Rogers’ budget brand Fido under went some crazy re branding lately. A new rumor has arrived over at BGR and apparently Fido is trying to push out their first BlackBerry smartphone for this Christmas season. Earlier this year Fido killed off their BlackBerry Connect service which only ran on the Nokia E62. Apparently Fido might follow a similar suit to both Solo and Virgin Mobile by offering the Pearl as their first BlackBerry.

One interesting note is Fido seems to want to launch the Pearl 8120, the Wi-Fi enabled BlackBerry. After the Holiday season Fido may launch the BlackBerry Pearl Flip as well.

[BGR]

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!

Rogers is expected to start shipping the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 today. The latest word is that it should be in stores for Halloween day. Pricing has been rumored to start anywhere from $49 and stop at $149 depending on rebates (with three year contract). The Pearl Flip will be available in both Black or Pink at launch. With any luck maybe they will pick up a the red or silver ones as well.

As well Rogers should be close to launching the Wi-Fi/UMA BlackBerry Curve 8320. Dummies arrived in store for it as well.

Check out the shots that Treatz from HowardForums sent into CrackBerry:

Mobile Syrup managed to get their hands on a pre-production BlackBerry Curve 8900 (Javelin). This second edition Curve is expected to hit Rogers later this year or early 2009. Check out their video review and see what they think of this hot new Curve.

The Curve 8900 features OS 4.7 similar to the BlackBerry Bold, 3.2 megapixel camera with auto-focus, Wi-Fi, large high resolution 480×360 display and GPS. Basically its a smaller verison of the Bold without the 3G part. Enjoy the video!

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It was a little bit of a quieter week on the BlackBerry side. Even though the first ever BlackBerry Developers Conference was in play. RIM did announce several new things such as the BlackBerry Application Center, Web Signals and updated Developer tools. Check out all of this weeks news:

October 20-26, 2008:

- BlackBerry Developer Conference starts October 20th

- Rogers 2009 BlackBerry Lineup revealed

- BlackBerry Storm to feature McAfee Mobile Security trial

- Six new high quailty BlackBerry videos

- T-Mobile Curve 8320 gets OS 4.5 finally

- RIM sends tons of Press Releases - Introduces Application Center, Web Signals and updates Developer tools

- BlackBerry Storm blows into FCC and passes

- AT&T’s San Fran Bold party!

- RIM, AT&T announce BlackBerry Bold finally coming to USA on Nov. 4th

- Live hands-on BlackBerry Storm pics from Developers Conference

- BrickBreaker Touch Screen Edition for Storm

- TELUS gives then takes back Streaming Media (Youtube)

- Review of Flipside MP3 application for BlackBerry

- BlackBerry Premium headphones in stock at BlackBerry Sync Store

And that’s what went on for this week. Stay tuned for another exciting week in the BlackBerry world!

We missed this one over the weekend. Boy Genius has released Rogers’ 2009 Blackberry lineup! Its filled with one new device every quarter and it will all start off with the BlackBerry Curve 8900 (formally known as Javelin) in Q1 then followed by a BlackBerry Storm varriant in Q2, BlackBerry “Magnum” (Curve 8900 with 3G) for Q3 and last but not least the BlackBerry Pluto (Bold-like device with touchscreen) for Q4 of 2009. Keep in mind they most likely won’t be getting the internal names and call the devices Magnum and Pluto. Also we should expect to see several new devices at WES (Wireless Enterprise Symposium) 2009 :-).

Future Shop has let cat out of the bag and has the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 available on thier site. The Pearl Flip will be available in both Black or Pink for $49.99 with three year term. The Pearl Flip is not available from Rogers directly just yet and its looks like Future Shop is only offering this in store. Stay tuned for an official release from Rogers real soon…

Check out FutureShop.com for details >>

[via MobileSyrup]

Yesterday BBCool broke news about Rogers possibly getting the BlackBerry Storm 9500 before Christmas. When they called into Rogers Customer Service the rep claims that they will be receiving a touch screen BlackBerry for the Christmas season. Usually Rogers CSR’s are contracted out and don’t have a clue whats going on. So we highly doubt that Rogers will be getting a BlackBerry Storm this year and the folks over at BGR have pointed out why… Read the full story

A image that MobileInCanada has received appears to show the upcoming BlackBerry Pearl 8220 in Pink. We know Rogers will be launching the black colored Pearl 8220 almost anytime, but this image sure does look pink to us. You will also notice pricing will start at $49 with three year contract. Looks like a launch is getting really close…

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Rogers did confirm that they will be launching the new flip BlackBerry Pearl 8220. However they now have a website setup called YouAskedForIt.ca which will allow you to register and be notified when Rogers officially launches the new Pearl.

It’s expected that Rogers will launch the new Pearl Flip sometime this month or early next month (October). Pricing has not been confirmed, but its expected to be around $150 with three year contract.

[VIa MobileSyrup]