by Robb Dunewood on October 22, 2009 · 1 comment
Four of the big North American GSM carriers wasted little time making their official announcements of the BlackBerry Bold 9700 coming right off the hills of the official announcement from Research in Motion. No official official release dates have been announced, however, all four carriers say that their branded version of the BlackBerry Bold 9700 will be available within weeks.
We don’t expect that it will be too long before Telus announces the BlackBerry Bold 9700, unless, of course, they are going the route that Verizon is going with not officially announcing the BlackBerry Storm2 9550. We will leave the Verizon Storm2 debacle for another post…
The BlackBerry Tour is now available online to Bell customers for $249.95 on a three year contract and will be available in stores starting tomorrow, July 11th.
Read the full press release after the jump.
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OS 4.7.0.122 for the BlackBerry Storm 9530 has been available to Bell users as a update to BlackBerry Desktop Manager since last week, however, the latest Storm 9530 OS is now up on the web, essentially making it available to whomever wants to download it.
You can get OS 4.7.0.122 from Bell at the link below. Just remember that if you are not a Bell BlackBerry Storm user (read Verizon or Telus users), your carrier will not support you if you run into any issues.
Download OS 4.7.0.122 for the BlackBerry Storm 9530 from Bell
Note: Installing 4.7.0.122 on something other than a Bell BlackBerry Storm is a little different than installing any of the many leaked OSs that have come before it. Since .122 is carrier specific, you need to delete the vender.xml file from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Research In Motion\AppLoader after installing .122 to your desktop. Once you’ve done this just run loader.exe from the same directory. There is no need to install via Desktop Manager.
by Robb Dunewood on February 27, 2009 · 1 comment
The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 is now available on Bell and they are offering it for $29.95 with a 3-year activation. I wonder how cheap it will be when it hits Sprint and Verizon here in the States?
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Rumors have been floating around over the last week that Telus woldn’t be the only BlackBerry Storm carrier in Canada and it would appear that those rumors were correct.
Bell has officcially announced that they will carry BlackBerry Storm and have put a up a “coming soon” site.
See what Bell has to say about the BlackBerry Storm after the jump…
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Bell becomes the second North American carrier to launch the BlackBerry Curve 8330 and man, do they make you pay for it if you don’t go with a contract.
The Bell BlackBerry Curve 8830 starts at $549.95 with no contract and goes down from there to $249.95 if you sign your name on the dotted line.
We are still waiting for the BlackBerry Curve 8330 to make its debut down here in the States, however, rumor has it that Sprint may release their branded version as early as next week.
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Bell has a pretty cool deal going in case you want to get your hands on 4 free BlackBerry 8703e devices. All you have to do is buy a new BlackBerry 8830 or BlackBerry Pearl 8130 and meet all the requirements in the the two paragraphs of lightly colored fine print found at the bottom of the promotion page.
Canada based telecoms Telus and Bell are offering special holiday promotions on BlackBerry Pearls, which, you can get for free if you act before December 31st.
As always, free is relative, as you must sign up to a 3-year plan of $45 per month or more in order to qualify. In this case free really means $1620 over the course of the next 36 months.
This is still a pretty good deal if you were already interested in a BlackBerry Pearl and you want more than the $15 email and IM only plan currently offered by Telus.
