The Unofficial BlackBerry Weblog
Over the passed few months we have been hearing a lot of rumors about EV-DO version of the BlackBerry Pearl. A little over a month ago, Seeking Alpha said that Verizon would get the BlackBerry Pearl in May. Today they are saying by Q2, however, the EV-DO Pearl may have an updated camera and media software.
WES 2007 starts tomorrow. Might we see the release of a new BlackBerry Pearl with a 2.0 megapixel camera and the updated Roxio media player?
I certainly hope so…
WES 2007 hasn’t even officially kicked off yet, however, Research in Motion isn’t wasting any time making announcements about new stuff that they are working on. They’ve just introduced BlackBerry Mobile Voice System for Seamless Enterprise Voice Integration, which “allows a BlackBerry smartphone to become a secure mobile extension of a users desk phone”.
Research in Motion acquired Ascendent Systems, a leading provider of enterprise voice mobility solutions that provide single number reachability, real-time notification and conferencing, and voice continuity, a little over a year ago. BlackBerry MVS appears to be the fruits of their labor.
Read the full press release…
Rogers Wireless and Research In Motion recently introduced the BlackBerry Curve smartphone – the smallest and lightest full QWERTY BlackBerry handset. The BlackBerry Curve features a smooth and friendly handset design and delivers the renowned BlackBerry email and messaging experience, premium phone features, intuitive trackball navigation system, 2.0 megapixel camera, fast web browsing and powerful multimedia capabilities. With the BlackBerry Curve, Canadians can stay connected to the people and information that matter most.
Read the full press release…
Update 2: The Verizon BlackBerry Curve Ships Friday, May 9th.
Update: The Verizon BlackBerry Curve Has Been Officially Announced! 
Now that Verizon has officially announced that the BlackBerry 8830 will be available just a few months after the release of the BlackBerry 8800 on Cingular, we know that they can get things done without taking the better part of a year. The BlackBerry 8830, however, is a business device and business BlackBerry users live in Verizon’s wheel house.
The big question for me is how long will it take for Verizon to release the BlackBerry Curve? Might the Verizon CDMA BlackBerry Curve follow just a few months behind the GSM version or will the company with the nation’s best network revert back to their usual year long lag behind?
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If you are looking for BlackBerry Jobs go here…
Just over a month ago, RIMarkable, along with CrackBerry.com and Pinstack.com partnered with JobCoin to put BlackBerry job openings in front of BlackBerry professionals that may be interested in new career opportunities. In connection with the kick-off of WES 2007, we’ve decided to allow companies looking for BlackBerry professionals to post one FREE BlackBerry Job Posting that will be seen by over 750,000 visitors.
All you have to do to post your companies BlackBerry job opening is visit BlackBerryJobs.RIMarkable.com, click the “Post a Job” button, and enter in coupon code “WES2007” after filling out all the information about your open BlackBerry Job.
I was just reading a story on BGR that they picked up from Techdirt that they picked up from BroadbandReports.com about a ridiculous policy that Cingular has when it comes to sites linking to their site.
“Links to the Sites. You are granted a limited, nonexclusive right to create a hypertext link to the homepage of the Sites, provided such link does not portray Cingular Wireless or any of its products and services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise defamatory manner. You may not use a Cingular or Cingular Wireless logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark of Cingular or Cingular Wireless to link to the Sites without the express written permission of Cingular Wireless. This limited right may be revoked at any time.”
How stupid is that? Cingular, now AT&T, is basically saying that you cannot link to them unless you have something nice to say.
Our friends across the pond over at airtime manager in the UK have been testing the pre-release version of the BlackBerry Curve for a while now and they’ve put up a full review here. One of the things that stands out to me is just how much smaller the the BlackBerry Curve is than the BlackBerry 8800.
Murphy’s Law would have it that on the day of the official announcement of the BlackBerry Curve, I was out of pocket and not really able to follow the news surrounding the current “Best BlackBerry Ever!” Fortunately, I was at least able to link to the BlackBerry Curve press release yesterday morning.
Now that I have a bit of time we can take a closer look at some of the BlackBerry Curve Features.
The BlackBerry Curve has been officially announced.
“The BlackBerry Curve offers a unique blend of communications, multimedia and web features to provide people with an exceptional mobile companion for both work and leisure,” said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO at RIM. “The BlackBerry Curve delivers RIM’s industry leading email and messaging capabilities in a highly approachable smartphone design that is packed with consumer-friendly features including a 2 megapixel camera, enhanced media player and high-performance browser.”
You can read the full press relelase here…
MiBlackBerry has found a Spanish ad for the BlackBerry 8300, a.k.a., the BlackBerry Curve. It looks like they discovered it on another Spanish language site, MenteSDigitales, that has this to say:
Hello! After some Time without activity (problems with RIM – Blackberry) we plows back! I have made to snapshot of an advertisement that Test&Vote sent me (Test&Vote is to poll network) wich showed that Blackberry 8300 is named now Blackberry Curves!
That “Translate” button on the Google Toolbar sure comes in handy when trying to uncover news about up and coming BlackBerry devices.