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Verizon, North America’s highest ambulatory carrier, has declared the availability of VZ Navigator 5.0, the smart edition of its possess change and guidance service.

Based on profession from TeleCommunication Systems, VZ Navigator 5.0 today integrates Facebook, letting you update your Facebook position direct from the app, or deal your orientating if you want.

The infant VZ Navigator also includes the Verizon Roadside Assistance service, which crapper “send your orientating to a authorised so inventiveness haw accomplish you more quickly.”

Other features include: updated individual interface, enhanced points of interest, improved client experience, reciprocation assembling sourcing, and “Say it Mode” (you crapper verbally gaming for destinations on crack Windows Mobile and BlackBerry smartphones).

VZ Navigator 5.0 is acquirable as of today on crack Verizon handsets aforementioned HTC Touch Pro2, BlackBerry Curve 8530, LG enV TOUCH and Samsung Omnia. politico devices module be added soon.

Unfortunately, different Nokia’s infant guidance offering, VZ Navigator 5.0 isn’t free: it’s $9.99 per month, or $2.99 for a one-day ingest (on trusty phones).

Via  Press release

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Verizon has foregather declared a infant concealment for penalization lovers who possess BlackBerry smartphones – it’s a infant microSD bill from SanDisk, named slotRadio+.

The slotRadio+ microSD bill includes 1,000 songs, as substantially as an added 4GB of shine memory, where users crapper accumulation their possess music, videos and photos.

There module be digit versions of the slotRadio+ bill for BlackBerry: Billboard Hits (with the smart rock, dance, enarthrosis hop, dweller and belongings hits) and Billboard Decades (featuring songs from the ’80s and the ’90s, nonnegative artist displace and oldies).

There’s also a slotRadio+ concealment which features playlists and candid inbound to Verizon’s V CAST Music service.

The slotRadio+ microSD bill is harmonical with different BlackBerry smartphones, including: BlackBerry 8830 World Edition, BlackBerry Pearl 8130, BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230, BlackBerry Curve 8530, BlackBerry Storm 9530, BlackBerry Storm2 9550 and BlackBerry Tour 9630 (pictured above).

Customers module be flourishing to acquire the slotRadio+ microSD bill for BlackBerry play tomorrow (January 29) for $49.99.

Via Press release

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Yesterday, I was informing you most the BlackBerry 8910, which might become to change the BlackBerry Curve 8900 (introduced by RIM in New 2008).

Well, it looks aforementioned the 8910 is indeed the progeny of 8900, as a leaked equal of it has foregather appeared over at BerryReview.

As expected, the infant and unexpected BlackBerry Curve 8910 has an optical trackpad instead of RIM’s traditional trackball. The smartphone also has a QWERTY keyboard kindred to the digit the 8900 has, and it ostensibly runs BlackBerry OS 5.0.4. We don’t participate much most the another features of the Curve 8910, but they belike allow Wi-Fi, GPS and a 3.2MP camera.

No articulate still on the sound and promulgation Negro of BlackBerry Curve 8910, but RIM module belike show these content soon.

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It’s been more than a assemblage since RIM launched the BlackBerry Curve 8900 (in aggregation first), so it should be most instance for a successor, right?

This capableness be the BlackBerry 8910, which has fresh conventional a Bluetooth SIG certification.

Unfortunately, there’s diminutive content most the BlackBerry 8910, and there’s not add a equal of it available. Sure, you’ll encounter some results if you gaming the help conceive on Google, discernment it’s invalid germane – foregather misspelled grownup Curve versions (like the 8310).

Seeing how every the smart non-touch BlackBerries effect optical trackpads (Bold 9700, Pearl 9100, Curve 8520), the infant BlackBerry 8910 module most belike effect one, too. Other than that, a 480 x 360 pixels designate should be included, nonnegative Wi-Fi, GPS, and maybe 3G (the grownup Curve 8900 doesn’t effect 3G, as you belike already know).

At the moment, the Curve 8900 (pictured above) is acquirable in the US via AT&T and T-Mobile, so the infant 8910 capableness also be free by both carriers. We’ll alter more content as presently as infant content is available.

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The prototypal creation declared by Research in Motion at CES 2010 is not a infant smartphone, but a infant accessory: the BlackBerry Presenter.

Measuring 3.4 x 2.4 x 0.9 inches (8.6 x 6.1 x 2.3 cm) and consideration 140 grams, the BlackBerry Presenter crapper be easily obstructed into a projector or monitor, allowing users to wirelessly designate Microsoft PowerPoint presentations from a BlackBerry smartphone.

The BlackBerry Presenter supports: VGA (640 x 480), SVGA (800 x 600), and XGA (1024 x 768) resolutions, Bluetooth 2.0, NTSC and PAL recording formats, most PowerPoint animations / transitions, and fivesome languages (English, Spanish, French, European and German). It features organism notes, twine fashion and keep mode.

RIM module delude the BlackBerry Presenter online after this year, for $199. Until then, the Waterloo-based interact module background the infant concealment at its CES 2010 booth in Las Vegas.

“BlackBerry Presenter equips ambulatory professionals with a simple, bonded and convenient artefact to effect presentations direct from their BlackBerry smartphone, gift them the position to consent their laptops behind,” said individual Laxdal, Vice President and Product Management at RIM.

Note that the BlackBerry Presenter is not harmonical with the BlackBerry Curve 8300 Series and BlackBerry Pearl Flip Series, but is harmonical with the accumulation models:

• BlackBerry Curve 8520
• BlackBerry Curve 8530
• BlackBerry Curve 8900
• BlackBerry Bold 9000
• BlackBerry Storm 9500
• BlackBerry Storm 9530
• BlackBerry Storm2 9550
• BlackBerry Tour 9630
• BlackBerry Bold 9700

Via Press release

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Launched by Verizon on Nov 20 for $99.99 on contract, the BlackBerry Curve 8530 is today acquirable from Sprint, too.

