We’re going old school! This is one of the first themes we used on BlackBerrySync.com, and we’ve got back. Please ignore the temporary look of the site, I’m hoping to have it fixed by the end of the week. Turns out BBSync has been extremely slow over the past week, and I’m trying to ease the load of the servers, until we figure out exactly whats going on. I appricate your patience and promise we’ve got some exciting news and giveaways over the next few weeks.

- The BBSync team

The team over at TmoNews are reporting that T-Mobile is getting ready to launched a free BlackBerry trackball replacement program. The program which is reported to be starting February 15th and will be offered FREE of charge to any customers with a BlackBerry Pearl 8100/8120 or Curve 8320. More details should arrive later next month from T-Mobile directly. Personally I would love to see other carriers start offering this program as well. I wonder if it’s RIM sponsored?

Its no secret that it was on the way, but today Virgin Mobile Canada officially went live with their HSPA+ network, thanks to Bell. With the launch of their new network comes several HSPA+ devices, including the BlackBerry Bold 9700 and iPhone. Virgin currently has the BlackBerry Bold 9700 listed at $149.99 with three year contract (with voice and data plan), or $549.99 without contract. This pricing is pretty similar around the major three networks here in Canada. Virgin also launched the BlackBerry Curve 8530 for their CDMA lineup at $49.99 with three year contract, or $399.99 without. If you want to grab more details head over to virginmobile.ca and check it out.

In need of a Bell BlackBerry? Well Bell has a great deal for you. In order to clear out stock, Bell has dropped the price of the first BlackBerry Storm (9530). You can now grab the Storm 9530 for $249.95 without contract, $99.95 with two year contract, or $0 with three year contract. This is a smoking deal for the Storm! espically since Bell has launched OS 5.0 for their Storm, which makes it like a whole new phone. I’m curious to see if Bell still plans on launching the Storm2 9550, or if they passed for something better?

For more details head over to Bell.ca or your local Bell store.

[via MobileSyrup]

If you’ve been on the hunt for some good BlackBerry games, then we have a treat for you! From now until January 30th the BlackBerry Sync Store is featuring our top 10 selling BlackBerry games at 50% off! This means you can grab fun games like Aces Traffic Pack, Addictive Tower Defense, Air Traffic Control, Bubble Defense, Druglord wars, Fierce Towers, Labyrinth, and others all at 50% off! Follow the link below to grab one today.

Head over to the Mobile Heist Sale at the BlackBerry Sync Store

Have you heard of WhatsApp before? It’s a smartphone-to-smartphone messaging application, which was originally designed for the iPhone. It seems that the developers have decided to take it one step further by bringing their popular WhatsApp to BlackBerry. WhatsApp has been desigend to allow easy instant messaging between different types of smartphones such as iPhone to BlackBerry. WhatsApp has no monthly charge, just the one time download fee. The WhatApps Messenger is now available from BlackBerry App World for just under $3. For more details visit WhatsApp.com or BlackBerry App World.

Remember the pictures that showed up last week of the un-released, now scrapped BlackBerry Magnum? It’s the touchscreen QWERTY hybrid smartphone, that was actually scrapped by RIM.Here’s a quick video of the device proving that it’s actually real, however there is no OS loaded on the device so its pretty much just a paper weight. We know that this prototype code-named “Magnum” will never actually go into production, and that RIM has canceled this project, in light for some newer, and better. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before we see something else similar…

[via The Cellular Guru]

It has been said that all good things must come to an end, and so has our InstantLog Contest. I have the winners and their comments. We’d like to thank everyone who participated in the contest with their comments, and Rory of Twinker Software, LLC for his donation. And the winners are…

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I’d like to thank everyone who participated in our contest, and a big thanks goes out to Owen of MMMOOO who was enough to give us our prizes. Some of the comments were really nice, and I’m going to let you know who they are and a comment or two as well. Drum roll please….

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Maybe this is considered a controlled leak to RIM? This morning they published on Facebook that the BlackBerry Tour 9650 is coming soon. In case you don’t know about this model its the direct replacement for the 9630, which will bring the same overall size and look, but update the device with an optical trackpad and Wi-Fi. Anyone out there excited for this??

[via CrackBerry]