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Future Shop inventory has revealed that the BlackBerry Torch 9800 will begin its presale on Rogers on September 15th., relatively close to the rumoured September 16 launch on Telus.We haven’t heard much from Bell other than a landing page, but it’s probably a safe bet that they’ll be launching the BlackBerry Torch at around the…
The elusive BlackBerry 9780 has shown up in white, happily running OS 6. From what we’ve seen, the Bold 9780 will be a refreshed version of the 9700 with a 5 megapixel camera, and 512 MB of application memory. The 624 Mhz processor, Wi-Fi, GPS, and 3G are all the same as the original. Odds…
Research In Motion has filed for a relatively odd patent and it could lead to your next BlackBerry featuring a rotating keyboard. With the BlackBerry Torch and the upcoming clamshell BlackBerry, we know that RIM is okay with experimenting from its standard form factor but this patent, which was filed for earlier in the year…
HootSuite has been running a private beta of its BlackBerry Twitter client for a little over a month, and they’re now willing to give us a quick glimpse at what they’re working on. It’s pretty simple and bare bones as you can see, especially compared to their Android and iPhone apps, but enterprise-grade functions, like…
RIM has been forthcoming about backwards compatibility for their new operating system, claiming the BlackBerry Pearl 9100, Bold 9700, Bold 9650, and Curve 9300 would be compatible. What RIM hasn’t said is what kind of timeline we can expect for such updates as it’s generally up to the carriers to approve the builds, but an…
Following up on the announcement of RIM’s latest entry-level smartphone, the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300, rumours say it could be coming to T-Mobile on September 8th. We just got our hands on the Telus version of the 9300 this week, and it’s more or less what you’d expect – a cheap BlackBerry with a decent…
Update: Just received note that version 2.01.01 of this theme has been released. Some cool new features have been added… and in addition there’s more device support. The 8530, 8500, 8900, 9000, 9300, 9600 and 9700 are now compatible with this theme. If you haven’t checked this one out yet, keep reading! My bud Hedone…
It’s been awhile since I noticed any new BlackBerry Games via Bplay. Not sure why, maybe I haven’t been paying attention. Whatever the case, I happened to notice one new BlackBerry Game that just hit their store, and I figure with the weekend coming up… some of you fantastic BlackBerry users may want to play…
Rogers’ account management application for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android has added a few more features. You can now manage which numbers are on your My5 list (particularly handy for when you suddenly remember how many minutes you burn through with someone in particular), ringbacks for custom songs playing in place of standard ringtones, and advanced…
An internal list of devices Verizon intends to axe has snuck out, giving us the dates when certain phones are reaching end of life. The BlackBerry Curve 8530 is being taken off the shelves September 16, the BlackBerry Storm2 9550 exits stage left on October 10, and the Palm Pre Plus hits the dusty trail…