New rumors from Engadget today suggest a September 15th launch date for the BlackBerry 8820 on AT&T. The 8820 adds Wi-Fi to the BlackBerry 8800's standard specs. Great news, except for the accompanying rumor that the AT&T 8820's Wi-Fi will be locked unless you subscribe to an AT&T plan. The 8820 will also sport extended battery life - up to twice that of Verizon's 8830! With the...

  The Boy Genius' T-Mobile informant has provided some more inside news, though today's information is a lot less exciting than yesterday's scooped T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 8320 release date. Come September 4th T-Mobile is going to release three new colors for the BlackBerry Pearl. This is not the hopefully soon to be released BlackBerry Pearl 2; rather, its new lipstick to the original...

The Boy Genius came through big yesterday with two pieces of T-Mobile BlackBerry News. The most exciting factoid? One of BG's informants has provided the upcoming launch date of the new BlackBerry Curve 8320, which is set for September 24, 2007. The 8320 adds Wi-Fi functionality to all of goodness found in the standard 8300 Curve form factor - sweet! Equally exciting news if you are a T-...

While North America eagerly awaits the arrival of the 8820 it looks like Spain is going to be the first country to get the Wi-Fi enabled and GPS-equipped smartphone. The BlackBerry 8820 will be introduced by provider Orange next week according to a RIM press release . According to the release to meet various security requirements for users accessing a Wi-Fi connection, the BlackBerry 8820 is...

Want a useful, free download to play with on your BlackBerry this weekend? I just received (literally 10 minutes ago) an email from Javier Pita of Neosistec, letting me know they just released a free chronometer (stopwatch) application for the BlackBerry called Chronos. The application's timing feature is smooth and slick - you can start the timer, record splits (steps), view the final...

RIM is really spreading around the launch of their next evolution in BlackBerry handheld devices. While Spain is first to receive the new 8820, Mobilkom A1 in Austria has just introduced the new BlackBerry Curve 8310 (quickly following up it's July 31st release in Germany). The 8310 kicks things up another notch with the addition of built-in GPS. Unless Wi-Fi is a must-have, the addition of GPS...

Thanks to a faithful CrackBerry tipster for sending this in... It looks like Rogers is beginning to clear out its inventory to make room for the Pearl 2, which by today's leaked slides sounds like it should be here in the early fall. The proof? Notification today by Rogers to its dealers that the White BlackBerry Pearl 8100 has been discontinued, effective immediately. The Black and Red...

You have to wonder if RIM plans these slip ups. Thanks to member theOutsider over at PinStack for posting a whole bunch of "confidential" slides (not so confidential anymore!) that detail RIM's Fall 2007 plans for new BlackBerry devices and OS upgrades. If you follow the CrackBerry blogs and forums some of this will be old news, but at least now we have some proof!  Show Me the "Confidential...

I just received an email from Kevin McGuire over at TrueContext informing me they have now launched Pronto Team for BlackBerry and are offering a free software trial. I met Kevin a few months back at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium, where he was excited to give me a run through of Pronto in beta form. I'm glad to see Pronto out of beta, as it's an application where I personally see an...

With the continued rumors persisting, it seems as though the new BlackBerry Pearl 2 is scheduled to come out in September of this year. Our Spanish friends at MiBlackBerry.com are reporting it will be out on on Vodafone on September 6th. The Pearl is ideal for those that don't want to use the typically wider and larger blackberry device. I've always wondered if I would enjoy using a Pearl...

In the news the other day I noticed that RIM had recently published a GPS and BlackBerry Maps development guide for all you developers out there. Cool beans! What can the guide help you do? Well, in all honesty I'm not a developer so I have no clue. But I'm betting there will be some cool apps that come of this. If a developer out there could build me an app to help me find the closest...

It looks like the Boy Genius' RIM informants have come through for him yet again, this time with both news and rumor leading into the weekend. The news? BG has confirmed that the much talked about "Papa Bear" is in fact the BlackBerry 8310. I know we were all hoping "Papa Bear" would be our dream BlackBerry device that would fit both GPS and WiFi into the Curve case, but apparently there simply...