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Look what came out of hiding! The BlackBerry Curve 8530 has just been announced officially by RIM. Not too long after it was announced we saw press releases from both Verizon and Sprint, in the United States. The new Curve 8530 sports a newer style body, with trackpad navigation, Wi-Fi, dedicated music keys and GPS. Sprint is yet to announce pricing or a release date, however Verizon says they will... 

It might be late news, but its good news! Sprint has finally gotten around to releasing a new OS update for their BlackBerry Tour 9630. Sprint has released 4.7..1.57 which is said to feature a few improvements over their last version. Keep in mind you don’t need a Sprint Tour to install this update (simply follow the instructions here). Anyway if you’re using .57 on your Tour let us know... 

The Research and Consulting firm, IDC, listed the top-selling smartphone models in the US. It lists vendor sales to carriers and channels as well. So far it’s going on preliminary data. The actual numbers won’t be available till the end of the month. So let’s see what the firm says so far. No 10 is the HTC Touch from Sprint, Nextel, and Verizon Wireless. No 9 is the HTC Touch Pro... 

Well that didn’t take long… We heard that Sprint was getting ready to launch a couple new colored BlackBerry models and here is the first. Not only did Sprint launch the Tour today, but they also launched the “Inferno Orange” BlackBerry Curve 8330. It’s available now from Sprint for $49.99 with two year contract. This orange berry joins the silver and red colored models... 

It seems like we’ve been waiting forever for the Tour to go on sale! Today is the day its finally available in the United States. Both Sprint and Verizon have officially unleashed the BlackBerry Tour online and in stores for $199 with two year term. So head over to your favorite store and grab one! If you did manage to pick one up today let us know what you think… Read – Sprint Read... 

Sprint really didn’t want to let Verizon have all the fun apparently.The guys over at BerryReview have confirmed that Sprint will be launching the highly anticipated BlackBerry Tour July 12th. Apparently Sprint will launch the Tour at $199 with two year contract, after all rebates and discounts. No word on if Sprint will offer a camera-less version as well, but most likely they will. To get... 

Just after we reported about Engadget getting some hands-on time with the newly announced BlackBerry Tour, We noticed some other sites got to take a peak too. Here’s a quick round up of both Verizon and Sprint branded BlackBerry 9630’s in the wild. Unfortunately for Canadians we haven’t been able to track down any Bell or Telus hands-on, with the exception of the leaked Telus ones... 

Sprint felt a little left out last night with the BlackBerry Tour announcements so they posted their micro site this morning. Sprint has announced they will be rocking the BlackBerry 9630 sometime this summer as well. Sprint took it one step further and even announced pricing! Sprint’s expected to release the Tour this summer for $199 with two year term after rebates. Of course this means Verizon... 

GSM carriers never have an issue allowing a BlackBerry to send long texts. If it’s long, it will automatically break it into 160 character chunks. The term for this is Extended/Multipart SMS. It might break it into six messages, but you only pay for one. This is not supported on CDMA BlackBerry models such as the BlackBerry Storm, Curve 8330, etc. So this includes: Alltel, Bell, Sprint, Telus,... 

The folks at Sprint-Nextel has finally released the camera-less version of the iDEN Curve 8350i. This means you now either have the option for the camera or camera-less version for $149 with contract. Next up Telus should be releasing the camera-less version as well on their MiKE network so stay tuned for that… You can find complete details on the Nextel 8350i at Sprint.com. [via BGR]  Read More →