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With the leak of the BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac beta software last week, fans worldwide are tuned in to BlackBerry’s every whisper regarding the launch of the official build. As BlackBerry found out today, social media is an incredibly powerful communication tool. Diehard fans of the BlackBerry Facebook Page were greeted with a post that was distributed to all fans’ feeds stating: “BlackBerry® Desktop Software for Mac: now available!: [URL is now invalid]”. The BlackBerry Facebook update was syndicated to Twitter. Read More

You aren't able to see it while you're composing a new message, but you know it's there. It's that pesky BlackBerry auto signature that appends itself to all your outgoing emails. While it may have its benefits (letting recipients know the message was sent from your BlackBerry so that they will perhaps be slightly more forgiving of your many typos), you may prefer something slightly more personalized. Luckily, changing the signature on your BlackBerry is a fairly quick and easy process. Read More

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The Blackberry 8520, codenamed "Gemini," is the latest addition to the popular Curve family. The Curve 8520 is intended as a well equipped, but entry-level device that comes in at a slight step below the Curve 8900. In more ways than not, the 8520 is effectively the 8900 trapped in a different body. Read More

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Pre-order your Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Tour today at Wirefly.com/BlackBerry-Tour. Available for new and current Verizon Wireless customers. The Tour offers an impressive feature set and sleek design, and of course supports CDMA and high-speed EVDO networks at home and 3G networks abroad so you can stay connected while you tour the world. If you weren’t a big fan of the Storm and its touch screen, this may well be the Verizon BlackBerry you have been waiting for. Read More

In a move that seems a long time in coming, Sprint has taken the plunge and announced that it will require its original equipment manufacturers to include WiFi in all smartphone devices moving forward. There’s no word on exactly when Sprint will declare open season on WiFi-less smartphones, but we can all probably agree that sooner is better than later. Read More

For the better part of a year-and-a-half, the BlackBerry Curve has ruled RIM’s roost. The incredibly popular device swept across all carriers, and, even now, is still ranked among the “best” cell phones by wireless aficionados across the Internet. It also happens to be one of Wirefly’s best-selling cell phones. Read More

The question ostensibly asked with each and every subsequent release of a new smartphone with a touch screen is the already cliché “Will this be the iPhone Killer?” Yet, in the case of the BlackBerry Storm, it is a particularly fair question. It’s no secret that RIM developed the Storm to mirror the iPhone’s highly sought after features. In a valiant, yet perhaps futile attempt to avoid the cliché, I will from here on out refrain from throwing around the term ‘iPhone killer.’ But let’s see how the Storm fares. Read More