All you fans of the BlackBerry Pearl range of phones, here’s something special and exciting for you. A number of snapshots of the latest BlackBerry Pearl 9100, which is yet to hit the market, have been posted on the Internet. It sure looks like a great phone with its cool and swanky appearance.

As is expected, the BlackBerry Pearl is a really handsome device with looks to die for. It has incorporated all the basic features and elements of the original Pearl, but is packaged in an updated fashion with the current design language of Research In Motion. There have been changes in its hardware and some software as well in keeping with the updating process. The most striking feature is the optical trackpad that has come to replace the trackball. The white illuminated trackball which gave Pearl its name is longer a part of this new Pearl 9100. It is time for the trackpad using which the users will interact. It is not that only Pearl 9100 is going to sport the trackpad, rather it has been deployed across many other handsets of Research In Motion. So it is evident that the trackpad is the new reality when it comes to on-screen navigation with the BlackBerry’s.

There are some other noticeable changes as well. For example, the keyboard design which looks similar in configuration to the original has been modified in that the keys appear to have been shaped a bit differently. Also the Pearl 9100 has a slim profile. For this, it has a SureType 20-key keypad, which offers two letters per key. To make typing easy and fast, it is also using software that will try to figure out what the user is typing and thus make suggestions. All in all, it sure sounds like a convenient phone.

Overall, the BlackBerry Pearl 9100 looks suave and swanky, polished and spectacular just as its name suggests. The fit and finish is superb, due to the top quality materials that have been used in its making. We don’t know for sure about the size of the new Pearl, as the guys at CrankBerry.com didn’t put the clicks of the Pearl 9100 beside its predecessor. But whatever the case maybe, the phone is attractive and we just have to wait for it to be released as there has been no news of its release form Research In Motion.

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The Canadian manufacturer Research In Motion had a great time in its third quarter, which was marked by the introduction of the BlackBerry Tour in the United States, coupled with a an increasing visibility around the world with the BlackBerry Curve and BlackBerry Bold. This seems to be just the trailer, because the real stuff is yet to hit the news. The latest buzz is that a touchscreen QWERTY slider is soon going to hit the market to provide tough competition to the popular business phones from HTC and Nokia.

The BlackBerry 9900, the phone to be released, is going to be a smartphone with a touchscreen QWERTY slider, as per Electronista. According to Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu, the phone is currently in its prototype stage, and it is likely to be released in 2010. During the earlier part of this year, Research In Motion had announced that it intended to integrate a Webkit browser in a future version of BlackBerry OS, courtesy of a Webkit browser acquisition. Surely, it intends to leave no stone unturned in making sure that the BlackBerry 9900 stands a good chance of surviving the competition from the other phones in its category.

According to the Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu, it is possible that the BlackBerry 9900 might utilize a browser technology from Google or Microsoft. All this mans that Research In Motion’s new browser will support Google Gears and Microsoft SilverLight, whichever way it will need to be competitive enough to give tough competition to the devices from HTC and Nokia.

The efforts put in by Research In Motion are not limited to just these. A lot is being thought out and devised to make the all new BlackBerry 9900 invincible and unsurpassed in all aspects. At a recent developer conference, Research In Motion also announced that 3D graphics hardware acceleration and Adobe Technology will be part of future BlackBerry smartphones. So we hope that we get to see both these features in the BlackBerry 9900, and with them it can also give some tough time to the recently released Motorola Droid for Verizon Wireless.

As of now, all we can do is to wait patiently and just dream and anticipate about the recent addition to the BlackBerry family, that sounds mind-blowing though; and then decide whether it is worth the wait and excitement!

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The new mobile enterprise service launched for small and medium businesses, which will enable them to enjoy the BlackBerry services without the need of a BlackBerry device. The two companies SmarterMobile and CommuniGate intend to provide the services in the lines Research In Motion, but as an off-device service hosted by the provider.

This type of hosted service is called the Software as a Service (SaaS), where the service provider runs the service while the use of the service is licensed out to the user. Thus using this service, a company that wishes to provide its employers the BlackBerry-like services can license the CommuniGate property. With this, all the employers of the company will be able to access the services from their devices, without the need of having a BlackBerry. This is the key advantage of SaaS. Using the individual devices, the employees can get access to a consistent set of services like Push mail, Shared Calendars, Contact sync and backup, Shared folders and file sharing, Group scheduling, Remote lock-down and wipe, Complete communications platform including mail, instant messaging and lot more, platform agnostic unified desktop client, and all these without the necessity of any mobile software, it is compatible with the native mobile clients.

