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The T-Mobile BlackBerry Bold 9700 is now available. It costs $199.99 after an instant $250 rebate with a 2-year activation of $50 or more per month.
Somehow, T-Mobile has managed to put up a picture of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 on the product information page for the Bold 9700.
Check out the T-Mobile BlackBerry Bold 9700 here…
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As many of you may already know, memory has been a point of contention for BlackBerry users for quite some time. To get straight to the point, there simply isn’t enough of it. Sure, the newest devices have 16 gig media cards and 2 gigs of internal memory, but, you really only have 256 MB of application space. Once you factor in the OS you are probably only talking about a 100 MB or so from which to install and run applications and if you don’t have a BlackBerry Storm2 or better, the problem is dramatically worse.
The big hit at the BlackBerry Developer’s Conference this week was OpenGL ES which brings 3D graphics support to BlackBerry applications. Starting with the BlackBerry Storm2 and the BlackBerry Curve 8530, developers are going to deliver applications and games that rival what you see on the the iPhone. The problem for RIM, however, is that 3D graphics take up space. They take up a lot of space and the BlackBerrys antiquated way of handling memory is going to be a huge bottleneck.
BlackBerry App World’s ability to archive rarely used applications and store them on your media card allowing you to reclaim that precious application memory is great feature, but, it gets really old really quick when you have do it with apps you use regularly simply because you are out of memory.
RIM needs to fix this…
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The hottest device coming out of Research in Motion right now is the BlackBerry Bold 9700. The hottest news coming out of Research in Motion is OpenGL (3D graphics) support. The BlackBerry Bold 970o, unfortunately, doesn’t support OpenGL.
The question to you is does the Bold 9700 still sound just as hot?
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Adam Nash, Vice President, Search & Platform Products at LinkedIn, announced yesterday at the BlackBerry Developer’s Conference that LinkedIn for BlackBerry is coming soon.
Why it has taken the popular business social media and networking site so long to come out with a LinkedIn for BlackBerry mobile app is beyond me, however, better late than never definitely applies to what I think is going to a hugely popular BlackBerry application.
We’ve worked hard to develop an application that takes advantage of the unique capabilities of the BlackBerry platform. LinkedIn for BlackBerry will also include deep integration with the native Messages, Contacts & Calendar applications on the BlackBerry platform.
An exact release date for LinkedIn for BlackBerry is still not clear but it is expected that it will be released before the end of the year. I personally can’t wait for this one.
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Some of the biggest news coming out of the first day of the BlackBerry Developer’s Conference was the announcement of OpenGL ES support on the BlackBerry. OpenGL will bring 3-D graphics and the promise of 3-D Games.
Let’s hope that RIM also plans to announce support for application execution from removable memory because 3-D graphics will greatly increase the size of applications.
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Luis Merlos from BerryReivew.com has confirmed today that T-Mobile is now selling the BlackBerry Bold 9700 to business customers.
I called Tmobile today & several representatives confirmed that Business customers can order the new Bold 9700 today. They did not say when regular customers can get it. As usual business customers get the new devices a couple of weeks earlier so I would expect consumers to be able to get theirs around mid November or towards the end of the month.
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According to an IDG report, year over year shipment growth for the BlackBerry grew by 35.7%. In Q3 ‘08, 14.6% of smartphones sold worldwide were BlackBerrys. In Q3 ‘09, 19% of smartphones sold were BlackBerrys.
In contrast, iPhone shipments grew by only 7.1%. Now, don’t get me wrong… 7.1% growth in this economy is pretty darn good. It’s 400%, or, 5 times less than what the BlackBerry did, but, still pretty good none the less.
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It comes as no big surprise that Sprint has officially announced the BlackBerry Curve 8530. Unlike Verizon, however, they haven’t given a release date. I would think that it would come out before BlackBerry Friday, but, you never know when it comes to Sprint.
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Yesterday we put up a post, based off of a report from Infoworld, that the much anticipated Verizon Droid would require a $15 fee on top of the $30 per month data plan fee for those who want to connect their device to a corporate Exchange system. Well, according, to a post over on Gearlog, this is not the case.
There’s a lot of confusion going on around the Internet about the Motorola Droid’s service plans. Some people are saying that if you want to connect to a Microsoft Exchange account, data will cost $45 a month instead of $30.This is wrong.
First of all, the Droid uses the exact same data plans as every Windows Mobile Phone on Verizon. There is no special Droid data plan.
Second, whether you pay $30 or $45 doesn’t depend on what you’re doing with the phone. You can hit Exchange email on the $30 plan just fine. It depends on what kind of Verizon Wireless account you have.
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