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BlackBerry Driftwood/Onyx hitting T-Mobile USA in September

By: |May 10th, 2009 at 06:42PM
Filed Under: BG's Corner, Exclusive
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Here’s the deal — we’ve heard now from two independent sources that T-Mobile will be launching a 3G-enabled 8900-style BlackBerry around September. This looks to be the much-rumored BlackBerry Driftwood. One of our sources said it was Onyx, one said Driftwood. We’re going with Driftwood only because of our other intel here (Driftwood was the only device with UMA support) but who knows. Here’s a recap of the specs:AWS 1700MHz + 2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA3.2 megapixel autofocus cameraGPSWi...

RIM spokesman confirms BlackBerry Storm 2 launch in 2009 and novel input method

By: |Apr 8th, 2009 at 09:16AM
Filed Under: Rumor
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Alain Segond von Banchet, Channel Sales manger for RIM in the Netherlands, reportedly spoke freely about the BlackBerry Storm 2 during the TeleVisie 2009 Expo in the Netherlands yesterday. Segond von Banchet supposedly revealed that the Storm successor will launch in late 2009 or early 2010 with KPN, a move away from the exclusive Vodafone launch seen with the original Storm. He also confirmed that the Storm 2 will contain an improved touch input method, which we spoke of yesterday, so consider this a third s...

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RIM’s upcoming devices: Onyx, Driftwood, Magnum

By: |Apr 5th, 2009 at 12:46PM
Filed Under: BG's Corner, Exclusive
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So… one of our ninjas just hit us up with some really interesting BlackBerry info. While the specs of the following codenames are confirmed, releases are not, and as such, this should be used for information sake. Here’s what we got: (more…)