The companies providing these BlackBerry-like services are CommuniGate and SmarterMobile. The company CommuniGate has been around from the beginning of the 1990s. It focuses mainly on “Internet Communications”, which is basically a hub service which rolls e-mail, IM, VoIP and video calling all into one package, thus enabling broadband and mobile operators to resell that package to businesses. The hosted service is rendered by CommuniGate. It actually means that the operator hosts the communications packages while businesses tap into it without having to shell out anything for downloading or installing anything. Presently, CommuniGate claims to have about 150 million users, which represents 12,000 companies worldwide.

The other company, SmarterMobile is a mobile software company that specializes in jobs for small to medium enterprises. It is the company which has been chosen by CommuniGate to deliver its new mobile service of providing BlackBerry-like services. SmarterMobile must be good at it considering it has been selected by CommuniGate.

In the present day and in the coming days, the phones and networks are becoming increasingly fast and capable of handling complex data. As such the robust cloud-hosted services will soon become more commonplace in order to bring in uniformity in the services rendered to people using different devices.

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Much attention has been showered on the BlackBerry Bold 9700 and BlackBerry Storm 2 smartphones, over the past weeks. It is now time that we took notice of the BlackBerry Curve 85xx Series as well. According to the latest news doing the rounds, the BlackBerry Curve 8520 will be the latest handset to be acquired by AT & T, the first U.S. carrier to offer BlackBerry service. It has announced its desire to give to its customers the best value in its BlackBerry smartphone portfolio with the latest addition of the BlackBerry Curve 8520. As per the article over on Crackberry, Sprint and Verizon Wireless together will be gaining the BlackBerry Curve 8530, while AT & T has announced that the BlackBerry Curve 8520 will be available “in the coming weeks”.

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is a very easy to use phone that exudes style. It is the compact phone that business as well as non-business oriented people can use to their comfort and advantage. The phone features a full QWERTY keyboard and a touch-sensitive trackpad for easy typing and navigation, built in Wi-Fi, an advanced media player, along with dedicated media keys smoothly integrated along the top of the handset, thus offering a great and easy way to control music and videos. The great features of this cool phone is not limited to just this. The handset also provides global connectivity via phone, email, text, IM, picture messaging and social networking, with Facebook and MySpace applications preloaded.

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 will be a great choice, considering its super battery life, simultaneous voice and data capabilities when using Wi-Fi, along with the ability to be access up to 10 corporate and personal email accounts. The users of the device can also edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files with DataViz Documents to Go suite. The high resolution 320 x 240 display, 256 MB of Flash Memory, and the 2 megapixel camera with video recording will add to the

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 will be available at a price of $99.99 after a mail in rebate and based on signing a two year contract with AT & T. so now, with AT & T, the users of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 can enjoy the best coverage worldwide with voice coverage in more than 215 countries and wireless data coverage in more than 185 countries.

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WorldDialer was formerly known as BerryDialer which was the very first calling card application for BlackBerry devices. I think about 3 years ago we wrote about that app the first time and seemed to be very popular. The development still seems to go on and the new version 2.1 has just been released! It comes with a home zone setting (the only noticeable change for normal users like you and me). The major improvement however, is the integration into BlackBerry Enterprise Servers. This is what they write:

Enterprises can use WorldDialer to cut their costs on such IDD and long distance calls by using alternative calling services. With WorldDialer 2.1 S4BB Limited introduces the unique WorldDialer Enterprise Administration Panel which integrates with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server®. It is now possible to control calling card / service configurations on all WorldDialer clients installed on all BlackBerry® Smartphones within the BES® network. For more information on this please visit the WorldDialer Enterprise Page.

Check out that video which shows how BlackBerry admins can update calling card information on WorldDialer clients running on BlackBerry devices with the network:

Besides that neat integration they also offer co-branding and data pre-loading for telco & calling card/service companies which makes it easy for them to bring their services to BlackBerry users. For example, I have seen a BlackBerry app from ZIP TeleCom which looks pretty much like what I just mentioned: ZIP Dialer for BlackBerry

Ah yeah, and the price dropped from $19.99 to $9.99 by 50%.

Website: WorldDialer for BlackBerry®

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Haven’t you wished for being able to bid while you are at some other place, from where being able to bid is a remote possibility? Wouldn’t it be simply great if you could be informed about the bidding process every moment? It sure would be and with the Mobile Auction Manager for e-Bay, all these wishes are set to come true.

WHAT IT DOES?

