Dubbed as yet another “iPhone killer,” the BlackBerry Storm has been raking up quite a erm…storm these past weeks. We already know much about RIM’s first full touchscreen device aimed solely at Apple’s pride and joy (aren’t there many other better devices already, which would make for better competition?) sans a price tag and a proper release date, but it seems like an official picture of the device in all its glory would be too much to ask. But even blurry pictures like these courtesy of Crackberry are satisfactory enough to fill the void until the device is unveiled in November. Blurry though they are, we can’t help seeing similarities to the newly announced HTC Touch HD, but then again, we get that feeling with almost all touchscreen devices nowadays. Skip over for move pictures…
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We’ve heard about AT&T selling the Bold since the beginning of time itself. Cut it out AT&T and start selling the device already! It’s available in Chile! Sure, you’ll say you don’t want any competition for the iPhone. Is that why you asked for the Bold for yourself? To make sure it won’t compete against the iPhone? iPhone lovers will buy Apple’s handset no matter what other offer is available. But BlackBerry fans will forget the Bold and head to Verizon Wireless to grab the Storm. Would you like that to happen AT&T?

It looks like AT&T plans to finally launch the Bold in the last week of September. The rumored price is $299.00 after a $100 mail-in rebate and with an unmentioned-in-length contract. I don’t know about you but until I’ll see it, I won’t believe it.

Here’s a piece of news I was waiting for quite a while to deliver. The BlackBerry Thunder, or as some like to refer to as the Storm, has been confirmed by Verizon Wireless. Like we have told you this past weekend, today was the day all of this was going to happen.

The Storm will be a quadband handset; it will sport a haptic touchscreen, a full HTML browser, a 3.2 megapixel camera and a high resolution screen. What’s more to ask? Decent GPS and WiFi. Unfortunately there’s no WiFi in the Storm. We could let this one slide for now although it’s not understandable.

Pricing and availability dates will follow by November when people will actually be able to get the handset.

If you’re a BlackBerry owner in Singapore, check back with SingTel as it will have Viigo ready for your smartphone.

Viigo value-added service will be available for all BlackBerry owners. With Viigo you can access local news, weather info, financial info and customized feeds. Over 5,000 channels filled with content are available.
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Hooray! It looks like an internal email from Verizon Wireless‘ barn hints to something important. In less than two days we’re going to see the Storm aka Thunder aka the first BlackBerry with a touchscreen and more. We’ve been waiting for such an announcement all summer long. We just didn’t exactly know where to look for it.

And there’s a bad news in all of that. The phone will be launch officially on Monday but the product will be finally sold starting with November 1st. You were getting all excited, weren’t you? Get ready for standing this winter. We’ll be back on Monday for more!

Isn’t this some good news? RIM surpasses Windows Mobile in market share for the second quarter of the year. RIM comes second after Symbian which dropped significantly from the same time last year. Amazingly Windows Mobile lost the second position although they have about the same market share they did last year.

BlackBerry is up to 17.4% from last year’s 8.9%. They have almost doubled their market share in a year. Apple went from 1% to almost 3% during the same period. The biggest looser seems to be Symbian which has lost about 10% from 65.6% to 57.1%.

We’ve recently seen how much color matters when the new iPod nano generation was unveiled this Tuesday. Products are more appealing to customers if offered in more than one boring color.

T-Mobile is going to release the BlackBerry 8120 in 3 new colors starting with October 15th. The colors have cool name of course. First we have Frost which is light blue, Indigo which is blue or purple and Black Emerald which si dark green or black, depending on how good your eyes are. So does the color change make the 8120 more appealing to you? Ready to choose one?

The iDEN BlackBerry 8350i will get you that push-to-talk service people are so crazy about. While I prefer the traditional mobile conversations, which by the way I am so good at, I can’t help but notice people and carriers embracing various handsets with push-to-talk support.

The 8350i will also have a 2.0 megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi and with the Group Connect service you will be shouting orders up to 20 people across the continent. Go to Sprint-Nextel to get yours now and look for future RIM designs meant for push-to-talk.

Need WiFi in your Curve? AT&T is ready to release a BlackBerry Curve version on September the 23rd which will have the WiFi switch enabled. The handset will also bring you OS 4.5. The WiFi Curve will cost you $199 after a $100 mail-in rebate and with a 2 years contract. Or isn’t it better to get a Bold or a Thunder instead?
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We have more official news for you, the BlackBerry 8220 Pearl Flip phone aka the Kickstart will be available from T-Mobile. RIM has developed a phone in the flip shape which is so appealing to North American customers and T-Mobile is going to sell it some time this autumn. Check back with your T-Mobile representative for details about pricing or special plans.

