Recent BlackBerry News
Wrapping up WES 2008 for another year
Well folks today is the last day of RIM's WES (Wireless Enterprise Symposium) for 2008. We saw tons of great news including the announcement of the upcoming 3G BlackBerry Bold. Here is just a wrap up of most the headlines from WES this year:
- RIM announced a $150m BlackBerry Partners Fund
- Windows Live Messenger and Push Hotmail coming soon to BlackBerry
- Introducing the BlackBerry Bold 9000
- Rogers confirms BlackBerry Bold coming soon!
- RIM announces annual Developer Conference
- Meet the Bold's leather battery doors
- RIM and IBM partner up for IBM's expansion into BlackBerry Wireless smartphones
- RIM CEO cracks some jokes about BlackBerry addictions
RIM CEO talks cracks some jokes about BlackBerry addictions
Here's a quick laugh from RIM's CEO Jim Basillie. He talks just about the addictive ways of the BlackBerry and adds some good humor too it. Thanks to CrackBerry for posting this up live from WES.
IBM teams up with RIM to bring Web 2.0 capabilities
RIM and IBM have announced a partnership to team up and mobilize Web 2.0 capabilities, by enhancing IBM's Wireless Solutions for BlackBerry smartphones.
“As the world enters the ‘Era of the Mobile Web’, mobile devices like BlackBerry are outnumbering TV’s, credit cards and PC’s, and are becoming increasingly critical to business operations for companies of all sizes globally,” said Bob Picciano, GM Lotus Software. “Today’s announcement extends the portfolio of IBM’s industry-leading social computing and collaboration offerings available to customers as they increasingly rely on their BlackBerry® smartphones.”
Opera Mini releases new version 4.1
Meet the colorful battery doors for the Bold
RIM is showing off these new colored leather battery doors to go along with their new toy. Apparently this will just be the start of the different battery doors. Obviously customization is another key to RIM's successful consumer targeting for instance take a look at their upcoming BlackBerry Kickstart.
[Source]
RIM to hold BlackBerry Developer Conference
RIM also announced a new annual developer conference aimed at bringing all developers from around the World. The conference is sheduled for October 20th this year in Santa Clara, California.
"Based on growing demand from the BlackBerry development community, we are very pleased to announce a new conference focused on developing consumer and business applications for the BlackBerry platform," said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO at RIM. "The new annual BlackBerry Developer Conference in the fall will complement the successful Wireless Enterprise Symposium held each spring and will provide a dedicated forum to help developers keep pace with advances in the latest hardware, software, tools and best practices for developing on the BlackBerry platform."
Skip on over for the full press release or visit BlackBerryDeveloperConference.com. Read More
BlackBerry Mobile Site gets a new look
Rogers confirms BlackBerry Bold coming soon!
Rogers has just confirmed that they will be launching the BlackBerry Bold in Canada! While they don't announce any launch dates or pricing they simply made a coming soon page. You can asked to be notified when the Bold launches. Visit the Rogers website for details.
BlackBerry Thunder, the touchscreen BlackBerry details
Now according to BGR if Verizon doesn't meet the sales quota projected by RIM then they loose the exclusiveness and other CDMA carriers would be able to launch it (maybe some people in Canada??). I would imagine to see a 3G version coming as well, they're just isn't any details yet on that.
Oh also the image above IS NOT AN ACTUAL image of the device simply a mockup of what it could look like. It’s said the device will sport only four buttons send, end, BlackBerry menu key and back key.
Check out these hot free themes from eVeek
Our friends over at eVeek are celebrating their first birthday and guess what? eVeek is offering three of their premium BlackBerry themes for free! You can choose iBerry, OSX or my favorite Precision (which looks like the new BlackBerry Bold's theme). You can head over to elecite.eveek.com from your computer or elecite.eveek.com/wap from your BlackBerry and check them out.
