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People in the mobile world have been reading rumors and more rumors about the BlackBerry Storm 2, and now after all those uncertain news, RIM and Vodafone have officially announced the so-hyped smartphone.

The video above has appeared in the official Blackberry web site and it shows the general specifications of the phone. We’ll be waiting for more information on launch date and prices, and in the meantime, enjoy the video!

The Indian mobile carrier Airtel will have the exclusivity in selling the new BlackBerry Curve 8520. The new RIM device has a 2.46″ display with the resolution of 240×320 pixels and a photocamera with the resolution of 2 Megapixels.

Featuring a physical QWERTY keyboard, it supports the EDGE connectivity and Wi-Fi. The battery, according to official data, guarantees 4.5 hours in conversation and 17 days in standby. The model should be available from today on for the price of $336.

Google Voice is a VoIP service that is being quite the center of attention lately. It’s a free service that allows users to associate one single number to all their telephones (home, office, cellphone, etc).

In order to understand the service, we’ll link you directly to the website, as it could be quite a long explanation. We do inform, however, that the service (still on its beta phase) is now available for some cellphones, more especially those that have Android as their OS or the BlackBerry smartphones.

For those users that have these models, the official software is now available for download. However, much like when Google first launched their Gmail service, the Google Voice service is only available through invitation. But if you happen to be one of the lucky ones to have an invitation, and a smartphone that is compatible with the application, now you can use the service with your smartphones. As for other platforms, Google hasn’t specified anything, but we think they should be available soon, especially if the service becomes as successful as it’s being predicted.

After being made official, here are more informations on the BlackBerry Tour 9630, the new smartphone from RIM. Starting from the launch date, the new smartphone will be launched on July 15th on the USA. Still unknown the launch dates for the rest of the world.

A new video was also released, and you can find it by the end of this post. Enjoy!

After having appeared a couple of times in images and video with the codename Niagara, the BlackBerry 9630 is now official and named BlackBerry Tour.

It was announced by Verizon on the company’s website, and it’s another step towards its final launch on the market, although the dates haven’t yet been decided, but we suppose it will be coming soon.

The guys from Engadget managed to get their hands on a new BlackBerry Storm 2, which could mean that a June launch isn’t that absurd.

Known as “BlackBerry Odin”, the first noticeable thing about the Storm 2 is the lack of the SurePress clickable screen, replaced by a haptic feedback touchscreen. RIM’s choice is somewhat strange, due to the success of the clickable screen, but it could be simply a prototype. We’ll have to see once it launches.

In the meantime, the video hands-on is at the beginning of the post. Enjoy!

The Blackberry App World, online store for the Blackberry models, has finally been launched. Users can connect to the BlackBerry App World and buy applications and games without the need of a computer.

There are free applications as well, and similar to the Windows Marketplace, RIM has enabled PayPal payments and is currently studying other options to make the system faster and less complicated.

The Blackberry App World is currently only available on the USA, Canada and UK, and it can be downloaded from this official link. It also gives more information about the applications and the service.

After the first rumors and the opening to developers, the Application store for the Blackberry has now an official name. It’s called App World and it will be available online soon.

If you want to be updated on App World’s opening, you can register on this link to receive more informations as soon as the updates are available.

The default applications installed are the classic ones dedicated to email, messages and PIM (with calendar and phonebook perfectly integrated with the email and easy to use), together with the web applications and multimedia. Despite the smaller display size when compared to the Storm, the web navigation is excellent, due to the good display resolution.

The presence of a physical QWERTY keyboard also gives and advantage to many applications, allowing users to use, for example, the feature “find as you type”, which makes a research in real time in emails and contacts while typing.

As for the series’ standard, the side keys are dedicated to the handsfree (it’s possible to reassign them to another application), volume controls and photocamera, the 3.5 jack for the headphones and the microUSB connection for data synchronization and battery recharge.

The quality of the materials seem rather good, although inferior than the Storm, and also the battery cover is made in plastic. The QWERTY keyboard is comfortable even for bigger fingers with almost no mistakes when typing.