It’s time to sum up all the Research In Motion’s (RIM) activities around the world from the beginning of the year. Between January 1st and today, the BlackBerry maker has announced the launch of its devices and solutions in Bangladesh, Ghana, Madagascar, Qatar, Spain, Romania and Sweden. First, along with MTN, they’ve launched BlackBerry Solution…
Blackberry and Facebook connect…
Apologies if you have already seen this elsewhere, but I thought it worth listing (especially because I just installed the app on my BBerry!). There are a bunch of features available, as Facebook states on their site: Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones gives you wireless access to: Home screen notifications so you know when you have…
Bell Canada: Buy BlackBerry 8800 or BlackBerry Pearl and get 4 BlackBerry 8703e devices (almost) free
In a move designed to attract small business clients — and to replicate earlier Rogers’ offering, we might add — Bell has unveiled a new special offer, allowing users to buy five BlackBerry devices for the price of one. With a purchase of a BlackBerry 8800 or a BlackBerry Pearl, businesses get 4 other BlackBerry…
Trimble goes BlackBerry
During the CES, Trimble has announced that three of their GPS apps — AllSport GPS, Geocache Navigator and Trimble Outdoors — are now available for CDMA-based GPS-equipped BlackBerry smartphones. The three applications allow select BlackBerry device owners to use their smartphones as they participate in outdoor activities such as hiking, backpacking, fishing, biking, running, walking,…
New BlackBerry platform update includes HTML email support, remote search
RIM is attending Lotusphere 2008 and took the oppertunity to announce a new update the BlackBerry platform. Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Excel documents will now be editable on a BlackBerry and you will also have the ability to preform an email search that spans both your device and the server in your office. Windows Mobile…
BlackBerry arrives to Bangladesh
Grameenphone is the company that is bringing BlackBerry smartphone to Bangladesh, and which is to blame for all the country’s push-email addicts they’ll be “producing” in the coming months and years. And while we think a number of Windows Mobile and Symbian based smartphones can also do the job, Grameenphone’s CEO Anders Jensen thinks it’s…
Sprint gets the red BlackBerry 8130 while Verizon gets the pink version
I rarely, if ever, write about news concerning operators because frankly they don’t matter anymore. Like you could care less which company maintains your electricity or which company is responsible for your water, I could care less who is giving me service. I choose the cheapest with the best coverage and let that be that.…
Props to Boy Genius, he scored Vodafone’s 2008 roadmap! BlackBerry, Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile inside
Boy Genius has the scoop of the century, a peak at Vodafone’s 2008 lineup! Now he is going to break it up into several posts, but I’ll condense his writing into this one mega article. Stay tuned as I update this through out the day! Devices in this post so far: BlackBerry 8XXX Nokia E71…
SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry announced
Not that we haven’t heard it’s coming, it’s just it was three months ago and we’ve almost lost almost all hopes Sling will actually release the BlackBerry version of its client… Following Symbian S60, Windows Mobile and Palm OS client, SlingMedia finally announced its application for RIM’s platform. Yap, the BlackBerry owners — especially ones…
Is this the BlackBerry 9000?
Is this the BlackBerry 9000? No one knows and this is all the information we really have. Notice the standard microUSB port and 3.5 mm headphone jack on the side. [Via: Boy Genius Report]