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Research In Motion may possibly soon be presenting its own music streaming service for its BlackBerry platform. RIM is in late-stage negotiations with 4 major record label companies. The service might help RIM expand BlackBerry’s plea beyond enterprise to general clientele. The 4 major record label companies that Research In Motion has been in talks consist of Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and EMI. It is claimed that RIM has already signed at least one of the top 4 record label companies and is close to sealing the deal on 2 more. Interestingly, in the coming couple of weeks a test version of the service could roll out. Tthe music service will be included with BlackBerry Messenger; which is Research In Motion’s standout feature, which might soon get eclipsed by challenging messaging services from Google, Apple, and Facebook. RIM is at present in transition from its BlackBerry OS to a fresh QNX platform. Though, it freshly launched several BlackBerry 7 operating system smartphones including the BlackBerry Torch 9850, BlackBerry Bold 9930, and the BlackBerry Torch 9810.

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RIM will launch three new BlackBerry smartphones based on the new BB7 OS – the company’s first handset releases since the Bold 9780 last November. Devices will be available later this month. The Bold 9900, Torch 9810 and 9850 were unveiled to journalists at a global launch event held in central London morning August 3. The launch of the handsets will be RIM’s largest ever and more than 225 carriers and distribution partners have already commenced or completed over 500 significant programs for these new devices. All devices will run the BlackBerry 7 software which the company said is its fastest ever and 40 per cent quicker than BlackBerry 6 OS.

The Bold 9900 is the thinnest BlackBerry smartphone ever at 10.5mm thick and the first to offer a keyboard and touch display integrated within the Bold design. It is expected to go on sale in the UK on August 15. The 9900 will be the first from the company to include built-in support for NFC.

The Torch 9810 features a 3.2-inch touchscreen, slide-out keyboard, HD video recording and 8GB of memory. The Torch 9850 features a 3.7-inch touchscreens, the largest ever on a BlackBerry smartphone.

All three phones are powered by a 1.2GHz processor and include ‘liquid graphics’ which RIM claimed offers the smoothest and most responsive BlackBerry user interface to date. A new version of Facebook, Facebook 2.0, will be available and now includes Facebook Chat. A new version of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), which RIM said has more than 45 million users, will also be made available. The company revealed at the launch there are now 67 million RIM subscribers, with seven million in the UK. It also claimed to have more than 35,000 applications in its Apps World.

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BlackBerry OS 6 comes to Bold, with redesigned icons and five home screens accessible via the strip at the bottom of the 3.2-inch screen. It lacks the level of customisation of Android but it’s a step in the right direction. Social Feeds, BlackBerry’s version of Friend Stream, aggregates your Facebook, Twitter, AIM, BlackBerry Messenger and Google Talk accounts very well and the QWERTY keyboard makes typing updates a speedy task. Despite being powered by a 624MHz processor the Bold never feels slow, perhaps because the smaller screen and absence of touch interfacing lowers both expectations and power requirements. The lack of a touchscreen also means the battery will last well in to its second day of use and once you become familiar with using the square, touch-sensitive trackpad, navigating pages is reasonably easy.

The tabbed browser makes swapping between pages less of a chore than on the iPhone too. The five-megapixel camera produces washed out shots that are weak in detail. Video is just 640×480. In other multimedia news, you get a basic music player with surprisingly decent sound quality and 12 presets for headphones. However, the Bald does the old-skool basics ol mobile phoning very well. Reception quality is good, messaging of all kinds, and particularly email, is excellent. The low cost and added social networking talents that come with OS 6 mean this will continue to find favour among young trendsetters as well as business users, even if some others find it all a bit old hat.

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The BlackBerry Bold 9900 is BlackBerrys return to the shape we’re all accustomed with, the Torch being a slight move away from the typical BlackBerry aesthetic with a slider QWERTY board and a full touch screen.

As with any BlackBerry, both are aimed at the business consumer primarily. Though, what we really want to know is which is better?

