True life Story: How Owning A Blackberry Helped Turning My Life Upside Down !

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My name is Chinwe, I am 26 years old, I never graduated from the university, simply coz I was stupid and careless, on my 24th birthday, I received a nice gift, it was a blackberry phone, I always wanted one, it was like a right of passage, my ex-boyfriend got it for me, he was a student like me, didn’t have a job, and I really never cared to ask as he could afford it, my concern at that point was, yes I had finally arrived, other girls in my hostel had blackberries and I would always get pissed when I heard sounds of pings and messages coming into their phones at all hours and I would stare at my Nokia phone and wish I could throw it away, but half bread they say is better than none, so I hoped and even fasted to get a blackberry phone, looking back now, if I had the opportunity, I’d have a landline with no internet activity what so ever, anyway I got the blackberry phone and even got free

Airtel Launches BlackBerry Z10

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Wole Abu, General Manager, Acquisitions, Airtel Nigeria (M) presenting the newly launched BB Z10 from Airtel Nigeria to Mr Richard Giwa-Osagie, Chairman of Ikoyi Club (L) while Tunji Okesola, Entertainment Chairman, Ikoyi Club 1938 (R) looks on atIkoyi Club

Leading telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria, has become the first mobile operator in the country to announce the availability of latest BlackBerry Z10 Smartphones in its show rooms across the country.

Airtel Customers who had pre-ordered for the device online and through its retail outlets across the country can now take delivery of the Smartphones at their preferred locations. 

Caring for your BlackBerry smartphone

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Take it or leave it, Nigeria is fast becoming a ‘BlackBerry country’ and it’s hard not find one in a gathering of mobile phone users. The price range is somewhat wide, so you get one for as low as N25,000 and another for as high as N100,000 – at least that’s the price tag on the BlackBerry Z10 from many of the telecommunication companies.

Yes, we all love BlackBerry or better still, the good stuff it comes with – ability to network with friends, colleagues, or boss, just a ping away at an affordable cost.

However, users usually have one or two complaints about the use of this popular smartphone. Perhaps BlackBerry has become a necessary evil that we may have to live with. Here are some tips that will help you enjoy  your BB.

The 10 Dumbest Risks People Take With Their Blackberry or Other Smartphones

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If you think of your smartphone as just a phone, rather than a very powerful mini-computer that happens to make phone calls, you may be cruising for a world of pain.

That’s because the amount of sensitive data many of us store on our phones is truly staggering. A smartphone provides us direct access to our savings and checking accounts. It may store our passwords to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, even our email accounts. The phone numbers and email addresses of all our friends and colleagues are easy to find in our contacts directory.

RIM Launches Blackberry 10

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BlackBerry 10 is the first version of RIM’s smartphone platform designed for touch devices. Previous versions, such as BlackBerry 7, were optimized for non-touch handsets with physical keyboards.

Other nice additions to it includes an adaptive software keyboard that adjusts to your typing style over time and a predictive word suggestion feature that can add words to your messages with a quick gesture. There is also a new camera that offers features such as composite photos that snap several images in quick succession so you can merge them into one idealized photo.

Alicia Keys named new Global Creative Director for Blackberry

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The multiple-award winning singer was unveiled today as the new global creative director of Blackberry in New York.

"She believes in the product and technology," BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said in a statement. "We are excited she will be bringing to us her enormous capabilities, as well as a vast network of relationships in the entertainment, social media and business communities, to help shape our brand and grow our business."

The New Blackberry 10 L Series Phone Surfaces (Photos)

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Photos of the BlackBerry 10 L-Series are nothing short of new. By now, they’re coming a dime a dozen. However, what sets these news photos apart from the rest is the quality of the photos.
This HD photo shots are said to have emerged from vietnam. A few images surfaced in November showing a BlackBerry L-Series handset. According to a post by CrackBerry.com, one of its readers has posted images on its site of an evaluation unit of an L-Series BlackBerry 10 smartphone. This handset was placed alongside a BlackBerry Bold 9700, and looks quite thinner than the Bold 9700.