Posted on August 10, 2009, at 10:11 AM .
Orange Jordan have announced that they’re launching the BlackBerry Bold, arguably RIM’s flagship device. While we aren’t seeing any details on pricing, the BlackBerry Bold comes at a recommended retail price of $1,199.
If you visit the Orange Jordan site, there isn’t a link for BlackBerry or any information on what devices they sell. There is, on the other hand, a ton of information about the iPhone. It will be interesting to see how many Jordinians buy the BlackBerry Bold, even though it doesn’t seem to have much in the way of marketing.
Posted on August 10, 2009, at 9:36 AM .
The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is an introductory BlackBerry for those just entering the smartphone market. With Airtel, RIM have introduced the device to India, which seems to be a good demographic for the device.
Something that is unique about the launch is that the device is being offered on prepaid. This has been a strategy of RIM and developing markets for a while now. Emerging markets tend to favor the prepaid system, due to the fact that contracts are more difficult to manage given the credit systems required. The downside of a prepaid system is that it inevitably makes the device more expensive. At Rs. 15,990, the Curve 8520 is selling for roughly $334.87 USD.
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Posted on August 7, 2009, at 12:27 PM .
Face Lift for the BlackBerry Storm is a fun photo manipulation app that lets you distort images right from your BlackBerry. This app is great for uploading pictures of your friends, manipulating them and sending them as a gag. Tweak your Facebook profile picture or online avatar to look crazy.
Features include:
- Load or take a picture with the camera
- 3 levels of zoom
- Send your warped photo by email directly from the application
Face Lift for the Storm is available for the special price of $2.99 until Aug 22 – that’s 40% off!
Posted on August 7, 2009, at 12:15 PM .
A new games popped up in the BlackBerry Cool store that looks hilarious. The game is called Postal Babes and it’s a 2D sidescroller featuring girls with guns in their underwear.
The plot of the game reads like a B movie. Maniacs have taken over campus and now the first year student girls are hostages. Tragedy! The Postal Babes will save the day!
This game features 12 levels and a ton of weapon variations. Happy gaming!
Postal Babes is available for $3.99.
Posted on August 7, 2009, at 11:42 AM .
Nobex Radio Companion has gone v 1.9.7 and they have some great updates for those whose native tongue isn’t English.
With this latest version, Nobex now supports French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. In addition, they have now reached around 3000 playable stations from all corners of the globe.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Nobex, the application is a streaming radio service that features:
- Over 2000 radio stations around the world.
- See the playlist of over 2700 radio stations.
- Get Songs or Ringtones with a single click.
- Get an email with links to buy the song on your PC.
- See Lyrics of any song – they can even scroll in sync with the song!
- Read Song and Artist Info.
- Hear Song Snippets.
- Access the My Account page to upload pictures to be shown within Nobex Radio Companion and to see your favorite song list.
Nobex Radio Companion is available for a monthly subscription of $3.99.
Posted on August 7, 2009, at 11:20 AM .
TetherBerry recently sent out an email to their private Mac beta testers with the final version of their Mac beta. According to the developers, “this will be our last beta release before our Mac official release, unless any major bugs are found.”
The most recent update works on Tiger, Leopard, G4s and a number of bugs have been resolved. If you haven’t tried the beta, it still takes some finagling but it does work.
For now, you can purchase the PC version of TetherBerry for $10 off until August 12th.