Well the Torch is very distinct for a BlackBerry with its slider keyboard on magnetic rails. It certainly still does follow the BlackBerry shape, but just not in the traditional way. The 9900 does stick to the traditional formula however. It’s a typical BlackBerry but also includes a touch screen instead of the standard non-touch LCD offering. One thing to note is the quality of the keyboard, which is a dream to use. Read the rest of this entry »

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Previous touchscreen BlackBerrys hurled the baby out with the bath water, ditching the brand’s always excellent keyboards in the rush to join the cool kids. The Torch rectifies that, sitting its most comfortable QWERTY yet under a large, responsive touchscreen. It’s chunky as a result, but still smart. The touchscreen/QWERTY combo feels natural, not cut-and shut. If you want to dial a number without opening the phone, a virtual keypad appears on screen. You can do the same with text messages but given how luxuriously spaced and satisfying the QWERTY is, you won’t find yourself doing so often. The Torch comes with the new BlackBerry OS 6. Based around swoppable screens – Frequent, Media, Downloads and a customisable Favourites one – it’s easy to navigate, with a tap on the info bar at thet op of the screen calling up emails, texts, Facebook updates and the latest from Twitter.

It still feels notably less slick than iOS or Android, and 624 MHz processor sometimes lags but the 3.2-inch touchscreen is quick and responsive and the accelerometer is better than most. The biggest improvement is the web browser, which looks lush, making the most of the greater screen real estate. There’s also a decent five-meg camera with flash, and the battery should last most users twodays between charges. As ever with BlackBerry, email is the best available, being fast, reliable and secure, while BlackBerry Messenger lets you send unlimited free messages to BlackBerry users. This is the best BlackBerry to date. It’s still not the complete smartphone package but for frequent messengers, nothing else comes close.

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One for the BlackBerry smartphone lover now, until now we’ve only been treated to renders of the unexpected BlackBerry Bold Touch phone, which is also known as the BlackBerry Dakota for GSM networks and the BlackBerry Montana for CDMA networks. The BlackBerry Bold Touch will be the first Bold gadget to became visible to play sporting a touch screen, and the smartphone. The BlackBerry Bold Touch holds a semblance to the BlackBerry Bold 9000 and actually sports a type of carbon fibre battery door, whilst some of the reported specs include a 5 megapixel camera, a 2.8 inch VGA touch screen, NFC, proximity sensor, accelerometer, 512 RAM and for some reason just 6.5GB of storage but microSD expansion up to 32GB.

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RIM is back to old tactics of refreshing their already made devices. BlackBerry will launch a new slider devise code name BlackBerry Torch2, the cell phone uses a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen display (640 × 480 pixels), a 5 megapixels autofocus camera, 512MB RAM and 8GB storage space,support for WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, light sensor, distance sensor, HSPA 14.4Mbps and runs on the BlackBerry OS 6.1.

BlackBerry Torch2 full specifications:

• 1.2GHz processor
• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• Tri-band HSPA 14.4Mbps
• 3.2-inch VGA 640 x 480 capacitive display
• 8GB built-in memory
• 512MB RAM
• Bluetooth 2.1
• GPS
• NFC
• 5-megapixel camera with flash
• Magnetometer
• Accelerometer
• Proximity sensor
• 1300 mAh battery
• BlackBerry OS 6.1
• OpenGL ES
• 14.6mm thin

You can find some similarity to the original BlackBerry Torch but there have been quite a few changes made. The BlackBerry Torch 2 is shooting for a late Q3 release with AT&T.

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BlackBerry OS 6 still has not so far made an outer shell on the popular Bold 9700 smart phone model but that isn’t stopping RIM from releasing a Bold 9650 simulator that lopes the latest operating system. Simulators are fundamentally just emulators designed to bout the performance and precise specifications of individual electronic devices for software development purposes. With a simulator for a particular smartphone, a developer can test how their software will act upon on that mobile phone without actually owning one. The Bold 9650 getting a BB OS 6 simulator means that the gadget will probably be receiving the much expected software update in the very near future.

Blackberry cell phones are very much trendy amongst the present youth, these handsets are enabled with best technology and are trying to gratify their yearning. The notion of mobile device was manufactured to create communication across city, states and countries but with the leading time these electronic apparatus changed their formation. Now these phones are fully loaded with advance software which is enabled to excel in working and diminish the work load of the user. Through the high technology phones you can send receive mails. One of the best ever handset made by the company is Blackberry storm 2, the handset is very much offered in the market since November 2009. This just weighs 160 grams and is14mm thick to fit in your pocket easily. The standard battery provides a back up of 280 hours on standby mode and 6 hours during talk time.

