With all the hype surrounding the iPhone, almost every person I know is considering getting one. Hack, even AllAboutSymbian’s Steve Litchfield thinks iPhone is five years ahead of other smartphones in terms of concept and vision, though he adds that Apple is behind other handset makers in terms of technology and functionality. And that technology…
BlackBerry 8820 to cost $299 on AT&T and be available in August
The BlackBerry 8820 we wrote about earlier is actually coming out sooner than we expected. It might be on store shelves by the first week of August at only $299; contract of course. With UMA support, A2DP and microSDHC expansion up to 32GB it looks like RIM is starting to care about multimedia. Should the…
RIM launches GPS and WiFi equipped BlackBerry 8820
After years of customer demand, RIM finally decided to go the WiFi way with the new BlackBerry 8820. But the addition of WiFi is not the only new feature of the latest BlackBerry — there’s also the quad-band GSM/EDGE radio (no 3G?), built-in GPS for accessing the location based services, support for microSDHC memory cards…
Japan to get Japanese-language BlackBerry on July 23rd
With China getting their very own CrackBerry, it was just a matter of time before Research In Motion brought the finger-cramping BlackBerry line to China’s island neighbor, Japan. The Japanese-language version of the BlackBerry was announced yesterday – for a July 23 launch from Japan’s largest wireless carrier, NTT DoCoMo. An English-language BlackBerry has been…
BlackBerry with WiFi, model RBG41W, just got approved by the FCC
Downloading attachments, connecting to your companies PBX network at home, making cheap international calls, all this will be possible thanks to WiFi. BlackBerry users have a reason to be even more addicted now. The question on everyones mind is how much of an impact will WiFi have on battery life? RIM has always made products…
BlackBerrys finally ready for China
Maybe there were no Independence Day in Canada yesterday, but RIM had a good reason to celebrate. After eight years of trying, the maker of the popular BlackBerry devices finally got the green light for entering the red market. 🙂 To pursue its China dream, RIM has partnered with China Mobile to bring some push-email…
Get iPhone-like visual voicemail on your BlackBerry, Windows Mobile phone
Just in case you were salivating about that iPhone’s visual voicemail system, now you can get it on your phone. That’s actually in case you own one of the latest BlackBerrys (8800 series, Pearl of Curve) or a Windows Mobile based smartphone. SimulSays is a free program that adds that cool “visual voicemail twist” to…
T-Mobile 8320 to be the first BlackBerry with WiFi, launches in September
BlackBerry is not joking around when it comes to making their devices more appealing to a wider audience. The 8320 is expected to have a 3.2 megapixel or better camera, 3.5 mm heapdhone jack, microSD slot and compatibility with the latest Windows Media DRM files. I still refuse to touch a crackberry with a 10…
EQO Mobile now works on Pearl, Curve, other BlackBerry handsets
In addition to support for handsets from major manufacturers (Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Samsung), EQO Mobile now works on BlackBerry handsets! What this means is that the real push-email addicts are getting yet another tool at their disposal — the one that will allow them to make free/cheap phone calls, and to send and…
BlackBerry 8830 World Edition now available on Bell Canada
Ok, we’ve seen this coming. Is it me, or it’s particularly interesting for carriers to add some World Edition phones to their offerings. Not sure how many globetrotter subscribers each of them have, but one thing is certain – that kind of users certainly spend more. Now, we have Bell Mobile in Canada riding the…