Native Google Play app heading to BlackBerry 10?

It's no secret that those on BlackBerry 10 have taken to sideloading Android apps onto their BlackBerry 10 devices to fill the app void. Sheesh, one of the first things I did when I started using my Z30 was sideload Instagram onto it! Well, we have some good news care of a few leaked images that turned up in CrackBerry forums earlier: images of Google's PlayStore running natively on a BlackBerry 10 device. 

Say it ain't so? Could an influx of apps be coming to the little ecosystem that could? Highly unlikely. Word that came with the image above is that the next iteration of BB10, BB10.2, could come with the Google Play store as a native app. 

Or this could be a clever sideload job to trick everyone. No comment from Google or BlackBerry, yet, but that doesn't mean they don't intend on commenting either.

Stay tuned...

via [CrackBerry forums]

Moto G release date, specs and pricing leaked by Amazon.co.uk

Looks like Amazon.co.uk jumped the gun on the upcoming Moto G. Scheduled to be announced this Wednesday Novemeber 13 (stay tuned for our coverage right here), the Moto G is the lower cost variant of the Moto X. According to the Amazon.co.uk leak, it will be released on Novemeber 14th, and it will cost £159.99 off contract for the 16GB black model. Of course this applies to the UK, so we can't tell what the Canadian pricing will be. 

Source: Pocket Lint

Happy 12th birthday iPod!

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It may no longer be Apple's cash cow or comeback product but there's no denying the importance that the Apple iPod holds in the company's history as well as the music industry at large. The iPod wasn't the first MP3 player, but it was the first one that really made sense. It made digital music consumption portable and cool. It gave birth to iTunes, songs sold as digital singles and it single-handedly challenged piracy by offering a legal way to distribute music digitally (although some would argue that it promoted piracy for people who didn't want to pay for music).

Still, there's no denying the original iPod (1,000 songs in your pocket) took Apple one step closer to the iPhone and the iPad. It made solid state drives a necessity and made technologies like cloud computing, FireWire and the cool clickwheel the landmark features that would set it apart from the competition.

So while the iPod's 12th birthday hasn't really been celebrated and it wasn't even mentioned in the last few Apple Events, we really need to raise a glass to this iconic and game changing device that propelled Apple beyond its computer roots as well as changed the way people enjoyed music all over the world.

Adobe Lightroom 5.3 test version supports new cameras

A new test version of Adobe Lightroom 5.3 now supports some of the latest cameras such as Fujifilm X-E2, Sony A7R, Olympus OM-D E-M1, Canon PowerShot S120, Panasonic GM1, and Nikon D610 SLR. It also supports Fujifilm XQ1, Nikon Phase One IQ260 and IQ280 as well as Coolpix P7800. Preliminary support is also given to the Nikon D5300, Olympus Stylus 1 and Sony DSC-RX10.

Adobe has also remedied some bugs like how Flickr takes over Lightroom when you export and you can only view images you’ve published on the platform unless you restart the Adobe program.

Source: Adobe & CNET