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RIM procured QNX software for use on their coming Blackberry Playbook and there was hope they were also going to be replacing the present Blackberry OS 6.0. This would mirror the plans Google has for running both mobile phones and tablets using the Android 3.0. Over 2 years ago, RIM was making claims that it had the finest offering gadjets at Verizon and at the time, they were doing very well with their mobile devices, including the Blackberry Storm. Now we are ending the year and Blackberry cell phones are being entirely overshadowed by Android phones at Verizon. With the Windows Phone 7 coming to Verizon next year and the ongoing rumor of a Verizon iPhone, where is that going to leave Blackberry phones? If you look at other wireless carriers in the US, the image is much the same. Sales of Blackberry phones continues to be replaced by Android OS phones.

Since we do not have sales numbers from the Windows Phone 7, it would specify they are not selling in addition to expected. If they were, Blackberry phones would possibly take more of a hit as a result. So, when can we guess to see a utterly new OS for Blackberry handsets so they can be aggressive? The answers is probably later rather then earlier. So as to take advantage of the QNX OS on Blackberry phones, will entail something which is not in place today on the hardware. Based on comments at Live At Dive, the QNX software needs to have multi-core chips in order to effectively perform and that has become the focus for RIM with respect to the Blackberry phones. At the moment, there are no multi-core chips which can be used without chewing up the battery. RIM is presently focused on the Blackberry Playbook and it is running the QNX software with a multi-core processor to take advantage of the features. It does seem that the historic Blackberry phones have taken a back seat to the coming tablet, as though RIM knows they cannot compete at the moment.

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A precise notion for a BlackBerry phone called Empathy has been cooked up by designer Daniel Yoon, focusing on sharing our mood with friends. It’s a smidgen of a throwback to the early Live Journal and MySpace days, which were all about updating mood statuses, but there are some appealing twists on old ideas here. The concept embraces a high-tech mood ring which shares biometrics data with social networks. Not only can contacts see what kind of mood you’re in based information like blood pressure, body temperature, and heart rate, but message notifications on the Empathy would colour the entire facade of the handset philosophical of the mood of their sender. That same gadget surface colour idea would allocate the handset to go clear when idle and intense when active.

The social networking aspect reminds me of the BlackBerry Enterprise’s Server free/busy lookup– except as opposed to seeing if your contacts obtainable for a meeting, you can see if they’re in the right mood for a call. Some Android phones already do this by showing social network status updates on incoming calls from contacts, but the idea of that data being gathered submissively is very latest. There’s also a latest navigation mechanism based on a radial wheel surrounding contacts, and pinch-zooming to finding bundled people within certain subgroups, which you can see in action in the video below. A neat idea, so long as a more straightforward border was also obtainable. The handset looks like it has a screen on both sides (one with a stud-style keyboard), which would likely be a massive battery hog, but hey, we can skip logic for a cool idea.

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You may remember when we first advertised about BlackBerry Pearl with a traditional keypad. Months later, we find that device turns out to be the Pearl 9105 with the T9 keypad. Now we have got information that there is an entry level BlackBerry Slider Device in the works.

Following up on the RIM’s first slider phone, the BlackBerry Torch 9800, rumour has it the next one will be slighter and cheaper. The reduced size suggests that such a device would have a condensed keyboard like the Pearl models, but that’s just fun with Photoshop at this point.

The BlackBerry Curve 9300 is the predecessor of RIM’s current entry-level appliances, and for itself it wouldn’t be astounding to see this rumoured phone with the same QVGA display and 2 megapixel fixed-focus camera without flash. It’s likely they would trench the touch capabilities and opt for a trackpad-only experience to save on costs. Certainly a slighter, lower-resolution display would help on that front too. notwithstanding the lower-grade specs, odds are good that if this new slider does ever see the light of day, it’ll launch with OS 6, complete with WebKit browser, universal search, and other UI improvements over the old platform.

