Archive for the 'Rumors' Category
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
BoyGenius has been having a field day this morning looking through Device.xml files. Now he has uncovered two new devices to add to the 9000 series offering
So far we had the:
Bold – already known
Thunder – Touchscreen for Verizon
Kickstart – Flip BlackBerry
& Javelin – BlackBerry without 3G
BoyGenius has just uncovered:
Seawolf 9110 – Flip phone with GPS
Aurora [...]
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Jibi of BlackBerryNews reported that the upcoming BlackBerry Bold will be coming with a new game. This one is educational and is called Word Mole. It kind of reminds me of Bookworm & Lingo from the look but sure does seem nice for RIM to refresh the game lineup. This is like Microsoft finally moving past [...]
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
This Verizon Exclusive & AT&T Exclusive setup is really starting to get to me with the BlackBerry Thunder & Bold. Here is the latest juicy rumor…
BoyGenius noted yesterday with some detail that the BlackBerry Thunder will not have the GSM radios necessary to work on any North American carrier. The GSM functionality will be for roaming [...]
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
The BoyGenius caught some live pictures of the upcoming touchscreen BlackBerry Thunder. Not much to say here other than I have confirmed with 3 sources that this will be the formfactor for the touchscreen BlackBerry. Thanks BoyGenius! (check out his post for another side shot)
Thanks to Randy for the tip!
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Well this has just been fun. First one of our birdies told us that the OS 4.5.0.37 is now available once again for BlackBerry partners to download.
Next we got an image from another birdie that caught one of the Rogers sales reps at his local store pimping OS 4.5.0.37 on her BlackBerry 8120. Sorry [...]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Our anonymous tipster also showed us an interesting screenshot of the files installed by the upcoming BlackBerry Desktop Manager 4.5. I guess Josep was on the money when he caught the Symbian files.
Turns out that when you install Desktop Manager 4.5 it installs two new DLL files in the Common files folder shown below:
VBBClientCommForNokia.dll
VBBClientCommForWM.dll
I wonder [...]
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Chalk this one up to the RUMOR category. Josep just caught some interesting information in the device.xml file. (Translated to English) It seems like there is reference to a new (SYM) Symbian virtual platform for BlackBerry.
I know it has been over a year since RIM mentioned the Virtual BlackBerry experience for Windows Mobile and they have still [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in RIM, Rumors
Monday, May 26th, 2008
I just got word that RIM has just released some of the development tools for OS 4.6 to their BlackBerry Universe Partners.
Included in this update:
4.6.0 BlackBerry JDE Beta 1 Release Notes
4.6.0 BlackBerry JDE Component Package Beta 1
4.6.0 BlackBerry JDE Beta 1
This is just another sign that the public OS 4.6 release is coming [...]
5 Comments » | Posted in RIM, Rumors
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Simon at BBCool has gotten some more confirmation on the feature sets of OS 4.5 and 4.6. OS 4.5 is still set to release this summer for everything but the 8707 which is what we expected. I am surprised it is including the 8703 versions but that has happened before.
They also have confirmed OS 4.6 [...]
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
It seems like RIM has returned from WES with some real action plans. They have just released BlackBerry OS 4.5.0.37 Bundle 52 to their BlackBerry partners. This is promising news since it usually means that the official OS 4.5 release is not that far off.
Just in case all of you wanted to know. The new OS 4.5.0.37 [...]
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