Mobile Auction Manager for e-Bay v1.1 has been developed by PB Mobile Soft. With this application, managing your e-Bay auctions while you are on the move will just become easier. Mobile Auction Manager is fully e-Bay certified and is listed on the e-Bay partners site. This is the first proper BlackBerry e-Bay application. Once you install this application into your BlackBerry device, you will be alerted each and every moment about items which are being bid, which have been outbid and much more.

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To start using this application, you will have to sign up at thehomepage to authorize our application with e-Bay. All the required instructions are given on the site. This is the login that is required at the start of this application. This is absolutely free, safe and secure as no e-Bay details are stored by the website. It is vital that you follow the displayed information on the homepage regarding linking your e-Bay account to your Mobile Auction Manager. If not done properly, the login to the application will fail. It is recommended that you do this process in a desktop browser.

This is quite an exciting application, because with it, you will never miss the end of an auction. You can bid on the auctions that you are watching. On top of that, you will also get notification alerts when you have been outbid, or when a watched item is ending soon. It is simply exciting!

If you are planning to get hold of this application, there’s more good news for you. This application will be available for a special price of $2.50 till the 30th of November. So you better decide fast! To install this application, you need a BlackBerry phone with one of the following operating systems: 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 Non-Touch, 4.7 Touch Screen, 5.0 Non-Touch, 5.0 Touch Screen. The display dimensions of the device should also be among: 240×160, 240×240, 240×260, 240×320, 320×240, 360×480, 480×320 and 480×360. For any queries, you can contact the Technical Help Desk through their website.

Website: Download Mobile Auction Manager for e-Bay

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Those dealing with electrical stuffs and items must know the pain involved in making the tedious calculations of the electrical parameters. It can really get on your nerves at times. But now, you can dump the headache because all the boring calculations will be done by My Electrical Calculator for BlackBerry.

WHAT IT DOES?

My Electrical Calculator for Blackberry v1.0 has been developed by Sparkle Solutions, Inc. It has 39 calculators that can calculate electrical parameters with accuracy and precision. The calculations are performed fast and the outcomes are extremely accurate. This application is the most comprehensive calculator. Using this application, you get 39 calculators for various electrical parameters.

FEATURES

The different calculators are as follows: Ohms Law Calculator, Voltage Calculator, Current Calculator, Resistance Calculator, Power Calculator, Single Phase Power Calculator, Three Phase Power Calculator, Single Phase Current Calculator, Three Phase Current Calculator, DC HorsePower Calculator, Single Phase HorsePower Calculator, Three Phase HorsePower Calculator, DC Current (HP) Calculator, Single Phase Current (HP) Calculator, Three Phase Current (HP) Calculator, Efficiency (DC) Calculator, Efficiency (Single Phase) Calculator, Efficiency (Three Phase) Calculator, Power Factor (Single Phase) Calculator, Power Factor (Three Phase) Calculator, Light Calculation, Luminous Intensity Calculator, Luminous Flux Calculator, Solid Angle Calculator, Energy Cost Calculator, Energy Storage Calculator, Resistance, Inductance, Capacitance, Star to Delta Conversion, Delta to Star Conversion, Inductive Reactance Calculator, Capacitive Reactance Calculator, Resonant Frequency Calculator, Inductor Sizing Equation, Capacitor Sizing Equation, Resistance (Series) Calculator, Resistance (Parallel) Calculator, Inductance (Series) Calculator, Inductance (Parallel) Calculator, Capacitance (Series) Calculator, Capacitance (Parallel) Calculator.

Equipped with a professionally designed user interface, entering data, viewing them is easy. It also enhances the calculation speed. There are options for calculating each value. The formulas for each calculator are also provided. Not only does this application provides accurate calculation of the output with respect to changes in the input, options or units, for each parameter, multiple units are provided for conversion purposes. Using this application, values of higher order can also be calculated.

Isn’t it a very useful application? It can ease out a lot of headaches when it comes to calculations. You can purchase this application for $12.99. The operating system of your BlackBerry device should be among: 3.x, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 Non-Touch, 4.7 Touch Screen, 5.0 Non-Touch, 5.0 Touch Screen. The display dimension of the device should also be among: 160×160, 240×160, 240×240, 240×260, 240×320, 320×240, 360×480, 480×320, 480×360. For any queries, you can contact the Technical Help Desk through their website.

