Almost one month after the initially-rumored release, BlackBerry Bold 9000 is finally available in Canada, as of today, August 21. As you probably already know, the Bold is offered in the North American country exclusively via Rogers Wireless, the largest Canadian mobile operator. Rogers has not announced (yet) Bold's release, but the smartphone is available for purchase on its official website, at this address. According to the info found on Rogers' website, the new BlackBerry can also be found in the carrier's stores across Canada. The price that Rogers is asking for the latest RIM-made handset is a bit weird. More exact... [read more >>] Rogers Wireless has finally announced the official release date for BlackBerry Bold in Canada: August 21 - meaning no later than tomorrow. Although the Bold was initially said to be available starting the end of July, this obviously did not happen, and rumors were going around saying that the new smartphone would not be out before September.Luckily, these rumors turned out not to be true. All those who have subscribed on Rogers' website in order to be informed about the Bold's availability have received an email from the Canadian carrier, which confirms the August 21 release. Thus, Canadian users who have been waiting for the migh... [read more >>] Palm Treo 850, one of the upcoming flagship smartphones from the Sunnyvale-based manufacturer, will actually be named Palm Treo Pro. Or, at least, that's what it is written in a presentation of the handset, appeared on Palm's website.The said presentation is no longer accessible at the moment, but there are some snapshots of it, found via the WM Experts Forums. We already knew that the Treo 850 / Treo Pro has lots of chances to be the best-looking Palm smartphone ever, and the new available images kind of confirm it. As for the features of Treo 850 / Treo Pro, the ones surely included are as follows: Windows Mobile 6.1, Wi-Fi, a ... [read more >>] RIM and T-Mobile Europe have finally announced the release of BlackBerry Bold 9000 in Germany. After several delays, the new high-end smartphone is now available online, on T-Mo's official German website, and in the carrier's stores across the country. T-Mobile Germany offers the Bold for several prices, starting from 39.95 Euros ($61) with a two-year contract and a "Relax 200" data plan. The highest price of the new handset is, of course, the free of contract one, which will drain no less than 459.95 Euros ($710) out of buyers' pockets. Coming with a full QWERTY keyboard and RIM's famous trackball navigation, the Bol... [read more >>] Although everyone was expecting RIM's latest high-end smartphone, the BlackBerry Bold 9000, to be first released in Canada (via Rogers), the handset made its debut "a bit" more to the South, in Chile, via Movistar. Thus, Chilean mobile users are the first people in the world to buy the new BlackBerry (only with a contract agreement, for the moment). The price set by Movistar for the smartphone is a bit surprising, and not in a good way: with a contract for two years, the Bold costs 299,900 Pesos, the equivalent of around 587 USD or 378 Euros. There are no details about the way Movistar managed to get the Bold ahead of other American... [read more >>] After the news of BlackBerry Bold 9000 being released in Canada on July 25, via Rogers, we now have an even earlier release date for RIM's flagship smartphone: July 21. Unfortunately for all the BlackBerry fans in North America, the Bold will be available starting this date only in Europe, offered by T-Mobile Germany. The retail price of BlackBerry Bold 9000 will be quite high (probably higher than expected): 550 Euros, meaning around $860. This is even more than the retail price of Apple's new iPhone 3G, which was announced by AT&T to come free of contract too, for $599 (the 8GB version) and $699 (the 16GB version). Sure, pri... [read more >>] The big brother of HTC Touch Diamond, namely HTC Touch Pro, has been officially announced today by the Taiwanese company and it will hit the market at the end of this summer. Previously known as HTC Raphael, HTC Touch Pro is a slightly changed version of the Diamond though at a first glance the devices look exactly the same. The difference is that Touch Pro is a bit thicker and heavier, as it hides a full QWERTY keyboard that slides out whenever you want it to. Moreover, the new HTC brings TV-out and a more powerful battery: a 1340 mAh one, capable of providing a talk-time of up to 8 hours and a stand-by time of up to 7 days. Aside from t... [read more >>] T-Mobile Europe announced the upcoming release of three new mobile devices, all of them being T-Mo editions of HTC handsets. The new devices are: MDA Compact IV, MDA Vario IV and Ameo 16GB. T-Mobile MDA Compact IV is actually the HTC Touch Diamond Pocket PC, which was officially presented less than a month ago. Measuring only 102 x 51 x 11,5 millimeters and weighing 110 grams, the handset comes with Windows Mobile 6.1, a 2.8 TFT touchscreen display with a VGA resolution (480 x 640 pixels), a revolutionary TouchFlo 3D user interface, internal GPS, dual-band HSDPA connectivity for high data transfer speeds, Wi-Fi, full HTML browser (Opera, fr... [read more >>] Sharp, the giant Japanese electronics producer, presented today its latest touchscreen handset, the Wilcom 03 (or Sharp WS020SH). Since it's the first device to be released in Japan with Windows Mobile 6.1, we could say that, somehow, the new Sharp smartphone is the Touch Diamond of Japan. Although it's not as fashionable as HTC's device, Willcom 03 has a plus: a full QWERTY sliding keyboard. The smartphone comes with a 3 inch TFT touchscreen display, with an 800 x 480 resolution and 65K colors, and an illuminated touch-sensitive flat keypad that can morph to suit the user's needs: it has a "cursor key" mode that allow... [read more >>] HTC officially unveiled its HTC Touch Diamond high-end handset during the "May 6 HTC Event" held in London and ended a few hours ago. As expected and as seen in several leaked images appeared yesterday, the new device is slim and compact, having a very nice overall aspect. The rumored diamond-like pattern on the phone's back case is real, providing quite a unique look. Since the handset's presentation took place in London, HTC said that the new Diamond will be available via the five important carriers in the UK, hence O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange and Hutchison's 3 will all get the chance to offer "mobile diamonds" to thei... 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