BlackBerry Curve 8520 (T-Mobile)

$300 - $500

Amazon Marketplace	$499.99
Amazon	$299.99
J&R Music and Computer World	$319.99

Research in Motion apparently has decided the best way to conquer the smartphone market is to put their well-known OS into a dizzying array of different bodies. That's fine with me, because many of them turn out excellent—Flip and Storm aside. The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is the company's latest smartphone for T-Mobile, and the first BlackBerry to sport a trackpad. My guess: the trackpad will succeed the trackball on all future designs, because it's great. The rest of the Curve 8520 turned out pretty well, too. That's not bad for a smartphone that rings in at just $48.88 (with a two-year contract) from Walmart—although puzzlingly, it's $129 at T-Mobile's own stores.

Research In Motion Ltd

http://www.rim.com

• Price as Tested: $48.88 - $299.99 Street
• Service Provider: T-Mobile
• Operating System: BlackBerry OS
• Screen Size: 2.5 inches
• Screen Details: 320-by-240, 262K colors
• Camera: Yes
• Megapixels: 3.2 MP
• 802.11x: Yes
• Bluetooth: Yes
• Web Browser: Yes
• Network: GSM, UMTS
• Bands: 850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100, 1700
• High-Speed Data: EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA
• Processor Speed: 528 MHz

RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 (Verizon Wireless)

The new BlackBerry Tour 9630 is a remix of many of the best BlackBerry features on the market today packed into beautiful hardware. It's the benchmark for business smartphones, as well as being an excellent music player and a terrific tool for social networking. My unit was a little buggy, but the Tour is still the best smartphone on Verizon Wireless.

http://www.rim.com

• Price as Tested: $269.99 Direct
• Service Provider: Verizon Wireless
• Operating System: Other
• Screen Size: 2.4 inches
• Screen Details: 480x360 65k-color TFT LCD display
• Camera: Yes
• Megapixels: 3.2 MP
• 802.11x: No
• Bluetooth: Yes
• Web Browser: Yes
• Network: GSM, CDMA, UMTS
• Bands: 850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100
• High-Speed Data: 1xRTT, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, EVDO Rev 0, EVDO Rev A

BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 (Verizon Wireless)

A bit bulky and a bit late, the BlackBerry 8230 Pearl Flip solves a problem that didn't need solving at all. It was sensible for RIM to think that people like flip phones and people like BlackBerries, so a flip BlackBerry would be a winner. But in the nine months since it was announced, slab-style smart phones and full-QWERTY texting phones have been so relentlessly successful, it's clear there's no need for this slightly awkward design.

http://www.rim.com

• Price as Tested: $149.99 - $429.99 Direct
• Service Provider: Verizon Wireless
• Operating System: BlackBerry OS
• Screen Size: 2.4 inches
• Screen Details: 2.4", 240x320, 65k-color main screen; 1.6", 128x160, 65k-color external screen
• Camera: Yes
• Megapixels: 2 MP
• 802.11x: No
• Bluetooth: Yes
• Web Browser: Yes
• Network: CDMA
• Bands: 850, 1900
• High-Speed Data: 1xRTT, EVDO Rev 0
• Processor Speed: 312 MHz

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Blackberry Minutesaver



Minutesaver is a simple utility that vibrates to tell you how long you have been talking on the phone. The timer is set to seconds so you can end your call before it hits a minute or what ever you set it to, saving you some call charges from your cell phone provider. This is great utility, and can save you some money when your making calls, especially when your traveling and using International roaming.

download OTA: Minutesaver Blackberry
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Use Your Blackberry's Email to Update Twitter

There's a lot of ways to update twitter using your blackberry; install a twitter client, open twitter mobile in your browser, update via email. The 3rd one is an option people often forget or even think is possible.

Your Blackberry is made for email, why not make updates or even uploads via email. I'm a big fan of this concept and I continuously look for companies that offer these services.

One company that stood out is called Posterous. Their services enables you to update your twitter account by simply sending them an email to update twitter. You can just write your post on the subject line of your email and that's it. Posterous even shortens the links in your post. Using posterous you never have to install any clients or have to browse their mobile version that takes time to load. Currently Posterous support uploads to Youtube, Vimeo, Flickr or post updates to blogs using blogger and wordpress.

link: Posterous.com

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Wordpress Blogging App



When I saw early developments on a Wordpress client for the Blackberry, I was instantly very excited. Although I'm a loyal Blogger user, I do have some sites that run on wordpress and even some forums running on bbpress.

The idea of updating my site on my Blackberry always seems to make sense to me.The blackberry is just the perfect phone for typing something. Who else spends more time on perfecting their keypad designs but RIM.

Going back to the Wordpress client, the moment you install it on your phone, you will have to setup your hosting details, either your hosted on a wordpress domain or your you have Wordpress installed on your domain. Setup is very easy and straight forward, enter your URL, username and password.

After this you can now compose new post and even upload pictures. The client also has some handy comment moderation, so now you can through them where ever you may be.

Overall the wordpress client works great I do notice it to be a bit slower on the Pearl and the Curve compared to Bold. It works great on the Storm and I love the landscape mode.

download Wordpress for the Blackberry OTA: http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install