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To help us officially celebrate the start of the holiday shopping season, Sprint is literally giving away a BlackBerry Style flip-phone for free. When you buy one of the new BlackBerry flip-phones for $99.99 (with new 2-year contract), Sprint will hook you up with another BlackBerry Style for no additional charge. Two-for-one, buy-one-get-one, BOGO, “twofer,”…
A neat concept for a BlackBerry phone called Empathy has been cooked up by designer Daniel Yoon, focusing on sharing our mood with friends. It’s a bit of a throwback to the early LiveJournal and MySpace days, which were all about updating mood statuses, but there are some interesting twists on old ideas here. The…
A quick BlackBerry OS update here for the Storm2 users out there. Coming to us directly from Verizon, it looks like Storm2 users can now download and install an OFFICIAL update on their devices. OS 5.0.0.1015 is now available from ‘big red’, just in time for the Thanksgiving weekend. Good timing! Below are the key…
The source of a video showing a BlackBerry PlayBook outside the vigilant auspices of RIM PR and marketing has suggested the three price points of the upcoming tablet. Apparently the version with 8 gigabytes of storage is going for $399, the 16 gigabyte one for $499 (both under $500 as promised) and the 32 gigabyte…
If you’ve been looking for a BlackBerry Torch, but the regular ol’ black and white options just aren’t cutting it for you… looks like another option is in the mix. That is, if you happen to live in Canada. Bell and Virgin Mobile have both made a red BlackBerry Torch 9800 available for purchase. Actually,…
Last year, RIM gave the BlackBerry Bold a much-needed update by slimming its profile, upgrading its camera, and replacing the trackball with a slick optical trackpad. Since then, a bunch of new BlackBerrys have come out with the brand new OS 6, most notably the BlackBerry Style 9670 and the BlackBerry Torch 9800. It’s been…
The Black Eyed Peas are playing around with the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in their music video for “The Time (Dirty Bit)”. It’s a perfect song for those times you wish you were listening to bastardized oldies in a club full of Lego-people. Although the PlayBook is likely to be a dummy unit with the…
For those always on the lookout for the latest version of BlackBerry Desktop Manager, I’ve got a quick update for you this morning. It looks like version 6.0.1.13 has been leaked, and you can nab it right here. Keep in mind, this is not an official release, so download and use of this one is…
The BlackBerry Bold 9780 is available across Canada, and T-Mobile launched their version just last week. AT&T should be following suit soon, as some video of a branded version of the refreshed Bold has popped up. This isn’t the first we’ve seen of such a device with AT&T branding, but it sure has been awhile.…
OtterBox has released yet another ‘special edition’ type case, this time in support of the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade (10% of every purchase is donated toward the charity). As you can see in the image above, the new accessory for the BlackBerry Torch 9800 is pink from head to toe, and offers much the same…