The BlackBerry Curve 9380 is already heading to carriers, starting with Bell which has internally noted they are launching it on November 28th.  The Curve 9380 is the first all touchscreen device in the Curve family offering lower end specs than what we currently have, sort of.  It gets an 800MHz processor, OS 7, 480 x 360 screen resolution, and NFC capability which devices such as the Torch lack. There’s no pricing details just yet.  RIM officially announced the Curve 9380 yesterday, so it’s just about right to see carriers announce carrying it anytime now.

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  Lemma for BlackBerry PlayBook is a free Twitter client now available in BlackBerry App World.  It’s not a bad application at all and could use a few nice updates but it is a free Twitter client, which we haven’t really had yet on the PlayBook.  Click the link below to grab a copy from BlackBerry App World.

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Back at DevCon 2011, we had the opportunity to check out Roboto by Union.  We saw a quick demonstration of it during the keynote, but unfortunately didn’t get the game officialy until now.  Union has launched Roboto in BlackBerry App World today so you can grab it for only $4.99.  For those who haven’t seen Roboto before, you play as a teen robot with a hoverboard.  You have to get through levels passing security bots so that you can ask out a girl (which Roboto likes).  There’s over 30 levels in this game with all sorts of weapons and new features as you go along.

Please note that Roboto is not yet compatible with PlayBook OS 2.0.  Click the link below to purchase a copy.

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Pinball Deluxe made its way to the top in the BlackBerry games category for years now.  As expected, the game has made its way to the BlackBerry PlayBook!  There’s five different tables to play on- Brick, Wild West, Carnival, Space and Underwater.  All five boards are fun to play, and the game play differs in each one.  It’s available in BlackBerry App World for only $4.99.

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It wasn’t too long ago that we started playing the addictive game ToFu on the BlackBerry PlayBook.  Only months later, a sequel to the game has officialy launched- ToFu2.  This game offers 100 brand new levels in case you beat the original first game already.

But that’s not all.  In ToFu2, you can get different costumes for your character and various different themes for your Dojo.  There’s also golden tofu which is used when you pause the game menu if you’re ever stuck on a level.  The golden tofu is only available every four hours.

ToFu2 is only 99 cents to purchase at BlackBerry App World.  Click the link below for more screenshots or to grab a copy today.

  

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RSS feed readers for the BlackBerry PlayBook are all over App World.  Many of which are premium and now JaredCo has officially launched SpeedReader which is free.  You can add any RSS feeds you’d like and then you see all the articles you want to see with little thumbnails and post titles.  From there you can scroll left and right and select whichever post you want.

SpeedReader isn’t the best RSS feed reader, and it isn’t the worst either.  No matter what, it’s free to download from BlackBerry App World so you should give it a shot.

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I bet it’s so hard to keep up with all the OS builds available for the BlackBerry Bold 9900 nowadays.  We’ve had one too many leaks over the last couple weeks for it.  I’m having a hard time keeping up myself as I just installed 7.0.0.503 the other day. Today we see OS 7.0.0.540, a bit of a jump from the previous build a few days ago. There’s no word on how stable this OS is here, but it’s newer than them all as of today.  If you decide to install let us know if you spot anything new or experience anything at all.

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Along with the official announcement of the BlackBerry Bold 9790 comes the BlackBerry Curve 9380.  This is the first all touchscreen Curve series as all previous models were pretty basic and never had touchscreen at all.  It’s still an entry level device, but you get a whole lot under the hood including 800MHz, NFC, 5MP camera and more!  Hit the jump for more stock images of the device.

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The BlackBerry Bold 9790 was officially announced earlier today.  We don’t have our hands on yet, but we get stock images for now to get a better idea of the device.  All along we’ve been comparing this device to the original BlackBerry Bold 9700 due to its form factor.  The size is pretty much the same, although RIM put in a lot of alterations here to fit more into today’s standards.  Hit the jump for more images.

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JAKARTA, INDONESIA and WATERLOO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Nov. 15, 2011) – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today announced two new smartphones based on the BlackBerry(R) 7 operating system (OS) – the BlackBerry(R) Bold(TM) 9790 and BlackBerry(R) Curve(TM) 9380.

The new smartphones offer impressively slim and stylish designs with enhanced communications, multimedia, productivity and social connectivity features. The BlackBerry Bold 9790 is both powerful and compact, offering users a fully loaded, high performance smartphone with the dual benefits of a high resolution touch display and a highly tactile keyboard. The BlackBerry Curve 9380 is the first-ever BlackBerry(R) Curve(TM) smartphone with a touch display. It continues to deliver the powerful social experiences, ease-of-use and smaller handset size that distinguish the BlackBerry Curve family, while also offering Curve users the choice of a larger display and an all-touch design.

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