BlackBerry unveils BlackBerry Q20 flagship QWERTY-enabled smartphone

BlackBerry unveiled a new flagship smartphone designed to deliver its full and distinctive QWERTY experience on BlackBerry10. The new BlackBerry Q20 smartphone will feature the familiar and classic 'Menu', 'Back', 'Send' and 'End' buttons and the integrated trackpad to enable the fast efficient navigation and one-handed use that has endeared the brand to its QWERTY customers.

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How to: Install Netflix on your BlackBerry 10 smartphone

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Netflix has been the one major service that never gave BlackBerry any love. They ignored the PlayBook, even if that doomed tablet had the requisite features to run the streaming service (plus a gorgeous 1024x600  screen and the capability to output video HD video via HDMI-out). With the advent of the BB10 handsets, the Z1, Q10, Z30 and Q5 -Netflix was once more conspicuously missing. Yes, you can get Netflix on a dinky Nintendo 2DS, but still no love for BB10. What's up with that?

Well, that changes today. Here's what you need to do to enjoy your Netflix subscription on your BlackBerry 10 device.

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BlackBerry OS 10 update 10.2.1.537 now available on TELUS and Bell

Updated on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 1:28PM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

A nice surprise for BlackBerry users this morning. The awaited 10.2.537 update (weighing in at 316MB) is rolling out in Canada for Bell and TELUS subscribers. The update's been available to various international carriers. This update brings various general enhancements, features and fixes as well as the Floating Action Bar that's expected to make things more intutive al around and unloking of the FM radio feature among many others. Are you seeing the update notice on your device? Hit us back with your impressions. Hit jump for the full rundown of new features.

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BlackBerry pens open letter to customers and fans

The past few weeks haven't been kind to BlackBerry whose new smartphone releases have been somewhat overshadowed by talks of acquisition, a delayed attempt at bringing BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) to Android and iOS as well as recent loss of nearly $1 billion due to poor selling Z10 smartphones and the most depressing news of all is that it has no recourse but to lay off 4,500 employees as part of its restructuring. Thorsten Heins and Co. have been rather quiet througout all this, even cancelling a regularly scheduled earnings conference call in order to deal with the issues facing the company. There's an open letter from BlackBerry that's expected to make the rounds in various newspapers today and this is the first time the company is opening up about the issues it faces.

“You can continue to count on BlackBerry,”  is the gist of the letter with BlackBerry pointing out the positives (cash on hand, debt free balance sheet and the aim to cut expensies by 5- per cent." The company says they may be down but they are definitely not out despite what various pundits are saying. Hit jump for the full letter.

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