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As expected, the BlackBerry Curve 3G just went on sale at Wind Mobile today, alongside the LG dLite and the Huawei U3200. Although the BlackBerry 9300 will cost you $290 up front, it’s eligible for Wind Mobile’s new tab program, which can bring the price down to $140 if you’re willing to pay off the…
Rogers and Telus launched their refreshed BlackBerry Bolds this week, and Bell isn’t one to be left out of the party. Today the device hit shelves with a $124.95 pricetag on a three-year contract. That pricing puts it square in between Rogers’ $149.99 and Telus’ $99.99. Bell’s little minion, Virgin Mobile, will also be picking…
NFL fans, it’s time to grab your BlackBerry because there’s some new football goodness available right now for your device. NFL.com Game Center 2010 is ready and waiting for your purchase, right now in App World. NFL.com Game Center 2010 delivers pretty much what you’d expect. Live scoring, news, play-by-play, injury reports, rosters, game summaries…
It looks like that time of year is upon us. The time when big name retailers offer insane prices for products for early Christmas shoppers, although if you’re anything like me, you just end up buying these things for yourself. Regardless of who the product goes to, you have to admit this time of year…
Following up on the RIM’s first slider, the BlackBerry Torch 9800, rumour has it the next one will be smaller and cheaper. The reduced size suggests that such a device would have a condensed keyboard like the Pearl series, but that’s just fun with Photoshop at this point. Exactly how much cheaper we’re talking is…
Some quick BlackBerry 6 action here for the Curve 9330 users in the crowd. Earlier today, 6.0.0.357 leaked for the 9330, and you can grab it right now via the link below: Download OS 6.0.0.357 for the BlackBerry Curve 9330 > Keep in mind, this IS a leak, not an official release. Download and installation…
An anonymous tipster has suggested that the big 3.7″ BlackBerry Storm we saw with a trackpad will in fact be running the operating system made by QNX found in the PlayBook tablet. We were fairly certain this transition was going to happen eventually, and jives well with rumours we had heard back in July. The…
RIM’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie has confirmed that their upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will cost under $500. Whether or not that goes as low as the $300 – $350 we were hearing about at launch is anybody’s guess, but at least the PlayBook will be undercutting the iPad and the unsubsidized Galaxy Tab (though the latter…
Facebook fans must have been feeling pretty bummed when Facebook Places was announced, but was initially available only on the iPhone. While it’s taken a long while to hit other platforms, BlackBerry users can now look forward to the geo-location feature in Facebook. The news comes from an announcement from RIM that the Facebook application…
The rollout of the BlackBerry Bold 9780 keeps coming, and this morning I have a little more news to that effect. Word has it that Virgin Mobile Canada will launch the BlackBerry Bold 9780 in White. Nice! As per usual, the folks at Best Buy (yes, in Canada) have lifted the lid on any ‘surprise’…