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RIM is reportedly effort primed to move digit infant BlackBerry smartphones this outflow (the North mortal / dweller spring).

According to The Street, digit of the devices capableness resemble the BlackBerry Bold, but become with a “long-awaited, touch-enabled Web-friendly functioning system” (thus a touchscreen), as substantially as with a flooded QWERTY keyboard. This capableness be the rumored BlackBerry Magnum / Indian – or a newer good based on it.

Reportedly, RIM officials are rattling bright with the infant contact and Web-friendly functioning grouping – though there aren’t some neutral content most it.

(this is what the infant touch-friendly BlackBerry haw countenance like; equal via BGR)

The ordinal upcoming RIM smartphone is a 3G BlackBerry Pearl with an optical trackpad – most likely, this is the Pearl 9100 that we fresh saw in some leaked photos.

Well, today let’s move for RIM to hold every this.

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RIM’s unexpected BlackBerry Pearl 9100 has been patterned in some infant photos which inform that the smartphone capableness be launched by T-Mobile in the US, or by Wind in Canada.

As seen in the images below, the Pearl 9100 supports WCDMA bands I, IV and octad – communication 2100MHz, 1700MHz (AWS) and 900MHz.

Since T-Mobile and Wind are the exclusive North mortal carriers that ingest the 1700MHz spectrum, they’re nearly trusty among the ones to center the 9100.

(photos from cellguru)

Apart from 3G, the BlackBerry Pearl 9100 (also famous as BlackBerry Stratus or BlackBerry Striker) features a SureType QWERTY keypad, Wi-Fi, an optical trackpad and a camera with diode flash. We don’t participate when RIM module forebode the Pearl 9100, but it should hap soon.

Via CrackBerry

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Available for acquire as of Jan 5 (only in the US, UK, island and Hong Kong at the moment), Google’s Android superphone, the Nexus One, seems to effect some problems with 3G reception.

There’s a daylong arrange over at the Google hold forums, where some of the infant Nexus One owners are news 3G connectivity issues in the US.

It looks aforementioned the HTC-made smartphone gets a anaemic 3G communication from instance to time, and add switches to EDGE, patch another T-Mobile phones effect beatific reception.

Here’s what the prototypal Nexus One users to inform the difficulty has to say:

“I switched from a Moto Cliq, where I had 3-4 exerciser of 3G in my concern constantly, to a Nexus One. I today either impart 1 or no exerciser of 3G. I prefabricated trusty that ever ingest 2G was disabled, and I can’t seem to amount discover what the difficulty is.”

Another (ex-BlackBerry) individual continues:

“I upgraded from a Blackberry Pearl to the Nexus One. I cannot impart some 3G assist as of yet. Don’t participate what the difficulty is. T-mobile and HTC hold weren’t flourishing to help.”

And added users says:

“I’m having this aforementioned problem. My G1 has 3G with flooded strength, but movement correct incoming to it my Nexus has 1 oppose of 3G and keeps change to Edge. If I accept it set for a patch it haw go up to 3 exerciser of communication capableness but as presently as I move disagreeable to ingest it the communication capableness drops backwards downbound to digit bar. I named T-mobile to attain trusty that I didn’t domain to add the good or something to impart 3G service. They said my evidence looked dustlike and that they couldn’t remuneration me some more hold since I had a Nexus One, that I had to call HTC. So I named HTC and they said that your 3G assist is a T-mobile cater and they couldn’t hold me. The fact that my G1 entireness dead movement correct incoming to the Nexus though makes me conceive it rattling is a difficulty with the phone.”

Ok, so it capableness be a difficulty attendant foregather to T-Mobile’s 3G (the individual uses the not-so-common 1700MHz frequency). Until now, no digit from the UK, island or Hong Kong reportable some issues with Nexus One’s 3G performance. But if someone will, then there’s trusty something not correct with Google’s prototypal phone. Let’s desire HTC and the bounteous G module countenance into the concern and gaming what foregather is feat on.

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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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Today, Alltel announced the upcoming release of BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230, thus becoming the second US carrier to offer the smartphone – after T-Mobile, which sells its GSM version (Pearl Flip 8220) since 2008.

Of course, Alltel’s Pearl Flip is a CDMA EV-DO device, but, other than that, there aren’t too many differences between it and T-Mo’s handset. 

The Pearl Flip 8230 will be available from Alltel starting early May, for as low as $79.99 – with a 2-yr contract agreement and after a $70 mail-in rebate.

