T-Mobile sale: 25% off touchscreen and BlackBerry prepay mobiles

T-Mobile is doing another sale on prepay mobiles, this time it’s 25% off all touchscreen and BlackBerry pay as you go phones – and for 48 hours.The offer begins at 10am on Tuesday September 21st and runs until 10am on Thursday September 23rd.More here

RIM BlackBerry 'T' (Talladega?) slider launching next month

The first sliding BlackBerry, AKA Tallageda (or T), could be winging its way to shelves as soon as April.Mobilephone-news has reported that the CEO of a RIM supplier mentioned the BlackBerry T as a device to launch next month.The claim appeared on joins.com, a Korean website and was translated as:"The Canadian company RIM famous for BlackBerry smartphones is releasing a new model next month.

YouMail App for BlackBerry, Android, and iPhone

One of my dear friends, Rock, suffered a terrible loss the other day. Her sweet elderly Verizon phone suffered a total malfunction and died. It was a sad day. Not just for her, but for those of us who want to contact her. Lacking an adequate equipment replacement program, she has been incommunicado for days. Until YouMail came to save the day.YouMail was able to recover the voicemails from her

BlackBerry 9700 spotted

Not too long ago, we received leaked specifications on the BlackBerry 9700. Now, our friends over at CrackBerry seem to have spotted an actual BlackBerry 9700 in the flesh, the very first T-Mobile 3G BlackBerry.As described by the person who found it, the phone has a “trackpad”, as opposed to a “trackball” we’ve seen in previous models. The color of the model is described as “silver-chrome”. It

BlackBerry Curve 8520 announced by Airtel for India

Airtel, India’s largest mobile carrier (about 100 million customers) has announced the upcoming availability of RIM’s brand new BlackBerry Curve 8520 (also known as BlackBerry Gemini).Indian customers will be able to buy the smartphone starting August 7, at the retail price of 15,990 INR (about $336).The 8520 is the only (for now) BlackBerry Curve to have an optical trackpad instead of RIM’s

BlackBerry Messenger 5.0 Now Out

We know many of you have waited for this moment to come. The latest BlackBerry Messenger 5.0 has been leaked yesterday and appears to be available on most new BlackBerry's from OS 4.5 through OS 5.1. Direct download links for different models are available here.

Can you manage the iPhone like a BlackBerry?

The iPhone OS 3.0 adds improved support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync policies

Users love the iPhone, but IT does not. The biggest complaints: The iPhone can't be managed for security and access policies like a BlackBerry can. Businesses can buy a BlackBerry Enterprise Server or Motorola Good for Enterprise server to manage user profiles over the air, ensuring that users conform to password policies, encryption policies, app-installation restrictions, and so on, as well as have their e-mail, VPN, and other settings preconfigured to reduce hands-on deployment effort.

For some time now, Apple's offered its free iPhone Configuration Utility for Windows and Mac that lets IT set up and install configuration profiles on iPhones in BlackBerry-like breadth. But it doesn't provide the over-the-air reach, the granularity of control, or the visibility that BlackBerry Enterprise Server offers. Lacking these key needs of larger businesses, iPhone Configuration Utility has been dismissed as a toy application.

[via Computer World]

Get a Free iPhone 3GS! Yes, that is correct! Stay away from the trouble of earning enough to pay for it for you can get it the simple way .... straight to your doorstep! Free! Interested? Then find out how to get a Free iPhone 3GS!

Can you manage the iPhone like a BlackBerry?

The iPhone OS 3.0 adds improved support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync policies

Users love the iPhone, but IT does not. The biggest complaints: The iPhone can't be managed for security and access policies like a BlackBerry can. Businesses can buy a BlackBerry Enterprise Server or Motorola Good for Enterprise server to manage user profiles over the air, ensuring that users conform to password policies, encryption policies, app-installation restrictions, and so on, as well as have their e-mail, VPN, and other settings preconfigured to reduce hands-on deployment effort.

For some time now, Apple's offered its free iPhone Configuration Utility for Windows and Mac that lets IT set up and install configuration profiles on iPhones in BlackBerry-like breadth. But it doesn't provide the over-the-air reach, the granularity of control, or the visibility that BlackBerry Enterprise Server offers. Lacking these key needs of larger businesses, iPhone Configuration Utility has been dismissed as a toy application.

[via Computer World]

Get a Free iPhone 3GS! Yes, that is correct! Stay away from the trouble of earning enough to pay for it for you can get it the simple way .... straight to your doorstep! Free! Interested? Then find out how to get a Free iPhone 3GS!

What Would a Free iPhone Do for Sales?

