What, you’re using 3G? That was, like, soo last year (at least for Americans). The truly hip folks at RIM have decided to get with the times and have announced that they are testing a new BlackBerry with 3.5G data capabilities. The Financial Times is reporting that Research In Motion President Mike Lazaridis has confirmed…
Sprint BlackBerry Curve 8330 due out on April 16 – Telus too
Update: Sprint’s version of the BlackBerry Curve 8330 will reportedly rock a full 80MB of onboard storage, lightening the load on the microSD card slightly. The BlackBerry Curve 8330 on Sprint should also change things up a bit with the introduction of black keys. And, it looks like Telus is set to get the BlackBerry…
BlackBerry users get 1GB free online storage with Cortado and Box.net
As RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones keep overtaking Palm Treos in the enterprise world and finding traction outside of the corporate environment, BlackBerry users will be facing an ever-increasing need to store and access secure data. To that end, Cortado has announced that they are giving BlackBerry users 1GB of free online storage. In partnership with Box.net,…
T-Mobile set to launch BlackBerry 8120 Pearl on April 14
We’ve got another expected launch date for the T-Mobile BlackBerry 8120 Pearl. This time around, the T-Mobile HotSpot @Home-compatible Pearl is lined up for an April 14 launch. The previous launch window has come and gone, so Pearl fans that can’t wait to get their hands on the integrated WiFi radio that we saw all…
India and RIM come to terms on BlackBerry encryption
So it looks like RIM’s encrypted BlackBerry network will keep on keeping on in India. Following a meeting between Indian government officials and representatives from the wireless industry, India has decided to let the encrypted BlackBerry system continue operating. “We will discuss the issue with the Telecom Commission… the country’s security is of paramount importance,”…
India threatening to shutdown RIM’s BlackBerry service
Research In Motion’s popular BlackBerry handsets and push email service is now a worldwide phenomenon. China just recently allowed the BlackBerry through its borders, and even India has some 400,000 active BlackBerry users. But, there’s a problem with the push email system used by BlackBerry handsets. They encrypt the email data. It might seem like…
RIM wants to secure BlackBerry camera with a lock and key
Research In Motion is all about getting its BlackBerry smartphones distributed for fleet-use in enterprise environments. Unfortunately, that means that corporate users will have to opt for the camera-less BlackBerry 8800 series. It would be a bad day to have corporate secrets walk out the door inside some cameraphone’s flash memory. On the one hand,…
New SpinVox plug-in links voicemails with contacts
The nice thing about the iPhone’s Visual Voicemail system is that you can not only choose which voicemail you want to listen to (playing them back and repeating selected portions at will), but you can also choose to reply to the sender if they’re in your “Contacts” list. It’s pretty handy – iPhone users don’t…
UK: Vodafone chooses Neverfail to deliver uninterrupted service for BlackBerries!
Vodafone UK has announced a deal with Neverfail, to deliver HA (high availability) and DR (disaster receovery) service for people using BlackBerry. HA/DR solutions are extremely common with the telecoms industry, to the point where if you are selling in to an MNO (as I’ve done lots of times previously), then these requirements are standard.…
T-Mobile BlackBerry 8820 possibly delayed
And here we were getting all set and ready for T-Mobile to drop the BlackBerry 8820 on us Yanks in less than two weeks. We should have known better than to expect the T-Mobile HotSpot @Home-compatible handset to launch without any possible delays. Boy Genius just recently led us to believe that the T-Mobile BlackBerry…