It’s a bit weird that Alltel announced the smartphone ahead of Verizon, as rumors about big V’s Flip Pearl have been around since February. Of course, Alltel is now owned by Verizon (although it continues to serve about 2.2 million customers), so it will probably not be long until the big red carrier launches the Flip Pearl 8230 too.  

Via Press release

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Remember that T-Mobile BlackBerry event that was scheduled for April 22 in London? Well, it turns out that the event wasn’t related to the launch of a new smartphone, as we initially thought.

Instead, T-Mobile UK and RIM have announced a new way to pay for a BlackBerry device, called Pay Once.

Starting May 1, T-Mo’s customers in the UK will be able to buy a silver BlackBerry Pearl 8110 for £179.99 (€200 or $260), without having to sign a contract agreement.  

The price includes, besides the Pearl 8110 smartphone itself, one year of unlimited email and Internet and “pay as you go top-ups for calls, texts and MMS”.

All in all, the Pay Once deal is definitely not a bad one for those who don’t need a more advanced BlackBerry (like the Curve 8900), or for those who are new to RIM’s devices.

Via Press release

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Big day for Bell and smartphones as they add the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 on top of the Pal Treo Pro launch a little earlier in the day. Thankfully the BlackBerry seems to have its pricing lined up and will squeeze your piggy bank for $29 on a three-year contract, a steep $349 on 2, $449 for 1-year and is $499 off contract altogether — though the $29 is apparently only until the end of March. Telus is also prepping this flippier BlackBerry for launch, though no word on a date for that just yet. In case you’ve forgotten the pink or black 8230 features GPS capabilities, 128MB of memory, external 1.6-inch and internal 2.4-inch displays, and the oh-so novel 4.6 OS. Grab it now on Bell’s site if you’ve been dreaming of the same ol’ BlackBerry in an entirely new and interesting package.

Update: Pricing updated as site was updated.

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Bell Mobility, Canada’s largest CDMA carrier, has launched two new smartphones manufactured by Palm and RIM respectively: Palm Treo Pro and BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230, the latter coming in black and pink.

While the US still doesn’t have the CDMA versions of said handsets, Canadian mobile users can buy any of them as of today.

Bell offers the Palm Treo Pro for as low as $99.95 and the Pearl Flip for only $29.95 – both prices are available only with the signing of a 3-yr contract agreement, of course.

Free of contract, the Treo Pro costs $549.95, while RIM’s clamshell is priced at $499.95. 

Both smartphones come with QWERTY keyboards and they can be found on Bell’s official website – you can go here for the Treo Pro and here for the Pearl Flip.   

Via Press release

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In the unlikely event that you needed a few final shreds of evidence to be convinced that the CDMA version of the BlackBerry Pearl flip — the 8230 — is real, feast your eyes on this heavy reading. Just-approved FCC documents show a device outline that can only be described as that of a clamshell, and sure enough, the SAR report indicates CDMA and EV-DO on the 850 and 1900MHz bands, so yeah, if this isn’t the 8230, we can’t imagine what it’d be. The timing on this development really couldn’t be any better since we’re expecting it to hit both Verizon and Telus in the near term, so quick show of hands: who’s buying?
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It’s been nearly a year since DVD Jon made some noise about doubleTwist by promising to “liberate” iTunes purchases from their DRM, and while that’s no longer particularly relevant in light of Apple’s decision to go DRM-free, we’re actually really digging this newly refocused public beta of the doubleTwist app, which promises to seamlessly manage all your devices from a single interface. Think of it as iTunes meets Windows 7 Device Stage with a dash of social network integration and you’ll get it: you just tell DT where you want your media to go — your phone, Facebook, your PSP — and it’ll handle all the encoding, conversion, and uploading steps for you. Sadly, the iPod, iPhone, Zune and Windows Mobile aren’t supported yet, but the rest of the device list is pretty decent: it includes the BlackBerry Pearl, Storm, and Curve, the G1, Sony Ericsson Cybershot and Walkman phones, the Kindle, Nokia N and E-series phones, and most digital cameras and flash-based camcorders. Of course, iTunes video is still wrapped in DRM, so we’ll see if DVD Jon has any tricks left up his sleeve to make it play nice with non-Apple devices, but for a first shot out of the gate it looks like extremely promising — too bad it’s Mac-only for now.

[Via Daring Fireball]

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