Research In Motion and Sprint announced plans to launch a new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet model featuring connectivity to the blazingly fast Sprint 4G network. The 4G BlackBerry PlayBook will be the first BlackBerry PlayBook model to include wide area wireless connectivity, featuring Sprint 4G to give customers download speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G. This new 4G BlackBerry PlayBook is expected to be available from Sprint in the summer. Together, the 4G BlackBerry PlayBook and the Sprint 4G network will provide a high performance platform that will enable a mobile services revolution for both application developers and customers.

The enormous advance of BlackBerry on the consumer market and a few attractive new cell phones have done the brand good. Partly thanks to BlackBerry Messenger, or Pinging, BlackBerry is here to stay. However, the competition has also been busy, and the enormously popular Android operating system and the Apple iPhone do not make it easy for the BlackBerry product Research In Motion (RIM). This makes us extra curious about the user experiences of the new BlackBerry Torch.

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Joining forces to offer the first Smartphone to feature the highly anticipated BlackBerry 6 on the fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T and Research In Motion introduced the new BlackBerry Torch 9800 Smartphone. Adept for socially connected consumers and packed with the tools business customers love, the new handset is the world's first BlackBerry Smartphone to combine a BlackBerry keyboard with a full touch screen. Whether users choose to type out messages on the capacitive touchscreen or BlackBerry keyboard, browse the Internet using pinch to zoom or fluidly navigate with the optical trackpad, the BlackBerry Torch allows them to communicate any way they want.

Although the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona is just behind us, and we could not find a new smartphone at the Blackberry booth, but it seems that BlackBerry will shortly be introducing a new smartphone. The MWC 2010 was especially an event for BlackBerry to draw attention to the different services they offer, and the endless cooperation between enterprises. There had been some rumors a while ago about a so-called BlackBerry Slider, but there was not much hard evidence. Actually, recent image material has stirred up the rumors once again. Photo material coming from a Black Berry Slider smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard makes it obvious.

Users can finally feel free to leave their laptop behind when going to deliver a presentation. Research In Motion introduces BlackBerry Presenter, the latest accessory for BlackBerry smartphones. BlackBerry Presenter is a conveniently small and light device that easily plugs into a projector or monitor, then lets the user display a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation wirelessly from their BlackBerry smartphone. “Mobile professionals are always looking to carry less when travelling,” said Glenn Laxdal, Vice President, Product Management, RIM. “BlackBerry Presenter equips mobile professionals with a simple and secure way to deliver presentations directly from their BlackBerry smartphone, giving them the freedom to leave their laptops behind.”

Just in time for the 2009 holiday gift giving season, FlightView announces the immediate availability of its real-time flight information application for BlackBerry Smartphones. The new software application for BlackBerry Smartphones helps users plan, monitor and make informed decisions about travel plans. Flight View brings together information that air travelers and their friends and family need, aggregating real-time flight data and current weather conditions into one simple view, allowing them to save and quickly revisit flights for updates. The BlackBerry Software application costs $4.99 and can be downloaded from BlackBerry App World.

Best Buy Mobile, the mobile specialty retail unit of Best Buy Co Inc, will give the gift of additional holiday savings on a slew of mobile products aimed at satisfying wish lists. There are special savings on four hot Blackberry Smartphones, the AT&T Xenon and the groundbreaking Nokia Booklet 3G. With the popularity of smartphones soaring, Best Buy Mobile will offer tremendous savings on four AT&T Blackberry smartphones with new two-year activations. Customers looking to upgrade to a Smartphone are in luck with the AT&T Xenon. Effective December 12 and running through the holidays, the popular smartphone will be free with a 2 year activation at Best Buy Mobile.

Vodafone and Research In Motion introduced the BlackBerry Storm 2 Smartphone for customers in 7 European countries as well as South Africa. The 2nd generation award-winning touch-screen smartphone, the BlackBerry Storm 2 significantly improves the BlackBerry touch-screen platform with new technology and new features to let customers stay easily connected to the people, places and things that matter most. In the busy holiday gift buying period, customers in the UK and Ireland will be able to get the new BlackBerry smartphone first through Vodafone, and it will be offered by Vodafone in Germany, Netherlands and Spain. It will also be available in France and Italy in time for Christmas.

The New York Times announced the release of the NY Times application for BlackBerry smartphones, which allows readers to enjoy current news and information from The Times on the latest generation of BlackBerry smartphones. Available for free, the New York Times application formats content for optimal navigation and display on BlackBerry smartphones, offers automatic synching and allows users to store articles directly to their devices for offline reading. For the launch, the NY Times BlackBerry application is available for the latest BlackBerry smartphones : the BlackBerry Tour, the BlackBerry Storm, the Blackberry Bold and the 8900 Curve 2. For readers with other BlackBerry smartphone models, The Times has shortcuts to its mobile site.

Sakhr Software announce its Mobile Speech to Speech Arabic Translator for BlackBerry smartphones. Sakhr’s Spoken Translator lets English and Arabic speakers communicate in real-time using a BlackBerry smartphone - speaking sentences in either language, viewing the translation, and playing it out loud. Its high accuracy and performance are enabled by Sakhr's technologies for speech recognition, machine translation, and text-to-speech.