Every once in awhile RIM manages to completely confuse me. If you read the title of a press release stating: “AOL and RIM to Bring AOL Mail, AIM and ICQ Services to BlackBerry Smartphones Worldwide.” What would you think?
At first I thought that it meant RIM had finally removed all of the stupid restrictions [...]

Both RIM and T-Mobile sent us press releases announcing the new device last night. Seems like Doug was on the money. I just still can’t believe that RIM stuck with “Pearl Flip 8220″ as the name of the phone. Talk about a mouthful. I can already hear it now “look at that hot Pearl [...]

That is a pretty impressive number considering the fact that last year they only had 8.9%. The smartphone market has grown 15.7% over the last year according to research from Gartner and remain as 11% of the whole cellphone market.
Just for reference, Nokia went down to 47.5% market share from 50.8 last year and Apple [...]

Yesterday I got a weird email from RIM that really had me shaking my head. I have already gotten used to RIM spouting old news in their BlackBerry Connection newsletter but this one took the cake:

BES v4.1 Service Pack 6 was released back in the middle of July… What are they doing sending out [...]

Talk about exciting news. Bplay just let me know that they have cut their prices significantly beginning this morning. These price drops will last for “an extended period of time at minimum” according to Bplay so there is no specific end date.
All of their top titles are now $6.99 with the exception of Guitar Hero [...]

I just received this notification from RIM on what seems to be quite an offer for students, at least when it comes to the Prize Offerings. The $50 bonus offer expires at 11:59 PM EST on November 30th. RIM reserves the right to terminate the offer before this date.

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These types of promotions seem to be doing pretty well. The promotion the weather channel ran a few months back broke all records for their website. They had more than a 35% bump in traffic and over 700,000 entries for their contest.
Douglas at BlackBerryCool spotted a promotion that RIM & Ford are offering where you [...]

Tim just sent us a tip that Bplay has released Guitar Hero III Backstage Pass on their website. I did not get a formal announcement about it yet so this might just be a soft launch. The game looks pretty cool and with the original still clocking in at second place on their best sellers [...]

Tricia just let us know that RIM has put up 12 new ringtones on their mobile.BlackBerry.com website. Nothing crazy here but I checked out a few of them and they were actually pretty good. Sadly there is no way to try them out from your PC but you can check them out by heading [...]

This is a pretty good deal from Bplay since they don’t offer discounts often. After reading their last mailing I noticed that they are offering a 20% off coupon if you become their fan on Facebook. I guess that really does not cost you anything so if you were planning on picking something up [...]