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Bell is going to make you Canadians take a new BlackBerry whether you want it or not. As you can see in these leaked images of Bell’s inventory system the BlackBerry 8530 is headed your way. The price you see is the full retail price, $499, and doesn’t show what you’d be paying on a service agreement, but it sure will be less than $500. Also, the BlackBerry Bold 9700 is seen here too, quietly idling away the time till Bell sees it fit to announce to the world. Considering that the world knows already, that announcement may be soon too.

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Well looky what we have here. According to BGR, an anonymous tipster sent some inventory screenshots from AT&T lockers their way and the documents reveal that a very white BlackBerry Bold is stewing in the system. Not just this, there are also screenshots that reveal the BlackBerry 9700 on board as well. The BlackBerry 9700 was the flagship device from RIM that hasn’t been officially announced yet, but some blogs have had a taste of the action. It is RIM’s most advanced QWERTY device yet. The gorgeous looking 9700 takes its styling cues from the 9520/9550. So yeah, people have reason to suffer from AT&T-envy at the moment.

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Oh hello Canadians, how’s life treating you? Well no matter how it’s been treating you till now, it’s going to get better. At leaset for the ‘berry crowd. BlackBerry fans will jump in their seats to know that the BlackBerry Bold 9700 has popped up in Bell’s inventory system. The above screen shots are those lovely leaked images of Bell’s inventory that tell us what the carrier is up to. of course, Bell has had handsets in its inventory for a good part of four months or so before it actually let its subscribers get their hands on them…so make sure you have something to fill the time from now till an official release with.

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According to a tip received by the BGR blog, some testers at the York University, Canada have received a purely white BlackBerry Bold. All white. Seems like RIM wanted them to give it a test run. So a white ‘Berry huh? Cool, maybe RIM wants to give the Magic and iPhone 3GS color competition too. Now let’s just hope the market sees this white Bold soon before we forget.

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And finally the new 1.1.0.11 version of the BlackBerry App World is here. The rumored update had promised the ability to download and run apps from extendable memory, since BlackBerry devices are sadly anorexic when it comes to internal memory. Sadly the new App World has killed all such rumors in cold blood. What the new version will let you do is archive the app. Yes, archive. These archives can be stored internally or on a memory card so that, in the event the user wishes to reinstall an app again, he or she can do so quickly and easily. A couple of annoying bugs (small bugs) have been fixed, there’s also faster icon loading, available memory display and a separation between top free and top paid apps.

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Lately, Rogers has raised the price tag on its three year contract for some of its most popular BlackBerry devices. For instance, the past few days saw Curve 83xx go to $149.99 (up $50), Curve 8900 to $224.99 (up $25) and the Bold go to $299.99 (up $50). So what gives Rog? No, it’s not the supply of the handsets has plummeted and market forces are putting upward pressure on the prices, it actually seems that Rogers is taking the acquisition check out of the BlackBerry sales. Here’s what an inside email tells us sent to Rogers employees from the VP says;

On Wednesday, the senior executive team realized that they were over budget $30 million dollars on their cost of acquisition. How I don’t know why it took so long. [sic] They then did their knee jerk response. Your DBM’s and other local managers know nothing more than this and are in the dark as much as we are on this other than we were told VERBALLY that in market quotes would be honored for 30 days from today. The exception lists are due Monday and only for non named accounts. I have requested in every region for a positioning statement and to this moment have not heard a response. If it makes you feel any better the retail has even more uncertainty.

Exactly what has Rogers been splurging on so much that they went so horribly over budget? That’s what we’d all like to know, especially before forking over the extra buck for a shiny new BlackBerry.

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AT&T is bringing the BlackBerry Bold to the US on November 4th, 2008. The Blackberry Bold is Research In Motion’s (RIM) fastest BlackBerry yet.

The BlackBerry Bold boasts of greater connectivity and more powerful features than its predecessors. It has a black, chrome-finished with a leatherette backplate. The screen resolution is 480 x 320 pixels at 217 ppi and half-VGA color display. The Bold also features built-in GPS and Wi-Fi. RIM has packed in a powerful 624 MHz mobile processor and 1 GB of memory. Storage expansion is possible up to 16 GB with the microSD/SDHC slot.

Entertainment has not been neglected. The Bold has great multimedia features including and advanced media player for music, video and photos. It has a 2.0 megapixel camera with built in zoom, flash and video recording functionality. Roxio Photosuite 9 LE is also included to enhance picture quality and create albums. BlackBerry Media Sync will organize you iTunes digital music collection with the BlackBerry.

With the Bold comes push-based access to 10 supported email accounts. You also get a preloaded DataViz Documents to Go software suite that downloads Microsoft Office files in various formats, such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel for your viewing. You can also easily edit these files.

You also get ongoing connectivity with Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g which will automatically connect to hotspots. The Bold has been geared with Bluetooth 2.0 so you can use handsfree Bluetooth headsets, stereo headsets, car kits and other peripheral devices.  

GPS navigation will be powered by AT&T’s TeleNav. This cool state-of-the-art service gives both voice and text-based turn-by-turn directions. There’s missed turn rerouting and a local business finder in 20 countries. The Bold features acoustic design that enhances voice clarity and Speaker Independent Voice Recognition (SIVR) that enables Voice Activated Dialing.

AT&T is planning on releasing the BlackBerry Bold on November 4, 2008 for a nice $299.99 and a two-year contract.