Pledge your smartphone loyalty to whatever brand you wish, but the fact of the matter remains that more and more people are leaving the Finnish juggernaut Nokia in favor of devices from RIM and Apple. During Q4 2008, Nokia’s overall market share fell from 50.9 percent to 40.8 percent and smart...

Late this afternoon, Canada’s TELUS Mobility formally announced that it too has launched the BlackBerry 8230 Pearl Flip. Starting at $49.99 on a three-year contract and going all the way up to $449.99 contract-free, TELUS is hoping the youth market in Canada will receive the clam shell smartph...

The no-contract world of wireless service is a rough and tumble place. With low-cost carriers jockeying to offer the most economical wireless services to consumers looking for ever better value in their wireless plans, it can be hard to get your name out there. That is, unless you do something truly...

MetroPCS is one of a few small carriers in the US currently surging on the back of ridiculously attractive unlimited plans. Despite the fact that its “hello, hello, helloooo” jingle haunts our dreams at night, it’s hard to argue that unlimited plans starting at $30 per month don...

RIM stirred the pot yesterday when they unveiled the BlackBerry App World (the new renamed Blackberry application store), and details of their pricing plans leaked out.  The two most important details: RIM has set the pricing tiers for App World, and in the process eliminated $.99 and $1.99 as pric...

Filed under: BlackBerry, Mobile Research in Motion is in the process of launching an app store that will let users purchase and download software directly from their Blackberry mobile devices. You know, kind of like the iPhone App Store. But for BlackBerry. But there's at least one thing setting the...

RIM took the wraps off of App World yesterday and now we are getting the first taste of what’s to come. It seems that the minimum paid tier (apps can be free, btw) for an app is $2.99, which is catching some of us off guard as Apple’s App Store has been widely successfully with $.99 and ...

BlackBerry App World, RIM's reactive attempt at at a mobile app store, is starting to look a little half-assed. First, we find out it's based on PayPal. Next, an arbitrary minimum app price: $2.99. I can appreciate the effort to have free and paid apps available at launch—something that Google...

RIM's newly-named BlackBerry App World might be all set to compete with the other mobile app stores on the scene, but it's not going head-to-head on price: according to the developer docs, the first price tier above free is $2.99. That doesn't seem like much, but it's a little puzzling in light of h...

It looks like RIM is finally taking a big step toward making its on-device app portal a reality. The developer site, blackberry.com/appworld, is set to go live at 10:00 pm EST and end-users will also be able to sign up for alerts at that time. As for the official name… App World. Yep, it’...