If you are looking to get yourself a BlackBerry Tour and are new to Verizon, Wirefly is offering the device to new Verizon subscribers for $179.99, $20 less than getting it direct. The real deal, however, may be for existing Verizon customers.
If you are already a Verizon customer you can get yourself the BlackBerry Tour for $199.99… Even possibly if you aren’t eligible for an upgrade. This is a full $290 less than the $489.99 that Verizon is charging.
There is a lot of fine print that you should read thouroghly before you get in on this but if you are one of those BlackBerry users that just has to have the latest device whenever it comes out, this deal just may be for you.
Check the deal out over on Wirefly…
BlackBerry OS 5 has been floating around the interwebs for some time now and we know that when it is finally officially released, it isn’t going to be the major overhaul to the BlackBerry operating system that we once hoped it would be. On one hand you can say that the BlackBerry is holding it’s own against the likes of the iPhone’s OS and Web OS found on the Palm Pre, however, I don’t know that the BlackBerry OS is in a ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ type of situation when compared to it’s competitors.
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We just heard that there is a beta of FlyCast 2, a streaming internet radio client for the BlackBerry, available for download.
Features include:
- Landscape and portrait mode supported on BlackBerry Storm
- Station caching
- Twitter Integration
- BlackBerry Curve 8900 Supported
- Enhanced stability
Although station caching is available to all in the beta, this may become a premium feature once FlyCast 2 is released.
You can download FlyCast 2 Beta OTA to your BlackBerry device at www.flycast.fm/betabby.
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Truth be told, I am not sure that this qualifies as the “official Verizon BlackBerry Tour announcement”, which, I believe is coming tomorrow. I guess Verizon figures that we all already know that the announcement is coming so posting a BlackBerry Tour teaser page for all of us blog about until the official announcement comes just adds to the buzz.
Yeah… They got to stay up until almost midnight just to see if they would put something up…
It seems like over the passed several weeks or so I’ve gotten quite a few requests from people wanting to guest post here on RIMarkable. If this is something that you are interested in doing you will definitely want to read after the jump.
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Verizon Wireless and Research in Motion today announced that the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 will be available on Verizon’s network starting Friday, June 19th. We figured that it wouldn’t be to long before some type of official announcement about the Pearl Flip would be made seeing how pictures of the device taken in Verizon stores started appearing on the web yesterday.
The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 is the CDMA version of RIM’s first BlackBerry Flip Phone that first appeared on T-Mobile last year. Verizon will charge $129.99 with a 2-year activation plan after a $70 mail-in rebate.
You can read the full press release here..
We just heard that Bryte Software is working on a Basecamp client for the BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, and Windows Mobile called Kompass for Basecamp and that they are accepting Beta testers.
If you don’t know what Basecamp is, go here, or, if you want to try to become a beta tester of Kompass for Basecamp, go hear.
I am going to go out on a limb and guess that this Kompass will become a pretty popular BlackBerry application once it is released.
If you get into the Kompass for Basecamp beta, stop back by and let us know what you think…
Word on the street is that the Verizon BlackBerry Storm will receive an official software update, BlackBerry OS 4.7.0.203, this coming Sunday, May 31st. I’ve got just 4 words…
It’s about frigging time!
