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Word on the street is that the Wi-Fi enabled BlackBerry Pearl 8120 will be available from T-Mobile on Feb. 18th. The Pearl 2, as the 8120 has often been referred too, will sport an improved trackball, redesigned keyboard, and external memory card slot, like it’s CDMA cousin, the BlackBerry Pearl 8130.
The first T-Mobile BlackBerry Pearl 8120 will be gray and there is no indication as to when T-Mobile will offer the device in all of the colors you can currently get the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 in.
Sprint and Verizon aren’t the only one’s offering the CDMA BlackBerry Pearl 8130. Alltell has just gotten into the games.
You can get an Alltel BlackBerry Pearl for $149.99 after a $100 rebate with a 2-year activation.
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Rogers Wireless customers have a new service available to them from Spinvox, that will convert their voicemail messages to text.
We have all probably been in situations where we know that we have a voice mail, but, just aren’t in a situation where you can listen to it but if we could read it, it would put our wondering minds at ease. I could also see voicemail to text being a big hit with business travelers not that airlines are starting to dabble with in-flight email access.
Voicemail to text powered by Spinvox will set you back $15 per month in addition to your normal wireless bill. The service seems kind of ready made for BlackBerry users but works on all Rogers handsets with voicemail.
Rogers is offering a free 30-day trial so, to our RIMarkable reading neighbors up North, give it the once over and come back and tell us what you think in the comments.
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Many of you know that I am one of the biggest BlackBerry fans out there. Heck, we’ve blogged about the darned things just about every day for the passed three years. I, however, have taken issue with the number of times RIM has had some type of BlackBerry outage over the passed year and it would appear that I am not alone…
Research in Motion has had so many BlackBerry outages and, in my opinion, done such a poor job of notifying the public when they are experiencing issues, that a group of BlackBerry using individuals have banded together to form RIMOutages.com, home of the the BB-Outage mail list.
BB-Outage is a mail list for people to notify others if RIM’s data service or a carriers data service is down in a particular area. If Data Service is down in China, USA, A particular state, city, country, etc., for people then post the area to the list so others are notified. It’s probably best to subscribe from an address that’s not associated with your Blackberry since if RIM’s data service is down, you won’t get the e-mail anyhow.
This is kind of a cool idea. It’s sad, however, that it is necessary.
According to the Inquirer.net, a fire in Canada damaged a communications link that has affected BlackBerry service of Smart Communications BlackBerry users in the Philippines.
I hate to say it, but, Research in Motion has been plagued by outages over the passed several months. One must begin to wonder if their network architecture as we know it today is scalable.
In their next move to control the flow of all information to and from everywhere, Google has released Google Sync for Mobile, a synchronization utility that will wirelessly keep the calendar application on your BlackBerry up to date with your Google Calendar.
All joking aside, this is a really cool application that many, myself included, have been waiting to come out since about the time GMail got BIS support.
If you have a BlackBerry and a Google Calendar account, I’ve got two words for you…
You can do so OTA right to your BlackBerry by pointing your devices browser to http://m.google.com/sync.
So, I’ve been trying to check out this Yahoo! Go 2.0 on my new BlackBerry Pearl 8130 from Verizon, however, when I try to download it, it says that it is not compatible with my device.
I said to myself, “That can’t be right. Why in the world would Yahoo! software for that BlackBerry and not support one of the newest devices out?”
Well I did some digging and came across a BlackBerry compatibility list for Yahoo! Go containing 28 devices that the software will run on and, low and behold, the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 is indeed not on that list.
The question has to be asked… Why in the world would Yahoo put out software that doesn’t run on the BlackBerry 8130. Say what you want about Verizon and SureType. The 8130 was one of the most eagerly anticipated BlackBerry devices ever.
If you haven’t heard already, the world’s first official BlackBerry Store opened it’s doors yesterday morning. At first, I thought, “Wow, pretty cool…” Now that I have thought about it a little longer, I wonder if The BlackBerry Store will actually succeed.
There is no doubt that the BlackBerry is one of the hottest selling smartphones on the market. When you look at the overall mobile phone market, however, the number of BlackBerry’s sold here in the U.S., even though more BlackBerrys are sold here than all other places combined, is just a rounding error compared to the total number of mobile devices sold.
Will the BlackBerry Store receive enough foot traffic to sell enough devices to keep the lights running? I know that they will sell training as well, however, BlackBerry training is nothing new and how far will people travel so that their BlackBerry training comes from a place that has an official BlackBerry logo on the marquee?
Will the BlackBerry Store succeed? Tell us what you think.
I just wanted to mention that one of the bloggers from RIMarkable’s daughter site Celebrity BlackBerry Sightings, Jacky C., was just profiled in a Forbes.com article on celebrities and the cellphones that they use.
I know that a lot of RIMarkable readers could care less about who is using the BlackBerry and feel that the merits of the device stand on it’s own. Trust me when I tell you, however, that there are an awful lot of people who care as much about who are using cellphones as they do about how well the device works.
Celebrities using BlackBerrys is big business…
Are we about to see a dual-slide PSP phone from Sony? This picuture was taken from a YouTube video of what looks like an advertisement for the device in Stuff magazine…
You can see the video (really boring alert) after the jump…
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