Blackberry App Development

Although RIM is currently hard at work in their effort to bring BlackBerry 10 and its PlayBook OS 2.0 to market, it certainly is not ignoring its present customer base. Last week, RIM updated several of its essential services of which its mobile conferencing applications received the most recent update.

Recently, RIM (Research in Motion) claimed that BlackBerry Apps are among the most popular applications in the market today. However, analysts are sure whether this is RIM’s way of encouraging people to keep using the BlackBerry brand and the let the market know that there is nothing wrong with the company. In a report, RIM’s VP of developer relations Alec Saunders said that the company is enjoying over six million downloads on a daily basis from its App World which is roughly estimated at around 174 million downloads per month.

RIM (Research In Motion) is set to release its BlackBerry PlayBook 0s 2.0 this coming February and developers must make sure that their apps are ready for this tablet when the launch date is announced. With RIM preparing its tablet’s market introduction, the company encourages all BlackBerry app developer to test their old and new apps with the new OS version to evaluate its compatibility to guarantee better and seamless end user experience.

A long delayed software update for BlackBerry PlayBook has just been released by RIM (Research In Motion). Nine months ago, reports regarding Android apps support update for BlackBerry tablet surfaced but it took a long time before RIM could actually implement it in real time. The 2.0 software update is certainly worth the wait and it could be what BlackBerry needs to make its PlayBook tablet more appealing to customers. This February, all PlayBook users are expected to receive the update for free.

Just as people start to think that Android and iOS are the only possible mobile platforms, the ubiquitous, all pervading Angry Birds has finally reached the BlackBerry App Store. Angry Birds is the popular mobile app introduced by the Finnish mobile app developers Rovio. Before, only Android devices and iOS based smart phones and tablets have benefited from this seemingly addicting game. And since the BlackBerry App Store is now offering this very popular mobile games, BlackBerry users now have the chance to enjoy it using their PlayBook.

A day after RIM announced a very disappointing and unsatisfactory financial result and the delay of its next generation operating system, the company is trying to attract more BlackBerry users to try its BBM music sharing service by providing BB users a free trial period of up to four months. Subsequent to the release last Thursday of the dismal financial results for the latest quarter, BlackBerry users can expect a large number of attractive deals and free offers from the company in the coming months as RIM tries desperately to keep its market share and at least remain in the number three position.

Research in Motion (RIM) said early Thursday that the new lines of BlackBerry phones will have a delayed launching until late 2012. The new phones are deemed important for asserting the company’s position in the smart phone and tablet market. One of RIM’s co – CEO, Mike Lazirdis said that BlackBerry 10 models will require a highly integrated chipset which will not be made available up until the middle of next year which is also one of the reasons why RIM is expecting to ship them late in 2012. The news about the delay was disclosed during a conference call with analysts.

Without so much fanfare, Research in Motion (RIM) introduced a beta edition of BlackBerry App World software portal that includes a number of cool and handy new features. The most noticeable is the app gifting which RIM has preempted months before and its timely released is very ideal for the holiday season. With this new app, it is now possible for BB users to request a particular app as a gift from his or her circle of BBM friends. Users can also buy apps as gifts and send it to other BB users using the same procedure.