BlackBerry Bold Launches Thursday in Canada

by Reuters TORONTO - Rogers Communications Inc, the owner of Canada's biggest wireless carrier, will start offering Research In Motion Ltd's new BlackBerry Bold on Thursday, the Globe and Mail reported on its Web site. The Bold is RIM's most advanced smartphone to date and is the first BlackBerry to support high-speed HSDPA cellular networks. It comes with integrated GPS, Wi-Fi and a host of multimedia features. RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie told Reuters in May that the smartphone, [+]

Google experimenting with voice search on Google Maps for BlackBerry Pearl

BlackBerry Pearl (8110, 8120 and 8130 models) owners in the U.S. can now use their voice to search on Google Maps. The speech recognition technology used is the same as the one on Google's free directory assistance service, GOOG0411. Google Maps for mobile team argues that the new feature is very useful, especially in situations when you can't type, don't know how to spell the name of the business/street, or the name itself is too long. To [+]

BlackBerry Bold hitting Rogers Wireless on July 25th

Canadians may be among the first to get their hands on the upcoming BlackBerry Bold. Ok, John Mayer was first (among the first few, actually), but the close second isn't that bad at all. Apparently, and this is not 100% confirmed, Rogers Wireless will start selling the new BlackBerry starting from July 25th! If that's true — and we honestly hope it is — select launch party invites may actually return home with the device to [+]

BlackBerry Curve 8350 in works for Nextel?

RIM is reportedly preparing another BlackBerry for Nextel's iDEN network. And while you may wonder why would they invest their resources in iDEN, the fact stays that for people looking for push-to-talk service - Nextel rules. In addition, Nextel's service is still being used extensively by some industries, which RIM may want to target as well. Apparently, the Canadian handset maker will make the WiFi-enabled BlackBerry Curve 8350 for Nextel by the end of the year, [+]

BlackBerry Thunder will arrive as BlackBerry 9500 -Cell Phone News and Reviews

BlackBerry Thunder is rumored to steal the thunder out of many of the current touchscreen smart devices being the first touchscreen BlackBerry phone. It has finally been assigned its model number. According to Boy Genius Report, Thunder will be known as BlackBerry 9500. It will have Verizon and Vodafone as carriers in USA and Europe respectively. Scheduled for the third quarter launch this year, BlackBerry 9500 is a full touchscreen phone with 360×480-pixel display devoid [+]

Experiencing T-Mobile - BlackBerry outage? Cell Phone News and Reviews

the die-hard push-email fanatics out there. Which makes it all the more impressive when any BlackBerry service outage is announced ahead of time. T-Mobile has announced that they're are in the process of updating their BlackBerry Internet Email system to version 2.5. And, outages are coming hard and fast. BlackBerry users on T-Mobile's network are already experiencing their first stretches of dead air. Outages should end tomorrow morning (June 29) at 3am PST. In the meantime, any going [+]

BlackBerry Kickstart and Seawolf get official model numbers

There is unconfirmed news that the two much awaited BlackBerry mobile phones have been assigned their model numbers. BlackBerry Kickstart is BlackBerry 8220 and BlackBerry Seawolf will be BlackBerry 8210. While official information on the specifications of both the models has not been released, we have no other options than to depend upon rumors to get a glance of what these models would adorn. Kickstart is supposed to be RIM’s flip phone of this year. It [+]

BlackBerry 8820 replaces the 8800 model on Rogers Wireless

While we're waiting for the BlackBerry 9000 series, Rogers has discontinued the old BlackBerry 8800, only to replace it with the more powerful 8820 model. The newly launched device (at least on Rogers), builds on top of 8800's specs adding WiFi connectivity to the mix. The Blackberry 8820 is already available on the largest Canadian mobile operator and could be yours for CA$349 on a three-year contract (special promo price). The price goes up if you [+]

Blackberry gets yet another IM: Mundu version 4

Blackberry smartphone seems to be bombarded with instant messengers and the latest amongst them is Mundu version 4. Unlike many other IMs you can chat with your friends who are clients of other messengers like the Windows Live, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, Google Talk and Jabber. A special feature that you will really welcome is the multi-client or cross conferencing facilities in which you can just have one chat window open and invite all your friends [+]