The BlackBerry® 8800 has been timely introduced to the market to compete against the IPhone 3G. The BlackBerry® 8800 is still dominating the business market and this phone is more proof as to why.
So what makes a BlackBerry® 8800 phone so compelling to business users? We believe it’s the following:

• Excellent battery life – 528 hours of standby time
• Excellent security – this phone is impossible to crack and safely stores your personal information.
• Email support for Exchange (MS), Lotus (IBM) and GroupWise (Novel).
• Reliability – We’ve never heard any reports of crashing or needing to restart your BlackBerry.
• Ease of use – Simplicity is what people love and this what business users love about BlackBerry.

The thing that we like having on my smartphone is the option of taking a picture; the BlackBerry® 8800 doesn’t actually have a camera which is something we find strange that BlackBerry didn’t add.

Does anyone know why BlackBerry wouldn’t add a camera to a phone in this day and age?

BlackBerry 9000 is on its way. You can spot it in the photo above in the right side. The phone comes with an elegant steel margin and looks a lot like the iPhone, I could say. It has full QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi and HSDPA. BlackBerry 9000 has also a new user interface, a new set of icons and some slick animations. Among other features I could mention here are a built-in GPS, a 2 megapixel camera, a 480 x 320 display and of course a trackball.

Rumors say that BlackBerry 9000 could be available either in May, June or August.

via Engadget Mobile

Research in Motion (RIM), which is BlackBerry’s producer, will sell its smartphones in China. The company has already shipped the first BlackBerry transport to China and intend to put them to sale later this year, perhaps close to Christmas holidays.

RIM has signed an agreement with Alcatel-Lucent for the Chinese distribution. The Chinese market has a great potential for increasing the company’s sales. Also, the RIM officials announced the company is interested to ship BlackBerry for the Indian market too. Both China and India are hot prospects for BlackBerry service subscriptions.
RIM said it has over 10 million subscribers and has shipped its 20 millionth handset recently. Although the company has a strong financial background, the Chinese market could be tough. RIM will face the low-cost rivals and a popular service called RedBerry, which I think is a copy of BlackBerry.

via Yahoo News

Research in Motion (RIM) announced yesterday the availability for the new BlackBerry 8820. The mobile is an upgraded platform of the BlackBerry 8800. In addition RIM has included a built-in GPS module and microSD/microSDHC.

The Wi-Fi cellphone supports the 802.11 a/b/g Wi-Fi standards to enable data access over Wi-Fi connections. It also support the UMA technology that offers the possibility to switch voice calls between a wireless carrier’s cellular network and a Wi-Fi network.

The built-in GPS module helps you navigate and provide “out-of-the-box” support for a wide variety of location-based applications and services like BlackBerry Maps. Upgrading the slot card, RIM increased the storage options from 2GB up to 32GB. Wow! That’s almost half of my hard disk.

Multimedia features have changed a little. The BlackBerry 8820 comes with a new and powerful desktop media manager - the Roxio Media Manager. It allows is users to easily search for media files on their computer, view and organize them. The Bluetooth uses the A2DP standard.

The new BlackBerry 8820 is expected in stores in the coming weeks. The favored carrier seems to be AT&T, but isn’t impossible to see T-mobile in the action.

via Market Wire

One month ago we said that BlackBerry 8830 World Edition will retail in stores on May 28th for $299. Is that right? Kind of. The price is $399 for a two years service and and you get an online rebate of $100. Makes it $299. But wait from what I see they will have another $100 Mail-in rebate. It’s been a few years since I finished school but that makes it $199, right?

Check the deal at Verizon. It’s not bad at all to get it at $199. (thanks to Kevin for seeing the mail-in rebate)

Verizon Wireless and RIM have announced officially the BlackBerry 8830 World Edition. The smartphone works in the dual-mode CDMA/GSM. The 8830 model is using a SIM card and is able to switch between the two networks offering international coverage. You will enjoy fast data transfer, because the phone is EV-DO capable.

The BlackBerry 8830 gave up to the black color in favor of the silver one. Being a smartphone, BlackBerry 8830 World Edition comes with many utilities like: media player, speakerphone, voice-activated dialing, conference calling, 64MB internal memory and microSD slot. Moreover the mobile features a Bluetooth with dial-up networking capabilities (tethered or wireless) and the BlackBerry push e-mail solution with support for Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino, or Novell GroupWise.

For all those who expect this mobile, we have some good news. The BlackBerry 8830 World Edition can be ordered starting from May 14th through direct sales channels and in retail stores starting May 28. The price goes at $299.99 with two years contract in Verizon network. - MIHNEA BOIANGIU

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Remember of the Blackberry Pearl red mock-up? We promised to get back to you with news and we keep our promises. The red Blackberry Pearl is no longer a mock-up but the real thing. When I first saw the rumor picture I thought there too much red and my eyes hurt, which is not the same thing now when I see a real picture of the new Blackberry Pearl Red. By the way, and I think Gizmodo is right, isn’t that more like cranberry? Ha!

All that should count now is if you are or not offended by the dark red which is supposed to be a mobile phone designed for the young user. Buy a red house, a red car, a red bike and of course a red phone!

After T-Mobile released the Blackberry Pearl white, Cingular announced the red model according to Engadget. Probably inspired by LG Chocolate colors, RIM is trying to attract more clients by developing a new colored model. RIM didn’t announce officially the Red Pearl (sounds weired), but the rumor was brought by Engadget and Gizmodo. I think they have a word in the IT news scene, so I tend to trust their articles.

The picture represent a possible look for Blackberry Pearl red. Gizmodo released the image, which is not real, but is a mock-up. There is no word on launch date or pricing, but we are expecting news very soon.

The fashion designers like the new technology and the gadgets. After we saw LG Prada, now is Gucci’s turn to get the market attention. Gucci launched a line of products for iPods and Blackberry phones. Gucci’s products are leather cases for the gadgets I told you about. We have some photos of these cases:

Gucci offers the leather cases in two variants. One is gold guccisima leather like in the pictures above, and the other uses chocolate guccisima leather. All I could say, both types of cases are looking very nice, and very stylish. The prices range between $150-290, but if you want something exclusiv you should pay.

Research in Motion is going to release a new idol. We are talking about the Blackberry 8800, the follower of the successful Pearl. Rumours about its launching announce Blackberry 8800 will be available very soon, starting from February. The new RIM mobile will have the usual QWERTY keyboard, a trackball and Wi-Fi connectivity. Very slim and very stylish, the new 8800 could be a good successor for Pearl.
Blackberry 8800 details:

• Quad-Band: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM;
• Email;
• Phone and SMS;
• Corporate Data Access;
• Organizer;
• GPRS, EDGE and Wi-Fi;
• BlackBerry Maps;
• Trackball, ESC and Menu keys;
• Integrated earpiece and microphone;
• Bluetooth v2.0; headset, hands-free and serial port profiles supported;
• Polyphonic, MP3 & MIDI ringtones, vibrate, on-screen or LED indicator;
• Embedded RIM wireless modem;
• Ultra Thin
• Full QWERTY keypad
• Large 320 x 240 screen
• Full multimedia feature set
• Possible on some versions of the 8800 (Camera - 1.3 mp, 5x digital zoom, flash and maybe even video recording)
• Media Player for audio and video playback (Built-in streaming)
• 64 MB Flash, expandable memory (Micro SD)