Much of the following is purely speculative but if proven true, we might just witness the best BlackBerry launch ever.

It’s being said that the Storm and the Thunder do not refer to the same device. It looks like the Storm and the Thunder are both new Berries, both with a full touchscreen. The difference you ask? The Storm would have a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard. Just for those which can’t make it without an actual keyboard. (more…)

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As rumored before, Vodafone will pick up RIM’s BlackBerry Storm and offer it exclusively in the UK. It looks like the British carrier will dump the Thunder name in favor of the Storm. I’ve gotten used to the Thunder and now I’ll have to get used to the Storm.

RIM is said to announce the BlackBerry some time in October and the actual phone will hit the shops in November, well in time for the Christmas shopping spree.

What about other countries? Is RIM going to go to Chile again? (more…)

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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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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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We’ve talked about the Thunder for a long time wondering when and where is it going to hit the market. According to this leaked inventory screen the BlackBerry Thunder will be released on Octorber 13th. Word on the street is that’s the actual release date at least for Verizon.

The Thunder is the 9530 in the list above. No news on pricing and plans of course. We’ll just have to wait for more leaked info.

via BoyGenius

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Are you waiting for some colored BlackBerries to arrive from your favorite Canadian carrier? Well Bell Mobility is going to add new colors to their BlackBerry Pearl and Curve.

The BlackBerry Pearl is supposed to arrive in White and Titanium, while the BlackBerry Curve 8330 in red. In case you want to buy either one of those three new colored berries, you have to wait a few more days until August 8th when they will be available. I’d advise against that though. After all the Bold and Thunder are around the corner.

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While we’ve heard news about the future US prices for the BlackBerry Bold, we didn’t know anything about Canadian carrier Rogers and its intentions with the BlackBerry Bold. It has been suggested that the Bold will be available for $199 only, with a three years plan. That looked like a very good price, but a highly unlikely one.

New information suggest that Rogers has the BlackBerry Bold price set up at $299 with a three years contract. It’s still a very good price, comparable to the 3G iPhone 16GB version. Hopefully the Bold will get better plans than the iPhone.

We’re waiting for July 25th for official news. That’s when the BlackBerry Bold is said to arrive. I’m curios how many handsets will RIM sell in their first three days. Especially as the Thunder is only a few months away! Would you get a Bold or a Thunder?

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That’s right folks, we have pictures with the actual keyboard from BlackBerry Thunder. Sure it’s a exactly the same touchscreen keyboard the iPhone has. Well not exactly the same identical one but the same concept. You get my point right? From what we can see here, and if it’s not photoshopped, the Thunder looks good. I don’t think anyone will miss the real QWERTY classic keyboard. We’ve heard some weird rumors about the Thunder last week but from this pictures everything seems to be going fine, with RIM on its way of releasing another best seller.

Let’s not forget about the haptic feedback system this BlackBerry is going to have. Hopefully it’s going to work out just fine and we will get that great touch and feel experience when dealing with RIM’s touchscreen. And besides the actual tactile feeling you will get a click sound similar to the sound a pressed key makes. It’s weird why we feel the need to receive a response when touching a screen. Did I say touching? I mean multi-touching of course. That’s right, multi-touch is rumored to be available.

Waiting for more picture and facts about this BlackBerry here. Bad news or good news we’re covering all kinds, just send it in!

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Imagine my surprise and astonishment today when I found myself reading two different sets of news about the BlackBerry Thunder. How’s that surprising? Well according to some, the Thunder is really enjoyable to use and ready to enter production. According to others, the Thunder really sucks and it won’t be hear for the next four or five months.
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Well look here what the cat dragged in. These appear to be genuine leaked pictures of the newest RIM creation, the BlackBerry 9500 also known as the Thunder.

The impressive 360×480 touch display is the major upgrade RIM had in mind for us. Sure we will miss the full QWERTY keyboard but we’re not going to need it where we’re going. Aside from the ‘giant’ screen, yes it’s bigger than the iPhone’s, we will get the OS 4.7. Surely this is going to be the closest iPhone competitor so far. We’ve heard lots of rumors and we’re anxiously waiting for it to be released. As long as the Thunder will have a decent price and at least the same application support as the iPhone does, we’re sure to have one hell of a fight for mobile supremacy. HTC and Samsung beware! Your Touch Diamonds and Instincts or Omnias might be easily surpassed by the 9500.

via BlackBerrySync

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Is Research in Motion going to throw even more BlackBerries at us? Is this just another rumor? With the Bold having just been released and the Thunder in the works I wonder what they will prepare for us next.

The BlackBerry 9110 apparently codenamed Seawolf (I wonder who’s giving the names at RIM) is one of the next berries to be released. Probably from AT&T but that’s just another rumor. We’d like more specs, some pictures and some pricing details. Anyone working over at RIM care to leak some details over?
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Tags: BlackBerry, BlackBerry Bold, Mobile News, Research In Motion, RIM, thunder

Tell me you didn’t see this coming. Sprint has prepared entirely new plans for their Samsung Instinct release. That was bound to happen once Apple announced they will sell the 3G iPhone for $199 and $299 with AT&T 2 year plans.

The Samsung Instinct was initially priced at $449.99, which is a more than fair price for what it has to offer. Sprint just sliced off $150 for a 2 year plan and a added a further $100 mail in rebate. And on top of that, Sprint will also be offering the for the full price to all customers who don’t want to get burdened with another 2 year plan. Is it cool or what.

I’d assume that if the Instinct had the same continuous and aggressive campaign the iPhone had, they would have a better fighting chance. About two weeks ago, when Spring presented the Instinct saying it was much better than the iPhone, I was arguing that although it seems better than the iPhone, it probably won’t match the 3G iPhone. But since the iPhone brought us only 3G and GPS, which is far less than the most of were expecting, I tend to rethink my Instinct vs iPhone comparison.
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After the BlackBerry Bold, the Thunder is coming. We all knew that for a while now but we lacked more specific details about RIM’s first touch screen (only) BlackBerry.

From what we can see, despite the fact it will lose the physical QWERTY keyboard in favor of the larger screen, the Thunder won’t lose any other of the features that made BlackBerries famous around the world.

Let’s see when, what and who now! When is it going to be released, what will it cost and who else, besides Verizon Wireless, is going to sell it?

via BoyGenius

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Following the official release of the BlackBerry Bold, we were left wondering about the prices and future plans. Well here they are.

AT&T, Sprint and Verizon Wireless are going to sell the Bold for $300, with only T-Mobile announcing a price $50 higher. I wonder why T-Mobile stands out of the crowd like that. What do they have prepared for their subscribers? If you remember, T-Mobile is comfortably ranked 4^th in the USA by number of subscribers. (more…)

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