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Rumor Mill

Is Sprint BlackBerry Curve Delayed Until May?

by Robb Dunewood on April 9, 2008 · 59 comments

I am hearing rumblings that the Sprint BlackBerry Curve has been delayed until May. I have not been able to confirm this, however, I’ve heard it from enough different people that asking the question is probably warranted.
As I’ve said many times before, I just can’t fathom Sprint coming out with the Curve before Verizon. [...]

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Verizon BlackBerry Curve 8330 In Black?

by Robb Dunewood on March 29, 2008 · 27 comments

I don’t know if I buy the date or even the picture, however, like I said before, I like the BlackBerry Curve 8330 in black and if Verizon offers this color as an option, this is the color I’d go with.
[Thanks TC]

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Is The BlackBerry Getting An Accelerometer?

by Robb Dunewood on March 18, 2008 · 4 comments

You know that cool little feature that allows the iPhone to tell if you are holding it in straight up or on it’s side? Well, that is because of a little motion sensing device called an accelerometer.
Word on the street is that Research in Motion has a new patent filling describing such [...]

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Is the CDMA BlackBerry Curve 8330 Upon Us?

by Robb Dunewood on March 11, 2008 · 21 comments

I know that there are a lot of RIMarkable readers out there that are waiting for the CDMA version of the BlackBerry Curve, the BlackBerry Curve 8330, to come out as patiently as they can. Thanks to the quick eye and quick thinking of Howard Forums member blackdogs377, who nabbed a screen shot [...]

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Is the Verizon BlackBerry Curve coming out this month? A lot of Verizon subscribing BlackBerry users hope so…

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RIM co-CEO Hints To BlackBerry Touchscreen

by Robb Dunewood on February 13, 2008 · 17 comments

We all know that just because RIM patents technology doesn’t mean that said technology will appear in an upcoming BlackBerry. When it comes, however, to the BlackBerry Touchscreen patent that was just published last week, Research in Motion co-CEO, Jim Balsillie, kind of hints that a BlackBerry Touchscreen is in the works…
Balsillie, at the [...]

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Just after the touchscreen BlackBerry patent was published yesterday and from what I believe to be pressure from my “Should RIM come out with a slider phone BlackBerry” poll?, new BlackBerry patents were published today describing describing tilting and slide-out keyboards.
The whole line about the pressure from my poll may be be a [...]

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BlackBerry Touchscreen Patent Published

by Robb Dunewood on February 8, 2008 · 4 comments

 
SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTEGRATING A TOUCHSCREEN WITHIN AN LCD
This the name of a patent published yesterday morning that strongly suggests that an iPhone like, touchscreen bearing BlackBerry is on the way.
Russell Shaw points out that “most BlackBerry Patent applications are only published 18 months after they are filed, this one has only [...]

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Joe from BBGeeks has the insider track on the upcoming CDMA BlackBerry Curve that may be a lot closer to shipping than a lot of us think. Joe doesn’t haven any pictures yet, however, his insider gave him a pretty good description of what the device will look like.
The CDMA BlackBerry Curve supposedly will [...]

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