Tag: "curve"

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BlackBerry Curve 8350i in the wild!

By James on Nov 25, 2008 in BlackBerry, Curve 8300 Series, Featured News, Sprint-Nextel, USA.

The folks over at BGR got their hands on a live BlackBerry Curve 8350i. This is the latest in the iDEN BlackBerry lineup, which will launch on Sprint-Nextel sometime in December and on TELUS’ Mike early next year for Canada. Here’s a few bullets from what The Boy Genius had to say about it:

  • The 8350i has a 2.5mm headset jack, not a 3.5mm one, and it comes with a 2.5mm headset in the box.
  • Ships with the much beloved plastic holster, not the leather holster we’re accustomed to.
  • There’s a small size difference. It’s around 2mm taller and 1mm thicker than the other Curves (8300, 8310, 8320, 8330).
  • The PTT button can not be reassigned as a convenience key.
  • Instead of using the same battery as the Curve, the 8350i uses the BlackBerry 8800-series batteries.
  • The side keys are now black instead of being chromed
  • We were told the device isn’t a real beast in terms of the signal department. “It can’t get a stable signal to save its life once it boots up”

(see the whole gallery at BGR)

[BGR]

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Virgin Mobile Canada intros BlackBerry Curve 8330

By James on Nov 24, 2008 in BlackBerry, Canada, Curve 8300 Series, RIM, Virgin Mobile.

Virgin Mobile Canada has just introduced their second BlackBerry smartphone. The BlackBerry Curve 8330 will join the Pearl in Virgin’s holiday lineup. The Curve will start at $49.99 with three year term or be $429.99 without contract. In order to take part in the special pricing you are required to take one of Virgin’s BlackBerry bundles which start at $15/month extra for Unlimited Personal or Work email and IM. As a bonus Virgin is including an 8GB microSD memory card with your purchase! You should be able to pick them up starting today at most Virgin Mobile stores or online.

[MobileSyrup]

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BlackBerry Curve 8350i to churp on TELUS Mike soon?

By James on Nov 18, 2008 in BlackBerry, Canada, Curve 8300 Series, Exclusives, Rumors, Telus.

Our TELUS ninja has reported that TELUS’ Mike iDEN network will finally see a new BlackBerry soon. The BlackBerry Curve 8350i is the new addition to the iDEN BlackBerry lineup (joining the 7100i and 7520i). It will feature Wi-Fi, OS 4.6, Direct Connect (PTT) and a little more ruggid but similar design to the current Curve 8300 series. Unfortunantly for now this ninja doesn’t have an exact release but they are expecting it to come soon with tons of accessories to make it a more consumer friendly market.

So what do you think? Will TELUS introduce two BlackBerry smartphones (Storm and iDen Curve) in the month of December or will they wait until early next year??

Thanks, Frogger

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BlackBerry Curve 8900 Simulator Now Available

By James on Nov 16, 2008 in BlackBerry, Curve 8900 Series, Downloads, RIM.

Now that the BlackBerry Curve 8900 is official, RIM has released the Curve 8900 device simulator for developers. This simulator helps developers testing applications they are designing to make sure they work perfect on the OS 4.6.1. So if your bored and you want something to test out check out the device simulator available for download here.

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Canada’s hot BlackBerry deals! $0 Pearls, $25 Pearl Flips..

By James on Nov 14, 2008 in Bell, BlackBerry, Canada, Hot Deals, Pearl 8100 Series, Pearl Flip 8200 Series, Rogers, Telus, Virgin Mobile.

The Holiday Shopping season is now starting in full swing. The competitive pricing on BlackBerry smartphones is here. Both Bell and TELUS both now have their popular BlackBerry Pearl 8130 for $0 with three year term and Rogers is offering their new BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 for only $24.99 with three year term as well.

Let’s take a quick peak into the deals between the big three and see who is winning.

Bell: Currently offering Pearl 8130 for $0 (in four colors) and Curve 8330 for $99 (two colors) with three year terms.

TELUS: Currently offering the same pricing as Bell. Free Pearl 8130 (choice of 5 colors) and $99 Curve 8330 (choice of 3 colors) with three year terms.

Rogers: Currently offering Pearl Flip for $24.99 (choice of two colors), Curve 8320 (one color) for $99, Bold 9000 for $199, Pearl 8110 or 8120 for $49, Curve 8310 (three colors) for $99 all with three year terms.

Virgin Mobile: Currently only offering the Pearl 8130 in one color for $0 with three year term. Should be offering the Curve 8330 sometime this month as well.

Then of course if you wait just a little bit you should be able to pick up a BlackBerry Storm 9530 from either Bell or TELUS for an unknown price..

After you pick up your new BlackBerry smartphone head on over to The BlackBerry Sync Store and get it setup with hot new accessories and software!

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BlackBerry Curve 8900 passes thru FCC

By James on Nov 13, 2008 in AT&T (Cingular), BlackBerry, Curve 8900 Series, Rumors, T-Mobile, USA.

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?

FCC Reports

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T-Mobile launches BlackBerry Curve 8900

By James on Nov 12, 2008 in BlackBerry, Curve 8900 Series, Featured News, International Networks, RIM, RIM Press Release.


(stay tuned for actual press shots from RIM…)

Early this morning T-Mobile Germany and RIM announced the release of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 (formally known as Javelin). Available Mid-November, the Curve 8900 is the latest upgrade in the Curve series of smartphones. It features a large 2.4″ high resolution display, 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, enhanced media player with podcast support, EDGE, Wi-Fi, OS 4.6 and a thinner desig with full QWERTY keyboard.

The Curve 8900 will cost 359 Euros ($450 USD) with no contract or 4.95 Euros with 24 month contract. Now that T-Mobile Germany has announced this new Curve. Announcements from AT&T, Maybe T-Mobile USA? and Rogers can’t be too far behind.

Interesting enough in this announcement they didn’t make any comments to a newly re-designed trackball? Originally it was said that the Curve 8900 would launch with an Atomic trackball. I wonder if thats still a go? Read More

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Get a free BlackBerry Decal Girl skin from Bell

By James on Nov 07, 2008 in 8800 series, Bell, BlackBerry, Canada, Curve 8300 Series, Hot Deals, Pearl 8100 Series.

You may or may not have heard about Decal Girl. They offer unique vinyl skins for your BlackBerry and a matching wall paper to go with it. Anyways Bell and Decal Girl have teamed up to offer this unique skin and wallpaper combo for the BlackBerry Pearl, Curve or 8830 for free when your purchase a new Bell lackBerry.

Details at bell.decalgirl.com

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A New Premium BlackBerry Theme from Elecite

By James on Nov 03, 2008 in BlackBerry, Downloads, Themes.

Our friends from Elecite have created a new premium theme called “Cynosure”. This premium theme is self-customizable meaning you change the icons to your pleasure. This theme can be purchased for any Curve, Pearl or 8800 device running OS 4.5 or higher. If your device isn’t running opertaing system 4.5 the theme will not work unfortunantly.

Check out Cynosure theme from Elecite.com >>

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AT&T branded BlackBerry Curve 8900 reviewed

By James on Oct 31, 2008 in AT&T (Cingular), BlackBerry, Curve 8900 Series, USA.

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 >>

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