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BlackBerry Style 9670 features made official

BlackBerry Style 9670Research in Motion and Sprint made officially this week the new BlackBerry Style 9670. The new BlackBerry phone has a design we’ve almost forgot(flip style) and a full QWERTY keyboard, a hot trend as usual. Besides this, it comes with a 624MHz processor, BlackBerry 6 OS, 5 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 and GPS. Another cool thing is that the phone actually has two displays: an internal one having a resolution of 360×400 pixels and an external one having a 240×320 pixel resolution. BlackBerry Style 9670 will be available from October 31 with an estimated $99 on a 2 year new cellular agreement(Sprint). Press Release is after the break.

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BlackBerry announced PlayBook as their Tablet

BlackBerry PlayBook TabletToday at BlackBerry Developer Conference (DevCon), RIM announced through their CEO, Mike Laziridis their first tablet: BlackBerry PlayBook. During the keynote the RIM CEO featured some of the tablet features: 7-inches LCD, BlackBerry Tablet OS, 1Ghz dual core processor, 5 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1. Another great thing is the support for Adobe Air and Flash. BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is expected to be available in Q2 of 2011. Full official features and a video after the break. +Continue Reading

RIM announced Torch 9800 and BlackBerry 6 OS

BlackBerry Torch 9800RIM(Research In Motion) and AT&T gather the press few days ago to make two big announces: Torch 9800 phone and the 6th version of BlackBerry OS.

BlackBerry Torch is the first touch QWERTY slider smartphone designed by RIM, built for socially connected consumers and packed with the tools business customers love.

The 3.2-inches touchscreen supports a 480×360 display resolution and probably 65k colors. Below, there are BlackBerry usual buttons: Call, Menu, Back, End-Call and between them, the optical trackpad. On the left side of the phone we find the microUSB port while on the right side is the convenience(camera) key, volume rockers and a 3.5mm headset jack. On the top side are mute and lock buttons while at the bottom, if you slide the phone up, you will discover the full QWERTY keyboard(35 keys).

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BlackBerry will release soon the new Bold 9650

BlackBerry Bold 9650RIM company had announced in April that a new Blackberry smartphone is going to be released soon. The new mobile device is called Bold 9650 and now it’s time to give you some of his key features.

The display screen is the standard one, 65k colors with 480 x 360 pixels and 2.44 inches wide. Under, there’s a touch sensitive optical trackpad positioned in the middle of four buttons and also the full QWERTY keyboard. The optical trackpad allows you to easily scroll through menus and select what you need with a simple click while the full QWERTY keyboard lets you quickly compose texts and e-mails, and even edit Word documents. Above the display is the earpiece and a status LED indicator.

At the left side of the phone we have one of the convenience key while at the right side there is the 3.5 mm jack port, volume rocker buttons, camera shutter key and microUSB port. +Continue Reading

BlackBerry Storm 2 preview

blackberry_storm_2BlackBerry has released a new phone called Storm 2 and today we will offer you some details about his specifications.

The smartphone is made with Verizon and is designed(let’s say) for the touchscreen social users.

Phone comes with a nice 3.25-inches display having a resolution of 360×480 and just 65K colors. The display is quite big, phone has 160 grams and is 13.9 mm thicker, but you’ll get used with it as it’s touchscreen based. A major difference spotted here are the 4-buttons which now there are incorporated into the touchscreen display.

The back camera has 3.2 megapixel and has autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging and image stabilization. It also supports IS 2X digital zoom and Video Capture and video recording.

The operating system that runs on Storm 2 is BlackBerry 5.0 OS one and the RAM memory has 256Mb. The internal memory has 2 Gb, but the phone comes also with a 16Gb microSD card attached in the packet. As interesting features available we can mention: copy and paste(same as iPhone), Domestic/International Voice, Messaging & Email Service (Global SIM pre–installed). We don’t know nothing yet about the model or the speed of his processor.

Connectivity offers many options to help you:  GPRS, 3G, Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, microUSB, 3.5 mm Stereo Headset . The battery is a Lithium Ion Battery (1400 mAh) and offers up to 270 hours in stand by mode.

Phone seem nice and solid, but we can’t give you a final opinion until we take a look of everything it can do. You will find it available in stores since this November with an estimated price of 270$.

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We review BlackBerry 8520

blackberry-8520It may not be official, but we give a big “thank you” to our source for giving us the change to see a peek of what will be called BlackBerry 8520 or Gemini.

The phone has an 320 x 240 pixels display and a 2.0 megapixel camera on the back with 5x digital zoom, but with no flash. Just under the display we see an optical trackball that we will make our lives easier from now on and at the top of this phone you will see the media player buttons. Ah, don’t forget to use the optical trackball when you browse on the Internet.

The smartphone have an internal memory of 256 Mb, but also support microSD card if you intend to extend it further. +Continue Reading