Waterloo, Ontario-based smartphone maker RIM announced the new BlackBerry Bold (9000) flagship smartphone today, its slickest, speediest, most powerful and most connected BlackBerry to date. Research In Motion (RIM) said its Bold smartphone is the first BlackBerry to offer high-speed mobile Internet access using tri-band HSDPA networks, Wi-Fi and integrated GPS. It also has twice the screen resolution (480 x 320 px) of the current BlackBerry Curve model, making for a very sharp display. The Bold...

The new BlackBerry Bold 9000 is the first device from RIM to offer 3G tri-band HSDPA connectivity in the QWERTY smartphone form factor that it helped make famous. The Bold includes features like GPS and 1GB of internal storage and is slated for this summer. Read the full story here.

Top of the line BlackBerry smartphone features premium design and unprecedented performance; perfect for business professionals and power users Read the full story here. <

The new BlackBerry has been officially announced. It is called Bold and 9000 as we've heard. Specs are quite impressive and I can't wait the summer to try one. Let's recap: Quad-band EDGE and tri-band HSDPA 624MHz Intel PXA270/Marvell Tavor PXA930 CPU Runs BlackBerry OS 4.6 480×320 pixels screen 2 megapixel camera with flash (I was hoping for at least [...]

Research in Motion (RIM) and Thomson Reuters today announced plans to launch the BlackBerry Partners Fund, a $150 million venture capital fund, to invest in mobile applications and services for the RIM's BlackBerry platform and other mobile platforms. The fund will be co-managed by JLA Ventures and RBC Venture Partners, the Royal Bank of Canada's venture capital arm. "The mobile world has evolved well beyond phone calls and simple messaging to require more empowering and liberating solutions tha...

A company called Lextex is working on an application that lets controlling surveillance devices via iPhone. The so called CodeName iVy project provides users with complete remote access to what is happening, including easy time-shifting — all from any computer or iPhone using the web browser. Apparently, this is also working over EDGE, even though [...]

Sprint and Google are partnering to bring services such as Google Maps for Mobile and YouTube to Sprint customers. As part of the deal, Google will also become Sprint's preferred mobile search provider. "Our partnership with Google is a great example of how Sprint is making the mobile Internet experience even more customer-friendly and useful to our customers," said Kevin Packingham, vice president of product management at Sprint. "Sprint looks forward to extending its partnership with Google, a...

Google has a $10 million contest for Android developers, Apple the iFund and RIM has just announced a $150 million BlackBerry Partners Fund along with RBC, Thomson Reuters, and several private Canadian investors. Agnostic to both stage and balance sheet, the BlackBerry Partners Fund will not restrict the development of mobile applications and services to any [...]

TomTom won't follow Garmin's suit and doesn't plan to launch own-brand handsets. Apparently, the personal navigation device (PND) maker wants to focus on the development of the core software and further strengthen its content and services for in-car PNDs. While still concentrating on the PND market, the handset segment is a potential market for the personal [...]

Singapore Telecommunications, aka SingTel, announced that it scored the iPhone distribution deal for four countries - Singapore, India, Australia, and Philippines. The Southeast Asia's largest phone company said Apple's handset will be offered through SingTel Mobile in Singapore, and it's partly-owned subsidiaries in Australia (Optus), India (Bharti Group), and the Philippines (Globe Telecom). No dates [...]

The hand phone concept is everything but a unique idea. Still I like the way they've almost made it happen. It's a work of Italian industrial designer Biodomotica, which are looking for interested manufacturers. The way I see it, the Hand phone concept is made for those people that use a mobile phone exclusively for talking. [...]

If you're enjoying media playback on the go, you've probably already heard about CorePlayer Mobile. One of the best, if not the best, digital media player for mobile devices has been updated to include the Flash video support — actually that's Adobe Flash Multimedia Container (FLV, F4V) support. In addition, the new version also adds [...]

Sprint Nextel Corp., the No. 3 U.S. wireless service provider, said today it had a larger first-quarter deficit as revenue fell, it lost more than a million subscribers and it absorbed charges for severance and other costs. Sprint said its total subscriber base fell by 1.09 million to 52.8 million, including the loss of 1.07 million post-paid customers who pay a monthly bill - actually smaller than the 1.2 million in post-paid losses the company had forecast last quarter. The company reported a ...

05/11/08 - Create your own applications.

As far as Sony Ericsson's Walkman music phones go, the W960 is pretty sedate looking. But while it might look more like a suit than a hipster, it still packs a touchscreen and the full Walkman experience. Ricky asks it to dance in this review. Read the full story here.

Aricent Integration Services Facilitate Wi-Fi Access on Commercial Aircraft Read the full story here.

Singapore's SingTel has announced that it will be bringing the Apple iPhone to several countries through its wholly and partially owned carrier partners in India, Australia, and the Philippines. Read the full story here.

Vodafone simplifies mobile broadband approach Read the full story here.

First Productivity Suite to Enable Viewing, Editing and Creation of Native Microsoft Office Files for Leading Smartphone Platform Read the full story here.

Microsoft and Research In Motion have announced that they will be working together to bring Windows Live services to BlackBerry smartphones this summer. Windows Live Messenger and Hotmail will be among the supported services. Read the full story here.