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The AT&T version of the BlackBerry Torch 9810 now has a solid launch date and price point. It’ll be going for a scant $49.99 on a two-year contract starting August 21. We’re expecting AT&T to launch the 9900 a little bit later, but at least this will give them something to hold up against Verizon…
Alongside Sprint, Verizon has announced that they’ll be launching the BlackBerry Bold 9930 at the same $249.99 on contract price point, only on August 25 rather than the 21st. This lines up with the rumours we had heard earlier, which means the dates for other Verizon handsets, like the Torch 9850 on September 1 and…
Sprint announced today the new BlackBerry Bold 9930, and BlackBerry Torch 9850, its first BlackBerry 7 devices. The two smartphones will be using RIM’s newest version of its smartphone software, which should be exciting for long-time and dedicated BlackBerry users. The Bold 9930 and Torch 9850 will also be the most powerful BlackBerry smartphones out…
Small business owners now have a means of managing their cadre of BlackBerry smartphones that’s free and doesn’t involve setting up BES Express. A new free service from RIM called the BlackBerry Management Center lets administrators plug in to BlackBerry Protect from a web-based console, enabling them to remotely back up, restore, find, lock, wipe,…
We caught a glimpse of RIM’s next OS 7 smartphone last week, the BlackBerry Curve 9380, and to add to the pre-release goodness is a fresh video of the live device. OS 7 is running as smooth as ever, and NFC is definitely in there, as seen on the wireless management screen. The BlackBerry 9380…
An undocumented rumour is suggesting that AT&T will be blocking near-field communications in their upcoming BlackBerry Bold 9900 at the software level. That said, there might be couple of workarounds found by the BlackBerry community at large post-launch. It’s not a huge loss, since NFC usage isn’t particularly widespread, but it does seem like a…
Sprint has apparently canceled their earlier plans to launch a WiMAX-enabled “4G” BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. While that might have a little something to do with their choice to support LTE, Sprint’s president of business markets said that they held back on launching the device because the tablet market was getting crowded, and the case for…
Following up on Rogers and Bell releases, Telus has released two new BlackBerry smartphones today. The Bold 9900 we’re pretty familiar with at this point, and is now on sale for $149.99 on a three-year contract, or $649.99 with no strings attached. The Torch 9810 is a bit cheaper, going for $599.99 off-contract, or $129.99…
Now that the BlackBerry 9900 and 9810 have been out in Canada for a few days, there has been some confusion about app memory on the device. It’s advertised to have 768 MB of RAM, but there’s only 189 MB of memory available for applications, which is entirely separate from the on-board storage (which varies…
We’ve got a lot of new BlackBerry devices launching imminently, but there are still a few more coming down the pipe. There’s the Curve code-named Apollo, of course, but there’s also one that we only caught a glimpse of in January’s CDMA roadmap leak called the Curve Touch. A few fresh pictures of a live…