How much difference will dropping the price of an iPhone from $199 to $99 make in Apple’s sales?

If you are being rational, it shouldn’t make that much of a difference, given that the $30 per month data plan costs $720 over two years. In other words the $100 price cut only reflects an 11 percent reduction in the total cost.

But since when were people rational? A year ago, Apple dropped the upfront cost of an iPhone from $399 to $199, but AT&T increased the monthly data plan’s cost by $10 a month (leading to a net increase in cost of $40 over two years.) The result: sales in the United States doubled, according to an analysis by Gene Munster, the analyst at Piper Jaffray. (There’s more to the increase of sales of course. The second generation iPhone was much faster and the App Store has been creating lots of new reasons for people to buy an iPhone.)

Mr. Munster continues to believe that this year’s price cut will help drive iPhone sales even higher. Indeed, he predicts that Apple will sell more of last year’s 3G phones at $99 than it will this year’s 3GS models, which are faster and have video recording capability, at $199 and $299. (I know you, Bits readers are early adopters and would likely spend the extra $100 if you were in an iPhone-buying mood, but not everyone takes gadgets as seriously as you do.)

“Ninety nine dollars is a magic price point,” he said. That’s on the low side for top-tier smart phones. AT&T is currently selling a refurbished Blackberry Curve at that price, and Verizon has the aging Palm Centro at $49.

Apple is also throwing a sharp elbow at Palm, Google and anyone else that might be tempted to compete with Apple by undercutting the iPhone’s price.

[via NY Times]

Get a Free iPhone! Yes, that is correct! Stay away from the trouble of earning enough to pay for it for you can get it the simple way .... straight to your doorstep! Free! Interested? Then find out how to get a Free iPhone!

What Would a Free iPhone Do for Sales?

How much difference will dropping the price of an iPhone from $199 to $99 make in Apple’s sales?

If you are being rational, it shouldn’t make that much of a difference, given that the $30 per month data plan costs $720 over two years. In other words the $100 price cut only reflects an 11 percent reduction in the total cost.

But since when were people rational? A year ago, Apple dropped the upfront cost of an iPhone from $399 to $199, but AT&T increased the monthly data plan’s cost by $10 a month (leading to a net increase in cost of $40 over two years.) The result: sales in the United States doubled, according to an analysis by Gene Munster, the analyst at Piper Jaffray. (There’s more to the increase of sales of course. The second generation iPhone was much faster and the App Store has been creating lots of new reasons for people to buy an iPhone.)

Mr. Munster continues to believe that this year’s price cut will help drive iPhone sales even higher. Indeed, he predicts that Apple will sell more of last year’s 3G phones at $99 than it will this year’s 3GS models, which are faster and have video recording capability, at $199 and $299. (I know you, Bits readers are early adopters and would likely spend the extra $100 if you were in an iPhone-buying mood, but not everyone takes gadgets as seriously as you do.)

“Ninety nine dollars is a magic price point,” he said. That’s on the low side for top-tier smart phones. AT&T is currently selling a refurbished Blackberry Curve at that price, and Verizon has the aging Palm Centro at $49.

Apple is also throwing a sharp elbow at Palm, Google and anyone else that might be tempted to compete with Apple by undercutting the iPhone’s price.

[via NY Times]

Get a Free iPhone! Yes, that is correct! Stay away from the trouble of earning enough to pay for it for you can get it the simple way .... straight to your doorstep! Free! Interested? Then find out how to get a Free iPhone!

Verizon officially announces the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230

Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion (RIM) announced today the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 smartphone will be available on the nation’s largest 3G broadband network beginning June 19.The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 features the industry’s leading mobile e-mail and messaging solution combined with rich multimedia capabilities and the high-speed connectivity of Verizon Wireless’ broadband network

BlackBerry Tour on Bell

According to BGR, the BlackBerry Tour will soon be available on Bell. The leaked shots didn't give us clue on the release date. * Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, UMTS/HSDPA 2100MHz; * GPS; * 480×360 display; * 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, flash, image stabilization; * Video recording; * QWERTY keyboard; * OS 4.7.1, but possibly OS 5.0 at launch

AT&T Cuts Prices for BlackBerry Curve and Bold

To all AT&T customers: if you wanted to get a high-end BlackBerry handset, today's your chance. The carrier has lowered the prices for the Curve 8900 and Bold models, but for a limited time only. Here are the prices: * BalckBerry Curve 8900 - $149.99 on contract after rebate (instead of $199.99) * BalckBerry Bold - $199.99 on contract after rebate (instead of $299.99)

Verizon BlackBerry Storm 9530 Getting An Official Update Sunday?

