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Early this month BoyGeniusReport has revealed that the upcoming BlackBerry Thunder will be named as BlackBerry 9530. More information is available today with the packaging box leaked on engadgetmobile. Apparently it will be called BlackBerry Storm 9530 for Verizon Wireless, comes with 3.5mm headset jack, pre-installed sim card and without WiFi. Verizon Wireless is generous enough to bundle in a 8GB microSD card. The BlackBerry Storm 9530 is said to be available in mid-October, or 13th October to be exactly according to the previous rumor.

 

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Peek gets reviewed

Aug 27, 2008 Filed under: BlackBerry

The e-mail only handset Peek gets the hands-on treatment thanks to LaptopMag. The device isn’t aimed at us gadgetphiles but rather our moms and pops. Think of the device as a cell phone-less Blackberry ’cause all it knows how to do is email. The Peek is aimed at people that don’t need a full fledge smart phone but still want to be part of the Internet crowd. So how does it work? Well… We did notice that the Peek took a bit longer than a BlackBerry to bring up a new message window and to load t

JuiceCaster is now available for one the most popular Blackberry devices via a free beta application for users in the United States. For a limited time, Blackberry Curve users can sign-up to receive the JuiceCaster beta at www.juicecaster.com/blackberry. The free beta application is available to users of the Blackberry Curve (8310) for AT&T, and the Blackberry Curve (8330) for Verizon Wireless. In the coming weeks, the free beta will be opened up for Blackberry Pearl users, and for Blackberry users in Europe.

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JuiceCaster allows mobile phone users to capture pictures and videos, and share them instantly with their favorite online social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Photobucket, Hi5, Blogger, Orkut, and a number of other websites. JuiceCaster enables Blackberry users to connect in real-time with friends and interact with new people in the JuiceCaster mobile community — exchanging public and private multimedia messages on the go.

Major features includes:

  • Posting mobile video and picture updates directly to Facebook and Twitter.
  • Broadcasting video and picture status updates, and inviting friends and non-members to “follow” updates.
  • Creating unique custom groups (e.g. fantasy football, work friends, family) to send group video and picture messages to mobile phones, email, and online social networks.
  • Instant ...

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In your face, iPhone! CrackBerry addicts now have a new way to show their loyalty to the smartphone--by dangling tiny versions from their ears.

And there's no need to fear added radiation from these BlackBerry Bolds. The earrings, which measure about three-quarters of an inch high--are made ...


Mobile Phone is simply more than a mobile phone. The Wide LCD display with QWERTY keyboard helps you to have a good interaction with the phone.

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Blackberry 8318 (curve)

Aug 25, 2008 Filed under: BlackBerry

Item: Blackberry 8318 (curve) Location: by tomcat99 Review: The Blackberry Curve (8310) is the smallest Blackberry device to have a full qwerty keyboard. There are lots of pros and cons of this smart phone, the most obvious of which is the email facility. The email system which the Blackberry offers is second to none. However it is [...]

In fact, I've been an addict for quite some time. I recently updated from an 8700 to this amazing phone.

Available in some countries now, the BlackBerry Bold is the first BlackBerry smartphone to support tri-band HSDPA high-speed networks around the world and comes with integrated GPS and Wi-Fi.

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The long wait is over. Rogers Wireless officially launched and released in the market the Blackberry Bold. Canadians finally get their hands on this much- awaited phone from Blackberry. In hope to conquer iPhone's market share, Blackberry is now spreading its new gadget in most part of the world where smartphone fanatics thrive. Although, [...]


The new BlackBerry Bold smartphone is now being offered to users in Canada through Rogers Wireless. The BlackBerry Bold operates on Rogers’ high-speed 3G network and features a newly designed, precision QWERTY keyboard, built-in GPS, Wi-Fi and a 2 megapixel camera with video recording.

Crafted from premium materials inside and out, the BlackBerry Bold smartphone features a 624 MHz mobile processor that powers the renowned BlackBerry productivity applications, including phone, email, messaging, organizer and browser. The BlackBerry Bold also lets customers edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents directly on the handset using the preloaded DataViz Documents to Go software suite.

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone from Rogers Wireless features:

  • Size: 114mm x 66mm x 15mm
  • Weight: 136 grams
  • Tri-band HSDPA and quad-band EDGE support for global roaming
  • (480×320 resolution) color display with integrated lens for eye-popping definition
  • Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g)
  • Built-in GPS
  • 1 GB on-board storage memory
  • microSD/SDHC memory card slot
  • removable/rechargeable 1500 mAhr battery
  • DataViz Documents To Go preinstalled, enabling customers to edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on the smartphone
  • 2 megapixel camera with digital zoom, built-in flash and video recording
  • USB 2.0

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone (model number: 9000) will be available from Rogers beginning today from $399.99 with activation on any combination of 3 year voice ...