Website: My Electrical Calculator for Blackberry

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The new version is supposed to have an automatic cleaning mechanism for the boost log which I personally find very useful. Compared to other applications MemoryBooster actually allows you to keep track on what the application is doing and how effective the application really is. I was always suspicious about these kinds of apps but I got a free version for reviewing it and since then I love it! If I would have it already I would pay for it. It seems that I am not the only one thinking like this because MemoryBooster is currently Top 1 Paid App in BlackBerry App World.

Ah, I almost forgot: more languages are supposed to be supported as well in version 3.1. Everyone who got his MemoryBooster from MobileSoftMarket gets free life-time updates and 30d money back. But I guess, for such a minor update they won’t charge.

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The BlackBerry Bold 9700 is now out and is going to be shipped by T-Mobile. In fact, this is going to be T-Mobile’s first RIM device, which is a touchpad-equipped handset with 3G network access. The BlackBerry Bold 9700 is basically an ergonomic upgrade to the Bold, with a narrow profile and the trackball replaced by a trackpad. The most noticeable features of the Bold 9700 are the improved 3.2 megapixel camera with video capture and the 480 x 360 screen. It also has an integrated Wi-Fi module with Bluetooth.

The component that can be said to the most impressive is the Wi-Fi calling, also called HotSpot calling. With the HotSpot active and staying connected to a LAN, the device will direct all of its calls over the Internet and will not count the minutes as usage. Call quality is also impressive, being loud and clear. The speakerphone, the earpiece and the mic are excellently calibrated. Apart from the Wi-Fi calling support, T-Mobile also bundles in the Visual Voice Mail app. This combination of the Visual Voice mail app and the implementation of Wi-Fi calling are simply explosive that it can make you crave to get the device in your palms! The phone’s voice dialing is also impressive in that it could recognize even unconventional names that were asked.

BlackBerry Bold 9700 also comes with a good standby time of 21 days and talk time of 6 hours for battery life. The figures are impressive enough to compel one to grab this phone. The trackpad is the most welcome change in this new BlackBerry Bold, and is quite refreshing as compared to the traditional BlackBerry sets. The most striking feature that will stun you is the display screen. With clarity and a size measuring 2.44 inches across and 480 x 360 pixel resolution, you will certainly be stunned by the appearance. In fact, Bold 9700’s screen is one of the largest and the clearest screen ever from Research In Motion.

The new BlackBerry Bold 9700 is of ideal size and weight. It is comfortable to carry it, be it in your pockets or in the palm of your hand. Moreover, T-Mobile also bundles in a 2 GB microSD memory card along with a stereo hands-free headset with the Bold 9700. The price of the BlackBerry Bold 9700 is $200 on a two-year contract, or $450 contract –free. So be ready to spoil yourself with this new Bold!

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Adding contact numbers is a task that needs to be done most frequently on your phones. But at times it can become really irksome to copy contact information from messages and then saving them to the address book. Same goes for noting appointments on the calendar while reading e-mails. With Copy2Contact, it is time to wish goodbye to these irritations.

WHAT IT DOES?

Copy2Contact v1.0.1 has been developed by Anagram Technologies. This is an application that will come handy while noting contacts and appointments. Using it, you can save any contact information into your BlackBerry address book, put new events on your BlackBerry calendar from any messages in your inbox. You can do just about any from saving sales leads to scheduling meetings and much more.

FEATURES

Copy2Contact is very easy to use and it is quite a fast application. To use this application, you do not require any wireless connection. It also works well with e-mails, search results, text messages and much more. So what you have is an application, which will automatically enter contact and appointment information into your BlackBerry address book and calendar form any source of plain-text like an e-mail signature, SMS message, web directory or search results. Therefore a lot of your headache will be bound to disappear!

Another benefit of using Copy2Contact is that it will eliminate any possibility of tedious copy-paste actions and any error that arises from it. It will also update existing contacts if a match is found. It is based on the advanced AI Technology tuned for 8 years on real-world data. Moreover, this application is also available for your PC for Outlook, Salesforce, NetSuite and Palm Desktop.

Quite an amazing application, isn’t it? It is bound to change the way you use your BlackBerry address book and calendar. The best thing about this powerful application is its reasonable price. You can get this application for a yearly subscription of just $9.95. Now that’s value for money! Further, this application requires that the operating system of your BlackBerry device is one of the following: 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 Non-Touch, 4.7 Touch Screen, 5.0 Non-Touch, 5.0 Touch Screen. The display dimension of your device also needs to be among: 160×160, 240×160, 240×240, 240×260, 240×320, 320×240, 360×480, 480×320 and 480×360 for the application to function properly. For further queries, you can contact the Technical help Desk through their website.

Website: Copy2Contact download

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