Saturday, June 06, 2009
There’s also GPS and A-GPS, a 35-key QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth 2.0, 3.5mm headset port and microUSB port. No sign of WiFi, but you do get a microSD card slot (under the battery cover), 256MB of internal memory and a 1,400mAh battery.
The whole thing measures 112 x 62 x 14.2 mm and weighs 130g. While we’re excited for our friends up in Canada, we’re perhaps a little more keen to see whether - as the leaked inventory details suggest - the BlackBerry Tour 9630 arrives on Verizon Wireless in the US on July 13th.
Friday, May 15, 2009
The guy who seems to have leaked the Onyx photos is back again with the pictures of Blackberry’s second touchscreen device, the Storm 2. There are no hardware details but the successor looks thinner, has a 3.2 megapixel camera and possibly runs a new touchscreen tech.Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Thanks to Verizon-RIM’s BOGOF promotion, Blackberry Curve has zoomed past Apple’s iPhone. The report released by NPD Group makes Curve the undisputed king in the US smartphone market for Q1 2009.RIM managed to snag a good 15 percent of the smartphone market while Apple and Palm lost 10 percent of it.
The top five selling smartphones in US for Q1 2009 were:
RIM BlackBerry Curve (all 83XX models)
Apple iPhone 3G (all models)
RIM BlackBerry Storm
RIM BlackBerry Pearl (all models, except flip)
T-Mobile G1
Boy Genius Report has got something to share about the optical trackball boasting Blackberry 8520 aka Gemini. Lauding the optical trackball like the guys over at Crackberry, they reveal the possible release for the phone. Q4 2009 is the expectant release period and will land in USA first via T-Mobile.The phone’s price is not known but it won’t burn a hole in the pocket since its being pitched as a low cost Blackberry.
8520 features EDGE, Quad-band GSM, Wi-Fi, 2MP camera and Bluetooth.
Yet another Blackberry device has been found in the wild. This time its Onyx, which is said to be on the lines of Blackberry 8900 and will support GSM bands. On the other hand, a CDMA based variant will also make it to the market on T-Mobile, known as Driftwood and is slated for a September release.BGR reckons this device will fall under the Blackberry 96XX Series and will have an optical trackball at launch.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Coosh offers a headset (model: 780259-A-WHI) for iPhonemag-glass_10x10 Peripherals and Accessories : Coosh Headset for iPhone and Blackberry and Blackberry smartphones. This Coosh headset has detachable silicone earring for extreme comfort and excellent fit and in-line headset microphone for anwsering phone calls.Monday, February 16, 2009
A new partnership between Lenovo and Research In Motion will allow laptop users to receive email whenever their BlackBerry smartphone can access the internet, even if the laptop is turned off.
The integration will be available to US-based Lenovo ThinkPad laptop users from the second quarter of 2009, and will be rolled out to the rest of the world later in the year. The offering will be called Lenovo Constant Connect.
"With more and more mobile professionals relying on both their BlackBerry smartphone and ThinkPad laptop PC, we view better integration between the two devices as a necessity," said Lenovo chief executive Yang Yuanqing.
In order to receive the new integration, a user will need to purchase a Constant Connect ExpressCard for around $150 (£105), which is inserted into the laptop. A series of installation steps will pair the laptop and the smartphone using the Bluetooth radio in the phone, laptop and the ExpressCard.
All emails will be automatically transferred to the laptop, even when it is turned off, via the low power, always-on ExpressCard. Users will also be able to write and send emails from their laptop when they do not have internet access via the BlackBerry's 3G network service.
An additional benefit of Constant Connect is that it reduces the need for laptop users to pay for fee-based Wi-Fi networks, said the firms.
"By leveraging the industry-leading push-based connectivity of the BlackBerry solution, Lenovo Constant Connect will simplify email synchronisation on the laptop, and provide mobile professionals with greater flexibility to manage their email on the move," said Jim Balsillie, Research In Motion chief executive.
