Big news for keyboard purists! BlackBerry has officially announced that the Q10 will be hitting carrier shelves in Canada beginning May 1st. Rogers, Bell, and Telus will all have the Q10 on May 1st for $199 with a 3-year contract. It will also be available on Virgin Mobile Canada, Fido, Koodo Mobile, and Sasktel, and available in select retail locations, including Best Buy, Future Shop, TBooth Wireless, The Source, Walmart Canada and WIRELESSWAVE.

Meticulous attention has been paid to every detail of the BlackBerry Q10 smartphone’s design, from its beautiful and distinctive form to its elegant and ergonomic QWERTY keyboard, which features a wider layout and larger sculpted keys. With the BlackBerry Q10 smartphone’s advanced hardware, communications and multimedia features, along with long battery life, you can confidently stay ahead and take action all day long.

Read on past the break for more information on the Q10.

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The BlackBerry Z10 has been chosen a the winner for the 2013 Red Dot Award in the Product Design category. This award is a huge achievement for the BlackBerry design team and it will help to further BlackBerry’s reach with their new Z10 smartphone. Learn all about the Red Dot Award for BlackBerry in the Press Release, which starts below and continues past the break.

• Learn More about the Red Dot Awards Here

Press Release

The BlackBerry Z10 is Awarded for High Design Quality in the “Red Dot Award: Product Design 2013”.

Waterloo, ON (March 13, 2013) - The innovative power of BlackBerry impressed the 37-member jury of experts for the “red dot award: product design 2013”. Those who succeed in winning over the renowned experts in the field can decorate their product creation with the “red dot” and position themselves at an international level. The jury members were delighted to receive 4,662 entries in 19 different categories in this year’s competition. Only the best designs were able to win the enthusiasm of the jury, which is how the BlackBerry® Z10 smartphone received the red dot for its successful design creation.

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Aerize WiFiX v2.0.0 has been released for BlackBerry 7.1, 7.0, 6.0, 5.0 and 4.5. Force apps to use WiFi and other network connectivity, like magic. Utilize BlackBerry networking’s full potential with Aerize WiFiX. Available now at a very low introductory price or $2.50. At 50% off SRP, this price will not last, so hurry up and get your copy now!

—– Notable Features —–

• Route cellular network connections over WiFi.
• Route WiFi connections over various cellular networks.
• Route WAP connections to and from TCP, BIS, and BES connections.

Check out the Press Release for all the details of this amazing program past the break.

• Download Aerize WiFiX v2.0 Here

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BlackBerry has just announced that the nomination stage is now open for the company’s annual BlackBerry Achievement Awards.  The awards program recognizes the year’s most outstanding achievements by business leaders, entrepreneurs and developers in advancing mobile technology to benefit business and society. Award winners will be announced at the annual BlackBerry Live conference in Orlando, Florida in May 2013.

The BlackBerry Achievement Awards (formerly the Wireless Achievement Awards) have been rebranded this year to highlight the wide-range of sectors that benefit from mobile technology and partnership with BlackBerry. In keeping with this change, a series of new award categories have also been introduced.

Award categories include:

• App of the Year
•  Putting Customers First
• Mobile Innovation of the Year
• Making the World a Better Place
• Entrepreneuer of the Year

The deadline for nomination submissions is  March 22, 2013.Prizes for the winner of each category include: travel and accommodations to BlackBerry Live 2013, conference passes, extensive BlackBerry training, BlackBerry 10 smartphones, and more.

• Make a BlackBerry Achievement Award Nomination Here

Huge news from the BlackBerry 10 launch event. CEO Thorsten Heins has announced that Research In Motion has been officially be rebranded to BlackBerry. The company is now officially BlackBerry and branding will change immediately. The tagline for the transition is “One Brand. One Promise.” BlackBerry will now trade on the NASDAQ as “BBRY” and on The Stock Exchange as “BB.” This is a huge shift for the company and is sure to be a good move for the future of BlackBerry.

Here’s a surprise update coming from RIM just hours before the official BlackBerry 10 unveiling tomorrow. They have updated BlackBerry Bridge for BlackBerry Smartphones to version 3.0. Typically we see a BlackBerry PlayBook OS update when we see an update to the Smartphone companion app, so this could mean that RIM has another Tablet OS 2 update coming tomorrow or they could have a nice BlackBerry 10 surprise for PlayBook owners coming soon.  This update is available now in BlackBerry World, however, it could take up to 24 hours to fully for all users worldwide.