CrackBerry got official word that Verizon will be releasing OS 4.7.0.148 for the BlackBerry Storm 9530 tomorrow, May 31st! Verizon has additionally mentioned that it will release the update to customers as an over-the-air download starting at 10PM EDT. Verizon has not specified what enhancements and bug fixes the update addresses, only noting that it “improves the overall user experience.”“

Does the iPhone need a real keyboard?

The other day, as I sat waiting for Jeff Bezos to appear in an auditorium to announce the new Kindle DX, I was surrounded by iPhones. Literally. Two people to my right, two people in front of me, and three people in back of me were all tapping out IMs or e-mails on their iPhones. What struck me was how awkward most of these people looked, tapping away with a single finger, laboring to type sentences just a few lines long.

Now I know some people can type quickly using the iPhone's virtual keyboard. A week earlier I'd witnessed a woman, her iPhone sitting on a table, taping with two fingers at a highly elevated rate (the rat-tat-tat of her typing on the table was quite noisy, which drew onlookers). But there are still a lot of people out there who just can't get used to typing on the iPhone. And many a BlackBerry user has told me she will never be able to switch to the iPhone because she needs a physical keyboard.

My wife is a case in point. She lives on her Blackberry and can type emails with astonishing speed. When she was required recently to get a "personal" cell phone separate from her work cell phone, she opted to get the exact same BlackBerry Curve on AT&T that she used for work--even though she could have gotten the iPhone for the same price (at least in terms of hardware costs). She's a BlackBerry user through and through, even after a couple of her BlackBerries broke (more on that in a minute).

[via CNET]

Get a Free iPhone! Yes, that is correct! Stay away from the trouble of earning enough to pay for it for you can get it the simple way .... straight to your doorstep! Free! Interested? Then find out how to get a Free iPhone!

Does the iPhone need a real keyboard?

The other day, as I sat waiting for Jeff Bezos to appear in an auditorium to announce the new Kindle DX, I was surrounded by iPhones. Literally. Two people to my right, two people in front of me, and three people in back of me were all tapping out IMs or e-mails on their iPhones. What struck me was how awkward most of these people looked, tapping away with a single finger, laboring to type sentences just a few lines long.

Now I know some people can type quickly using the iPhone's virtual keyboard. A week earlier I'd witnessed a woman, her iPhone sitting on a table, taping with two fingers at a highly elevated rate (the rat-tat-tat of her typing on the table was quite noisy, which drew onlookers). But there are still a lot of people out there who just can't get used to typing on the iPhone. And many a BlackBerry user has told me she will never be able to switch to the iPhone because she needs a physical keyboard.

My wife is a case in point. She lives on her Blackberry and can type emails with astonishing speed. When she was required recently to get a "personal" cell phone separate from her work cell phone, she opted to get the exact same BlackBerry Curve on AT&T that she used for work--even though she could have gotten the iPhone for the same price (at least in terms of hardware costs). She's a BlackBerry user through and through, even after a couple of her BlackBerries broke (more on that in a minute).

[via CNET]

Get a Free iPhone! Yes, that is correct! Stay away from the trouble of earning enough to pay for it for you can get it the simple way .... straight to your doorstep! Free! Interested? Then find out how to get a Free iPhone!

BlackBerry Niagara is actually Tour?

Of course, this is not official, but a rumor has it that the upcoming BlackBerry handset known today as Niagara will be renamed to BB Tour when it's released. We have no idea why would RIM decide to rename it, but if they do, we won't cry and accept the change. Now, what variant do you prefer?

Sprint Launches Camera-less BlackBerry Curve 8350i

First launched in December 2008 last year, the BlackBerry Curve 8350i is now available in camera-less version for users that do not want to have a built in camera. The BlackBerry Curve 8350i is the first push-to-talk BlackBerry smartphone and comes with built-in WiFi, group connect, GPS and instant connections between the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru with

Amazon Launches Shopping App for BlackBerry

Amazon.com, Inc. today announced its latest mobile offering for customers– “Amazon App for BlackBerry,” which is now available as a free download directly from Amazon.com at www.amazon.com/blackberry_app.Designed specifically for the BlackBerry, the app offers customers who use a BlackBerry device with a track ball a quick and simple way to find, discover, and buy products from Amazon.com and

RIM launches BlackBerry Storm smartphone in Hong Kong

Already available in many regions, the BlackBerry Storm has been announced for Hong Kong this week, though pricing and service plan detail are not revealed yet. The BlackBerry Storm smartphone is expected to be available in Hong Kong from 1O1O, 3 Hong Kong, China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited, one2free and SmarTone-Vodafone in the second quarter 2009.The BlackBerry Storm smartphone brings