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BlackBerry Bold hitting AT&T on October 2?


With hope of a summer release fading with the passing of each and every day, Boy Genius Report cites a "pretty solid bit of info" that the BlackBerry Bold is now pegged for launch on AT&T on Thursday, October 2. So if you see a throng of three-piece suits starting to gather around your local store around September 28 or 29, yeah, that's probably why.

RIM CEO says BlackBerry shutdown "won't happen again"; BlackBerry addicts yell "it better not!"

We know, we know, you're still shaking from the "BlackBerry blackout" the other month: fortunately, the co-CEO of RIM Jim Balsillie feels your shakes. In an interview with eWeek, Jim let the company's customers know that a blackout on a similar scale as April's outage will not happen again. As we know, the cause of the outage was insufficient testing, and Jim now admits that it was "completely avoidable," which probably isn't the best way to boost confidence. As RIM goes about learning from its big mistake, Jim stated that when the service did go down, vital public safety areas were the first to be pushed back online. Only later on did the consumer section go back up (with a flurry of "omg wut hapened?" emails, no doubt.) Hopefully, now you'll be able to go back to your completely technology reliant life in peace, although we doubt that customers will be fully convinced by Jim's reassurances. Hey, it could be worse: at least he didn't try to rebrand the outage as an international day of "thumb rest."

BlackBerry Curve hands-on by... John Mayer?


When he isn't designing clothing lines, contemplating how awesome it is that he's dating Jessica Simpson, and picking up Grammys -- oh, and writing / playing his own music -- John Mayer apparently moonlights as a gadget blogger. His latest entry on his blog has a very short hands-on with the new BlackBerry Curve, which consists of a photo of the front and back of the device, and a single photograph taken on the phone's 2 megapixel cam. (He even manages to throw in a pun and a lyrics reference into the 30 odd word description!) The only other tidbit that we can skim from the blog entry is the fact that advance units are out in the wild, and that our own Paul Miller (who is widely credited as the first to combine the arts of gadget blogging and writing songs) has some serious competition on his hands.

Pics of BlackBerry 8705 surface

The intrepid Boy Genius got the scoop on the BlackBerry 8705's specs back in August, but it looks like BlackBerryForums.com user "dc/dc" has snapped the pics of the T-Mobile-branded handset in the wild. Not that we didn't already have a good idea what it looked like -- being only a minor variation on the standard 8700 series BlackBerry, adding hearing aid compatibility and not much else. And sorry, 4.2 hopefuls: this one also looks to just be shipping with version 4.1 of the OS.

[Thanks, Dan C.]




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