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RIM Unveils BlackBerry Tag – enables effortless ‘Tap to Share’ Exchanges via NFC

Published by on Oct 10th, 2011, 14 Comments

During his keynote presentation at the GITEX conference in Dubai, Research In Motion Co-CEO Jim Balsillie today unveiled a new way for BlackBerry® smartphone users to connect with one another and share multimedia content.

BlackBerry Tag, which will be incorporated in the next BlackBerry 7 OS update, will allow users to share contact information, documents, URLs, photos and other multimedia content by simply tapping their BlackBerry smartphones together. BlackBerry Tag will also enable friends to instantly add one another as contacts on BBM (BlackBerry Messenger).

“BlackBerry Tag is an exciting and innovative feature that makes sharing contact information and multimedia content effortless and seamless,” said Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO at Research In Motion. “BlackBerry Tag opens a new dimension to the BlackBerry platform that is powerful, simple and intuitive and we think it will be welcomed by both users and developers.”

BlackBerry Tag takes advantage of Near Field Communications (NFC) technology included in the recently launched BlackBerry Bold 9900 and BlackBerry® Curve 9350/9360/9370 smartphones, and these are the first BlackBerry smartphones that will support BlackBerry Tag.

RIM also announced plans to expose BlackBerry Tag through APIs on the BlackBerry platform, allowing software developers to take advantage of “tap to share” functionality from within their own applications.

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  • Thandolwana

    I love my BB but just disappointed that they have ignored our cry… Still no mention of a Short Batery life span :-(

  • Heather

    All well and good! We haven’t had BlackBerry for most of the day!!!

  • Kaveel

    You know, as amazing and groundbreaking as you perceive this to be, it simply degenerates the human race. Our legacy as a collective will ultimately become fixed in cyberspace, that by the way, will one day die. 

    We fail to advance in other forms of existence and will eternally be plagued with an average society. We are the bowls of humanity. The goddamn rotten, fibre lacking bowls. 

  • Dave

    Ummm, this has been on real smartphones for ages already?????

  • Garth

    Was this written on your BB

  • Chez Dros

    Thats nice…BUT FIRST! how
    about fixing the current rim problems before claiming new developments, Africa
    - Asia and Europe have all been effected and have limited or no access to bbm, email and the internet. This is the reason why most users bought the phone in the first place.

  • Vvv

    Yeah man, android has had “bump” for eons

  • Preshengovender69

    I see a lot of free porno now

  • Linus

    iPhone was first to have an app like this called Bump about 3 years ago…

  • Charl Norman

    yup! was thinking the same..

  • ZM

    iPhone has been doing this for ages via an app called Bump. 

  • Googler

    Maybe it is from all the tapping testing that things just bombed out!!!

  • Princess085

    Stl no BB services, focus on the problem in hand and leave the new developments for later its been 2 days already and my BB is still not working. I cursed the day I left my HTC family and joined the BB family

  • PVT

    go climb in a hole and hide from humanity’s progression

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