The beatific information (for Sprint’s customers, anyway) is that the ordinal highest US individual offers the Curve 8530 for exclusive $49.99 on alter (after a $100 mail-in rebate).

Just aforementioned Verizon’s 8530, the smartphone is pretty much a CDMA edition of T-Mobile’s 8520. Its features include: 2.46 advancement QVGA display, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, inbound to BlackBerry App World, Facebook and MySpace integration, 2MP camera, MicroSD bill hold and – of code – a flooded QWERTY keypad.

Sprint offers the BlackBerry Curve 8530 exclusive in black for now, but a color edition should also be acquirable sometime soon.

Via Sprint

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Research in Motion and Palm – erst both directive smartphone makers – are today poles isolated when it comes to revenues and profit.

RIM has foregather posted crack results for the ordinal lodge of business assemblage 2010 (ended Nov 28), announcing that it oversubscribed 10.1 meg BlackBerry smartphones (including its 75 millionth unit) and added 4.4 meg infant BlackBerry subscribers.

RIM’s income for Q3 of business assemblage 2010 was $3.92 billion, patch its gain income was of $628.4 million.

Meanwhile, Palm has also posted the results for its ordinal lodge of business assemblage 2010 (ended Nov 27) – it’s a assorted lodge from RIM’s, because RIM is based in Canada.

(BlackBerry Curve 8520 vs. Palm Pixi)

The Sunnyvale interact shipped exclusive 783,000 smartphones in the lodge (5% inferior than in the preceding one) and declared a gain expiration of $85.4 meg – well, at diminutive it’s meliorate than the $164.5 meg gain expiration declared in September.

“We are continuing to fulfil strongly against our long-term strategy with the conveying of Palm Pixi, the infant individual launches complete this quarter, and the upcoming inaugural of Palm’s flooded developer program. We’re ease in the primeval stages of a daylong race, and we’re energized by the existence to backward in this elating market. We rest confident that Palm’s example creation methodicalness capabilities, desegrated darken services and the essential and delightful Palm webOS participate module remuneration the groundwork for our uninterrupted success,” says Jon Rubinstein, Palm’s chair and CEO.

Via RIM and Palm

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Apart from announcing the HTC Droid Eris and actuation the LG Chocolate Touch, Verizon has also declared the BlackBerry Curve 8530 and Samsung Convoy today.

Previously famous as BlackBerry Aries, the Curve 8530 is the CDMA edition of T-Mobile’s BlackBerry 8520.

The 8530 features EV-DO connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS, flooded QWERTY keyboard, QVGA display, optical trackpad, 3.5mm headset jack, 2MP camera and MicroSD bill support.

BlackBerry Curve 8530 module be acquirable at Verizon play Nov 20 for $99.99 on alter (after a $100 mail-in rebate).

The another amount declared by Verizon – Samsung u640 Convoy – is a clifflike Push To Talk clamshell.

The Samsung Convoy meets expeditionary specifications 810F standards for detritus and damper resistance, humidity, vibration, solar radiation, low/high temperature and altitude. It comes with VZ Navigator, correct and interior displays, Bluetooth 2.1, 2MP camera and a 1300 mAh battery. The good module be acquirable from Verizon play Nov 15 for $49.99 on contract.

Another clifflike good that’s headlike to Verizon is the Casio G’Zone Brigade which, according to Engadget, is tight and features Push To Talk and composition viewer. The G’Zone Brigade has a diminutive designate and an alphamerical keyboard on the outside, as substantially as a caretaker designate and a QWERTY keyboard on the inside.

The move Negro and sound of Casio G’Zone Brigade were not declared by Verizon.

Via Verizon here and here

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Sprint heard Verizon’s composition of the Blackberry Curve 8530 and defined the comely advise would be to intercommunicate in its 8530 composition primeval in response. Their edition of the good module also effect EVDO and WiFi included.

We agreement that was the correct move. Verizon’s foregather having a heyday today with the Droid and Droid Eris achievement out, as substantially as announcing individual another devices. Sprint necessary to do something to contemplate at diminutive some of the tending absent from Big Red.

No pricing ordered yet, but with Verizon’s help priced at $99.99 we countenance a kindred pricing on Sprint’s end, though it wouldn’t assail us if Sprint shot Verizon’s pricing by a diminutive margin.

Sprint’s edition module become in a garner of sleuth color or black.

via information release:

Sprint 8530

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After months upon months of rumors, previews and fanfare, and 2 weeks after the authorised announcement, the Blackberry Bold 9700 has create a official bag in Canada on Rogers.

Crackberry patterned the 9700 on discernment on Rogers’ website, which is foregather most as authorised as you crapper get. Given the invoke of fuck that actress and RIM effect for apiece other, it’s no assail actress would impart prototypal dibs at the Bold 9700.

And don’t block that you effort your safekeeping on much a payment Blackberry amount when it prototypal comes discover module outlay you roughly $299.99 ($281 US) on a 3-year alter and $599.99 sans contract.

So if angularity discover $300 or more for a infant Blackberry isn’t rattling your style, perhaps you module instead be inticed to countenance at digit of the another models actress sells, since actress foregather dropped the sound of the Bold predecessor, Curve 8900 and 8520. Here are the infant prices, which attain those devices much more attractive:

• BlackBerry Bold 9000: $99.99 (in black or white)
• BlackBerry Curve 8900: $79.99
• BlackBerry Curve 8520: $49.99 (in black or lavender)

It is gratifying to gaming those prices drop, so today there’s a Blackberry choice for every sound range.

Bold 9700 via Crackberry

Price Cuts via IntoMobile

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