Blackberry Phones

Three UK has launched two BlackBerry family smartphones into their market. They are the BlackBerry Torch 9800 and the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300. Both RIM’s smartphones are now available for order.

Three UK is offers the BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone with price tag £249 on a £35/month plan, which is includes 5000 minutes inside the Three network, 2000 minutes to any network, 5000 texts, and 1GB of data access.

As noted, BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone is packs a 3.2-inch (480 x 360) touchscreen display, a 5MP autofocus camera with flash, slider full QWERTY keyboard, 4GB of onboard memory, a microSD card slot, and a 1,300 mAh battery.

The BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 smartphone is selling on Pay As You Go (PAYG) offering. It costs £209.99 online (a £10 top-up, included) and £219.99 from Three stores (a £20 top-up included).

BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 has brings new optical trackpad, 2MP camera with video recording, 2.44-inch display, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), HSDPA, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11n, GPS, 256MB internal memory, and a 1,150 mAh battery.

Word is popping up all over the internet  and we too got our invite to a special BlackBerry event to be held on August 3rd in NYC. If all goes according to the rumors, we should be seeing a full blown announcement of the BlackBerry 9800 there although, AT&T nor RIM have specified in the invite what it may be. Time will tell of course but, the pieces are all fitting in nicely here. Who’s ready to for the BlackBerry (Torch? Bold?) 9800 on AT&T?!

Since we have AT&T, Rogers pretty much nailed down for the BlackBerry 9800, BBLeaks  has been hearing that users of Vodafone UK may soon also be able to get their hands on it as well. Of course, we have to take it all with a grain of salt but a September / October timeframe has been placed thus far. Any Vodafone UK users out there hoping this is more fact rather then rumor? Even if it doesn’t turn out to be Vodafone, surely some UK carrier across the pond will pick this device up? You betcha.  BBLeaks also points out that Telefonica, Orange, T-Mobile UK and O2 are currently testing as well.

If you are among the folks out there who like to modify your BlackBerry devices with custom bezels, housings, trackpads and more then Truesupplier is looking to gail your love. They have most recently pumping out parts for the BlackBerry 9800  in a fashion not really seen with any other device. In the past, in order to get a lot of parts one had to wait until actual release of the device, then more and more parts became available. This doesn’t appear to be the case with the BlackBerry 9800. Right now, if you check em out you’ll find red, white and black housings available for the BlackBerry 9800 so if you’re looking to get ahead a bit on your parts ordering you might wanna check em out.

Let’s face it, BlackBerry media capabilities in the past have been rather relaxed. Sure, we seen some improvements from OS 4.5 to 5.0 but, nothing drastic by any means. The most promising thing added in my opinion was DivX video playback support. Now that BlackBerry 6 is upon us, we once again see that Research In Motion is extending upon those functionalities for the better. Salomondrin, got his hands on rather nice video walkthrough of those changes running on a BlackBerry 9800. “Terrible Bean” does the walk through for us all. Video after the break folks, looks pretty nice although –I’d have rolled with some better music selections but, that’s just me. I overlooked the music based on the fact I got to see the Muppets.

We’ve seen this happen before folks and for the most part, the assumption that once parts start showing up on 3rd party manufacturer websites a devices launch is pretty close is a fair and accurate statement. Not in all cases mind you but, it’s a good indicator things are getting close. This time around, Al Sacco has spotted some pieces for the BlackBerry 9800 over at Truesupplier. Three items have gone up for sale. A charging dock, a pouch and most importantly, the keyboard replacement pieces for the BlackBerry 9800.

Given that the rumors are placing a August or September release for the BlackBerry 9800, these parts showing up seem to back that timeframe just a little bit more. Not near as fancy as a roadmap with it detailed and outlined for us but, we’ll take it since we’re likely to see a new device running BlackBerry 6 before the older devices even see a release of it.

The BlackBerry Slider/Torch 9800 has been pictured plenty of times now, but today it finally let it all out and showed off once again. The latest round of photos snag pretty much every imaginable angle of the device leaving nothing to the imagination. From here on out there really isn’t anything on it we haven’t seen, although we still don’t know for sure just what it will be called or even when it will be released. It’s kickin’ it on AT&T and running BlackBerry 6, and even though we got our fill on video already, it’s never a bad thing to see some more. Plenty of photos over at Engadget to feed your appetite.