FBI arrests CEO of company selling custom BlackBerrys to gangs

Custom, extra-secure BlackBerry phones remain a staple of the criminal underworld, and a recent bust just illustrated this point. Motherboard has learned that the FBI arrested Vincent Ramos, the founder of the well-established phone mod seller Phantom Secure, for allegedly aiding criminal organizations that include the Sinaloa drug cartel. The company altered BlackBerry and Android […]

BlackBerry’s water-resistant Motion revealed in leak

BlackBerry’s decision to embrace 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 KeyOne, which catered to classicists with its hardware keyboard. But, its followup, will once again ditch the brand’s defining physical characteristic — at least, if a new […]

BlackBerry’s loss shrinks (BBRY)

REUTERS/Aaron Harris (Reuters) – Canada’s BlackBerry Ltd, reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Friday, as operating costs nearly halved, and said it expects to be profitable on an adjusted basis in 2018. The company’s U.S.-listed shares were up nearly 5 percent at $ 7.29 before the bell. BlackBerry has shifted away from making its once-iconic smartphones […]

BlackBerry’s Privacy Shade app should just come as a standard feature on all phones

I’m not very good at listening to music when commuting on the subway. I enjoy the sights and sounds of the busy city — it’s nice to just hang and observe the world outside of your own for a small chunk of the day. This all sounds nice and philosophical in theory, but in practice […]

BlackBerry’s new keyboard phone is doomed to be a noble failure

I’ve just returned from BlackBerry’s Mobile World Congress event, where I got to spend some time with the new BlackBerry KeyOne, an Android phone with an obvious difference. The KeyOne is a return to classic BlackBerry form, hitching a full physical keyboard to the bottom of a solidly built, decently specced Android device with a […]