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Five Pic Friday: BlackBerry App Photography

Donny Halliwell — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:29:37 +0000

It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner or a professional photographer – when it comes to snapping pics with your BlackBerry smartphone or BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, the right app can help you take your photography skills to the next level. BlackBerry World is full of powerful apps that can handle just about anything you can imagine when it comes to taking and editing your mobile snapshots!

To give you guys a better idea of what BlackBerry photo apps can do, we’re using this month’s Five Pic Friday to showcase some breathtaking BlackBerry app photography provided by some of our Twitter followers. You can find a handful of these pictures below – the rest are on our BlackBerry Flickr® Page. Check it out!

Photo by Etienne Steffens (@Esteffens79); taken with a BlackBerry Curve 9320 smartphone using PhotoFunia.

Photo by Simphiwe Fiwe Nkosi (@fiwe2sweet); taken with a BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone using Photo Sketch.

Photo by Harry Bow (@russg); taken with a BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone using Photo Editor Ultimate.

Photo by Michael Snasdell (@MichaelSnasdell); taken with BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone using MOLOME.

Photo by Feli Rodillas (@FeliRodillas); taken with a BlackBerry Curve 9320 smartphone using Photo Studio.

Got your own BlackBerry App Photography to share? Send us your pics by tweeting us @BlackBerry or posting on our Facebook® wall.

Five Pic Friday – Festive Fall Photography

Donny Halliwell — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:16:24 +0000

As October ushered in a wave of crisp weather and turning leaves, it’s safe to say that fall is here. To celebrate, we’re dedicating this month’s Five Pic Friday blog post to the season of change! Our talented fans have captured the true spirit of the season by snapping pictures of vibrant fall foliage, heaping piles of pumpkins, and vivid autumn sunsets with their BlackBerry ® smartphones. We rounded up five of these autumn-inspired pictures below, but be sure to check out the rest of our Festive Fall BlackBerry Photography on our BlackBerry Flickr® Page.

Photo by @annikabester; taken with a BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone

Photo by @KJHine; taken with a BlackBerry Bold 9790 smartphone

Photo by @alik_oz; taken with a BlackBerry® Curve™ 9220 smartphone using Photo Studio for BlackBerry

Photo by @BhuDeo; taken with a BlackBerry Bold 9790 smartphone

Photo by @VinceConcep; taken with a BlackBerry Curve 9310 smartphone

What fall photography have you captured this season? Share your photos by tweeting us @BlackBerry or posting on our Facebook® wall.

Five Pic Friday: BlackBerry Sketches

Donny Halliwell — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:51:50 +0000

Reason #1,000,001 why we love BlackBerry ® fans: besides being generally awesome, they really know their way around a sketchpad! That’s why we’re dedicating this month’s Five Pic Friday blog post to showcasing some mind-blowing sketches of BlackBerry smartphones and BlackBerry ® PlayBook ™ tablets sent in by fans. Check out a few of the sketches below and view the rest of the BlackBerry sketches on our BlackBerry Flickr® Page.

Sketch by @TheRealJSpears

Sketch by @rantoniomg

Sketch by Zanzoon F.

Sketch contributed by @RunningKathy

Sketch by @AZ_JOHNNY

Feeling inspired? Send us your BlackBerry sketches by tweeting us @BlackBerry or posting on our Facebook® wall.

Five Pic Friday: Team BlackBerry Pets

Donny Halliwell — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:15:39 +0000

Let’s face it: We all love snapping pictures of our pets with our BlackBerry® smartphones. There’s nothing better than showing off pics of your furry companions to your co-workers and friends – that’s why we’re dedicating this month’s Five Pic Friday blog post to our community’s pets. As an added bonus, we couldn’t resist including a couple BlackBerry Photos from RIM® Community Managers Carolyn (^CH) and Kerri (^KB)! Check out the five pictures below and be sure to head to our BlackBerry Flickr® Page to see the rest of our Team BlackBerry Pets.

Lily
Photo by @LexieJovanovski; taken with a BlackBerry® Torch™ 9800 smartphone

Yoshi
Photo by RIM Community Manager Kerri (^KB); taken with a BlackBerry® Torch™ 9810 smartphone

Snowball
Photo by @f_asli_yilmaz; yaken with a BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 smartphone

Neil
Photo by RIM Community Manager Carolyn (^CH); taken with a BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 smartphone

Diesel
Photo by @rockadelly; taken with a BlackBerry Torch 9810 smartphone

Got your own adorable pet pictures to share? Share them by tweeting us @BlackBerry or posting on our Facebook® wall.

Five Pic Friday: Bold Photography

Donny Halliwell — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:07:49 +0000

Our Twitter® and Facebook® followers have shown us that the sky’s the limit when it comes to making Bold Moves. Whether it’s working on windmills or traveling around the world, they’ve captured all of their Bold moments using – what else? – their BlackBerry® Bold™ smartphones!