Here are the main characteristics of the smartphone:

• Light sensing external LCD display
• 240 x 320 resolution internal LCD display
• MP3 playback support
• Speaker Independent Voice Recognition
• Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity
• SureType QWERTY keyboard
• microSDHC memory card slot
• Wi-Fi connectivity with support for UMA

A quick hop over to Orange UK’s website reveals that the latest devil from RIM is already out of stock, the same situation as the high-priced New York sellout. Vodafone UK looks to create the same kind of magic with the BlackBerry Bold, which is available starting now, and you don’t have to pay the $1300 premium price as the carrier is offering this HSDPA, WiFi, and GPS-laden smartphone for free on a £35pm two-year contract with goodies like unlimited texting, 500MB data transfer, and 600 minutes of talktime. A sweet deal indeed for a device that has a multimedia player, 1GB of internal memory with microSD expansion, a full QWERTY keypad, and a half-VGA 480×320 display. The 2-megapixel cam seems to be the only qualm, but then if you wanted imaging power, you would be thinking of the Innov8, wouldn’t ya?
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You’ve seen the box and now you need an official release of the BlackBerry Storm don’t you? Unfortunately there’s not such thing yet. But what we know is that people say that a rumor on the street says that the phone has entered technical acceptance. Therefore the Storm will be delayed from 6 to 8 weeks which means that a November release is likely to happen.

I hope everything will be just fine at Verizon and we’ll see this phone coming out for Christmas. We could have a race, Xperia X1 vs Storm. The winner will be the smartphone to launch first.

Despite the $1,300 pricing, a few lucky New Yorkers bought all the pre-sold BlackBerry Bold. BlackberryBusiness.com is the place to go if interested in an overpriced Bold. Too bad they don’t have any others left.

For whatever reason, the sold devices didn’t carry AT&T’s logo on them. That’s weird… What’s the matter people, did they happen to fall off the back of a truck?

I guess the rest of us have to sit and wait for AT&T’s official and cheaper release.

Canada’s Rogers will offer you the BlackBerry Kickstart 8220 if you happen to be in Canada for a while. While there aren’t any changes in specs from what we know about the 8220, there appear to be some changes in pricing.

It appears that Rogers will charge 149CAD for it with a 3 year 35CAD per month plan. That’s unusual considering that Rogers was thinking about selling the clamshell smartphone for 99CAD. A further discount of 50CAD was to be given to students opting for a 3 year 49CAD per month plan. Who knows what’s the final price after all.

We’re waiting for the Bold to finally hit the US market and it seems it’s playing hard to get. According to recent rumors, unconfirmed but pretty strong, the BlackBerry Bold is going to arrive from AT&T on October 2nd. Funny how in the mean time it’s available in Chile< as if Chile would be the home of RIM.

Hopefully this RIM device will arrive before Verizon brings the Thunder. I imagine most people would choose the Thunder/Storm over the Bold? Or is it just me?

That’s right people, you heard me right, the BlackBerry Storm aka the BlackBerry 9530 aka the BlackBerry Thunder is coming from Verizon Wireless. We have this packaging details in the picture to prove it.

According to the box design, the Storm will have an 8GB microSDHC memory card, a SIM card, but no WiFi. That’s unusual wouldn’t you say? How come there’s no WiFi support RIM people?

The Storm will be out sometime in the middle of October from Verizon Wireless but there’s no news on pricing. Rogers Wireless and Vodafone are also expected to sell the Storm under the Thunder name we’ve gotten used to.

After much speculation, it has finally been made official that the Blackberry Bold will be hitting Rogers come August 21st.

While this doesn’t really effect us here in the States, if rumors are to be believed the phone will be also be hitting other North American carriers by the end of the week. AT&T anyone?

In terms of pricing, co-CEO over at RIM, Jim Balsille lets us know that with a 2 year contract you can expect to pay inbetween $300 and $400 for the latest addition to the Blackberry line. Sign me up.

Via: Yahoo!

While Canadians are getting anxious to get a new smartphone it appears that local carrier Rogers has done it again. Last time it was the iPhone and what Rogers did was to offer very limited data plans for a 3G device destined to be used for various data applications.
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We are just two days away from the official BlackBerry Bold launch in the UK. The first carrier ready to deliver it is Orange UK and it will launch the Bold on August 16th.

Business users are rumored to get the Bold for free with some sort of agreement which is around 45GBP or $90 per month for 18 months. There’s no word on customer agreement yet but in two days’ time you’ll find all that info for yourself.

Wow, that’s like so cool! It is said that Sprint’s Blackberry Curve will get GPS and WiFi all into one. It’s kind of a special offer which they will simply name the 8350i. Probably RIM will name it and Sprint will sell it. Well I guess at first it was really a mind boggling problem to fit the GPS and the WiFi antenna inside the precious Curve. And now it’s all fixed.

I am guessing that’s going to happen sometime soon with Sprint and other carriers will follow. After all why buy a Curve with only one of the must have features when you can get them both now?