WSJ Reader got reviewed

Aug 22, 2008 Filed under: BlackBerry

Still in doubt with the WSJ’s latest application? Don’t worry cause somebody called Blake Brannon had reviewed it on his blog. He had installed and use it into his own Blackberry Curve so I think you’ll regret if you missed this one. Take a look to some screen shots here.  On his WSJ Reader review, Blake shows and gives you some information about these stuffs: Pre-installation procedure How to install this mobile app How it works How it affect his Blackberry device Conclusion, as you migh

There have been quite a few test and reviews recently comparing RIM’s new ‘iPhone Killer’ vs Apples iPhone 3G. I am not going to get into comparing the two, but will leave that to the likes of Mobile Computing and friends. Here is the first video from Mobile Computing comparing the iPhone 3G to the BlackBerry Bold on Wifi:

Building on a 10-year relationship with Research In Motion, Rogers Wireless, the pioneering (and initial) Blackberry carrier partner, launched the new Blackberry Bold at a media event at Rogers’ headquarters in Toronto this morning. As result Rogers is the first North American carrier to make available the Bold; launches are also occurring this week and next in several European and South American countries, as well as Australia. John Boynton, Rogers Wireless VP and Chief Marketing Officer, sai

Global TV: Blackberry Bold launches on Rogers August 21, 2008 - 1:18pm — bmann I'm going to be doing a short interview with Global TV with my thoughts on the Blackberry Bold, which "launches" today on Rogers (apparently, reports say that the product isn't actually available in stores). Of course, this is currently a GSM phone, so it's one more piece in Roger's arsenal vs. Telus and Bell, which both have the same set of CDMA phones. The newest phones are released on GSM first, and the CDMA ver

Daddy like. Daddy want. Need new blackberry must have... (*cue zombie music...)

RIM Blackberry Kickstart 8120 / 8220 specifications:

Quad-band GSM; GPRS; 2.6 inch QVGA display and 160 x 128 pixel External display; 2Mpix camera, 5x digital zoom and LED flash; Multimedia player (oa. MP3, AAC, MP4, 3GPP); 3.5mm audio headset jack; 75 MB of built-in memory; Micro...

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Palm today unveiled the Treo Pro, a Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional smartphone with email, Wi-Fi and GPS capabilities, to compete for business users against rivals such as Research in Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry.

The Treo Pro's thin design offers a high-resolution color touch screen and a full QWERTY keyboard with a removable battery for up to five hours of talk time. Users can quickly respond to business and personal email, access the web, stay on top of appointments and contacts, and use Wi-Fi or GPS on the go. It delivers increased security, easier device management and access to information on corporate networks.

The Treo Pro uses the Windows Mobile 6.1 platform for features such as:

- One-touch Wi-Fi button for fast connections (802.11b/g)
- Screen enhancements to search the web directly from the Today screen
- ...


The AT&T BlackBerry Bold -AT&T Cell Phones has been on the market. We know,it is just the RIM BlackBerry 9000. The AT&T BlackBerry Bold Cell Phone is a great mix between business & pleasure, with it’s sleek black design and superb multimedia features.AT&T cell phones reviews

The Wall Street Journal is offering a free piece of software to BlackBerry users that will let them read headlines, summaries and full articles. Readers can also customize content and search stock quotes.


A major international retailer today published details about a previously unannounced BlackBerry with a clamshell form factor. The 8200 series contains the same features as Research In Motion's Pearl 8100 series, including a SureType keyboard, trackball navigation, 2 megapixel ...
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Online retailer Expansys appears to have leaked what appear to be official photos and details of the new RIM BlackBerry 8220 and 8210 smartphones. The first clamshell BlackBerries, they offer a 2 megapixel camera and a SureType 20-key keyboard.
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The main target sector is students who want to stick to the fashion... Source : The Mobile Phone Review (subscribe) Explore : Wireless...

The memory of the smart phone can be extended up to 1GB which is another additive feature of the mobile phone. Thus, this smart phone gives the...

