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BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 hits Alltel

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Apr 23rd 2009 No Comments

alltelblackberrypearl 218x480 The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 was announced on Alltel Wireless today, making this flip smartphone available to a wider audience. While nothing is really different about this phone on this specific carrier, it’s still worth noting the device’s expanded availability.

In case you’ve forgotten, the Pearl Flip is a smartphone encased in a clamshell design with a small external display and an internal display with a 240 x 320 resolution. Other features include GPS mapping, a SureType keyboard, a 2-megapixel camera that’s capable of video, microSD or microSDHC card support and more.

This phone can play music and offers Bluetooth support. You can get the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 on Alltel for $79.99 with a two-year contract and a $70 rebate. The contract is for the carrier’s unlimited plan which costs $70/month.

Slacker Radio Plus subscription giveaway

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Apr 23rd 2009 2 Comments

No matter how much storage you have on your cellphone for music, there’s inevitably a point where you tire of what is loaded. That’s where Slacker steps in: the streaming radio station offers unlimited free music, custom radio stations and over 100 preprogrammed stations queued up by experts, all to your BlackBerry smartphone, iPhone or iPod touch. Now, to celebrate their music catalog blasting through the 2 million track mark, Slacker and SlashGear are giving away a one year subscription to Slacker Radio Plus, the company’s premium service.

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Full prize and giveaway details after the cut!

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T-Mobile UK offer BlackBerry Pearl with prepaid email/internet

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Apr 23rd 2009 No Comments

blackberry pearl 8110 T-Mobile UK have announced an unusual pre-pay BlackBerry deal, which sees contract-cautious buyers getting a Pearl handset, 12-months unlimited email and internet access, and the option to easily manage call and SMS/MMS messaging bills. For £180 ($262) the BlackBerry Pearl 8110 and year’s email support is included.

Beyond that, owners “top up” their BlackBerry with credit in the usual pay-as-you-go (PAYG) fashion, adding money to their account to cover any calls and SMS or MMS messages. T-Mobile are hoping the deal will appeal to those interested in push email but wary of ongoing contract costs.

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BlackBerry OS 5.0 features revealed

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Apr 21st 2009 No Comments

We’ve already seen video and photo overviews of RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry OS update, version 5.0, but the Boy Genius Report has released perhaps the most comprehensive change guide so far. Among the changes are on-device photo resizing (ideal for emailing images), email flagging and folder creation, together with the ability to forward calendar entries and view calendar invite attachments.

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The Motley Fools call Palm Pre DOA, I call them fools

By Steven Grady on Wednesday, Apr 15th 2009 4 Comments

The stock market experts and radio show hosts of the Motley Fool published an article today claiming that the Palm Pre, though fully featured and well designed, may be dead on arrival. This information is based off of a survey of 4,292 adult smartphone buyers by ChangeWave Research. The survey found that only 4% of smartphone buyers plan on purchasing the Pre, in contrast to 37% of them planning on purchasing a BlackBerry or iPhone. There are a few problems with this.

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BlackBerry OS 5.0 offers new look

By Brenda Stokes on Friday, Apr 10th 2009 No Comments

BlackBerry OS 5.0 was recently leaked and the new firmware offers a more modern look for the devices. However, it seems the majority of the changes are in appearance only while the underlying tech remains the same.

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BlackBerry OS 5.0 gets pre-release video demo

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Apr 9th 2009 No Comments

A video demo of the upcoming BlackBerry OS 5.0 has been released, with a leaked version of the platform running on a Curve 8900. Anyone hoping for huge changes will be disappointed; there are some neat tweaks such as a new media memory display, trackball flicks through photo slideshows and changes to the browser which should make it more impressive against that on rival platforms.

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Video demo after the cut

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Palm Pre and similar devices are changing the mobile phone landscape

By Steven Grady on Wednesday, Apr 8th 2009 No Comments

We might as well stop calling them phones and start calling them ultra-ultra-ultra portable computers. Maybe not. The gap between the capabilities of computers and cell phones is getting smaller and smaller thanks to devices like the Palm Pre and the iPhone. Another gap is closing up too: the divide between consumer and professional devices.

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Storm 2 getting new text-entry system, claims RIM employee

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Apr 8th 2009 No Comments

storm 2 According to a RIM employee, the BlackBerry Storm 2 will offer a new text input method, addressing one of the key concerns many users and reviewers had with the smartphone. Alain Segond von Banchet, who works at RIM, told Dutch site Tweakers.net that the company had not yet decided on a name for the next-gen touchscreen phone, but that it was due to reach market at the end of this year or the beginning of 2010. Continued »

Blackberry Storm 2 due in September, has WiFi

By Steven Grady on Monday, Apr 6th 2009 10 Comments

According to a source very close to the issue, Verizon has given the go for RIM to release the BlackBerry Storm 2 in September of this year. The followup to the groundbreaking Storm that was released last year as the first touchscreen Blackberry, SlashGear has been told that the new Storm 2 addresses one of the biggest criticisms of the first smartphone and of Verizon devices in general, in that it will support WiFi.

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