Starting today and running until December 17th, keep your eyes peeled for BlackBerry teams in NYC doing a big giveaway. Spot a BlackBerry notification alert around NYC and scan the barcode on the back of it using BBM.
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Two New York media companies, Stardust and BBDO, have teamed up to make one of the coolest BlackBerry display cases we’ve ever seen. The case uses 3D holographic imaging around the device to bring a unique experience to looking at the device. The device shown in this particular video is the Storm2 for the carrier MTS but we’d love to see it being used for the newer devices like the QNX smartphones.
We definitely recommend heading over to this site and watching the video.
BlackBerry Torch TV Spot
YouTube link
We have already put up these videos on the site but if you’re looking for something mobile or you’d like to view at 1080p, we’ve uploaded them to YouTube as well. The BlackBerry Torch launch event lasted about an hour, and now that we have the actual device, we’ll have even better videos for you shortly. In the meantime, enjoy these clips.
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I’ll be in New York next week hanging out with the Foursquare guys and talking about their Beta app for BlackBerry as well as what’s new at the company. @foursquare has been Tweeting about a hilarious rap by @thenewb and @borissilver that I just had to post. Enjoy and get your Crunk badge this weekend!
The CEO of Verizon, Lowell McAdam, loves to tease us with news of upcoming devices. A couple weeks ago, he said that “over the next six months or so you will see devices like Palm Pre and a second generation Storm.”
Well he’s recently elaborated on that statement at the Barclays Capital conference in New York.
“Over the next six months or so,” he said, “you will see devices like the Palm Pre and the Cousin on our network from Palm. You will see a second-generation [BlackBerry] Storm. You will see a new device we call the Tour from BlackBerry as well. That is an upscale of any other QWERTY-based devices that we have from BlackBerry today.”
It’s hard to extract anything tangible from his comments which have clearly been well-rehearsed. In general, you can expect a CEO to use a longer release schedule to avoid concerns that the company cannot make a deadline. The under-promise-over-deliver factor here could put the Tour release this August and the Storm 2 around September/October.
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If you’re in the Saratoga Springs area of New York, I would definitely check out Don McMurtry, a former vice president with Research in Motion, speaking at Skidmore College. His speech is entitled “Confessions of a CrackBerry Pusher.” The speech will go down at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, in Davis Auditorium, Palamountain Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.
I’m sure the speech will focus on how the BlackBerry is improving organizational structures and efficiency, but I was hoping it would start something like:
“Sometimes I build a wall around myself. To keep out the pain. The hurt.” Although it’s probably not that kind of confession.