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Canadian mobile provider Research in Motion (RIM) has pulled back the curtains on the BlackBerry Bold 9780, divulging details about its specifications and even hinting at a UK launch date.

The Bold 9780 follows in the footsteps of the 9700 containing several updates. Firstly the latest version of the BlackBerry OS is onboard, bringing a better web browsing experience and deeper social networking integration to the table.

The Bold 9780 does not diverge much from the standard BlackBerry layout of portrait QWERTY keypad and familiar black shell. The five megapixel camera will allow the smartphone to sit on a level pegging with RIM’s Torch gadjet in terms of photographic features.

The phone comes with Wi-Fi connectivity and Bluetooth are, the retail package should include a 2GB microSD memory card, although it seems that you can  supplement this with a larger card of their own.

RIM has not been too specific about the launch date of the BlackBerry Bold 9780 but it has said that it will be coming in November, which means it could be just a few weeks away from a UK launch.

Judging by the initial specs, the BlackBerry Bold 9780 will appease those long time RIM fans who want an incremental upgrade to their existing phones.

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Nobody  is safe from leaks. The latest leak is regarding RIM’s BlackBerry Storm3. This isn’t 100% confirmation that this is the new Storm, but it’s what we have and it’s close enough.There are no other full touchscreen BlackBerrys in production right now, so unless RIM has managed to keep something secret the smartphone above should be the Storm 3.

Blackberry mobile manufacturing business is launching mobile phones keeping all kind of mobile lovers in mind. The gadjet has launched its touch insightful screen mobile devices in the mobile market it is recognized as the Storm series. The mobile giant is scheduling to launch its latest smart phone in this series that is Blackberry Storm 3; this smartphone is burdened with astonishing features and has dazzling looks. The Blackberry Storm 3 has all the scientific advancements and has enormous looks that makes it an entire package. The widget works on the hottest Blackberry 6.0 Operating System that is developed for the blackberry devices.

BlackBerry Storm 3 Features

• 3.7 inches of Touch Screen Display
• 5 mega pixel camera
• 512 MB RAM
• BlackBerry operating system 6
• 8 GB of internal memory
• Wi-Fi
• 720p video recording facility
• 1 Ghz processor

The new BlackBerry Storm 3 smartphone will be available by the end of this year 2010.  The latest BlackBerry Storm 3 mobile also poses 720p video recording facility.

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Thе modern Gadjets, Blackberry Torch 9800 come packed wіth power features such as  a 5 megapixel camera wіth a high picture resolution οf 2592×1944 pixels, auto focus, LED flash, Geo tagging аnԁ image stabilization offer уου a high picture quality. Thе phone runs Blackberry OS^6.0. It comes wіth a 624 MHz processor. The device is powered by a 3.2 inches TFT capacitive touch screen whісh displays 16 M colors. Thе phone olso has  thе features including QWERTY keypad, Optical track pad аnԁ propinquity sensor fοr auto turn οff. Thе phone comes wіth аn internal memory οf 4 GB аnԁ уου саn expand thе memory up tο 32 GB. Blackberry Torch 9800 supports 2G аnԁ 3G networks. Aѕ thіѕ іѕ a 3G smartphone, іt offerss the owner connectivity via GPRS, EDGE, WiFi, 3 G, Bluetooth аѕ well аѕ USB. Thе mobile phonesupports thе application whісh give уου access tο social networking sites.

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RIM has proclaimed the influx of the BlackBerry Style which heralds a innovative look for the smartphone maker.

The BlackBerry Style 9670 is a flipout handset with a full QWERTY keyboard.

It is one of the first BlackBerrys to arrive sporting the BlackBerry 6 OS and has so far only been officially proclaimed in the US, with Sprint inimitability.

Style conscious

According to BlackBerry, the clamshell shape of the gadget makes it “extremely easy to use for calls, and with a full QWERTY keyboard, it provides the same attractive features enthusiasts have come to expect from their smartphone.”

Phew, we are happy that the BlackBerry Style makes phoning people easy – given that it is a handset.

Also on board is an optical trackpad, a 5MP camera with flash and support for video recording, built-in GPS, Wi-Fi and expandable memory up to 32GB.

The BlackBerry Style 9670 is out in the US 31 October, with UK release date details still to be proclaimed.

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