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…

Wirefly Offering Verizon BlackBerry Tour For $179.99 is a post from: RIMarkable

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.

If you leave out the BlackBerry Storm and BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry devices and the operating systems that run on them, are generally seen as the model for for stability and reliability.  You used to hear people say that the BlackBerry doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of it’s competitors but they just always seem to work.  There is a lot to be said for stability and reliability in the corporate world, a realm in which the BlackBerry reigns supreme, however, the desires of consumers, the new battleground on which the  smartphone war is being waged, differ just a bit.

Not to say that consumers don’t want stable devices.  It sucks for anyone when you are trying to make a call and your phone reboots on your, however, consumers seem to be bit more forgiving when it comes to the occasional reboot, especially when they have thousands of really cool applications to help them pass time by when their devices are running, even if they can only run said applications one at a time.

I personally think that the BlackBerry OS has these other mobile operating systems on usability, however, even being the big BlackBerry fan that I am, believe the iPhone wins on the coolness factor hands down.  The Pre and its Web OS tries to bridge usability and cool factor, and, quite honestly, does a bang out job at their first go at it.  There are a few bugs and far too few applications, however, you get a good feel for what Palm is trying to do with the Pre and can see where the future of mobile devices is going.

Is the BlackBerry due for a major OS overhaul?  I think that it is…

Is The BlackBerry Due For A Major OS Overhaul? is a post from: RIMarkable

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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FlyCast 2 Beta Has Been Released is a post from: RIMarkable

If you regularly read BlackBerry blogs like RIMarkable, you probably already know that Verizon is coming out with the BlackBerry Tour.  You might, however, be a little surprised to find out that there is a Sprint BlackBerry Tour coming out as well.

We certainly were…

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Surprise, Surprise, Surprise… Sprint Announces The BlackBerry Tour is a post from: RIMarkable

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…

Verizon BlackBerry Tour Officially Announced is a post from: RIMarkable

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.

If you are looking to write a Tips n Tricks, Tutorial, Review, or Editorial type post about the BlackBerry, send us an email via the contact form with the subject Guest Blog Post.

Tell us what you plan to write about and give us byline information with a link to where you regularly blog.  We will reply back to you with and email address that you can send your blog submission into.

Before you submit anything take a look at this post by Darren Rowse.  We can’t guarantee that we will post every submission, however, if you write a good quality post, the chances are good that we will.

Want To Guest Post On RIMarkable? is a post from: RIMarkable

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..

Verizon Officially Announces BlackBerry Pearl Flip: Available Jun 19th is a post from: RIMarkable

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…

Kompass: Universal BaseCamp Portal For The BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, And WinMo is a post from: RIMarkable

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!

Verizon BlackBerry Storm May Finally Get An Update is a post from: RIMarkable

There is a good chance that you already knew that the BlackBerry Curve 8900 was coming to AT&T.  What you may not have known is that the BlackBerry Curve 8900 is coming to AT&T on May 22nd.

That’s right…  If you’ve been wanting a BlackBerry a bit newer than the original BlackBerry Curve and the BlackBerry Bold just isn’t quite right for you, you will be able to pick up a brand new BlackBerry Curve 8900 the day after next.

BlackBerry Curve 8900 Coming To AT&T May 22nd is a post from: RIMarkable