On Friday, Verizon will offer the BlackBerry Storm — a touchscreen-based handset for $250 with a two-year contract. It’s Verizon’s answer to the iPhone, featuring a touchscreen, a 3.2-MP camera and UMTS/HSPA connectivity (but no Wi-Fi). A $50 mail-in rebate will bring the cost inline with Apple’s entry-level offering. The BlackBerry Storm is a lot of things — but it’s no iPhone says Wired. James Kendrick of JK Ontherun loves it. Apple Insider has a review roundup: Wall Street Journal’s Walt

On Friday the BlackBerry Storm, Verizon and RIM’s answer to the Apple iPhone stormed into the public arena, and as you would expect the blogsphere and newspapers were storming with BlackBerry Storm news. So let’s take a quick look at a few of the top ones… First up we have Walt Mossberg. The Wall Street Journal. BlackBerry’s Storm Presses Into the Touch-Phone Fray: Mossberg likes the high-resolution camera which does video, the replaceable battery, the ability to cut-and-paste, the push e-mail

This is one of the best BlackBerry Storm Unboxing and Hands-on video reviews to date, the reviewer at the beginning loves to pull your leg and here is why. The reviewer at the beginning keeps saying “Shall I really bother opening it, should I just send it back”, the also says; Does anyone really care about a Verizon BlackBerry Storm smartphone, are there actually many BlackBerry and Verizon users? Just open the blooming box will you already. The best part I like is the fact you can clearly h

It's bigger, badder, and bolder than any previous QWERTY keyboard equipped BlackBerry. The new Bold 9000 has the looks and the guts to take on the business world - and still be fun while doing so.
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Google has recently added some features to its Google Sync for BlackBerry product. One new feature is the ability for BlackBerry users to automatically sync their Google contacts over-the-air with their BlackBerry. It offers two-way synchronization between your BlackBerry's ...
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Google updated its Sync application for BlackBerry today, adding a new feature that adds 2-way contacts synchronization in addition to the already present calendar sync function.
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It's been a little over a month since the RIM BlackBerry Storm was officially announced for Verizon Wireless and ever since then, we've all waited with baited breath for the first touch-screen BlackBerry to arrive. Well, dear friends, the ...

Here's a sneak peak at the latest distraction to cross our desk - the new BlackBerry Storm 9530 for Verizon. Check out our first impressions and watch the video of the phone in action.
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RIM's first touch-screen BlackBerry finally hits the market. Find out if RIM's sexy Storm lives up to the hype.
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PC Mag reviews the BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Attel) and writes, "RIM's forthcoming BlackBerry OS 4.5 will include support for Microsoft Office document editing through DataViz's DocumentsToGo program, and Alltel will offer a free upgrade to Curve owners. That combined with the standard Curve features, such as the great camera, including video recording; the terrific BlackBerry messaging, including both SMS and MMS; and the new PC software, which helps transfer music and videos over from Windows X

var pubId=9720; var siteId=13297; var kadId=8656; var kadwidth=336; var kadheight=280; Review of the Blackberry Pearl for Verizon Cell Phones The New Blackberry Phones model Pearl is a new and very popular Blackberry cell phone that recently began flooding the marketplace. Smaller than the original Blackberry, the Blackberry Pearl is smaller and easy to carry around. Although it was originally released [...]

There is definitely something to look forward to this November. The BlackBerry Storm, RIM's first touchscreen device, is set to hit the market officially on the November 21 according to Verizon in the US. On the other hand, Bell and Telus of Canada are yet to announce an exact release date of [...]

The RIM BlackBerry Storm may blow in a frenzy for Verizon Wireless subscribers wanting a touch screen similar to the Apple iPhone. However, die-hard texters, e-mailers, and corporate users may be better served with the BlackBerry Bold or other QWERTY device.

