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BlackBerry Kickstart: A flip phone BlackBerry??

Wow so we figured it would come some day but BGR got details on the BlackBerry Kickstart. It's a clamshell flip phone featuring a Suretype QWERTY keyboard, trackball navigation and a camera (hopefully at least a 2.0 megapixel). Other than that no one knows too much about it except it looks big!.

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RIM’s looking to hire an iPhone developer?

Apparently RIM has an internal posting for a developer with knowledge of Apple's iPhone. We aren't too sure what this means yet. Either RIM is looking to hire a developer to develop a touchscreen BlackBerry to take on the iPhone or they might bring BlackBerry Connect to the iPhone…

We aren't too sure yet but hopefully we will get more details soon.

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iPhone’s coming to Canada… Where’s BlackBerry AK?

Rogers made an announcement this morning during their Earnings Report that they have finally reached a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year. 

The NY Times published a article a few days ago regarding RIM taking on Apple. According to the times they claim RIM is working on a iPhone killer device and they have code-named it BlackBerry AK (Apple Killer, not the machine gun). We don't really know what or if this is even true, but if RIM is working on touchscreen Berry it should be very sweet.

This brings us to our next poll: Canadians will you replace your BlackBerry for an iPhone? 

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Unlocked BlackBerry 9000 appears then disappears on eBay

Looks like RIM might have jumped on this one fast. EBay had an unlocked BlackBerry 9000 listed on their site sporting a new OS 4.6. The eBay ad looks like its been pulled, but Engadget managed to download all the pictures just before.

So as we said this puppy is sporting OS 4.6 and packing 3G, EDGE and Wi-Fi.  

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All the BlackBerry 9000 rumors get washed up

The Boy Genius has gone on record to clean up all those BlackBerry 9000 rumors. The Financial Post wrote an article claiming that a RIM spokesperson confirmed the upcoming 9000 device will not have any battery issues. According to the post the spokesperson said the 9000's reviewed were prototypes and that the "power management is usually turned off to "help with debugging" feature is usually turned off so users can debug the device.

So apparently the BlackBerry 9000, which will pack 3G with Wi-Fi and a 624MHz Intel processor won't suffer from any battery issues! We'd be really impressed if that's the case. 

Mexican official fired after stealing White House BlackBerry’s

A mexican press official has been fired after he stole six or so BlackBerry devices from a meeting in New Orleans. The BlackBerry devices belonged to officials who were meeting with President Bush. Apparently in high level meeting such as this is a common practice for members to leave all devices on a table. Secret Service was notified the devices were missing and found the press member at the airport with the devices.

Also Fox News being so smart quoted "Whether he was up to no good or simply desperate to play BrickBreaker…" which I thought was kind of funny and made me wonder what this guy was really looking for??

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AT&T jumps on BlackBerry Pearl 8110

AT&T has finally launched the long awaited GPS enabled BlackBerry Pearl 8110. Similar to Verizon and Sprint's 8130, the BlackBerry 8110 features a integrated GPS, 2.0 megapixel camera with flash, external microSD memory card slot and 3.5mm headphone jack. 

AT&T's new Pearl 8110 is available in titanium or red for only $149.99 with two year contract. Click on over for the full press release… Read More …

Microsoft’s Tellme brings BlackBerry LBS

Microsoft's fairly new little $800 million dollar toy, TellMe has just launched their service for BlackBerry. Tellme is expected to take on Google and Yahoo all in one by offering Location Based Services via GPS or cell phone triangulation. 

Tellme allows you to speak what your looking for. For example simply say "Coffee" and it will find a local coffee shop for you. Tellme offers GPS navigation, traffic information, maps, local listings and weather.

Tellme only works on certain BlackBerry devices (8800, 8820, 8830, and 8310) and seems to be only working in the USA on AT&T or Sprint for now. To get Tellme simply visit m.tellme.com from your mobile device or go to tellme.com from your computer.

RIM moves up 390% (51st place) on Top 100 brands

Some good news to hear this year. Brandz.com has just completed their Top 100 brands list and guess what? BlackBerry creator, Research In Motion (RIM) has landed themseleves number 51. This brings RIM up 390% on the list.

Also according to this report RIM's worth a whopping 1.3 Billion dollars!

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bbSync Birthday Bash: OtterBox case winners!!

It's finally time to announce the winners of Birthday Bash. We had three Otterbox cases to give away of their choice! Here's the three winners:

Pozi won a OtterBox Curve Defender case ($49.95 value)

Pozi won a Otterbox case for recommending the Weather Eye application for BlackBerry. 

Chad won a OtterBox Pearl 2 Defender case ($49.95 value)

Chad won a Otterbox case for recommending the FindMe application which intergrates Facebook with your devices GPS. He said this is his favorite application until Twitter comes out…  

Sam won a OtterBox Curve Defender case ($49.95 value)

Sam's favorite application was Viigo, a great RSS reader for your BlackBerry.

Again thanks everyone for your entries and helping make BlackBerrySync.com, a great source for BlackBerry news!

Winners are contacted via email.