“Rumors, whispers, secrets; bloggers love to speculate and we’ve got them all buzzing about us. There’s a big reason for the buzz: we’re launching a groundbreaking device that’s unlike anything seen in the market today and it’s exclusive in the U.S. to Verizon Wireless.” Aw, shucks Verizon, thanks for the shoutout. Not much new in…
BlackBerry Flip Pearl OS spotted online
Any developers out there looking to snoop around the upcoming BlackBerry 8220’s operating system can check out OS 4.6.0.141. It’s not that useful to the vast majority of us without Flip Pearls Kickstarts, but it does go to show that save a few potential software tweaks, the device is just about ready to roll. All…
BlackBerry Bold Coming to AT&T Last Week of September
More BlackBerry Bold Rumors anyone? The latest has the Bold Launching by the last week of September. This comes from internal AT&T information gathered by the folks at BlackBerry News. They also managed to find out that the Bold will go for $299.00 with a contract (no term details). This includes a $100 mail-in rebate.…
BlackBerry Storm Announcement Today?
You may remember the post I made on Saturday that noted the BlackBerry Storm might very well be announced by Verizon today. You think it will happen? Being the very first touchscreen device from RIM, I can’t wait to check out the device for myself to see if I like it. There has actually already…
BlackBerry ‘Storm’ Coming September 15th?
Lots of buzz today on some exciting news in the BlackBerry world. Could it be that a new touchscreen Berry, the BlackBerry Storm will be released? It appears that way. Rumors have it that the Storm will be announced this Monday, September the 15th… and sales of the new device are currently scheduled to go…
BlackBerry Booth Tour – CTIA San Francisco 2008
BlackBerry banner at CTIA San Francisco 2008 One of CTIA San Francisco 2008’s redeeming booths was most definitely RIM’s BlackBerry booth. The push email handset manufacturer from Waterloo currently commands a significant portion of the smartphone market and the RIM is looking to heat things up with their first 3G-capable BlackBerry handset – the BlackBerry…
BlackBerry Flip Pearl gets FCC’ed
In a bout of good timing, the FCC filings for the recently-announced flip BlackBerry have been made available. Not much to be said, unless you’re a hardcore tech-head, but the testing did include the BlackBerry 8210, which will have the same kind of assisted GPS technology as in the BlackBerry Bold. Hopefully it won’t take…
Q2 sales report puts BlackBerry ahead of WinMo, iPhone passing Palm
Gartner’s pitching their ballpark numbers for the second quarter of 2008, and RIM is coming up roses. BlackBerry constituted 17.4% of the global smartphone market last quarter, up nearly double from last year’s 8.9%, while Symbian continues to dominate 57.7% worldwide. RIM’s spurt outpaced Windows Mobile sales, which sat at 3,873,622, up 20% from last…
Viigo beta 3 launches with a few new tweaks
Viigo’s continuing their long haul to bringing wireless podcasts to BlackBerry, now with their third beta client. Viigo’s a great mobile app for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile which started out as an RSS reader and has since expanded to cover travel, weather, local interest, and travel info. This build offers a few small changes, like…
Windows Live Search integrating with BlackBerry Maps and Browser
Windows Live Search has been running their standalone voice-activated search and location app on BlackBerry since mid-July, but it looks like that partnership is going to deepen further, as RIM has announced that Windows Live Search will be powering local search within the BlackBerry Maps application, as well as being built into the Browser (presumably…