BlackBerry Curve 8900 available
This is the BlackBerry Curve 8900! The Curve 8900 is thinnest and lightest BlackBerry with full qwerty keyboard. The Curve 8900 is rekated to the BlackBerry Bold, without 3G but with WiFi. The Curve 8900 is 13,5 mm thin and has a 2,4 inch display with 480 x 360 pixels, 3.2 megapixel camera, microSD slot, 3,5mm headphone jack and a fast 512 MHz processor. RIM promises 5,5 hours talktime and 14 days of standby-time. The BlackBerry Curve 8900 weighs just 110 grams and measures 109 x 60 x 13.5 mm.
BlackBerry Storm review
Phonescoop has made a nice long review on the BlackBerry Storm. Of course you won’t see any new things Storm lovers didn’t already know but it’s nice to see them elaborate on the multimedia features of the Storm. We can see the musicplayer looks and works nicely, the picture gallery is a bit too slow (will probably get fixed in the first software update), the autofocus of the camera works great and the BlackBerry Application Center is not online yet (probably second week of december). Our main concern at this moment is that at times the OS is responding too d*mn slow. We can imagine this will become annoying after some time. Hopefully RIM will fix this matter soon.
I want the BlackBerry Storm
I have to wait for at least one month for the BlackBerry Storm. Let’s hope I will survive this. The keyboard, screen and battery of the BlackBerry Storm are supposed to blow away the competition (iPhone, Omnia, HTC Touch). The only drawback up till now seems to be the lack of WiFi. And of course the higher monthly costs because of the need of a special BlackBery subscription. Whatvever. I want one.
Is this the successor of the BlackBerry Bold AND Storm?
HTC has done it with the Dual Touch. Sony Ericsson does it with the Xperia X1. And Nokia will probably do it with the E71: building a touchscreen device WITH qwerty keyboard. In that respect it’s not Bold (funny?) to predict that BlackBerry will probably introduce a combination of the BlackBerry Bold AND Storm sometime in 2009. I love rumours! And the funny thing is that the BlackBerry Storm isn’t even available at this moment. Suggestions for a name: BlackBerry Thunderstorm or BlackBerry Thunderbolt.
Lewis Hamilton playing around with BlackBerry Storm
Lewis Hamilton has a couple of bankaccounts (in Iceland?) that are regularly filled by Vodafone. In return his car, overall and helmet are flooded with Vodafone stickers and now and then he has to perform in Vodafone commercials. This time he has to promote the BlackBerry Storm (so natural Lewis!). He acts that he is surfing the web, sending emails and browsing pictures and videoclips. We don’t buy it Lewis. Although… maybe we will buy the Storm after all. But that’s just because it’s such a nice piece of technology.
BlackBerry Storm: Touchscreen Thunder?
The BlackBerry Storm is the first touchscreen made by the boys and girls of RIM. For months all weblogs thought the first touchscreen device made by BlackBerry would be called Thunder but it has become a real (thunder)Storm. The specifications are quite nice but they forgot one thing: WiFi… The touchscreen is very bright and 3,2 inch and you have to tap twice in order to get things done. Takes a bit of practice but it is supposed to work quite nicely. It’s a HSDPA device with GPS, 1GB internal memory, 8GB microSD card, 3,2 megapixel camera. RIM claims a standby time of up to 15(!) days which is very good for a large touchscreen device. Vodafone will have the exclusive rights to sell the BlackBerry Storm in Europe. It will arrive in November and the price is unknown at this moment.
Blackberry Bold versus iPhone
Smooth against even smoother, business against business-like and wiiiiiide against wide. Blackberry Bold against iPhone. Who will win? Find out below but bear in mind that this is a pre-production version of the Bold and the good old iPhone without 3G. But hey: this is about the big picture. We all know the specs of the iPhone by now so I will give you the Blackberry Bold: triband 3G and HSDPA device with TFT display with 65000 colors and 480 x 320 pixels, 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, USB, WiFi, GPS, FM radio, 1 GB internal memory and a microSDHC slot. The Blackberry Bold weighs 133 grams and the dimensions are 114 x 66 x 14 mm.
BlackBerry Bold official
Until now I haven’t been a fan of BlackBerry. I think they’re just too big for a phone. I know it is able to do a lot more but there are smaller phones on the market than can do the same. Maybe the time is now I will have to change my mind. The last couple of weeks there were a lot of rumours about a new BlackBerry. Some thought it would be called BlackBerry 9000 but the new BlackBerry has become Bold. The BlackBerry Bold is a triband HSDPA device with VGA color display with 480 x 320 pixels, 624Mhz processor, GPS, WiFi, 2 megapixel camera, multimedia player and 1GB internal memory. Let’s give the BlackBerry Bold the benefit of the doubt. For now. The Bold will be available from Q3. Pricing is unknown at this time.
