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BlackBerry is a brand of wireless smartphones which was introduced in 1999 as a two way pager. The better known BlackBerry was released and it supports mobile telephone, text messaging, web browsing, internet faxing and e-mail, through a multi touch user interface. It is developed by the Canadian company RIM (Research in Motion), and it was made at first to concentrate on e-mail. Actually, RIM offers e-mail services to non-BlackBerry devices, like Palm Treo, using the BlackBerry Connect application. In the beginning, first version of BlackBerry was monochrome, but now, all the available models have a color display.
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BlackBerry includes PDA applications, like calendar and address book, and also telephony capacities. Newer models are very well known for sending and receiving e-mails anywhere, through wireless networks, and it has a built-in keyboard, which was optimized for using only the thumbs to type. This is called "thumbing". The navigantion through the system is facilitated by the scroll ball in the middle of the device, and in comparison with older versions, which has a track wheel on the side, this scroll bar is much easier to use and more comfortable.

BlackBerry models built for use with iDEN networks, like Mike and Nextel integrate a Push-To-Talk feature and it can be easily associated with two-way radio systems. Newest models of BlackBerry incorporate an ARM processor, 7 or 9, and in comparison to the older versions, 950 and 957, which used Intel 386 processors. The latest model of BlackBerry GSM has a 312 MHz processor, a 64 Mb flash memory and 16 Mb of SDRAM.

If you want to integrate BlackBerry into your company's system, you should install BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). CDMA BlackBerry use Qualcomm MSM6x00 chip sets and they include the ARM 9 processor and they also have GSM 900/1800 roaming integrated.

These BlackBerry smartphones are quite useful in business usage and they are mainly appreciated for providing e-mail access and roaming to employees. This ability to read e-mail in real-time, in every location possible, made the BlackBerry devices addictive, and in time they got in time the nickname "CrackBerry", as a funny reference to the cocaine's name, known as crack. In 2006, the word "crackberry" was the "New Word of the Year", in New's World College Dictionary's references. There are also some funny words created too after BlackBerry appeared: "berry thumb" or "berry blister" reffer to the soreness occurring from using BlackBerry's keyboard.

To summarize, BlackBerry is a wireless smartphone which is most appreciated and present in tops because of its capacity of sending and receiving e-mail at any time and anywhere. Another plus is the good Operating System, which provides a lot of useful features. Some cons are the low call quality and the price, which makes it unaffordable for some categories of customers.

The first name the BlackBerry Curve 8520 was baptized with was BlackBerry Gemini, but now, that the handset has just become official, the name changed. There were too many months of imprecise information, of leaked pictures and of lists of features that we couldn’t take for granted.

I don’t know which details you took seriously, but what you should have taken is the fact that the BlackBerry Curve 8520 is the first to have been designed by Research in Motion and to come with an optical trackpad, which replaced the trackball.

The features of the new handset include “a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard”, Wi-Fi for fast Web browsing and for Wi-Fi calling, the touch-sensitive optical trackpad, a 2 megapixel digital camera equipped with zoom and video recording capabilities, voice activated dialing, Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, media player (music, pictures and videos), dedicated media keys, 3.5mm stereo headset jack, the BlackBerry Media Sync, 256MB flash memory and a 512Mhz processor, microSDHC memory card support for expandable memory of no more than 16GB (1GB card is included in the package).

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“More and more cell phone users are choosing to upgrade to a smartphone and the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 will undoubtedly convince many more people to make the switch. It delivers all the great messaging, social networking and multimedia features that have made BlackBerry the top-selling smartphone brand in the United States”, said the Vice President, Product Management, Research in Motion, Carlo Chiarello. In addition, he said that “T-Mobile customers are going to love how easy it is to keep in touch on Facebook and MySpace and the full-QWERTY keyboard is amazingly fast and comfortable for typing on the go”.

The handset is expected to start selling on August 5, via T-Mobile retail stores, Walmart stores and online.

