Russell Shaw over on BBHub is reporting that one of the owners of the domain name BlackBerry8800.com has been contacted by Research in Motion and that a deal has been worked out to transfer ownership of the domain to RIM.
Registering domain names in anticipation of a company wanting to use that domain name later, or cybersquatting as it is often called, can be quite lucrative when compared to the 8 to 10 dollar initial investment. Cas Thompson, the cybersquatter that owned BlackBerry8800.com hasn’t disclosed the terms of the agreement with RIM, however, says that the BlackBerry maker has ‘huge’ plans for the site and that the BlackBerry 8800 will be available very soon.
BlackBerry 8800
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It looks like an email has been sent to BlackBerryCool and BBHub from the administrator of Spain-based Miblackberry.com with a screen cap of his server logs that shows that his site was accessed by a BlackBerry 8800.
With the BlackBerry 8800 being rumored to be released as soon as the mid to late January, test units are undoubtedly floating around at this point.
We didn’t get the email, however, the screen cap was posted to Miblackberry’s site as well.
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Vincent Verweij from Makayama Interactive sent me, along with others, an email letting us know that Media Studio for BlackBerry 1.0 was launched today.
The easiest software to transfer DVDs directly to your Blackberry. Convert and watch movies, YouTube video, home videos and much more on the Blackberry Pearl (8100) and other upcoming video-enabled Blackberries.
Media Studio appears to have pretty good compression. You can store up to 8 feature films on a single 1GB memorycard.
Media Studio for BlackBerry 1.0 will set you back $34.95 or 29.95 (EUR) and you can test it out before you buy it. Verizon won’t have the BlackBerry Pearl or 8800 until sometime around 2024 so I won’t be able to give you a full review. If one of you BlackBerry Pearl toting CrackBerry Addicts give it the once over, leave us a comment and let us know what you think.
BBHub is reporting that the T-Mobile BlackBerry 8800 could be hear as early as mid January.
A very reliable insider source (who is not the guy whose initials are the same as the group who wrote some of those great songs on “Saturday Night Fever”) has sent us verified information Regarding the T-Mobile 8800 BlackBerry
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Hey Verizon,
We know that it takes you a year to get the CDMA version of BlackBerry devices after everyone else gets the GPRS ones, so I make this request on behalf of the all the BlackBerry 7250 and 8703e users that would like to go to a CameraBerry with a full QWERTY keyboard but don’t want to wait until 2008 to get one.
Can we skip the BlackBerry Pearl and go straight to the BlackBerry 8800 Crimson?
We know that you have a lot of BlackBerry 7130e customers that are happy with SureType. Heck, I am one of them, however, it is more about the size of the 7130e and not so much the SureType keyboard that attracts people to it. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t have a problem with SureType and actually think it is kind of cool. I, however, don’t have a problem with full QWERTY keyboards either so long as the device that I am using it on isn’t the size of pocket calculator from 1984.
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As you have probably heard the rumors by now, Research in Motion will soon come out with it’s next-generation, full QWERTY keyboard, MP3 playing, Wi-Fi enabled, Razr thin smartphone called the BlackBerry 8800. There will actually be two versions (at least two) of the 8800, one without a digital camera code named “Indigo” rumored to come out late this year, and one with a digital camera code named “Crimson” rumored to come out Q2 of 07.
The question of the day is will the BlackBerry 8800 be even more popular than the BlackBerry Pearl? As you can see from a poll over on BlackBerry Forums, almost 60% of the poll takers say that they are 100% sure that they will get a BlackBerry 8800. Based on this I would have to say that the 8800, at least with existing BlackBerry users, could be more popular than the Pearl.
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The Boy Genius is back, this time with their own blog, and they’ve got more information on the upcoming BlackBerry 8800 Indigo and Crimson devices. It looks like BG has found a product road map and feature set for both BlackBerry 8800 devices, complete with approximate release dates and even an accessories page.
We’ve posted thumbs of all the images after the jump, however, you can see the full images if you head on over to The Boy Genius Report.
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I believe it’s safe to say that the BlackBerry Pearl is a big hit for Research in Motion. As of this morning before market open RIM’s stock price is above $108. The BlackBerry Pearl isn’t soley responsible for dropping half a billion dollars or so into the wallets of RIM’s co-CEOs, however, it did play a big role.
Rumor has it that a new CameraBerry called the BlackBerry 8800 Crimson will hit shelves sometime next Spring. By many accounts the Crimson is considered to be the perfect mobile PDA. It will be small, have a full QWERTY keyboard, a digital camera, miniSD, Wi-Fi… b and g, quad band GSM with EDGE, and since it is a BlackBerry… will work.
Once consumer software like a Skype client, SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry, Windows Live Messenger, and a VNC client starts coming out, RIM will not be able to make these things fast enough.
The BlackBerry Pearl, for Research in Motion, is big. Let’s just say that the BlackBerry Crimson will be bigger.
BlackBerry Crimson, BlackBerry Pearl, BlackBerry 8800
Research in Motion released the BlackBerry Pearl a couple of weeks ago and by all accounts it is doing incredibly well. So well, in fact, that a recurring them in several of the BlackBerry message boards is that all new BlackBerrys should come with camera.
I, for one, have no intention of buying a BlackBerry without a camera ever again. If I were to break or lose my 7130e before Verizon comes out with a CameraBerry I might have to take that statement back, however, the bigger question is now that CameraBerrys are here to stay, do cameraless BlackBerrys just seem like old school devices that only researchers at Area 51 would use?
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