A little while ago I got a note from 3. “Would you like to try out one of our new handsets?” asked the chap. “Sure!” I said. I’m always interested to see what’s coming next. The chap wouldn’t be drawn on the identity of the handset. Quite a good idea, if you want to get us pondering. Speculation abounded around the Mobile Industry Review offices. Blackberry, maybe? Surely not the Sony Ericsson Xperia? N96? It’s gotta be the Blackberry, right? Wrong. It arrived laden with strict EMBARG

Review: BlackBerry Curve 8330

Aug 18, 2008 Filed under: BlackBerry

Review: BlackBerry Curve 8330 By Gerry Blackwell - Published August 18, 2008 As an all-in-one device, the Curve 8330 is a pretty good one. It offers BlackBerry's unbeatable e-mail experience, a great interface and a Swiss army knife's worth of functions. Review: BlueAnt Supertooth 3 Bluetooth Handsfree Kit By Joe Moran - Published August 11, 2008 These days, integrated Bluetooth is an increasingly common option on new cars, even on many entry-level models. But if you're not in the market

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The BlackBerry Bold will be coming to North America within the month now that RIM (Research In Motion) has launched it in Chile and Germany.

The Bold is RIM's first major BlackBerry model in more than a year. It offers twice the screen resolution of current BlackBerry models. The Bold matches the resolution, but not the size, of the screen on Apple's iPhone, which has emerged as a competitor in the smartphone market.

AT&T said it will be the exclusive U.S. carrier for the Bold, as it is for the iPhone.

Reports expect AT&T to start selling it mid-September and Rogers in Canada to release it late-August. Some stores in Canada have already unveiled store models and fliers.

RIM had announced a summer release for the Bold, but issues with chips ...


The Blackberry Curve 8330 is not only capable of global roaming on the GSM/GPRS networks but includes WiFi, which is great news for Blackberry lovers. The Blackberry Curve 8330 is the official upgrade to the Curve 8310 and as such ...

Free BlackBerry Bold, literally

Aug 15, 2008 Filed under: BlackBerry

Yes, it's available for free, but only in Netherlands... Dutch cellular operator KPN offers the handset at no charge along with a two-year contract and a €36.25 (about $54) worth monthly plan. Nice! Even for €26.75 a month you'll still pay €99.95 ($148) for the phone, which is ju...

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Orange UK appears to be the first carrier in Europe to launch the BlackBerry Bold. The RIM BlackBerry Bold offers ultrafast data speeds with HSDPA and WiFi support, and also sports a built-in GPS receiver.
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Orange will be the first operator to offer the BlackBerry Bold in the UK. Subscribers will be able to get the handset starting August 16th for free with an 18-month contract with a £45 monthly plan.T-Mobile with its September release is crowling way behind...

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Orange will be the first mobile operator in the United Kingdom to offer the BlackBerry Bold.

Sleeker looks and a better web browser make the new BlackBerry a viable alternative to Apple's world-beating handset

HSBC could order 200,000 iPhones

Aug 14, 2008 Filed under: BlackBerry

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HSBC, which bills itself as "the world's local bank," is considering ditching its BlackBerry smartphones in favor of the Apple iPhone. Seen here is HSBC's U.K. trading floor.

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Global banking giant HSBC is considering ditching the BlackBerry and adopting Apple's iPhone as its standard staff mobile device, a move that could result in an order for some 200,000 iPhones.

"We are actually reviewing iPhones from a HSBC Group perspective...and when I say that, I mean globally," Brenton Hush, HSBC's Australia and New Zealand chief information officer, told ZDNet.com.au this week.

HSBC has some 300,000 staff internationally. A decision to standardize on the iPhone on its corporate networks would likely lead to one of the world's largest iPhone orders.

"A decision on a piece of hardware like that would potentially be deployed, conservatively, to 200,000 people," Hush said. "You know, it's a big decision, especially when you have an existing fleet out there."

"But it's definitely something we are considering from a HSBC Group perspective," he said. "We always explore the potential application of new technologies, and this is no different."

Should HSBC select the iPhone as its official corporate mobile device, the decision would be a major blow to ...


Blackberry Pearl 8130: I live by this phone. I love the functionality it packs in the size. Great feature: It pulls words from your address book into quicktype.

Blackberry Bold review

Aug 14, 2008 Filed under: BlackBerry

BlackBerry is in serious danger of being usurped, as the company Bods first choice mobile e-mailing. With the Nokia E71 scandalously thin and Apple iPhone.

Giant BlackBerry Bold at Rogers

Aug 13, 2008 Filed under: BlackBerry

Rogers is all set to release the BlackBerry Bold. Atleast this is the first idea that comes to my mind when I look at the picture above. While it may look like a huge Blackberry handset, but it's actually the Rogers Bold launch kit full of flyers, informational pamphlets and al...

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According to BGR, who have managed to get a hold of Sprint’s latest roadmap, in a couple of months the carrier will be offering the new BlackBerry 8350i. The handset should be released during Q4; it will lack the external antenna, unlike reported previously, and will feat...

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Talk your thoughts into e-mails.

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MyCaption, a member of the BlackBerry Alliance, introduced on Tuesday a new way BlackBerry users can work with e-mails on their smartphones: by speaking.

