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August 17, 2010
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U.S. Cellular to carry BlackBerry Bold 9650 starting tomorrow

By on August 17, 2010 at 12:07 PM.

U.S. Cellular to carry BlackBerry Bold 9650 starting tomorrow

The folks over at U.S. Cellular have announced that they will begin offering the BlackBerry Bold 9650 to their customers on August 18th. The CDMA/GSM 9650 is identical to the model that has been available on Sprint and Verizon Wireless for the last several months. Here are the Cliff’s Notes on the device: EV-DO Rev. A, UMTS/HSPA 2100 MHz, quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 512 MB RAM, 3.2 megapixel camera, and the unit is BlackBerry 6 ready. The phone will retail for $230 with a 2-year contract and a $70 mail-in rebate will be available at time of purchase. The full release is after the break. More →

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General
August 6, 2010
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BlackBerry 6 pictured running on Verizon Bold 9650

By on August 6, 2010 at 11:44 PM.

BlackBerry 6 pictured running on Verizon Bold 9650

BlackBerry 6, RIM’s latest smartphone operating system, was first announced back in April of this year at WES (BlackBerry’s annual conference). This week, we finally got to see BB 6 running on real live hardware with the announcement of the BlackBerry Torch 9800. And now, we have images of the new OS running on some already released hardware, the BlackBerry Bold 9650. BBLeaks has received images BlackBerry running on the Verizon variant of the Bold 9650. RIM announced that it would make BlackBerry 6 available carriers who sold the Bold 9700, Bold 9650, and Pearl 3G handsets. BBLeaks reports that this preliminary build is a bit “sluggish” on the 9650, even with 512 MB of RAM. Definitely cause for concern for Bold 9700 and Pearl 3G owners who only pack half that amount of memory. We’ve got a couple more images ready for you after the break. More →

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Breaking
August 3, 2010
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BlackBerry 6 to be available for Bold 9700 and 9650, Pearl 3G

By on August 3, 2010 at 11:45 AM.

BlackBerry 6 to be available for Bold 9700 and 9650, Pearl 3G

Via a press release, RIM has announced that BlackBerry 6, which will debut on the BlackBerry Torch 9800, will also be available for the BlackBerry Bold 9700 and 9650, as well as the BlackBerry Pearl 3G. Great news for all you Bold owners out there (sorry 9000 owners)! Here is the official verbiage from the release:

BlackBerry 6 will debut on the new BlackBerry® Torch™ smartphone (announced today) available from AT&T on August 12 and it is also designed to run on select BlackBerry smartphones already in market. Subject to carrier certifications in the months ahead, the new OS is expected to be available for the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700, BlackBerry® Bold™ 9650 and BlackBerry® Pearl™ 3G, as well as future BlackBerry smartphones.

The OS will be available, pending carrier approval, in the coming months. Hit the jump to view the full release. More →

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mobile
July 30, 2010
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BlackBerry Bold 9780 appears on video again

By on July 30, 2010 at 12:14 PM.

BlackBerry Bold 9780 appears on video again

Thank you may I have another? Today, Salomondrin has decided to jump in on the BlackBerry Bold 9780 video fun. The blogger has posted up a seven minute video showing off the hardware and software of the not-so-secret 9780. Hit the jump and check out the video if you’re interested. Enjoy!

[Via Crackberry] More →

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mobile
July 29, 2010
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BlackBerry 9780 running BlackBerry 6 seen on video

By on July 29, 2010 at 12:34 PM.

BlackBerry 9780 running BlackBerry 6 seen on video

If you can’t wait until Tuesday to see what BlackBerry 6 is going to look like, blog driphter.com may have something for you. The blog posted a five minute video of an unreleased BlackBerry 9780 — the purported successor to the Bold 9700 — running BlackBerry OS 6. The video gives us a little taste of what the new WebKit browser and spiffified interface are going to look like. If you’re excited — and judging by our poll yesterday, a lot of you are — hit the jump, we’ve got the video all queued up for you. More →

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Retail
June 23, 2010
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Rogers to drop the price on the BlackBerry Bold 9700 to $0?

By on June 23, 2010 at 11:00 PM.

Rogers to drop the price on the BlackBerry Bold 9700 to $0?

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Leaked signage from a Roger’s source suggests that the BlackBerry Bold 9700 has literally hit rock bottom. According to the placard, the Bold 9700 will be on sale for $0 with a three year customer agreement. It remains to be seen whether this price drop is a temporary sale or a more permanent means to move inventory in anticipation of a bigger and better Bold on the way. Regardless of the reason, customers eying the original Bold as a backup phone or an introductory phone for a BlackBerry virgin would be wise to snag one when the price hits zero. More →

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mobile
June 15, 2010
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BlackBerry 9800 slider to be named Torch?