RIM has been doing a great job of getting high-profile companies and app developers on board the BlackBerry 10 train. This afternoon’s announcement is another huge win for RIM. ESPN has announced that their ESPN ScoreCenter app, one of the most popular applications in the world, is immediately available for download to BlackBerry 10 devices. While it’s not doing most of us any good right now, beginning tomorrow and continuing over the next few months, BlackBerry 10 devices will be in the hands of tons of consumers who will love this great app. Check out the full Press Release below and past the break.

Press Release

January 29, 2013

ESPN ScoreCenter Now Available for BlackBerry 10

ESPN today officially launched its popular ScoreCenter mobile destination for the BlackBerry® 10, Research In Motion’s redesigned, reengineered and reinvented mobile platform. With today’s launch, ScoreCenter further extends its reach in the mobile space, now available across all major smartphone operating systems and devices.

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ooVoo and RIM are announcing today that they are bringing the ooVoo Video Chat and IM Solution to BlackBerry 10. ooVoo is a free app that allows for free video chatting and instant messaging between users. The app will be available in BlackBerry World later this year. Check out the full Press Release below for all the details.

Press Release

ooVoo to Launch Free Video Chat and IM Solution for the BlackBerry 10 Platform

NEW YORK, NEW YORK and WATERLOO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Jan. 29, 2013) – ooVoo, one of the largest independent social video chat provider with 66 million registered subscribers, and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today announced that ooVoo will bring its next-generation HD video communications service to the BlackBerry® 10 platform.
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Tomorrow morning we will get the first full and official look at BlackBerry 10 and the first two devices running it, the Z10 and X10. This event is only an unveiling of the devices, RIM won’t be selling the devices directly at the events. However, there have been some leaks suggesting that the devices will go on sale the afternoon of the event and then move throughout the world in the subsequent weeks. While we can’t tell you exactly when BlackBerry 10 will launch, we can show you what the box it’ll come in looks like. Check it out and get excited, we’re less than 24 hours away from the launch of BlackBerry 10.

Source : CrackBerry

The Black version of the BlackBerry Z10 has been getting all the publicity so far, and the white model seems to have had enough of this. Today, a full set of high quality photographs of the white BlackBerry Z10 have hit the web. It’s identical the the Z10 in black spec-wise, but the phone’s casing is a beautiful shell white. Check out the rest of the images of the White Z10 past the break.

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RIM is set to release all the official details on BlackBerry 10 in less than two days. In the meantime, there are plenty of informational leaks happening. This latest leak is huge news for BlackBerry fans in the UK. Some leaked internal documentation from Vodafone UK has hit the internet and it shows that they will be launching the BlackBerry Z10 immediately after RIM officially announces it, on January 30th. The devices will go on sale at 5 PM on Vodafone UK. We haven’t heard any other details for other carriers; however, if a UK carrier is launching on the 30th, you can probably expect to see some Canadian launches that day, as well.

Source : The Verge

The PGA has announced that their official application will be gaining support for BlackBerry 10 in the coming months. The app will be available for download in BlackBerry World sometime later this golfing season. The full Press Release starts below and continues past the break.

Press Release

PGA TOUR Will Introduce App for BlackBerry 10 in 2013

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – The PGA TOUR announced today that it is developing a new PGA TOUR app for the BlackBerry® 10 platform. The PGA TOUR app will be available for free on the BlackBerry® World™ storefront for all BlackBerry 10 customers later this season.

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RIM has just announced that they have purchased a slice of the most prime advertising space in the world. RIM will be airing a commercial during Super Bowl XLVII on February 3rd. The commercial will be the first in a line of new RIM commercials highlighting the new features and abilities of BlackBerry OS 10 and the devices that run it.

This is huge news for RIM, a company that has been known to be absolutely terrible at advertising. They have an entirely new marketing team in place and they promise that this new commercial, and many others they have planned, will be much better than what we have seen in the past. Check the full Press Release from RIM past the break.

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We have heard many rumors about BlackBerry 10 release dates in the US and UK, however, we haven’t heard anything from the Canadian carriers. Sure, they all have up preorder pages and we know they are planning on launching it, but we didn’t know when. Now we have a speculated release date for both Bell and Telus. That date is February 5th and it lines up perfectly with what we are hearing from both RIM and supply side sources. There’s no confirmation of a launch date for Rogers, but we would assume they would be launching the same day as the other Canadian carriers. We’ll get official confirmation of these dates in just 5 days, when RIM officially unveils BlackBerry 10 and announces all the release specifics.

Source : CrackBerry

What have we here? BlackBerry Z10 dummy units in both black and white! There is no word on where these units are destined for, but it’s most likely a Canadian carrier, as they will be the first to launch BlackBerry 10 devices. There’s not much more to say about this photo, just enjoy the BlackBerry 10 goodness and get ready for the January 30th unveiling.

Source : CrackBerry