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Verizon announced three additions to its smartphone lineup today at CES, the BlackBerry Curve 8370, DROID RAZR MAXX, and LG Spectrum.
The BlackBerry Curve 8370 brings a new edition of the Curve to the Verizon network. Some of the highlights to this BlackBerry is support for Near Field Communications (NFC). The Curve 8370 also features 3G, [...]

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We know that the BlackBerry PlayBook will eventually be coming to Sprint. There will be a 4G-compatible PlayBook coming out this summer, but if you dont need the connectivity you can go for the Wi-Fi version beginning on June 5. This information comes thanks for Sprint’s Market Director, Gerald Evans. Evans posted this on his [...]

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A Vietnam-based blog, Tinhte, has posted in in-depth video walkthrough of the BlackBerry Apollo (AKA the 2011 BlackBerry Curve). The BlackBerry Apollo has a 800MHz processor and runs on Blackberry OS 7, the latest announced OS. It features a 5-megapixel camera but doesn’t shoot HD video for some reason.
The release date of this device is [...]

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RIM is recalling about 900 BlackBerry PlayBook devices that have been determined to be faulty. The news comes from a leaked Staples document, which claims all chain stores are participating in the recall. While RIM did not specify what the problem is, the company did provide a list of serial numbers of 16GB PlayBooks that were recalled. [...]

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We’ve talked a lot about the BlackBerry PlayBook the past few days at BlackBerry World. Today during the keynote, RIM’s Co-CEO, Mike Lazaridis, announced that Angry Birds would be making its way to the BlackBerry PlayBook. The ridiculously popular and addicting game is already available on most platforms and tablets, so it should be no surprise that [...]

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Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance at the BlackBerry World keynote. While Windows Phone is an obvious competitor to the BlackBerry platform, the Microsoft and RIM are establishing a partnership where Bing will be integrated into the BlackBerry devices. We aren’t talking about just a simple app where you can search, this will be integrated [...]

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RIM announced this morning at BlackBerry World that native email, contacts, and calendar would be coming to the BlackBerry PlayBook. These features are available now with BlackBerry Bridge, but this will disconnect that and allow you to access this all via the BIS or BES. This update is coming this Summer but has no specific [...]

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We have heard a lot about the new BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 today. First we got the announcement this morning, then we learned it would be coming to T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T. We got to play with one of the new Bolds today at BlackBerry World for a while and snapped some pictures to throw up [...]

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RIM officially announced the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 earlier today. While playing with the phone at BlackBerry World today, we found a 9900 running on AT&T (pictured above) and a 9930 running on Verizon (pictured at end of article). Thus far, the phone has only been officially announced by T-Mobile so it is unexpected to see [...]

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We are here at BlackBerry World, sitting by the open bar, waiting for the BlackBerry PlayBook update to hit our device. Unfortunately, we have not gotten it pushed to our tablet yet. But we did get to demo the update on a BlackBerry PlayBook on display. BlackBerry Tablet OS v1.0.3 update brings a plethora of [...]

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