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If your a BlackBerry Bold user, I’m sure you want to best protection for your baby. Our friends at OtterBox have released the OtterBox Defender case for the BlackBerry Bold. The case is made up of three layers of solid protection. The first layer is a thin thermal-formed plastic wrap which protects your screen and keyboard from dust, dirt and mist. The second layer is a Polycarbonate shell which gives the case its durable body to protect against drops and bumps. The last layer is a Silicone s

As the Nextel network is still going strong under the Sprint brand, more phones are coming out to take advantage of it, such as the RIM BlackBerry 8350i.
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Laurence Hartje just sent in a mini-review of the BlackBerry Storm on the Vodafone network, here it is in it’s entirety: I’ve been lusting after a Storm, and since it launched in England before the US (and I’m over here at the moment) I thought I’d swing by a Vodaphone store to play with one. Spent about 30 minutes with a production Blackberry Storm at a Vodaphone shop in Brighton today. The unit I played with had been sitting on a charger for a bit, but had been beat on all day. You had t

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It's another slow week at the FCC as we creep toward the holiday season. Aside from the new BlackBerry Curve 8900, nothing looks terribly exciting.

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If you love BlackBerry PDA Phone, you are going to love this BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry’s first touch screen phone. The Storm phone is a strong rival of Apple iPhone, which both phones have their own edges. BlackBerry Storm, like its predecessors, is going to have state-of-the-art email solutions, GPS navigation system, MP3 music player, and Video Player. The only thing that user should be concerned is the Storm PDA doesn’t have physical QWERTY keyboard. Instead, the Storm features a virtual touchscreen keyboard, just like what Apple iPhone has. No matter what, please make sure you put the BlackBerry Storm release date in your calendar!

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A day after the release of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 in Germany, RIM has announced the handset for the U.S. market. It will be available stateside in Q1 of 2009, hopefully at the same a price as in German...

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Research In Motion has unveiled a new version of its mega-popular Curve series in Germany. The new Curve 8900 features a large 480x360 pixel display and a Bold-like look.
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Verizon Wireless is displaying the BlackBerry Storm on its home page. Some of the information included reveals the availability date, which will be Friday, November 21. Verizon also mentions that the price after $50 rebate with new two-year agreement ...
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Today Verizon Wireless announced that the RIM BlackBerry Storm 9530 would be available to its customers starting on November 21st.
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Verizon Wireless will launch the BlackBerry Storm on Nov. 21 for $200 with a two-year contract.

The BlackBerry Storm is the first touch screen BlackBerry with the world's first "clickable" touch screen. It also supports multi-touches, taps, slides and other touch screen gestures to easily highlight, scroll, pan and zoom.

The BlackBerry Storm's integrated accelerometer automatically switch between landscape and portrait modes. Users can navigate websites with the touch screen interface, double tapping to zoom in and sliding a fingers to scroll and pan. The browser has built-in RSS support, so new content can be automatically pushed to users.

The BlackBerry Storm will be available beginning Nov. 21 in stores and online for $199.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.

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After much of rumors and leaked info, Verizon Wireless today said that it will start selling the BlackBerry Storm on November 21st to all consumers and corporate customers. The price of the touch screen phone will start from $199.99, which required a 2-year service contract and after a $50 MIR.

Would you need to queue up for the smartphone? Probably not. BGR was told that there will be enough stock in every stores for you.

About 2 weeks late from the initial planned released date, BlackBerry has put up the MySpace for BlackBerry as free download from its website. You can either download to your computer, or directly from your BlackBerry smartphone for installation.

The MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application is designed with features including:

• A full messaging interface, including comments, bulletins and messaging
• Real time status and mood updates.
• Find, add, and respond to friend requests
• Camera integration and optimized photo management allowing users to snap, sort and upload pictures anytime and anywhere.
• View and comment on friends’ albums and photos
• Notification of new MySpace events (message and friend requests.)

According to the faq, “If you currently log in to your MySpace account using an email address that is not associated with your BlackBerry smartphone, you will not have access to push-based MySpace Mail and friend requests. To enable push-based MySpace Mail and friend requests, add your MySpace login email address to your BlackBerry smartphone.”

BlackBerry Pearl 8220 is a great addition to BlackBerry’s arsenal of Smartphones. With the flip phones being in high demand from likes of Motorola Razr the BlackBerry Pearl 8220 is an impressive flip phone with all the corporate features you get in standard BlackBerry phones.