By on June 15, 2010 at 10:40 PM.

BlackBerry 9800 slider to be named Torch?

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Crackberry has several sources who claim that the BlackBerry 9800 will launch with a new moniker; the Torch. It was originally thought that the full-QWERTY, slider phone would join the 9000, 9650, and 9700 in the Bold family (for us, putting it in the Storm line would have made more sense). The rumor is further substantiated by the fact that the domain name blackberrytorch.com was registered last April by Research In Motion. What do you think? BlackBerry Torch. You like? More →

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Breaking
June 2, 2010
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BlackBerry Bold 9650 coming to Verizon Wireless tomorrow

By on June 2, 2010 at 9:04 AM.

BlackBerry Bold 9650 coming to Verizon Wireless tomorrow

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Alright, BlackBerry fans. It’s time to double-check your bank balance and when you’re current contract is set to expire, as Verizon has just officially announced it will be releasing the BlackBerry Bold 9650 tomorrow, June 3rd. To be available online only for the first week, brick and mortar stores will begin selling the 9650 exactly one week later on June 10th. The cost? $149.99 on a 2-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate. Not too shabby. Anyone planning on picking up the successor to the tuh-tuh-Tour? More →

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Featured
May 31, 2010
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Sprint BlackBerry Bold 9650 Review

By on May 31, 2010 at 8:02 AM.

Sprint BlackBerry Bold 9650 Review

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Ah, a Tour owner’s dream. The BlackBerry Bold 9650 started life out as the BlackBerry Tour2. It then went through a late-stage metamorphosis and received a memory upgrade and name change for a couple of different reasons. One of the reasons is to utilize a positive product name RIM has built (the Bold line), and another would be to prevent hundreds of thousands of angry BlackBerry owners from practically taking over the entire city of Waterloo, Canada. You see, the BlackBerry Bold 9650 is what the Tour should have originally been, and by releasing a Tour2 under a year from the original device’s debut would be straight up insulting. RIM killed two birds with one stone by renaming the device to be a Bold, continuing a successful device brand, and also trying to not completely obliterate an existing handset (even though the Tour 9630 will certainly be end-of-life’d very, very quickly). So is the BlackBerry Bold 9650 the best in the biz? You’ll see soon enough, after the jump of course. More →

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General
May 24, 2010
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BlackBerry Bold 9800 stars in video walkthrough

By on May 24, 2010 at 3:28 PM.

BlackBerry Bold 9800 stars in video walkthrough

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Alright, BlackBerry fans, this is truly something to get excited about. Building upon the excitement generated this weekend by a slew of new images of the upcoming 9800 slider, a video walkthrough of the device today cropped up on YouTube. The video does a pretty good job showing off the device and some of the features of the BlackBerry 6 OS and is only 3 minutes and 39 seconds in length, so the way we see it, you really have no reason for passing this by. We mean, RIM is pretty much guaranteed to have the video pulled in quick order. Oh, and notice the AT&T splash screen? We told you.

[Via CrackBerry] More →

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General
May 23, 2010
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New BlackBerry Bold 9800 pics leak out

By on May 23, 2010 at 4:15 PM.

New BlackBerry Bold 9800 pics leak out

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Can’t get enough BlackBerry slider action? Well today’s your lucky day, as a bunch of new images of the handset have leaped out by way of TheBerryFix. Showing off what looks to be a late prototype / early production model, the images give us a pretty good glimpse of not only the handset itself, but some of the new niceties of the BlackBerry 6 OS including a virtual QWERTY keypad, a clone of Cover Flow in the media player, and, of course, the much-hyped WebKit browser. Anyone else excited to see this sucker launch on AT&T during the June/July timeframe? Click on through for a few more pics.

Thanks, Ruffles!
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General
May 19, 2010
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T-Mobile officially announces new BlackBerry colors for the summer

By on May 19, 2010 at 5:01 PM.

T-Mobile officially announces new BlackBerry colors for the summer

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T-Mobile just officially announced what we’ve all heard for a pretty long while — they’re going to be adding some summer colors to their BlackBerry lineup starting today. First up is the BlackBerry Curve 8520 in Fuchsia Red. It hits T-Mobile’s retail stores and online today and will retail for $49.99 with a two year service agreement. In terms of the big boy toys, T-Mobile is rolling that luxurious-looking BlackBerry Bold 9700 in “Flash White”. That device will start to become available on May 26th for the same price as the current 9700, $129.99 with a two year agreement. Lastly, T-Mobile’s BlackBerry 9700 OS upgrade that just became available will be pre-loaded on the new Casper Bolds out of the box. We’re not complaining. More →

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