10 support beginning next month. If you own a BlackBerry 10 powered handset, and that include

Blackberry Partners With Qualcomm To Power Future Smart Cars

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BlackBerry, Qualcomm partners to feature smart cars, the two companies are expanding a long-standing relationship to combine BlackBerry’s software with Qualcomm’s wireless tech to future smart cars. BlackBerry wants to be in your car, forget smartphones! t:BlackBerry CEO John Chen which has been moving the company away from smartphones production recently. The new security software company, which previously made BlackBerry smartphones, said on Thursday that it’s working with Qualcomm to develop platforms for the next generation of connected vehicles. The companies plan to combine BlackBerry’s QNX platform, which previously powered the BlackBerry 10 mobile software for its phones, with Qualcomm modems and its wireless technologies. Some of the BlackBerry technologies includes telematics and virtual cockpit controllers, which suggests work with commercial vehicles such as delivery trucks. The announcement was made as an extension of a relationship between the t

BlackBerry's water-resistant Motion with a touchscreen phone to rival the iPhone X revealed in leak

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t:BlackBerry was once the dominant t:smartphone maker on the market - but the brand has fallen far behind the likes of t:Samsung and Apple. It recently switched to the t:Android operating system and a new t:Chinese t:manufacturing partner in an effort to recapture past glories. t:BlackBerry's decision to embrace t:Android may not restore the brand to its former glory, but it's been a promising start. We were impressed with its latest phone, the t:KeyOne, which catered to classicists with its hardware keyboard. Now, a new image has been leaked onto the web showing what the next phone from the BlackBerry stable could be. Blackberry will once again ditch the brand's defining physical t:QWERTY keyboard characteristic for an all-touchscreen phone in favour of a more compact design -- at least, if a new leaked render is anything to go by. Reportedly called the BlackBerry t:Motion it will be a t:waterproof handset with a home button with an embedded BlackBerry logo and a

10 Best Smartphones For 2017/2018 In Nigeria (price, Features & Specification)

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  From the latest Apple offerings to strong Android contenders, we pick out the best of the new handsets. t:Smartphones have never been, , smarter, with advanced processors, cameras that have software to do things traditional cameras can’t and the most sophisticated displays yet. The latest trend is to stretch the display as far across the front of the phone as possible, to find the sweet spot of maximum screen in minimum phone size. Maximum screen doesn't come cheap, mind. Many new phones are waterproof, too. Not the Pixel 2 XL, t:Nokia 8, t:OnePlus or t:BlackBerry, but the others will survive getting wet. Here are the 10 bobby-dazzlers that aim to be the computer in your pocket that can run your life and something else… what was it? Oh, that’s right, make phone calls. Apple t:iPhone X: From £9 99   Photo of Iphone X At this price, it had better be something special. Well, it is. The most expensive mainstream mobile wins our Best Buy because of the handsome, opulent des