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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…
In the mobile world, it’s not uncommon to see specialists move from one manufacturer or carrier to another, but it seems like Apple is making a concerted effort to nab enterprise sales staff from BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion. Digging around on LinkedIn has revealed that at least five employees in corporate sales have left RIM…
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…
After being yoinked from the BlackBerry App World, Kik Messenger now has their development effectively frozen, as Research In Motion has revoked their access to the software development kit, and stopped push services for the app, effectively killing its usefulness for existing users. The developer doesn’t mention any reasons, and RIM’s statement on the issue…
RIM has just updated their bundled mapping app, BlackBerry Maps, to include data for Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, New Zealand, the Philippines and Taiwan. Additionally, map data now includes a smattering of points of interest on the map, so you can see handy little icons where hospitals, universities, police stations, subway stations, shopping centres, parking,…
RIM and CollegeHumour teamed up for a funny little game show where they offered a hundred bucks cash to folks who would spin this wheel and send whatever message it landed on to a BlackBerry contact of the hosts’ chosing. Flipping a coin determined whether it would be a BlackBerry Messenger or text message, and…