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In case you find the RIM BlackBerry Bold a little too expensive for your tastes or you don't need all that flash, perhaps we can interest you in the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900?

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In the coming Private Sale event by Verizon Wireless, one of the invited VIP has posted his invitation card to the Gizmodo, showing its VIP members to be able to purchase the BlackBerry Storm in the private sale event from November 17 to 21. It is not clear how to get invited but one of the Gizmodo reader reply, “In order to be a member you have to be on a calling plan of $79.99 or higher AND pay your bill on time for 3 months. The catch here is that for them to see you paying $79.99 or higher you must be on one of the bundle plans if your regular calling portion does not exceed $79.99. What I mean is if you have a $39.99 minute plan, and then the data add on for unlimited use at the price of $40+ dollars, they do not consider this a plan over $79.99.”

For the rest of the Verizon Wireless subscribers, the BlackBerry Storm will most likely to be available from November 24th or November 25th this month.

Today T-Mobile Germany has officially launched the BlackBerry Curve 8900, the successor to the 8300 series. It will be available in Germany in "mid-November" (in 2-3 days max) for €4.95 with a 2-year contract. The phone's features include:

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Today RIM and T-Mobile announced the BlackBerry 8900 in Germany. RIM also said that the 8900 will be launching in most other countries, including the U.S., in the first quarter of 2009. The 8900 has quad-band GSM/EDGE, Wi-Fi and ...
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Thanks to Boy Genius we now know the exact release date of the BlackBerry Storm. Apparently, the phone will be available starting November 24th, and there will also be a “pre-launch” event on November 20th for important customers, which means not for the likes of you and me ;)

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The BlackBerry Curve 8900 is currently exclusive to T-Mobile in Germany and features a high resolution screen, GPS and WiFi.. but no 3G.

When DavidB sent in this for review I thought he was kidding. Turns out I was wrong. The team behind SitOrSquat (www.sitorsquat.com) has created a application for BlackBerry that uses your GPS location to find the nearest bathroom. From the app you can: GPS Search for the closest toilets (if your phone has GPS) Add Toilets Post Comments Add Images Read reviews, look at photos Rate toilets Read comments The latest version is 1.3 and can be picked up at this link: blackberry.densebrain.com/

If you're not impresed with the BlackBerry Storm and you want soemthing a little more simple that will fit in your pocket, the Flip 8820 could be it

Said to be taken from a Verizon Wireless test site, the mystery BlackBerry 9530 Storm pricing is finally revealed. The BlackBerry Storm has been officially announced in early October, however, the company did not publish the selling price yet. According to the capture screenshot, the BlackBerry Storm for Verizon Wireless will priced from $219.99 with a new two-year contract.

With just on-year contract, you will have to pay $289.99 for the new BlackBerry. To get the smartphone without any contract, the pricing will then be increased to $519.99.

Verizon Wireless, Vodafone Group and Research In Motion (RIM) has announced in October that the BlackBerry Storm will be available exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers in the U.S. and Vodafone customers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand. Vodafone UK has also announced that it will start selling the full touch screen BlackBerry smartphone from November 14th this week.

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BlackBerry enthusiast site CrackBerry organized a contest titled "What would you do for a BlackBerry Storm?" urging readers to do something extreme to win one of the 10 touch-screen e-mail handsets it's giving out for free.

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Yesterday we saw the At&t Fuze in retail packaging thanks to a spy shot from an At&t retail store, but today the press release makes it official.  At&t is now selling their carrier branded HTC Touch Pro for $299.99 (With a two-year contract, mail-in rebate, and voice and data plans).  As you might have expected AT&T Mobile Music services, AT&T Navigator, Video Share, Push To Talk and MobiTV are all compatible so what are you waiting for, it’s time to get to your local At&amp

A study released several days ago by SquareTrade found that iPhones had a malfunction rate of 5.6 per cent, whereas BlackBerrys had a malfunction rate of 11.9 per cent

The Blackberry Storm is among the latest additions to the mobile phone family. The long awaited Storm is finally storming out bringing to light all the amazing features it has to offer. For all the mobile phone and Verizon Cell Phones ...

