Ok there are way too many ways that we could make jokes or bad puns with the name Storm. Anyway, Verizon Wireless posted a page early yesterday for the BlackBerry Storm. After only being up a short while, Verizon plucked the page away. Some suspect that RIM asked (read forced) them to pull the page. [...]

It has long been known that T-Mobile would be the first wireless carrier in the US to release the new 8220 Pearl Flip (that’s a mouthful), and according to their website, they’re getting mighty close!
You can now pre-register for your very own BlackBerry 8220 Pearl Flip! The pre-register link takes you to the 8220’s BlackBerry.com [...]

If you live in Alaska, you will be happy to know that Alaska’s fastest mobile network, Alaska Communication System, announced that they have begun carrying 3 BlackBerry Devices as of September 15. You will now be able to pick up an 8830 World Edition, a Curve 8330 and of course a Pearl 8130. As [...]

AT&T has launched their new assisted GPS technology on its GSM network to enhance its current and future location based services. This will effect all A-GPS capable devices. I am not the most technical person, but it sounds like this technology finds your location first using cell tower triangulation, then pinpoints your location via [...]

MapQuest has announced the Beta release of their BlackBerry application. MapQuest 4 Mobile Beta is available for Sprint on the BlackBerry 8830 and AT&T on the BlackBerry 8800, 8820, and 8310. However, I was able to download and install this application using my Verizon 8830, the only things that did not work properly are the [...]

CTIA has been a busy time for RIM this year. Together with Sprint they have officially announced the previously leaked 8350i which will be a welcome reprieve for anybody still using the 7100i or older devices. The device packs quite a few features including the lauded Push To Talk/Direct Connect.

The features include:

OS 4.6!!!
Direct Connect (beep [...]

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 [...]

Joe let us know that Sprint released a NFL application for BlackBerry that may work on other carriers. I am not much of an NFL fan so I cannot comment on the quality of the application but it does look very nice! Especially for a free application.

The application does not advertise itself [...]

Well the guys over at The BoyGenius Report seem to be at the forefront of news once again! They just reported that the Verizon Storm has gone into Technical Acceptance.

From the BGR post;
Here’s our latest info on the BlackBerry Storm and the fate of the device on Verizon’s network: it just went into technical acceptance [...]