BlackBerry Curve 8530, the latest Curve-series smartphone from RIM, is now available at Verizon Wireless as well. The Verizon Wireless’s version of Curve 8530 is pretty much just like T-Mobile’s Curve 8520, except the VZ’s Curve 8530 supports its own Verizon Wireless GPS services.

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AT&T Wireless today announced the BlackBerry Bold 9700, a thinner, lighter, and more powerful smartphone than its predecessor, which is also known as BlackBerry Bold. The Bold 9700 phone has almost the same design and outlook of the old BlackBerry Bold. The new one still has the loved full QWERTY keyboard and a 2.44-inch LCD screen (unfortunately, it is not a touch screen).

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RIM, the Canadian company that make BlackBerry phone, is rumored to release a watch phone called BlackBerry “InPulse”. The “InPulse” phone is not a phone to check your heartbeat, it is a watch phone with PDA functionalities, capable of checking emails, receiving calls, browsing the Internet, and read the news. The phone has an OLED display that nobody knows whether it is a touch screen or not. We kind of disbelieve that the rumor is true, but the phone world seems like want to believe that.

RIM, the maker of BlackBerry-series phones, today announced the BlackBerry Storm 2, the second-generation of Storm full touch screen phone. The first generation of Storm phone isn’t a success for RIM, as customers complain that the phone is too slow, and the soft QWERTY keyboard cause too much of troubles. RIM said that they have solved the problems in the Storm 2 with its new SurePress technology, which is said to be effortless when clicking on the screen and the display would be able to detect if a finger is resting on the screen.

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RIM, the maker of BlackBerry PDA, today announce BlackBerry® Smart Card Reader, an external part that is used authenticate and control users’ access to BlackBerry smartphones. The Smart Card Reader utilizes Bluetooth technology and advanced AES-256 encryption. It is lightweight and wearable, so users could either put it inside a pocket or wear the reader on a lanyard. This reader supports BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, allowing system admin to control access permissions over the wireless network.

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T-Mobile, the fourth-largest carrier in US by subscribers, today announced that the BlackBerry Curve 8520 will be available for its subscribers on August 5. The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is the successor to the hugely popular BlackBerry Curve PDA phone. The new Curve 8520 still has a full QWERTY keyboard, and a landscape non-touchsensitive LCD screen. Besides that, it also has a touch-sensitive optical trackpad for easier navigation. The Curve 8520 will feature dedicated media keys to control music and videos, the first BlackBerry smartphone to do so.

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BlackBerry Tour, the latest BlackBerry’s PDA phone, will be available at Verizon Wireless stores starting on July 12. The selling price is $200 after rebates with new agreement. Those interested can pre-order the Tour online starting today.

I guess RIM doesn’t like BlackBerry Niagara, which was the name of BlackBerry 9630. RIM decided to name the new BlackBerry 9630 “BlackBerry Tour”, which is much better than Niagara. The BlackBerry Tour gets official release today, as RIM announced that the Tour phone will be available in this summer at Sprint and Verizon Wireless, and probably by Bell and Telus in Canada. The Tour phone will be available for $199 with a 2-yr contract agreement and after a $100 mail-in rebate. Unlike the controversial BlackBerry Storm phone, which causes many die-hard BlackBerry users to hate BlackBerry products, the BlackBerry Tour doesn’t have a touchscreen.

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RIM, the maker of BlackBerry Phones, partnered with UK’s Selfridges department stores, launching Yellow color BlackBerry phones to celebrate Selfridges;s 100th birthday. There will be exactly 100 yellow color BlackBerry Bold manufactured, and each of them will be numbered. The phone will be sold for £1,000, a price that is over expensive and seems like ripping off the customers.

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RIM is ready to launch the 2nd generation of the not-so-loved BlackBerry Storm phone. Since the launch of the RIM’s first touchscreen phone, users have been writing their disappointments of the 1st generation of BlackBerry Storm at HandCellPhone.com. (Read users’ reviews of BlackBerry Storm here). It looks like RIM is determined to repair the images of BlackBerry Storm by adding features that are lacked in the 1st generation.

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You could view the details of BlackBerry App World here. The App World looks like pretty promising, as it has all the hot apps of iPhones, including Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AOL, Shazaam, Bloomberg news, MTV, Slacker Radio, and etc. You could view all featured apps here.

NTT DoCoMo in Japan suspended the sales of BlackBerry Bold because the phone is overheating. There are more than 30 customers of NTT Docomo experienced overheating issue that the Bold’s keyboard area had heated up.

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