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It was last week we heard about RIM working on Blackberry’s slider device and now we’ve got the first live picture of the phone. The new picture matches the BGR render somewhat but is seen sporting a trackball for “additional navigation”, a touchscreen display and Bold-esque QWERTY keyboard.
BBleaks who posted the image isn’t sure if [...]

 
Boy Genius Report’s sources are most of the time right when it comes to anything related to RIM and if we believe their word again, we might see a Blackberry slider phone soon. RIM seems to be exploring the form factor for quite some time and a portrait-oriented slider is what we can get, claims [...]

 
Research in Motion today announced the Bold 9700 smartphone for the Indian market. Taking over the reigns from Bold 9000 in India, the Bold 9700 offers top-of-the-line features in an attractive and rich design. Coming in a dark chrome frame and leatherette back, Bold 9700 supports global GSM and 3G bands, has a fast 624MHz [...]

 
Kodak has filed lawsuits against Apple and Research in Motion (RIM) over their use of patented digital imaging technologies. Kodak has complained to the U.S. ITC to look into their claims and prevent import of devices that infringe on the said patents. In addition to that, Kodak also filed two separate lawsuits against Apple pertaining [...]

 
Indian BlackBerry users can now take advantage of RIM’s BlackBerry App Store. The BlackBerry App World is a downloadable app that provides a range of free as well as paid applications ranging from different categories.
Few India-centric applications include Hungama MyPlay, CNBC TV18 Moneycontrol, Mundu Radio and Arrowmatics.
To download the app, a user [...]

 
The rumored inPulse watch accessory for Blackberry has gone official and is now up for pre-order. The accessory has been created by Allerta Inc. and uses Bluetooth connectivity to carry out the functions. inPulse Smartwatch receives all the e-mails, SMS and calls that can be viewed on its 1.3-inch OLED display. Amongst other things, the [...]

 
Verizon Storm (9530) users have a reason to smile as they’re the first ones to receive the BB OS 5.0 update. The update promises to bring a lot of new features and of course, stability to RIM’s first touchscreen attempt. To be specific, the phone will give faster, accurate and natural text input experience, reduced [...]

 
RIM has at last let the cat out of the bag by unveiling Bold 9700 aka Onyx. Blackberry Bold 9700 offers high-end performance with support for tri-band 3G HSDPA / quad-band GSM networks, Wi-Fi and a powerful 624MHz processor along with 256MB of flash memory.
Bold 9700 hosts a 2.44-inch vivid light-sensing display (480×360), full QWERTY, [...]

 
RIM’s crossover of Bold 9000 and Curve 8900 has made its way to India, thanks to Reliance Mobile. Blackberry Tour will hit the retail shelves from October 12 for Reliance Mobile CDMA subscribers. Tour bags the World phone tag by integrating support for both CDMA as well as GSM networks and brings interesting features like [...]

 
We’ve already seen a live picture of Onyx in a T-Mobile garb and now an image has appeared on the web showing a nicely touched up press photo. As you can see, Onyx too, will ditch the trackball in lieu of trackpad which was first seen on Curve 8520.
The T-Mobile Onyx features a high-gloss finish [...]

 
RIM produces one of the world’s best e-mail devices but fizzles out when it comes to web browsing. Though the experience is much better now, the Blackberry browser still can’t match its competitor’s mobile browsers. Apparently, this is going to change as BGR has learned that RIM is working to bring full Flash and Silverlight [...]

 
Ask a company and they would give rational reasons so as to why one should go with capacitive or resistive touchscreens. But giving this one of a kind to a consumer defeats the advantages other type of screen has to offer. This is why, Research in Motion has come up with a novel solution.
The [...]

 
Airtel has brought the latest Blackberry Curve device to India at a very attractive price. The Curve 8520 will sell nationwide from August 7 at a price of Rs. 15,990.
The 8520 is the first Blackberry device to sport a trackpad instead of the trackball and brings some exciting features like Wi-Fi and EDGE for [...]

 
UPDATE: T-Mobile USA users will get the phone from Aug 5 for $130.
Research in Motion has lifted the veil off another phone from the Curve family targeted mainly at entry-level smartphone users. Despite being on the lower end, the Curve 8520 brings in nifty features like multimedia playback buttons on the top of the phone [...]

 
Apple, RIM (Research in Motion) and Nokia are contemplating to launch Indian variant of their respective App Stores. Though, Apple App Store and Nokia Ovi Store are accessible from India, there are not many apps specific to India which makes it a problem for them to target the Indian handset users. RIM’s Blackberry App World [...]