BGR was able to get a hold of a Verizon holiday flyer that features a few of the newer BlackBerry devices that we’ve heard of like , the Tour, the Flip, and the recently announced Storm2, as well as a new device, the BlackBerry Curve2, also known as the BlackBerry 8530. This naming convention for the 8530 is a bit confusing because there is a BlackBerry Curve 8900 that is just called Curve.
I am curious as to if the Curve2 designation is the idea of Verizon as compared to RIM? The Curve was, and, still is a strong device and has very good brand recognition so this is a pretty good marketing move regardless of who came up with the name. If it was RIM, however, it does kind of make you wonder if they put a lot of forethought into naming conventions.
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Verizon is now offering the BlackBerry Storm 9530 for $49.99 on a 2-year service plan. This is 25% of what the device went for less than a year ago. The big takeaway for us, however, is that that Verizon often slashes prices on older model BlackBerry devices when they are clearing out inventory to make way for new devices.
There have been rumors floating around that the BlackBerry Storm will be available in the mid to late October time frame. I would be willing to bet that the we start to see so of Verizon’s resellers cutting the price of the BlackBerry Storm down to zero…
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You may have heard that RIM intends for the BlackBerry Browser to be on par with the iPhone by next summer. What you may not have known is that the new and improved BlackBerry Browser will include full support for Flash and Silverlight as well.
We just hope that when RIM does release a new BB Browser that it doesn’t feel “last year” compared to whatever Apple does on the iPhone. We doubt seriously that they will be standing still waiting for the BlackBerry to catch up.
According to a screen grab of Verizon’s internal inventory system, the BlackBerry Curve 8530, Verizon’s first CDMA BlackBerry with Wi-Fi, will come in two colors. You can never go wrong with a black BlackBerry and it looks like the BlackBerry Curve 8530 will come in lavender as well.
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BGR recently posted a pic detailing AT&T’s pre-launch lineup and one device of particular interest to RIMarkable readers is the BlackBerry 9700 in charcoal. Coming soon on AT&T means anything from a couple of week to several months. We expect the BlackBerry 9700 to be towards the latter end of that range.
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According to TinyComb’s Jason Wilk, a Research in Motion Executive, that Fortune Brainstorm even in Pasadena, CA last week, confirmed that a device with a front facing video camera for video conferencing will be added to the BlackBerry line-up of devices early next year.
I asked him what RIM planned to do if the iPhone were to have upgraded their hardware to include a front-facing camera. His response was “as I said before, we are fortunate to have our relationships with many different carriers, some of which can handle something like live video-conferencing”. In other words, he and his team weren’t worried about the iPhone launching front-facing video-chat so long as they are with AT&T. The last thing he said to me was “video conferencing is something that could completely change the mobile landscape and it is something we have been thinking about and working on for quite some time. You will start seeing something early next year”.
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Word on the street is that presenter at a recent Microsoft event let it slip that the name Windows Mobile is being changed to Windows Phone. I recently posted this on Twitter, but, I’ve gotten so many directs and emails asking me about it that I figured I would write a post.
I originally heard this on the Inquirer.net and it is being echoed on sites like Mobile Crunch.
Chances are that you’ve heard about the BlackBerry Curve 8520 set to launch on T-Mobile August 5th. You may have even known that a CDMA version, the BlackBerry Curve 8530, is headed to Verizon later this year. What you may not have known, however, is that the BlackBerry Curve 8530 will have Wi-Fi.
The picture is from CrackBerry.com but the leaked spec sheet is from BGR.
- 320×240 resolution screen
- 1xRTT, EV-DO
- QWERTY keyboard
- 2 megapixel camera
- OS 5.0
- Bluetooth
- Wi-Fi b,g
This falls in line with rumors that the BlackBerry Tour will be the last CDMA BlackBerry not to sport Wi-Fi.
This latest shot of the BlackBerry 9020, or, what we have come to know as the BlackBerry Onyx, is looking a lot like its older cousin, the BlackBerry Bold. We believe this to be one of, if not the, first pictures of the BlackBerry 9020 shown with a leather battery cover, something made popular by the BlackBerry Bold.
I wonder if the proper name of the 9020 will actually be BlackBerry Bold 9020? Seeing how there are three different models of the BlackBerry Curve, I wouldn’t be shocked if this turns out to be the case.
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