Vonage has just announced today that their mobile app for the iPhone and BlackBerry is now available for download. This app will allow users to make international calls over both WiFi and AT&T’s cellular network. Of course, you’re going to be paying for both AT&T minutes and Vonage’s rates if you don’t use over WiFi but by year’s end Vonage hopes to give those who subscribe to their $25 a month ... Read More

Research In Motion (RIM) today launched BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone in Thailand and also introduced it in Singapore. BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is expected to be available in Thailand in October 2009 and in Singapore it will available from M1, SingTel and StarHub at the end of October. ... Read More

U.K. based luxury designer Alexander Amosu created the world’s most expensive BlackBerry crafted in solid 18 carat yellow gold and encrusted with 4,459 (count them!) brilliant cut diamonds for a total of 28.43 carats. It takes over 350 hours for building these. There will only be three of these diamond-encrusted BlackBerrys in the world, where one of them will retail for a whopping $240,000. ... Read More

We know from discussions with tipsters (and from the simple fact that rumored phones take a century to get released) that Verizon tests the crap out of things -- generally speaking, anyway. Apparently that wasn't the case with the latest Tour firmware to see action, though, because 4.7.1.53 got pulled within a few hours of its release -- but not before wreaking havoc with at least a few users' phones, ... Read More

SaskTel has included BlackBerry Tour 9630 to their lineup. It is now available to local store though still absent in their website. The Tour has a full QWERTY keyboard with trackball navigation, High-resolution HVGA Colour Display (480×360), 2 megapixel camera with auto focus, Video recording, Media Player, GPS capabilities, BlackBerry Messenger, Bluetooth v2.0, Speakerphone, Voice dialing, Conference calling, 256 MB on-board memory, can hold up to 32GB with a microSD ... Read More

Trigcom AS and Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone for customers in Norway. The handset, a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones, is now available from Trigcom AS. The slim new BlackBerry Curve 8520 is an incredibly approachable smartphone that will come to the Norweigan market in black and frost blue. For people who like to be connected, it provides easy mobile ... Read More

It was just the other day when we told you that both the BlackBerry Onyx/Storm 9700 and the Curve 8520 had appeared on Rogers' upgrade system. Well, if a picture is worth a thousand words, we could have just posted this snapshot instead. If you look at the casing, you will notice that there are no carrier tats which suggests that this particular unit has recently escaped from RIM. For ... Read More

Picture of BlackBerry Bold 9700 (also known as BlackBerry aka Onyx) comes out with T-Mobile U.S.A seal on it forecasting its availability from T-Mobile in the near future. The device looks like a mix of the well-known BlackBerry900, with a trackpad instead of the older trackball. The BlackBerry 9700 Bold has almost the same specs namely, the e-mail and messaging functions are the same, as well as the support network. ... Read More