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Blackberry 8220 Pearl is not yet official, but already “available” in the games section of the site operator Rogers. As a reminder, the Blackberry 8220 Pearl is the first clamshell Blackberry’s history. So, its almost there for our Canadian friends.

From this week’s latest phone from the portfolio of RIM - BlackBerry Bold will be sold in Austria and Germany in Tmobile network of T-Mobile. The operator says that this will the best smartphone in their product range at the moment, which, thanks to the long partnership between the two companies is very well optimized [...]

The launch date for the Rogers BlackBerry Bold is still rumoured to be Tuesday, August 19th. There are new pics from an upcoming flyer that show its pricing: $399.99 (3-year contract with $45 a month voice and data plan)
 
 

Synergy Research Group’s Q2 2008 Mobile Handset Market Share report has reported that even in the face of a challenging economic environment, the US Smartphone market posted strong double-digit growth. The Apple iPhone continues to break records, shipping over a million units in 3 consecutive quarters. Even with Q2 shipments dropping in anticipation of the [...]

Yup you are right, according the the spreadsheet above, verizon wireless is getting ready to ‘take the world by storm’ on October 13th, with the release of BlackBerry 9530 aka Blackbery thunder. It is stil being speculated that whether or not the BlackBerry 9530 will actually be named the Thunder or the Storm. After all, [...]

A patent holding firm, WiAV Solutions has launched a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Virginia against Apple, Research in Motion and Palm alleging the companies are infringing on several of its GSM patents. The patents - two held by WiAV Solutions and eight exclusively licensed from another company, Mindspeed - all appear to relate [...]

Virgin Mobile Canada has just released its first-ever BlackBerry smartphone, the Pearl 8130. BlackBerry Pearl is a quite popular device itself, and it’s presented by Virgin as being “jam-packed with everything you want”. Of course, the smartphone might not actually satisfy all of your mobile needs, but it’s still a pretty good handset. Customers can [...]

According with internal documentation from Blackberry , the new Blackberry Kickstart will be called Blackberry Pearl 8220. However the great picture from BlackberryCool assures all of us that the real name will be Pearl 8220. Well, seems that the Kickstart is not longer the name. Also keep in mind that there will be 2 versions [...]

RIM commissioned Copeland to come up with a unique ‘theme’ for its just-launched smartphone. The result was a signature five-note melody which Copeland expanded into a percussive minute-long track simply named ‘Bold’ that’s preloaded (along with mock-up album art!) into the Bold’s ‘Sample Songs’ folder. A softer version with an fade-in is used as an [...]

Although everyone was expecting RIM’s latest high-end smartphone, the BlackBerry Bold 9000, to be first released in Canada (via Rogers), the handset made its debut “a bit” more to the South, in Chile, via Movistar. Thus, Chilean mobile users are the first people in the world to buy the new BlackBerry (only with a contract [...]

Verizon Wireless has aggressively cut retail prices on several models of the Research In Motion (RIMM) Blackberry as well as smartphones from LG and Samsung, according to research by Barrons.

Pearl 8130: Now $79, down 20.2% from $99.
Curve 8330: Now $99, down 33.6%, from $149.
Blackberry 8830: Now $149, down 25.1%, from $199.
LG enV: Now $79, down [...]

As far as I know, there are plenty of people who prefer to use a Nokia smartphone rather than the traditional BlackBerry. However, it appears they will soon have a choice. Nokia has decided to immediately stop its support Blackberry Connect for the S60 platform, the professional range E-Series. Seems like Nokia wants to offer [...]

Check out this video review by Kevin over at CrackBerry.com of the highly leaked and not yet released BlackBerry 8220 flip phone called “Kickstart”

Canada’s Research in Motion is considering opening a factory in China as the company expands its sales in the country. Speaking at a press conference in Hong Kong last Friday when it launched the BlackBerry Bold, Norm Lo, a vice-president of RIM Asia-Pacific said that the mainland market is “strategic” for the company. RIM VP [...]

Starting next Wednesday, August 6th, T-mobile will offering a free 30 day trial of the $19.99/month unlimited E-mail and Internet service for new users of the T-mobile Shadow or T-mobile Pearl. Yup, you are right, if you are planning on getting a Shadow or Pearl then you should hold off till August 6th. And all [...]

Australia’s largest mobile carrier,Telstra has issued today a press-release that contains both good and bad news for the mobile carriers in the country (or at least for those users who like BlackBerry handsets). The good news is that the much-talked-about BlackBerry Bold 9000 has reached Australia and is already in the hands of its first [...]

For the second time Tmobile has pushed back the Blackbery Curve Sunset release date. Initially it was set for July 28th but seems like it will be released on August 4th. Just incase you did not know, the only diference between the Blackberry Curve and Curve Sunset is the color, no other features. RIM is [...]

With the ongoing news of when the new RIM BlackBerry Bold will actually launch, this one comes out really strong and also seems a little more reliable. Well, it seems that TigerDirect has this available on pre-order an unlocked version for a hurting $649.99 with and estimated time of arrival for September. Now you can [...]

Finally RIM has fixed the PDF distiller vulnerability in the BlackBerry Attachment Service, which runs on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. ackers could exploit the flaw if they are able to trick a user into opening a malicious PDF file attachment as part of an email, BlackBerry has said in an advisory. That could result in [...]

Verizon Wireless customers with the BlackBerry Curve 8330, BlackBerry Pearl 8130 and BlackBerry 8830 World Edition smartphones can now stay connected to their financial information while away from home with Verizon Wireless’ Mobile Banking application. Also available on a number of popular Get It Now-capable phones, Mobile Banking offers customers the following capabilities and features [...]