Up until fairly recently users have been asking us where to get an app that allows someone running OS 5 to send more than the CDMA defined 160 characters in an SMS. Beyond160 has been a great app for allowing users to do this but it was not available ...

Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu said in a research note yesterday that BlackBerry 6 , the next version of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry operating system, may not come out on CDMA networks like Sprint and Verizon until 2011. Almost 80% of all wireless networks use GSM technology, so, it ...

Sure we’ve already seen BlackBerry 6 in action thanks to an epic 17 minute walkthrough , but that video featured a touchscreen ‘Berry. What’s life going to be like on the new OS for those of us that prefer non-touchscreen devices from RIM? Well we know now, as the ...

Ah, a Tour owner’s dream. The BlackBerry Bold 9650 started life out as the BlackBerry Tour2. It then went through a late-stage metamorphosis and received a memory upgrade and name change for a couple of different reasons. One of the reasons is to utilize a positive product name RIM has built ...

Sprint customers who have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the BlackBerry Tour Bold 9650 can rejoice today as the device is now available online from Sprint. With a full retail price of $450, new customers and those eligible for upgrades will be able to have a 9650 shipped ...

Fear not Big Red BlackBerry fans, for the 9650 shall cometh “soon.” We’ve just been dropped several images showing Verizon collateral with the BlackBerry Tour Bold 9650 prominently displayed. The details of the phone are not new — EV-DO Rev. A, Wi-FI, GPS, 512 MB RAM, 3.2 megapixel camera, ...

One of our Verizon Wireless guys just let us know that there are a couple exciting product launches happening in May. In addition to the Microsoft KIN 1 and KIN 2 pre-sale going live on May 6th and the BlackBerry Bold 9650 being released later in the month, there ...

The title says it all…as there isn’t much else to say about the new BlackBerry Bold 9650 . A fresh press release from Sprint made the go-live date — Sunday, May 23rd — public knowledge. Here is the white meat from the release: The BlackBerry Bold 9650 smartphone will ...

So check it out… RIM’s huge BlackBerry hullabaloo, Wireless Enterprise Symposium, or “WES”, officially kicks off tomorrow in sunny Orlando, but that didn’t stop the Waterloo folks from busting out two — count ‘em, two — hot new smartphones prior to all of the festivities. Wanna know what they ...

BlackBerry users who are stuck with CDMA-based carriers (like Verizon) now have another option in the form of the Bold 9650, replacing the Tour and its janky trackball with an optical trackpad. It'll be available sometime next month. More??