A Verizon insider scooped up details about when exactly the BlackBerry Storm 9530 will launch. The tipster says the Storm will be launching in VZW corporate stores come November 15th and Best Buy the day after. Exact pricing still is unknown. He also posted a screen shot of what accessories Verizon will have for the Storm. Verizon stores are said to be opening an hour earlier the week of the launch to handle the sales. Read More
Details have arrived of what Bell’s Q4 is getting ready to look like for this Holiday Season. Let’s start off with the most important detail. Bell is launching their BlackBerry Storm 9530 on November 21st along with a ton of other non BlackBerry phones. Bell’s discount brand Solo Mobile will be launching the white BlackBerry Pearl 8130 for Christmas as well.
Bell will also offer $30 for unlimited on device data (without or without voice plan). Not only that but Bell will release several new features including Roll Over Minutes. All we can say is this makes us wonder what TELUS has in store for Christmas?
[Via BGR]
Our buddy Simon from IntoMobile managed to get his hands on a live BlackBerry Storm during the Developers Conference this week. He snapped a few pictures showing off the size and compared it to his BlackBerry Bold. You can see all the pics at IntoMobile. This will have to hold us off until we get our hands on one next month (hopefully)…
Being day two of RIM’s first ever Developer Conference brought lots of press releases. RIM introduced the Application Center similar to Apple and Google’s App stores. This will allow developers to sell applications and receive payments via Paypal. The App Center wasn’t a very big surprise after it was leaked weeks ago.
Check out all the press releases RIM sent out today: Read More
I know it seems everything is so BlackBerry Storm related lately and I’m sorry to those who are sick of it. But anyways Engadget has posted six new videos of the BlackBerry Storm today. The new videos cover how to Surf the web on the device, under the battery, everyday use, VZ Navigator, how to place a call and how to email. Enjoy the vids! Read More
It seems that the Verizon BlackBerry Storm will be packing a trial of McAfee’s Mobile Security software out of the box. Mobile Security scans all attachments, files, messages and downloads to ensure they won’t harm your brand spanking new Storm. There is no word as to how much it will cost after the trial to buy.
[Via BBCool]
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 >>
Boy Genius plans to keep everyone jumpy until WES 2009. Seems BG got a tip that RIM is working on a Storm-like Bold-like design. Apparently RIM will be showing off at WES 2009 (I know its a long ways away) this new touch screen model which is similar to the Bold and upcoming Curve 8900 (Javelin). It will compete directly with Palm’s touch screen models. So because this is very early information no official codename or model is known. Check out his mock up of this Treo Berry like device. Now I guess its time to sit back and wait for more details…
A recent report done by research firm iSuppli shows that it costs RIM $169.41 to build each BlackBerry Bold. That’s quite a nice markup considering it costs $649.99 CAD with no contract from Rogers. The report says that materials for the Bold cost $158.16 and assembly and testing cost $11.25 bringing the total to $169.41. Another interesting fact is that the BlackBerry Curve only costs RIM $103.00 in materials. Gee I wonder how much the Pearl costs?
Looks like you don’t have to wait for the BlackBerry Curve 8900 (Javelin) to run safe mode on your BlackBerry. Apparently the newer version of OS 4.6 for the BlackBerry Bold will be featuring safe mode. What this means is if your running a third party application and it causes your BlackBerry OS to die you can boot it into safe mode and fix it (think Windows).
To activate safe mode:
1. Remove and reinsert the battery
2. Wait for the red LED light to go out when that happens HOLD the escape (back) key.
3. When dialog appears asking you to enter safe mode select yes
[BBNews]
