Great news for those in the United States! The BlackBerry Curve 8900, which was previously code-named Javelin has been approved by the FCC. This means that technically the Curve 8900 could go on sale almost any time in the United States. So the next part is to try and guess who will have the Curve 8900 out first - T-Mobile or AT&T?

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Americans its finally time! Two things you should be doing today. First go vote! and second check out AT&T’s new Bold. AT&T has officially release the BlackBerry Bold 9000. Starting today you should be able to pick one up online or at your local AT&T store. The price is $299 after rebate on a two year term. Head on over to wireless.att.com for more details.

The Gizmodo team got their hands on a AT&T branded BlackBerry Curve 8900 (aka Javelin) for review. If you check out Gizmodo you will see a bunch of high resolution pictures and a mini review of the the device. This also appears to be the first AT&T branded pictures seen of the Curve 8900. Here’s a quick blurb from their review:

The Bold is more substantial, exuding “executive” to the Curve 8900’s “middle manager” or “normal person.” It’s clearly more powerful, and has a bigger screen. The keyboards are way different, too—personally, I prefer the Bold’s larger, squishier keys to the Curve’s smaller, stiffer ones. But obviously, the biggest thing is 3G. The Bold has it, the Curve 8900 doesn’t, and we missed it sorely.

Check out the rest of Gizmodo.com >>

AT&T’s BlackBerry Bold 9000 is now listed on Best Buy’s website. You can purchase it with no contract for $659.99 USD. At the moment they are currently backordered and expected to ship within one to two weeks. So you can either order one now or just wait for AT&T to launch it officially on November 4th and pick one up then.

Details on BestBuy.com >>

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RIM and AT&T held a BlackBerry launch event in San Francisco last night. Looks like they actually had AT&T branded BlackBerry Bold’s on hand to giveaway there last night! If you saw last week the held a party in New York and didn’t give any Bold’s out just coupons for a free one. Now don’t get me wrong a free Bold is great but it would have been better if they got it that night. Anyways the folks over at BBNews got a hold of some party shots.

As you may have read AT&T held a launch party in New York City the other night and basically didn’t have any Bold’s on hand to actually give out. Instead they gave everyone a I.O.U card to get a Bold at a later date. Anyways Boy Genius seems to have obtained an email stating the latest release date for RIM’s new 3G BlackBerry Bold 9000. It seems the Bold should arrive on October 27th and that the pricing is still unknown.

Apparently the issue that was holding the Bold back from releasing on AT&T has been fixed up and its all good to go! Stay tuned.

If you want a little tease to hold you over check out over gallery for the BlackBerry Bold >>

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Girls (and maybe some guys?) are going to love AT&T’s new designer BlackBerry Pearls! This pink and white colored Pearl 8110 are arriving at some AT&T stores now according to a tipster over at CrackBerry. No word on pricing or when exactly these new colors will be ready but you can expect them soon…

“There’s great scrutiny, as you might know, on that network and a certain device. So I guess everyone wants to be sure on every last test,” said RIM’s co-CEO. So with any luck you guys in the United States should be able to pick up a Bold for at least Christmas (hopefully before).

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Just when you thought you would never see it. It seems that Best Buy may have leaked a release date for AT&T’s BlackBerry Bold. Apparently in Best Buy’s inventory system is that Bold listed as stock available on October 26th which would point to a more solid release date… So any luck at all you should be able to pick up your shinny new Bold the week of October 20th!

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- The iPhone uses multi-touch technology / Storm uses haptic feedback technology
- iPhone was Wi-Fi / Storm doesn’t
- iPhone has an app store / Storm doesn’t (maybe coming soon?)
- iPhone syncs with iTunes / Storm will be able too but not as well?
- iPhone users Safari for browsing / Storm uses RIM’s browser
- iPhone is GSM/3G / Storm is CDMA/GSM/Dual band HSDPA

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