Sure, AmazonWireless maybe selling the BlackBerry Storm at a ridiculous price of just $49.99, but it appears that it’s not that costly anymore to get it from Verizon nowadays.
Online, Verizon now has the BlackBerry Storm priced at just $99.99 on a 2-yr contract as it slowly approaches its first year in the market. Yeah, we [...]

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Verizon has disclosed a number of details regarding its upcoming app store, including plans to prohibit handset makers from shipping devices with their own app portals, according to GigaOM. The restrictions will prevent immediate access to the BlackBerry App World or Windows Mobile Marketplace, although users will be permitted to add the stores manually.

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Sprint Nextel recently revealed that it plans to add Wi-Fi to the BlackBerry Tour starting in 2010, and will begin to require that all its future smartphones come with Wi-Fi. Sprint didn’t say exactly when this requirement will be reflected across its entire line-up of devices, but Wi-Fi is definitely on the way. Verizon Wireless [...]

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Today Sprint announced that it will begin selling the BlackBerry 9630 Tour via telesales, online and its business channels on July 12 for $200. That’s the same date the phone goes on sale at Verizon Wireless and at the same price point.

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The iPhone once again leads Consumer Reports’ smartphone ratings, beating competing products such as the Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm. The organization considered Apple’s new 3GS handset to lead in categories such as battery life, multimedia, navigation and Internet browsing, while integrating a superior display.
Although the iPhone took the top rank and showed strengths in [...]

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T-Mobile this evening officially launched the Dash 3G. The new interpretation of the HTC Snap has native support for its carrier’s 1,700MHz 3G network but replaces the stock Windows Mobile 6.1 phone’s Inner Circle feature with MyFaves for free calling to five US contacts. It otherwise has the full feature set, however, including the 2-megapixel [...]

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Today Research In Motion announced the BlackBerry 9630 Tour, a new QWERTY-equipped device that supports both CDMA EVDO Rev. A and quad-band GSM/EDGE plus 2100MHz HSDPA networks. The Tour also comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, autofocus and video capture. The Tour has a full HTML web browser, 3.5mm headset jack, Bluetooth 2.0 [...]

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“The WiFi + TV phone is the best HiPhone yet. Fortunately, it also clones one of the best looking phones around, and I don’t mean it’s an iPhone clone. The BlackBerry Storm form factor is a breath of fresh air on the HiPhone F06-Slim WiFi TV phone. You heard right, TV and WiFi (we rechecked [...]

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“Microsoft’s cost-cutting measures drove it to lay off thousands of employees and led to some perks being discontinued for its remaining employees - including no longer paying for their Apple Phone data service plans anymore, even if they’re used significantly for work purposes.
Nor will it pay for Research In Motio BlackBerry service, or a new [...]

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The Blackberry Storm has proven to be a big hit for RIM, Verizon, Vodafone and anyone else involved in selling it, but despite its success there was always one glaring flaw … no WiFi. Well it looks like the Storm 2 will rectify that error. These spyshots that have leaked out show a handset that [...]

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AT&T subscribers that have been waiting for the Curve 8900 to hit the network don’t have to wait anymore, for the announcement anyway. The Curve 8900 will hit the AT&T network early this summer according to the wireless provider with new features and better performance.
The handset will include GPS and Wi-Fi along with a next [...]

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For a majority of the corporate world, BlackBerries are used as your lifeline for everything. But after reading about Executrac, you may think twice about accepting one from your company the next time they offer you one. The Exectrac GPS Tracking software is a super sleuth type of program that can be installed on [...]

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Today Alltel announced that it will soon sell the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230. This is a CDMA variant of the Flip, which was first introduced as a GSM phone in 2008. Basic features include a 2 megapixel camera, trackball with SureType keypad, 16GB microSD support, Wi-Fi and stereo Bluetooth. It will cost $80 after rebate [...]

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Kotaku’s right. This skin, made by an enterprising Crackberry forum member, does what the mighty iPhone cannot do out of the box: Implement interactive user-defined home screens. The screen is available now, and comes in blue and green versions. Creator “sadosdemetrios” is asking for donations if you do decide download. May we suggest a [...]

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Basic specs of three upcoming BlackBerry handsets only known by their codenames have been leaked out by an unnamed source. A weekend BGR report reveals the BlackBerry Onyx will be a GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS device featuring a GPS sensor, camera, Wi-Fi without UMA support, a large screen with 480×360 resolution and a QWERTY keyboard. AT&T will be [...]

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