(Source: Press release)

The rumors about the BlackBerry Tour which is expected to become available at Verizon starting July 12, under a price of $199.99 when the customer is willing to sign a contract agreement, created a sensation a couple of days ago.

But the information has just been given the official treatment, because Verizon, which is the most important and the largest carrier from the United States, has just came with the confirmation. The new smartphone developed and designed by Research in Motion (RIM) will become available starting the date it was rumored.

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The Verizon portofolio is quite impressive as far as the BlackBerry smartphones are concerned. You can find the following devices in this carrier’s offer: the Curve 8330, the Pearl Flip 8320 and the 8830 World Edition.



The Tour, on the other hand, is a 3G world phone is a device that comes with the following features: RIM’s solution for e-mail which is push-based, messaging (IM, SMS and MMS), social networking, a 3.2 megapixel camera with video recording capabilities and geo-tagging, multimedia capabilities, integrated GPS, full HTML web browsing, support for Verizon services such as Broadband Connect, CAST Music with Rhapsody, VZ Navigator.

The BlackBerry Tour is available right now for those who want to pre-order it for a price of $199.99. You will receive a $70 mail-in rebate as long as you sign a contract agreement for two years.

(Source: Press Release)

The BlackBerry Storm, the first touchscreen device ever built by Research in Motion (also known as RIM), was launched by Verizon Wireless in November 2008, as you probably know. Even if it is, undoubtedly, a very uncommon device, different from anything that you might have run into in the market, the Storm lacks a very important feature: Wi-Fi.

It’s kind of weird, because this is one feature that is characteristic to all modern smartphones that are available these days. But, great news, guys! It seems that the next generation of the BlackBerry Storm will come with what you’ve all been waiting for: the Wi-Fi.

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Unfortunately, this isn’t official, as the information comes from the guys over SlashGear, who said that “a source very close to the issue” made the confirmation of the fact that the American carrier has spectacular plans when it comes to some BlackBerry Storm updates. In other words, Verizon is preparing the second generation of the phone which is said to be brought in the spotlight later this year, in September to be more precise.

The same source added that Wi-Fi won’t be the only new feature to come on the board of the Storm 2, as the smartphone will also be equipped with other advanced features that weren’t unveiled. For the moment, the only thing we can do is to just wait, patiently, and see whether these are nothing but rumors.

(Source: unwiredview.com)

When things don’t go in the direction you want them to, when you feel like losing ground, even if you did your best in order to be successful, when you know that you shouldn’t spare any effort that could help you somehow improve your work. When something like this happens, you must resort to a strategy, a smart one if it’s possible, so that you can go back on your feet.

Now, let me give you an example of a company that understands very well how it should act in the market: RIM, the developer of the BlackBerry device.

U2, a very popular rock band, announced that Research in Motion / BlackBerry will sponsor their upcoming 360° Tour. You can find the official announcement on the band’s official website. The tour is expected to open at the Nou Camp Stadium in Barcelona. Therefore, Spanish people, prepare yourselves for the June 30.

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The U2 tour is being produced by Live Nation Global Touring and includes 14 European cities, such as Milan, Gothenburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Nice, Dublin, Chorzow, Berlin, Gelsenkirchen, London, Sheffield and Glasgow. The last one will take place at Millenium Stadium, in Cardiff, on August 22. When finishing with the European continent, the tour will move to North America, the first one being programmed for September 12, at Chicago’s Soldier Field.



I know that the news is very surprising for many of you, because you probably know that in the past the popular rock band was very fond of Apple, when the Vertigo single was used by Apple for a TV commercial for their iPod. In addition, the company released a special edition of the iPod, called U2 iPod and the iTunes U2 box set.



“This tour announcement marks the first stage of a relationship and shared vision between RIM and U2 that we expect will lead to new and innovative ways to enhance the mobile music experience on the BlackBerry platform for U2 fans”, said Paul McGuinness, U2’s manager. “We look forward to sharing more details as the relationship unfolds”.

(Source: unwiredview.com)