RIM being a thriving and profitable company is hardly a new story — as confirmed by third quarter earnings of $628 million off the back of a record-breaking 10 million units sold — but the way it’s making its money seems to be changing. More than 80 percent of new BlackBerry subscribers in the [...]

One of the natural side effects of being the largest maker of cellphones in the world is that you produce a lot of different models — a lot — which makes it way too easy for product planning, engineering, and marketing to all have corners cut for even the most important devices in the [...]

Right on schedule, the latest BlackBerry to grace the Verizon’s CDMA spectrum, the Curve 8530, is now on sale. A 2.5-inch display, OS 5.0, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and yes, WiFi — take that, Tour. Price is $199.99 on two-year contract, with an added $100 discount if you buy it online. Let’s be honest, [...]

This premium device gives me the cutting edge technology to keep me productive and “in the know” in work and life when I am away from my computer without trading off style. A BlackBerry data service is required.
RIM’s successor to the original Bold — the BlackBerry Bold 9700 — has finally landed on our [...]

Windows Mobile lost 28 percent of its smartphone market share between last year’s third quarter and this year’s third quarter, according to market researcher Gartner.
Figures released Thursday by Gartner show that Microsoft’s mobile OS had 11 percent of the global smartphone market in Q3 2008. A year later, it had 7.9 percent. Meanwhile, the [...]

The BlackBerry Bold 9700 will have its U.S. debut on Monday. T-Mobile USA will be the first carrier in this country to offer RIM’s latest smartphone, which will also be T-Mobile’s first BlackBerry to support its 3G network.
This wireless carrier is going to ask $200 for the Bold2 with a two-year contract. Those who don’t [...]

A duo of products on display from Unify4Life shows us just how much less productive we could be on our ‘Berrys if we had ‘em on us. The AV|Shadow and Garage|Shadow connect over Bluetooth and let you control a bevy of AV devices and your garage door, respectively. The demo we saw had the [...]