CrackBerry.com Podcast

Join the Addict and the Expert, Kevin Michaluk and Craig Johnston, as they talk about the BlackBerry smartphone. News, tips, contests, and more!

Join the Addict and the Expert, Kevin Michaluk and Craig Johnston, as they talk about the BlackBerry smartphone. News, tips, contests, and more!

Join the Addict and the Expert, Kevin Michaluk and Craig Johnston, as they talk about the BlackBerry smartphone. News, tips, contests, and more!

Join the Addict and the Expert, Kevin Michaluk and Craig Johnston, as they talk about the BlackBerry smartphone. News, tips, contests, and more!

Join the Addict and the Expert, Kevin Michaluk and Craig Johnston, as they talk about the BlackBerry smartphone. News, tips, contests, and more!

BlackBerry World 2012 hasn't quite kicked off officially just yet, but that didn't stop us from firing things up for a pre-BBWC podcast Sunday night. Bla1ze, Adam, Chris Umi and myself kept things to a short and sweet 20 minutes for this one, and we touch upon some of the things we might see (and hope to see) this week. We also sound off on those BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha photos that popped over the weekend. Enjoy the show and be sure to tune into our next BlackBerry World special. Tuesday will be the BIG day, with the keynote taking place at 9am ET. We'lll be live blogging that one, and then will likely follow up with another podcast that night or Wednesday. Keep it locked to CrackBerry!

As promised, we recorded a CrackBerry podcast today to discuss all of the news and fallout surrounding yesterday's Q4 earnings announcement by RIM. We've seen a lot of straight up bad news reporting over the last 24 hours since CEO Thorsten Heins spoke on the investors call which took a lot of statements at partial value (no, RIM is not abandoning the consumer market and no, the company is not getting sold off tomorrow - reporters need to learn to wait until a call is done before writing their stories). We've also seen a mix of reactions on the blogosphere today at both extremes, with titles ranging from RIM is Dead to It's Time to Believe in RIM Again. Fun stuff. On CrackBerry we gave a straight up assessment of RIM's weak results, and appreciated Heins' matter of fact way in speaking about them and the challenges ahead. We spend the first half of the show talking about why RIM isn't dead just yet. Between yesterday and today nothing has really changed for RIM. The challenges and work to be done are the same as they have been for the past several months. They need to keep the RIM boat afloat on BlackBerry 7 and service revenue streams for a couple more wavy quarters while they bring BlackBerry 10 to market. With cash in the bank, despite slowing sales they still have time to execute on their already in motion plans. BlackBerry 10 phones are going to need rock solid hardware, software, apps and some carrier love to make a splash and set things up for a comeback, but even if things don't go quite to plan we think RIM's Plan B can keep them fighting in the mobile space. You'll definitely want to listen in. Following up all the State of BlackBerry discussion, I give my podcast review of the Porsche Design P'9981 BlackBerry, and from there I "WIN THE INTERNET" by guessing at how RIM is going to incorporate "tiles/widgets" into BlackBerry 10. We start looking forward to BlackBerry World and BlackBerry Jam as well, and talk about that sexy BlackBerry 10 alpha hardware that RIM is going to give out (guess who's already touched it?!). Adam, Chris Umi and Craig join me for this one. Hit play and let's Rock & Roll This! Enjoy the show.

Our first "normal" show of 2012… The Crack Team is Back on Track talking CES 2012, RIM's new CEO, BlackBerry DevCon Europe, BlackBerry 10 and more!

In this episode Kevin and the Crack Team look back at the year that was 2011. It was a challenging year for BlackBerry, and the crew talks all the highs and lows and everything in between.

On this historic show we kick off by listening in to the Research In Motion WebCast with RIM's newly appointed CEO Thorsten Heins talking BlackBerry and his plans and thoughts for the road ahead, and from there move into CrackBerry's analysis.

In this episode the CrackBerry team interviews Chris Wade, developer of the DingleBerry hack for PlayBook rooting, and talks their 2011 BlackBerry Holiday Gift Guide.

In this episode we talk PlayBook OS 2.0 delays, the BlackBerry Bold 9790, BlackBerry p9981, RIM's stock price and more!

In this episode we talk about the BlackBerry Service Outage and all of the news (and lack of news) coming out of BlackBerry DevCon 2011. This is a must-listen show!

On this CrackBerry Podcast we spend some time talking Steve Jobs and the newly announced Apple iPhone 4S, and then get back into BlackBerry talk with BBX and our expectations of the upcoming BlackBerry DevCon and more!

Special guest and former RIM analyst Chris Umiastowski joins CrackBerry Kevin and the team on this episode to sound off on RIM's Q2 Earnings Report and the state of BlackBerry.