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Research in Motion and Rogers today introduced that Wi-Fi enabled BlackBerry Pearl 8120 to customers in Canada. The 8120’s Wi-Fi capability will allow it to work with Rogers UMA service, Rogers Home Calling Zone.

More and more households are dropping their landlines and using their mobile devices 100% of the time. Being able to make calls via your internet connection can really cut down on your mobile bill especially for those who make a lot of calls during the day during peak hours.

Rogers Wireless is proud to add the BlackBerry Pearl 8120 to our extensive lineup of BlackBerry phones, and especially to our innovative Home Calling Zone service, a Canadian first,” said John Boynton, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Rogers Wireless. “With the UMA-enabled BlackBerry Pearl 8120, not only will our customers have the benefits of RIM’s world-renowned push email solution, they can also experience the flexibility and convenience using their BlackBerry phone for both home and away, with Rogers Home Calling Zone.

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We are still trying to get a few more details on this one, however, according to cNet’s Crave, AT&T, not T-Mobile is the first U.S. based carrier to get the Wi-Fi enabled BlackBerry Curve 8120.

In addition to the the Wi-Fi, the BlackBerry 8120 includes a 2.0 megapixel camera with video recording capabilities and a better web browser. The device will be available today through AT&T business channels starting at $199.99 with a two-year service plan.

It has been about two and a half weeks since the Pink BlackBerry Pearl teaser hit Verizon’s Next site, but, for those of you that have been waiting, the wait is almost over.

According to a Research in Motion press release the Pink Verizon BlackBerry Pearl will be available online as well as hit store shelves tomorrow. The Pink Pearl will run $199.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new 2-year agreement. If you sign up for a really expensive voice and data plan, you could qualify for an additional $100 credit bringing the cost down to under $100

Canada based telecoms Telus and Bell are offering special holiday promotions on BlackBerry Pearls, which, you can get for free if you act before December 31st.

As always, free is relative, as you must sign up to a 3-year plan of $45 per month or more in order to qualify. In this case free really means $1620 over the course of the next 36 months.

This is still a pretty good deal if you were already interested in a BlackBerry Pearl and you want more than the $15 email and IM only plan currently offered by Telus.

 
Over the passed day or so, I’ve been taking a look at various smartphones that target individual consumers across various networks and one thing that I noticed was that T-Mobile’s original BlackBerry Pearl 8100 is much less expensive than everything else out there.

The device itself, with a two year service plan, costs under a $150 bucks after a mail-in rebate which is on par with the lowest of the low on devices that can be considered smart phones. Then there is the $9.99 unlimited data plan. Well, that is just unheard of.

T-Mobile’s BlackBerry Pearl is not only a very inexpensive option for a smartphone, but, is an attractive option as a feature phone as well.

I think that the the “Old School BlackBerry Pearl” will do very well this holiday season.

 
Sprint has officially announced that the BlackBerry Pearl is coming to their network in November. This comes after the announcement that the Sprint branded CDMA BlackBerry Pearl 8130 would come out in Q4.

Like Verizon, Sprint has set up a site where you can enter your email in so that they can notify exactly when the Blackberry Pearl 8130 will be available.

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Do you desire to make your BlackBerry Pearl look like an iPhone? Well, your’re in luck… RogersMJ.com has released a free BlackBerry theme named bPhone that should do the trick.

Inspired by the iPhone, bPhone for BlackBerry features icons straight from the iPhone in addition to custom-made icons that fit into the iPhone theme. The top banner is dark glass, the signal and battery indicators were created from scratch to mimic the iPhone’s, the “busy” indicator is the Mac OS X beachball, and there is liberal use of gray and blue (Mac and iPhone’s primary interface colors) throughout the theme.

You can download a copy of bPhone here…

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The title of this post pretty much says it all. T-Mobile now offers the BlackBerry Pearl in 3 new colors bringing the total to 5, it is priced fairly inexepensively under $150, and you can get unlimited email and and SMS messaging for 10 bucks.

Tack on the cheapest voice plan that you can use My Faves with and the T-Mobile BlackBerry Pearl just may be one of the hottest selling mobile devices this holiday season.

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We’ve known that T-Mobile was going to release the BlackBerry Pearl Pearl in three new colors for about a month now. Today those new colors, blue, gold, and red, are now avaiable.

Read the press release…

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BGR has live shots of the T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve that is supposed to be coming out on September 24th.

I am just not digging that gold color. BGR says, however, that “T-Mobz might be offering a choice of the gold color, and silver/titanium color at launch.”

If that gold BlackBerry Pearl 2 that we saw last week didn’t appear to be branded. We hope, however, that it comes in the silver/titanium color as well.

I’ve heard a few rumors recently that the BlackBerry 7130e is going “End of Life” at the end of October. This move by RIM is probably in anticipation of the release of the CDMA BlackBerry Pearl 2 that we’ve heard is coming to both Verizon and Sprint in November.

I personally use the Verizon BlackBerry 7130e, and, although it has been very good to me, am admittedly ready to upgrade to something new. I thought about moving to the 8703e and even the 8830, however, I am one of those crazy folks that absolutely loves SureType. The BlackBerry Pearl 2 can’t get here soon enough.

Looks like the folks over at Pinstack were the first to get pictures of the BlackBerry Pearl 2. I hope to goodness that the Verizon model doesn’t come in gold.

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