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Verizon BlackBerry 7130e

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Update:

The BlackBerry 7130e has been officially released

It looks like Verizon is coming out with a new candybar style BlackBerry called the BlackBerry 7130e. Some of the features will include:

  • SureType Technology
  • Bluetooth
  • EvDO
  • Speaker Phone
  • 64 MB Flash, 16 MB SRAM
  • Polyphonic Ring Tones
  • Built in Photo Album

If you notice, it kind of has the BlackBerry 8700 rubberized looking case in more traditional cell phone size. Like many BlackBerry Forum members checking the BlackBerry 7130e out in a thread this morning, I am not to keen on the shiny bezel.

T-Mobile brings BlackBerry Connect to Windows Mobile in the UK

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T-Mobile, one of the largest BlackBerry suppliers in the world, today announced the availability of BlackBerry connect on the Windows Mobile powered T-Mobile MDA III in the United Kingdom.

Now that the BlackBerry Connect barrier has been breached in the U. S. with Cingular announcing availability of the service on the Nokia 9300, will we start to see more carriers start to offer the service over here? Once can only hope.

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BlackBerry Outage more widely spread than intially thought…

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For those of you that weren’t affected or haven’t heard the news, there was a BlackBerry outage in the United States yesterday. The service interuption was first suspected to just affect T-Mobile users in Ohio, however, reports from all over the country started coming in as the day wore on.

“Customers may notice delays in receiving messages. It is also possible that messages sent from the BlackBerry may be returned. Returned messages should be resent once the SRP connection has been restored. We are aggressively working to restore service to normal operating levels.

Officials at Research in Motion may not know what caused the outage until Friday but have confirmed that the problem is on the BlackBerry side of things.

“BlackBerry Hacks” released: Read a free excerpt

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O’Reilly, publisher of the popular “Hacks” series of books, has released “BlackBerry Hacks: Tips and Tools for Your Mobile Office”, by author Dave Mabe.

The versatile and flexible BlackBerry handheld computing device allows you to stay in touch and in-the-know–no matter where you are or where you go. For both corporate and consumer users, BlackBerry Hacks delivers tips, tools, and innovative ways to most effectively use the all-in-one phone, inbox, organizer, and browser for phone calls, instant messaging, email, organizing, web browsing, receiving RSS feeds, and much more.

You can buy the book directly from the O’Reilly website.

HP Ipaq hw6515: BlackBerry Killer… Not Really

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Cingular will soon announce the availability of the Ipaq hw6515, another smartphone in a long list of supposed BlackBerry Killers, and rumor has it that this dog won’t hunt. It was initially thought that by the time the hw6515 was released in the U.S., there would be an update to Windows Mobile 5, howerver, Pocket PC Thoughts reports that because of ROM limitations, the hw6515 will never support the OS that was supposed to make it a BlackBerry Killer in the first place.

Whatever happend to the RazrBerry?

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Remember earlier this year before all the the talk about the BlackBerry 8700, what was then known as the BlackBerry Electron, there were also rumors of a Razr style Motorola handheld code-named the RazrBerry that dominated the BlackBerry Rumor Mill. The RazrBerry was supposed to run Windows Mobile and have BlackBerry Connect along with Bluetooth and Edge.

Well, whatever happened to the RazrBerry? Many initially believed, myself included, that the Motorola Q, which was officially announced at the end of July, was the actual name of what we knew as the RazrBerry. What we later found out was that the Motorola Franklin was the code name for the Moto Q and the RazrBerry was the code name for a yet to be announced device.

Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of Research in motion was quoted back in August in an eWeek article stating the the Moto Q and the RazrBerry were two different devices…

Balsillie also hinted at a partnership with Motorola Inc., a company that has lately been hailed as a RIM competitor. Motorola last month introduced the Q, a wireless phone with a full QWERTY keyboard, which is similar in form to Motorola’s Razr phone. The Q has been widely reported as “the RazrBerry,” but Balsillie maintains that the RazrBerry is actually the code name of a different device that has yet to be announced. “Q and RazrBerry are not the same product,” he said. “There are some very core differences.”

So what happened to all of the RazrBerry rumors? I know that we have been bombarded with news about the BlackBerry 8700 but I think that the eventual announcement of the 8700 and BlackBerry Connect in the United States, BlackBerry Connect on a Motorola device that runs Windows Mobile has to be right up there as far as water cooler material goes.

Use AskMeNow and get AnyThing answered on your BlackBerry

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AskMeKnow is a new service that you can ask AnyThing and get an answer back on your BlackBerry within 3 minutes. They really do mean AnyThing (family oriented questions only) when they say AnyThing. I have spent the last 20 minutes asking the most ridulous questions that I could think of that one could reasonably expect to find the answer to on the internet and each question has been answered in less than 2 minutes, a full minute less then the three minutes that AskMeNow says it could take.

AskMeNow enables anyone with a cell phone to have fast access to accurate, quality information about almost anythinganytime, anywhere.

Through its groundbreaking services, AskMeNowTM , is committed to keeping its users connected while on the go. Users can get quick and easy access to 411 info, Weather, Movie Times, Sports Scores, Directions, Horoscopes, Flight Information, Stock Quotes and more – all from their cell phone within moments.

AskMeNow is currently in final beta and the service is free to all beta subscribers. You can download the software directly to your BlackBerry by going to http://www.askmenow.com/blackberry/ota.html.

BlackBerry comes to Luxembourg

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Research in Motion, and LUXGSM, the leading mobile network provider in Luxembourg with almost 400,000 subscribers, today announced BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service to corporate, SME, and individual users on the BlackBerry 7290 and the BlackBerry 7100v.

LUXGSM is committed to providing its customers with the best mobile solutions on the market, and BlackBerry is the leading wireless solution for mobile customers that want to stay connected and productive while on the go,” said Marc Rosenfeld, LUXGSM. “We are pleased to be able to bring BlackBerry to our customers, providing them with an advanced wireless solution for their communication and information needs.

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Free MSN Messenger Client for BlackBerry: eMSNLite

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FunRunGames, a software company focusing on Java based mobile phone games, has released eMSNLite, an MSN Messenger client with emoticon support, for FREE.

Features include:

  • MSN Instant Messaging
  • Emoticons
  • Invite Contacts
  • Add/Remove Contacts
  • Send email to contacts
  • Recieve and view photos

It is rare to see free BlackBerry software so we will mention again that eMSNLite is completely free. I haven’t had a chance take a look at it yet but as soon as I do, I will put up a full review. In the meantime, you can download it here.