After today's early announcement of Android Market Webmarket going live, there is another company releasing a similar feaeture. We're talking about BlackBerry sending BlackBerry App World 2.1 live for everyone. The update should be rolling over the day. Most of the delopers already have the appropiate SDK since January 5th, so programs using BlackBerry App World 2.1 should be come soon too.

The support for in-app payment matches Google Android's today announcement, but pundits suggest it is not going to be such a hit as Google's move, and considering the number of Android users compared to the one of BlackBerry users, it is sure a fact that RIM's move will not impress too many users. BlackBerry's market is also way tinier than Android's one, so nothing impressive in it either.

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BlackBerry 9800, 9670 and 9300 (foto) are three phone which are not announced yet, but this will probably happen soon. We didn't knew anything about them. Until today. There are three video, one for each version, who pretty much tell a lot about them. Considering this fact, it's very probable RIM will officially announce the three models.

The first model, BlackBerry 9800 slider will be launched by ATT. We just talked today about ATT probably releasing Pearl 3G 9100. It will run BlackBerry OS 6.0 and the sliding mechanism is nice. The video has over 6 minutes and can be seen here.

The second one, BlackBerry 9670 Clamshell will run the same operating system, 6.0. The video shows an older model of 9670 with 3.2MP camera. The new one willl have a 5MP camera, 512MB ROM and 4GB of internal memory. The video is here.

The last model is BlackBerry 9300 (Kepler) which will be released by T-Mobile, probably. This is considered to be the next generation of BlackBerry Curve and will feature 3G and Wi-Fi.

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The new BlackBerry Pearl 3G (9100) seems to be available at ATT soon, because we've seen some online retailer selling it with the ATT logo on it. We know since last year the phone was going to be released with ATT, but we didn't knew anything for sure. Now it seems those rumors were right and the new BlackBerry device will hit ATT soon. Sure, there's nothing known as release date, but we're used to that.

BlackBerry 9100 will probably replace Pearl 8110, which is sold by ATT now for $49.99 with contract. BlackBerry 9100 features a SureType qwerty keyboard, a 360x400 display, 3G, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, special music keys and a 3.2 MP camera. There is also microSD card support.

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RIM and BlackBerry are raising on the market since the devices were released and now they reach an incredible milestone: 100 millions BlackBerry devices sold. They recorded a shipping rate of 11.2 million devices last quarter only, 43% more than the whole 2009. There are around 46 million BlackBerry subscribers out there nowadays, which is an incredbile number. 

BlackBerry's CEO, Jim Balsillie, declared its company sold the 100 milionth device last quarter, and that they are going to continue to be focused on growing the business worldwide. They also believe the upcoming BlackBerry devices will aid his cause. It's rumored they are talking about BlackBerry 9800 Slider, 9300 Curve and 9670 Clamshell, which are truly impressive models.

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Weird enough, the first version of BlackBerry 9100 released is the pink one, and not the black one. Telus said it will be available in May and now there it is. Unfortunately, you will have to wait few weeks more for the black version. In my opinion the pink one is ugly and it will not have success, as most of the smartphones like BlackBerry are used by men in general, not by women, and I can't really see a business man using a pink Pearl.

The phone is available right now at Telus at different plans, starting at $29.99 with a three-year contract. On the two-year deal you will have to pay $249.99 for the phone, while for the one-year contract you will need to get $299.99 out of your pocket. If you don't want any contract at all, then you need to spend $349.99 on the new BlackBerry Pearl 9100. Telus will donate $25 of each Pearl 9100 bought to the breast cancer research.

The Pearl 9100 is a 360x400 pixels screen phone, with a two-key-qwerty keyboard, 3.2 MP camera, Bluetooth, external microSD (2GB included, can keep up to 32GB), 256MB internal flash memory SDRAM, GPS and Wi-Fi.

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We know about BlackBerry 9800 Slider as much as we know about the next-gen of iPhones - a lot. Leaks showed and told us many things about BlackBerry and now, close to the release date, we also got some new picture of the new device. The BlackBerry shows a qwerty screen and a physical keyboard, has a HVGA screen display, Wi-Fi, 4 GB storage capacity and will pack 512 MB RAM. 9800 Slider will also bring in a brand new version of the OS, 6.0.

Source: MobileSyrup; Pictures: TheBerryFix

Koodo, the Canadian carrier started by TELUS in 2008, announced they will be the one that will launch BlackBerry 8530, the last model from the Research in Motion company. The phone will be available next week, on 25th May, and is priced around $300 for the no-contract deal and at about $150 on the Tab. Silver is the only colour the smartphone will be available with.

Regarding the plans, there will be two BlackBerry Add-on to choose from: BlackBerry Social ($10 per month) for unlimited Messenger, Facebook, Twitter etc. and BlackBerry Connect ($25 per month) that gives you up to 500MB of e-mail, Facebook, Messenger, Twitter etc. A plan must be added on the purchase of the phone.

Source: MobileSyrup