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RIM dethrones Apple as US BlackBerry sales in Q1 soar

By: |May 4th, 2009 at 04:06PM
Filed Under: Apple, BlackBerry, Handsets, News, Retail, RIM
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While RIM’s next-generation handsets such as the Bold, Storm and Curve 8900 are already flooding the marketplace — and a new wave including the Tour and Curve 8520 are on the horizon — it looks like RIM’s bread and butter is still the trusty old Curve 83xx series. According to recent analysis by The NPD Group, the BlackBerry Curve was America’s best selling smartphone in Q1 of 2009. It steals the title from the iPhone of course, as sales slow from its incredible pace last year. T...

Exclusives

BlackBerry Gemini 8325 live picture

By: |Mar 17th, 2009 at 01:53AM
Filed Under: BG's Corner, BlackBerry, EDGE, Exclusives, GPRS, GSM, Handsets, Wi-Fi
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Sorry it’s not the greatest picture in the world, but at least we can put a face to the specs and info. We dropped word of the BlackBerry Gemini a while back, and it looks to be cross between an 8300 and an 8900. Ugh, the madness never stops. Then again, did you really expect something different for an “updated BlackBerry Curve?” Here’s the information we published earlier:OS 5.0320×240 resolution screenQWERTY (really?)Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGEWi-Fi 802.11b/g/n (again, not too sure ...

What’s your name?

By: |Feb 10th, 2009 at 12:30AM
Filed Under: BG's Corner, BlackBerry, RIM
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Okay, we’ve got to have a little chat here about the BlackBerry 9300 which we referred to as the “Gemini.” Indeed there was some confusion on our part (yes, we made a boo-boo and we mistakenly referred to the BlackBerry 9300 as the “Gemini”. It is not the Gemini. The Gemini is apparently the codename for the BlackBerry 8325, a T-Mobile GSM/EDGE device with OS 5.0, a 320×240 display, 2 megapixel camera, and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n (they’re going to put 802.11n on a crap devi...