So if you’ve felt a bit flakey about T-Mobile’s BlackBerry Bold 9900 pricing which stands at $299 after a $50 mail in rebate, you’ll be happy to find out that Walmart is offering far more lower.  When grabbing it a Walmart with a 2 year contract, the price is $119.99.  But if you already have T-Mobile, expect to dish out $314.99, and $549.99 with no contract at all.

It would be nice to see the upgrade price lower as well, since I’m sure many of you frustrated with T-Mobile’s pricing are already a customer and would like to stay.  If you were leaving and going into T-Mobile, then you should find lots of good in this one.

Source: BlackBerry Empire

Not all stores, but I personally experienced an incident through all last week and this week where AT&T stores have been selling off the BlackBerry Torch 9810 and the PIN would be dead on them.  Then last night we got an email tip of the same thing going on in a few New York region stores.

A story published in CrackBerry forums in regards to AT&T Torch 9810 pins getting deactivated as 2,700 units were stolen and RIM killed the devices off making them useless.  I can’t connect the two stories together but it sounds very coincidental and maybe RIM killed off more pins than they should have.  Poor AT&T customers dealing with the aftermath.

Thanks Bogizo for the tip!

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The best BlackBerry promo clips are the case studies.  That’s where we get to see how BlackBerry is used in the real world in all sorts of different businesses.  We’ve seen NASA engineers and horseback riders get into BlackBerry and now farmers!  In this video you’ll see how these farmers use BlackBerry and Twitter to maintain their business.  Spoiler: there’s some PlayBook and Bold 9900 action here!

Yesterday MobileSyrup released an insider screenshot showing that the Telus BlackBerry Curve 9360 would be available today, and the BlackBerry Torch 9860 on August 30th.  The Curve 9360 has been announced by so many carriers all over, as it’s expected to spread out as the original Curve 9300 and 8500 series did.

Telus wouild be the first carrier to launch the device which is a bit exciting to finally see, especially considering that RIM just announced the device last week.  We’re used to announcements on devices from RIM then seeing them many months later.  And for the Torch 9860, you’ve see it all by now hitting many other carriers, so those waiting for the Telus version, you can grab it on the 30th.

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Since OS 7 has officially launched and comes preloaded on new BlackBerry smartphones, it’s only right that we get a new Desktop Manager version as that’s how it’s been going for years now.  BlackBerry Desktop Manager 7 has leaked out in the wild available for everyone to download and does not require a key code of any kind to use.  Pretty good deal for everyone! Use the link below to download.

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Source: BerryReview, BBH-Plus

When it comes to Android being on BlackBerry, we think Android Player for QNX which is currently on the PlayBook and will be available to BlackBerry smartphones in 2012.  Now in the latest OS 7.0.0.353 leak, there’s a copyright notice in the About Device Versions page.  It titles “Android Open Source Project” which just adds some more confusion since this is OS 7 and not QNX OS.  There’s no word on what this could be for but as Ronen suggests, maybe RIM is using some Android source code in OS 7.  What are your thoughts?

Source: BerryReview

Originally we saw imo come to the BlackBerry PlayBook as a web interfaced all in one messenger.  Later on it released for BlackBerry as well.  Earlier this morning, imo for BlackBerry which is currently in beta updated with some nice new features.  Here’s the full change log:

• Voice IMs: send instant voice message IMs up to 30 seconds long
• Send files from your device or capture pictures and send instantly!
• Facebook Chat and Steam Chat support
• Group messaging: create chat groups with other friends using imo (chat groups also available on the web, and on our iPhone, iPad and Android beta apps

BlackBerry Handheld Software v7.0.0.1549 (Asia)

Package Version: 7.0.0.1549
Consisting of:

• Applications: 7.0.0.317
• Software Platform: 5.0.0.515
• File name: 9900Asia_PBr7.0.0_rel1549_PL5.0.0.515_A7.0.0.317_Vodafone_New_Zealand.exe
• File size: 192.62MB

Note: The Software Platform and Applications version numbers can be found under Options-About screen on the handheld.

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BlackBerry App World 3.0 has updated to version 3.0.0.71 on BlackBerry Beta Zone today.  There doesn’t seem to be a change log of any kind for this, but of course if you see any changes let us know.  Click the link below to log in to Beta Zone and download.

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TweetBook is another Twitter client you can grab for the BlackBerry PlayBook, also premium when it comes to price and quality believe it or not.  Personally I wasn’t too impressed with BlackBird and always used Blaq primarily but TweetBook looks like another nice one to use as well.

As far as pricing goes, expect to dish out $4.99 for TweetBook for PlayBook.  After trying the app out finally, it’s got some touches like Blaq as well but you be the judge of that.

TweetBook for BlackBerry PlayBook >>