Today’s Five Pic Friday features a variety of Bold photographs sent in by fans. Check out a few of the pictures below and view the rest of the Bold Photography on our BlackBerry Flickr® Page.

Photo by @masroora; taken with a BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 smartphone

Photo by @robertson88; taken with a BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone

Photo by @PatWallace; taken with a BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone

Photo by @nerdologist_jon; taken with a BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone

Photo by @CoolsLogan; taken with a BlackBerry® Bold™ 9930 smartphone

What Bold photography have you captured this year? Send your photos our way by tweeting us @BlackBerry or posting on our Facebook wall.

Bonus: Make your photography even bolder by using these top BlackBerry smartphone photography apps.

Five Pic Friday: The Great BlackBerry Outdoors

Donny Halliwell — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:41:21 +0000

What do a ladybug, a baby tiger, and three amazing views all have in common? Our next edition of Five Pic Friday! All of these fantastic outdoor moments were captured by our fans on their BlackBerry® smartphones or BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets. A sneak peek of the set is below for your viewing pleasure, and if you want to check out the entire set, be sure to visit our BlackBerry Flickr® Page.

Photo by CT (@IamCalTait). Taken with a BlackBerry® Curve™ 9300 smartphone.

Photo by R.E.M. (@RosieMickasko). Taken with a BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone.

Photo by Angelo Maurer (@Angelo_Thoughts). Taken with a BlackBerry Bold 9780 smartphone.

Photo by Jason Goncalves (@jasongoncalves). Taken with a BlackBerry® Bold™ 9790 smartphone.

Photo by Erin Kampferseck (@erinkampferseck). Taken with a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.

Keep sending in your BlackBerry photos by tweeting us @BlackBerry or posting on our Facebook® wall.

Introducing: Five Pic Friday!

Donny Halliwell — Fri, 25 May 2012 13:30:49 +0000

We’ve said it before: the creativity of Team BlackBerry constantly impresses us. We’ve featured hundreds of pictures from you on our BlackBerry Flickr® Page. The best part? ALL of the pictures were taken using BlackBerry® smartphones or BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets! Pretty incredible.

To celebrate your #BlackBerryPhotography, we decided to kick off a brand new blog post series – Five Pic Friday – that features the best of the best photos from our Flickr page. Each month, we’ll showcase a different batch of five photos – from BlackBerry Sunsets and Sunrises to Team BlackBerry Pets and more!

Here’s a peek at this month’s five pics, sent in by Team BlackBerry on Twitter® and Facebook®:

Photo by Brittany (@MsBrittz); Taken with a BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone

Photo by @rrrebo; Taken with a BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 smartphone

Photo by Desirée (@DesireeTodd_79); Taken with a BlackBerry® Curve™ 3G 9300 smartphone

Photo by G.K. Lawson (@gklawson); Taken with a BlackBerry® Storm2™ smartphone

Photo by Ashley (@rawsharktext)

Where do YOU find your inspiration for capturing the perfect BlackBerry photo? Tell us in the comments! Keep sharing your best #BlackBerryPhotography with us on Twitter and Facebook, and you never know – your photo could be featured in next month’s Five Pic Friday.

Inside BlackBerry: Our BBM Emoticon Wall

Mitchell S. — Fri, 27 May 2011 19:08:25 +0000

Hello, #TeamBlackBerry! Community Manager Mitchell here, hoping you’ve had a great week. Are you following our @BlackBerry and @BlackBerryBlog Twitter® accounts? If so, be sure to drop us a line and let us know what cool stuff you’re up to right now – we always love hearing what the great members of our community are up to (why not show us by taking some photos for our official BlackBerry Flickr albums?).

In this first edition of our “Inside BlackBerry” series, I am going to take you behind the scenes at Research In Motion® (RIM®) and show you one of the wonderful new additions to our workplace! We hinted at this addition to our office in one of our Facebook® posts and, after receiving a lot interest in seeing the full picture, we decided to feature it in this blog post! Now, for those of you who know what we are talking about, kudos to you; for those of you scratching your brain, we are talking about the famous Emoticon Wall!

What’s really cool about the Emoticon Wall is that it shows every single emoticon available to use on BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™), which to me is wicked awesome and super helpful. Sometimes the Emoticon Wall moves to different places in our building, sometimes in a different order, but always with those friendly BBM emoticons! I wanted to share this with you because it reminds me every day how much the #TeamBlackBerry community loves BBM, and how sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words (which is handy when you’re chatting with friends on the go!). What’s your favorite emoticon, #TeamBlackBerry? Mine has got to be TALK TO THE HAND: “>:/”.

There are a bunch of other really great displays like the Emoticon Wall around RIM. For example, in our recent Get to Know Community Manager Carolyn post, you can see my fellow Community Manager in front of our new Application Wall. Stay tuned for more pictures and stories from around RIM HQ!

Until next time,

Mitchell