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Word on the street is that BlackBerry OS 7.1 for the Verizon BlackBerry Bold 9930 and BlackBerry Torch 9850 will start rolling out tomorrow, Jan. 10th.
The big to do in the RIM’s latest version of the BlackBerry 7 operating system is Mobile HotSpot which will allow up to 5 devices to share your device’s mobile broadband connection to gain internet access.
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We just heard that all Verizon phones, including the BlackBerry Bold 9930, are on sale at Amazon Wireless for $0.01 until October 17th. You won’t see any better deals than this so if there is Verizon phone, less the iPhone 4 or 4S, that you’ve had your eye on, now’s the time to get it.
A year ago it wasn’t easy to remain optimistic about RIM. You know this if you were reading RIMarkable and BBGeeks at the time. As both Robb and I lamented, the 2010 line of BlackBerry devices offered little to no tangible upgrade over the 2008 and 2009 models, which in themselves were behind their times. It left in the air RIM’s future as a smartphone competitor. We heard plenty about the QNX operating system and how it would change everything, but that was still a ways off. RIM needed something inspiring to bridge the gap.
Earlier in the year we caught wind of RIM’s plans for 2011. From a physical standpoint it looked like more of the same. The new line would include an updated flagship device, a full touchscreen device, a new Curve, and an update to the Torch. Nothing new, nothing revolutionary. Yet RIM made a few subtle changes to each model. The full touchscreen device ditched SurePress, which doomed the Storm from the start. The flagship device got a small touchscreen in addition to the full QWERTY keyboard. The Curve got a graphics update. But, most importantly, they all got faster processors: 1.2 GHz to be exact, which are among the fastest on the market.
While the software didn’t figure to change much — they called it BlackBerry 7, but it was really more like 6.1 or 6.5 — the processor might have made the difference. After all, my biggest complaints about the OS 6 models centered on lag. Everything just ran slow, as though the processor just wasn’t powerful enough to handle the tasks assigned to it. As it turns out, that is exactly the case. The result is a line of BlackBerry models that should make RIM proud. They’ve delivered practical, usable devices that, as has been their calling card for more than a decade, help users get organized and stay in touch.
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I have to admit that I’ve been a fan of touch screen smartphones going all the way back to Windows Mobile devices that you had to use a stylus on. I am also on the record for saying that the the keyboard on the original BlackBerry Bold 9000 is the best physical keyboard any smartphone has ever seen. The BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 joins the best of both worlds adding a touch screen that stands on its own against the iPhone or any Android device and reintroducing the best physical QWERTY keyboard of all time.
The title of this commercial is “Harmony”, and, that is exactly what RIM has achieved on the new BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930.
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I originally wrote a post on Simple Mobile Review about issues with the BlackBerry Bold 9930 browser crashing. I was wondering how many RIMarkable users have upgraded to the Bold 9930 and have noticed stability issues with the web browser. I feel the 9930 is likely the best BlackBerry device ever made, however, when using the browser the phone frequently becomes sluggish and unresponsive leading the a crash.
Eventually you get an error stating:
Uncaught exception: Application
net_rim_bb)_browser_daemon (324) is not responding; process terminated
I will apologize up front as the video is long but at 2 min 17sec you can see the first crash. The screenshots above highlight the error dialog you see upon crashing. Are any of you having this issue and if so what sites are causing the browser to crash? I detailed how to replicate the crash on Simple Mobile Review but you can also see this in the video.
For those of you that have been waiting for Verizon to officially announce the BlackBerry Bold 9930, your wait is over. Not only did Verizon today officially introduce the BlackBerry Bold 9930, they announced that the device is immediately available online and will be available in stores Aug. 25th.
Check out the press release…
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When Sprint officially announced that they would be carry both the BlackBerry Bold 9930 and the BlackBerry Torch 9850 starting this fall we thought they actually meant they would launch in the fall. It looks like they meant “like in a couple of weeks”.
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Do you remember the massive amount of marketing that Verizon did with it’s Droid Does campaign and the original Motorola Droid? It’s been almost two years, but, I remember that Stealth Droid commercial like it was yesterday. That campaign pretty much marked the start of Android’s full frontal assault on the smartphone industry.
I believe that Research in Motion needs to launch that type of campaign for BlackBerry 7 and the new BlackBerry 7 smartphones for these devices to have any appeal to consumers that don’t already want a new BlackBerry, but, I haven’t seen a single television spot from RIM in recent memory that wasn’t about the BlackBerry PlayBook.
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Verizon has yet to officially announce their intention to carry the BlackBerry Bold 9930 or the BlackBerry Torch 9850, but, that hasn’t stopped rumors and speculation about the BlackBerry Curve 9370 hitting Verizon’s network from spreading around the web. The latest rumor is that the BlackBerry Curve 9370 will launch on Verizon September 8th and that the lower end cousin to the BlackBerry Bold 9930 is actually 4G capable.
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After RIM’s announcement introducing new BlackBerry 7 smartphones this morning, Sprint followed up with a press release of their own confirming that they will carry both the BlackBerry Bold 9930 and the BlackBerry Torch 9850 on their network. What was interesting about’s Sprint’s announcement, however, is that they won’t offer any new BlackBerry 7 smartphones until fall.
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