Actually, this is not exactly a breakthrough, as voice recognition technology has been out there for a long time ...


It has been 10 months already since RIM announced its BlackBerry Pearl 8130 for CDMA operators. And only now Virgin Mobile Canada decided to pick this one up. Better late than never? Well, think again: the phone is available for free on a 3-year contract, $299 on a 2-year plan,...

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About three months ago I upgraded my Blackberry 8703e and got this excellent Blackberry 8830 World...

In the latest chapter of “response to the onslaught of reader’s requests,” we’ve decided to put the Nokia E71 and the BlackBerry Bold head-to-head. While both are totally different breeds of devices, they do share a number of similarities and are targeted to the same demographic. You’ve got two enterprise handsets with QWERTY keyboards, cameras, Wi-Fi, 3G, corporate email, great battery life, etc. Click on through to see which device wins out in this epic showdown of QWERTY gone violent. We

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The rumored RIM BlackBerry Javelin

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When it comes to smartphones and cell phones, one size does not fit all. So while it might seem like everyone wants the BlackBerry Bold, Research in Motion knows better. Enter the RIM BlackBerry Javelin. This rumored smartphone is ...


With the launch of RIM's latest BlackBerry handset imminent in the UK, we got our hands on one weeks ahead of the launch later this month. Does it live up to the hype, will it challenge the iPhone, and more importantly for BlackBerry ...

A quick update: according to the recent announcement made by T-Mobile and RIM, the carrier will start offering the BlackBerry Bold this week in Germany and Austria. Well, the wait is almost over for you, guys. ;)

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T-Mobile and Research In Motion (RIM) has announced last week that it will start selling the BlackBerry Bold in Germany and Austria this week. The BlackBerry Bold smartphone comes with integrated GPS and Wi-Fi and is the first BlackBerry smartphone to support tri-band HSDPA high-speed networks around the world. Users can surf the Internet and download large e-mail attachments over the T-Mobile UMTS web’n'walk network.

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone has a rich set of multimedia capabilities and displays content beautifully on its half-VGA (480×320 resolution at 217 ppi) color LCD display. The BlackBerry Bold smartphone’s support for tri-band HSDPA and enterprise-grade Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g) networks and its next-generation 624 MHz mobile processor make short work of downloading email attachments, streaming video or rendering web pages over the T-Mobile network.

“The BlackBerry Bold is the most advanced and performance-driven BlackBerry smartphone in our portfolio. We are also delighted to say that because of the long time partnership with RIM, the handset is very well optimised for T-Mobile Germany’s network and services,” says Dr. Frank Wermeyer, Director Business Marketing, T-Mobile Germany. “With HSDPA and EDGE technology, users can experience a fast and comfortable way of accessing the Internet and intranets through our ...


Duracell introduced two portable power solutions to help people on-the-go stand up to their personal power needs. The Duracell My Pocket Charger and the Duracell PowerSource Mini are pocket-sized power sources for devices such as a cell phone, BlackBerry and MP3 player. Each My Pocket Charger comes with two AA batteries, and the Duracell PowerSource Mini’s lithium-ion battery can be recharged through a lightweight AC charger, through a vehicle’s DC socket, or through a computer’s USB port.

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The Duracell My Pocket Charger is available in two models. One model features a connector for MP3 players and will provide up to 24 hours of music on the latest iPod Nano; the other model features a connector for all BlackBerry models and the newest Motorola phones, and will provide up to one hour of talk time.

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The Duracell PowerSource Mini includes a mini USB pivot arm that allows users to connect directly to a device without needing to carry a charge cable. A second USB port allows users to power two devices at once. These new products are being introduced through Duracell’s business alliance with Xantrex Technology.

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If you are on Rogers network, crackberry has obtained a screenshot of the dealer’s phone portfolio guidelines. The screenshot contains upcoming phones info for Q3 this year. Expect to see some adjustment on the schedule, for example the BlackBerry Bold 9000 was planned for early August and it has been delayed till next week.

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This document is the same as the BlackBerry Pearl 8220, the KickStart clamshell phone leaked document.

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IntoMobile BlackBerry Bold mobile phone reviewPocket-lint.co.uk, UK -6 hours agoSwitching between Column view, Desktop view and Mobile view is all too confusing and compared to the iPhone the web browsing experience is poor at best. ...

From a Verizon Wireless inventory screenshot posted by BGR, the upcoming BlackBerry Thunder could be named as BlackBerry 9530 and will be released on October 13th this year. The BlackBerry Thunder is the first full touch screen BlackBerry smartphone from RIM. It is known to be available in CDMA version and might be made exclusively for Verizon Wireless and Vodafone only.

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