Our congratulations go out to Michael Phelps, BlackBerry user and winner of an unprecedented 8 gold medals in a single Olympics.
[Via Celebrity BlackBerry Sightings]
Written by Robb Dunewood on August 18th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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Australian telecommunication giant Telstra is the first carrier to offer the BlackBerry Bold in in the land “Down Under”. The Telstra BlackBerry Bold has a suggested retail price of $999 but will be subsidized significantly (some rumors say $0 up front) with a 2-year plan which starts at $89.95 per month.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on August 18th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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The BlackBerry Partners Fund, a $150 million venture capital fund focused on applications and services for the BlackBerry and other platforms, has just received a website makeover.
Check it out… BlackBerry Partners Fund
Written by Robb Dunewood on August 17th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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CrackBerry.com got there hands on sales information for the Rogers BlackBerry Bold and to make a long story short, the darn thing costs way too much.
The Rogers BlackBerry Bold will set you back $399 with a 3-year contract. Existing BlackBerry may be willing to pay this amount, however, new potential BlackBerry users that were debating between the BlackBerry Bold and the iPhone have a about 200 reasons why the should go with shouldn’t go with the BlackBerry Bold.
Written by Robb Dunewood on August 15th, 2008 with 12 comments.
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According to ZDNet Austrailia, HSBC is considering swapping out it’s current BlackBerry deployment and replacing it with the iPhone. The CIO of HSBC Austrailia and New Zeland, Brenton Hush, was quoted saying “We are actually reviewing iPhones from a HSBC Group perspective … and when I say that, I mean globally“.
In my other life I’ve dealt with HSBC quite a bit and let me tell you that they are always considering doing something other than what they are currently doing. I remember several years ago how they were considering moving to Linux desktops.
At the end of the day you’ve got to consider the “Why”. What does HSBC gain by switching from the BlackBerry to the iPhone? If they gain anything does it warrant a global rollout to a completely new platform. Buying 200,000 iPhones is the easy part. Everything that comes along with swapping them in and replacing all those BlackBerrys would take years and cost $10s of millions.
I am not saying that this won’t ever happen. I just can’t imagine it happening anytime in the near future.
Written by Robb Dunewood on August 15th, 2008 with 6 comments.
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S4BB has just put out a press release announce the FREE beta of TaskReports for BlackBerry, a sophisticated task reporting tool for the BlackBerry that provides an overview of all of your tasks and prepares several types of visual reports.
Some of the features include:
TaskReports for BlackBerry is compatible with all current BlackBerry models. You can sign up for the free beta here.
Written by Robb Dunewood on August 14th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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This picture, found over on Howard Forums, is a great comparison of just how much smaller the BlackBerry Javelin is compared to the BlackBerry 8800 and even the BlackBerry Curve.
I’ve said since the time when the BlackBerry 7100t first came out that I liked the idea of having a BlackBerry that was the size of a traditional cell phone as compared to a scientific graphing calculator. SureType works for me and I prefer the candy bar size of BlackBerrys that use SureType more so than I do having a full QWERTY keyboard.
The BlackBerry Curve was almost small enough for me to move back to a full QWERTY keyboard BlackBerry. If I didn’t already have a BlackBerry 8130 I probably would have gone with the 8330. The BlackBerry Javelin, on the other hand, is the first BlackBerry with a full QWERTY keyboard that I would actually switch from a SureType device to get. It looks almost as small as a BlackBerry Pearl.
Written by Robb Dunewood on August 14th, 2008 with 3 comments.
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The BG does it again, this time getting his hands on the ‘08′ - ‘09′ Sprint roadmap which tells us the that a new iDEN bearing BlackBerry called the BlackBerry 8350i that supports Nextel Direct Connect will appear in Q4.
Written by Robb Dunewood on August 13th, 2008 with 6 comments.
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Best Buy will become the first U.S. 3rd party retailer to carry the iPhone in September. That’s right, starting on the 7th of next month you will be able to yourself an iPhone 3G in 970 Best Buy Stores and 18 dedicated Mobile locations.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on August 13th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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