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Wind has been pushing their BlackBerry Bold 9700 and Pearl 9100 in a BOGO deal the last couple of weeks, which now seems to have been mostly to make room for the upgraded Bold 9780. It’s currently listed in Wind Mobile’s inventory, though we haven’t heard a thing in terms of an announcement. The BlackBerry…
Sprint went live with their over-the-air update for OS 6 on the Blackberry Bold 9650 and Curve 9330 last night. If you’ve got either and haven’t received a notification yet, you can initiate it under Options, Advanced Options, Wireless Upgrade. Blackberry 6 offers quite a few new features, like universal search, a WebKit browser, and…
As a kid, I can remember watching episodes of ‘The Two Ronnies’ on the CBC. It was a British comedy, and I loved the darn thing (this perhaps explains my love of British humor to this day). The show featured ridiculous sketches by two very funny men, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. Ronnie Barker passed…
BlackBerry Curve 3G (9300) users, a quick OS update for you this evening… and best of all, this is an OFFICIAL release for you to load up on your device. OS 6.0.0.380 has dropped, and is available right now via StarHub Ltd. Hit up the download link below to get started: Download OS 6.0.0.380 for…
Rhapsody has wrapped up its BlackBerry beta and is now offering its streaming music service on App World. After signing up for a $10/month subscription, you can get access to 10 million tracks on demand over either Wi-Fi or 3G, tune in to tailor-made radio stations, listen to what’s popular, browse through categories of music,…
Shaw Wu, an analyst with Kaufman Brothers, says that Verizon sees iPhone as “essential to its future success,” even though AT&T isn’t all that bothered about losing exclusivity. Wu also says that BlackBerry 6-enabled devices will be landing between January and March, which he speculates could be a CDMA version of the BlackBerry Torch (though…
It has been a wild ride in the mobile world this year, as the pace of innovation has been going along at blistering speeds. Just think, at the beginning of the year, we were still drooling over the Motorola Droid, Microsoft was dead in the water with Windows Mobile, Palm was still puttering along as…
This past week has been quite a busy one on the BlackBerry OS front. We’ve seen more than a few official releases and links hit us. Funny how these OS updates always seem to hit us in bunches, isn’t it? Next week could be completely quiet, only to ramp up again with a batch of…
A quick OS update this morning for the BlackBerry Style 9670 users. Sprint has just made 6.0.0.407 available for the device. Hurrah! You can grab the update via the link below: Download OS 6.0.0.407 for the BlackBerry Style 9670 > Last I can recall there was a leak for the Style 9670… So, if you’ve…
The BlackBerry PlayBook is set to be released over the next few months but will this iPad competitor be a big hit with consumers and business users? Bloomberg spoke with multiple analysts and the sales estimates are varied. Some are bullish on the prospect of the BlackBerry Playbook by predicting more than 8 million units…