BlackBerry Bold 9780 on the horizon?

Yes, it seemed, as we’re looking at leaks from many sources like Vodafone Netherlands, T-Mobile UK, and Orange. This seemed to be a pretty wide-scale global launch of the refreshed QWERTY smartphone from RIM. Well, there’s no harm to sticking to a design that’s already great right? The Bold 9780 is essentially a polished Bold 9700 with better 5-Megapixel camera, and a beefed up 512MB RAM to handle the preloaded new BlackBerry 6 OS. When’s it coming? Well Vodafone Netherlands says that it’s going to be available sometime in November. So if you loved your current Bold 9700, perhaps you’d be interested in this improved version, since I see it pretty hard to have RIM update your Bold 9700 with the BlackBerry 6. You’ll have a hard time finding enough free space after that update anyway.

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BlackBerry Curve 9300 waiting for sunrise?

What you see above is a black fruit device with a ‘9300’ code, with quad-band GSM and HSDPA 850/1900/2100 radio. Designed in a fat candybar body with 802.11n WiFi, GPS, it’s got a shady 256MB of RAM. Not amazing for some, but do-able for the mass market. There’s a 2 megapixel camera at the back, microSD expansion (2GB in the box), and 2.4-inch display throwing 320 x 240 pixels.

There’s no BlackBerry 6 running in it though, but that can be easily upgraded if RIM would want to. This is actually up in Canadian Roger’s website for a price of $79.99 Canadian price. We shall see what RIM would say about this, as somehow this Curve slipped passed the announcement for the Torch 9800 and the BlackBerry 6.

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Teardown: BlackBerry Torch 9800

The new BlackBerry flammable phone has been put through one of the more important ceremonies of acceptance into the smartphone world: a teardown. Very typical actually, and also seemed to be a ‘MUST’ for all the new smartphones that is about to engrave the world. The CrackBerry crew have disassembled a Torch to see what makes it burn and smoke, and produced some glamor shots of naked hardware for us to gawp and stare at in the process. As you can see by the exploded shot of the phone above, most internals are either integrated or soldered down, but this undressing does afford us an opportunity to take a look at the biggest novelty in this new BlackBerry, namely its slider mechanism. It’s impressively thin, rated for 150,000+ cycles. Head over and watch the video below to see it for yourself.

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