Here's another BlackBerry Storm advert for your enjoyment.If you think the phone's UI swiches too fast, we think so too. It must be a publicity move, so don't pay too much attention to it.

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Apple's iPhone has half the failure rate of RIM's BlackBerry in the first year of use, a study carried out by a mobile-phone warranty firm has found.

The SquareTrade study, released Saturday, looked at more than 15,000 handsets that were covered by the company's policies. It found iPhones had a malfunction rate of 5.6 percent in the first year, compared to 11.9 percent for Research In Motion's BlackBerry smartphones. Palm's Treos fared even worse, with 16.2 percent having some sort of malfunction in the first 12 months of use.

Figures from the analyst firm Canalys, released last week, showed Apple has now overtaken RIM in the global smartphone sales stakes.

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Was it brilliance or blunder to launch the much-anticipated BlackBerry Bold on Election Day? AT&T rolled the dice when it decided to launch its exclusive, much-hyped BlackBerry Bold mobile handset on Nov. 4, a day when much of the country was gripped by a historic presidential election — to the On this day, events that would normally draw critical mass saw only light to moderate coverage. A quick search on news portals yielded a sizable pile of Bold-related content that didn’t hit until a

The Blackberry Storm is among the latest additions to the mobile phone family. The long awaited Storm is finally storming out bringing to light all the amazing features it has to offer. For all the mobile phone and Verizon Cell Phones ...

Here’s a brief rundown of the week that was from your friendly family of bloggers in Ottawa, Canada. Below you’ll find news from our WinMo and mobile entertainment blogs, with a bunch of great BlackBerry Cool content after the jump. WindowsMobile Cool Review: Ringo Mobile by Electric Pocket HTC Touch HD video review and unboxing Celebrity Samsung BlackJack II users QuicklyBored New York Times Crosswords for BlackBerry by Magmic reviewed Free iPhone porn site creators - iPhone-Porn.us - i

Blackberries were originally designed for the business user.  Their primary focus was e-mail, schedules, and making calls.  If you know anyone that has a Blackberry, then you realize that they are never without it.  My other half would go crazy if hers disappeared, which is why I haven’t hidden it, yet.  Their highly addictive nature is what has earned them their nickname, ‘crackberry’.  If they made a modern animated version of Inspector Gadget, even he would have a ‘Go, Go Gadget Blackberry

The highly anticipated Blackberry Storm 9500, the first ever touch-screen BlackBerry smartphone, will be available to buy from 14th November. Verizon Wireless, Vodafone Group and Research In Motion (RIM) has announced in October that the BlackBerry Storm will be available exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers in the U.S. and Vodafone customers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand.

Customers who want to be the first in the UK to have a BlackBerry Storm can pre-order in Vodafone stores, online at www.vodafone.co.uk/storm and telesales, and account managers for our business customers from November 14. It will also be available for sale through Vodafone’s retail partner Phones 4U in store and online.

The BlackBerry Storm pricing starts from free on a two year contract at £35 per month on a Best for Text plan that will include 600 minutes and unlimited texts.

The BlackBerry Storm smartphone includes the following features and functions:

• BlackBerry Internet Service, BlackBerry Unite!, BlackBerry Professional Software and BlackBerry Enterprise Server support
• Preloaded DataViz Documents to Go allows users to edit Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly on the handset
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There is some information about the possible release delay of the upcoming BlackBerry Storm on Vodafone. But don't worry, according to Vodafone’s own Storm pre-order page, the device will be available starting November 18th, and that's just 4 days later then originally pl...

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Review: BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 BlackBerry, the most sophisticated PDA in the market and having the maximum market share has its latest version in the market, BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220. RIM with T-Mobile has officially announced its availability. With BlackBerry Pearl Flip, RIM has launched its first flip form phone in the market. The article will detail all the technical specifications [...] Kategorie: Telekom & Elektronik |

Today the BlackBerry Vodafone press minibus turned up at Crave Towers to give us a sneak peek at the new BlackBerry Storm. Before we could say, "We won't all fit in there," three of us were crammed into the dark, leather-upholstered van, with BlackBerry and RIM representatives holding Storms.