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Over the past years there have been a lot of confusion about the BlackBerry devices and their GPS capabilities. We have tried to clear that a bit with our BlackBerry and GPS article.

BlackBerry smartphones with an internal GPS receiver

• BlackBerry® 7100i smartphone
• BlackBerry® 7130e smartphone
• BlackBerry® 7250 smartphone
• BlackBerry® 7520 smartphone
• BlackBerry® 8703e smartphone

BlackBerry smartphones with an internal GPS receiver which also support Bluetooth GPS technology through JSR 179
This does actually mean: you can either use the internal GPS receiver or connect an external Bluetooth GPS receiver to your BlackBerry and use this one.

• BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8110 smartphone
• BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8130 smartphone
• BlackBerry® Curve™ 8310 smartphone
• BlackBerry® 8800 smartphone
• BlackBerry® 8820 smartphone
• BlackBerry® 8830 World Edition smartphone

BlackBerry smartphones without an internal GPS receiver which support GPS technology through JSR 179 only
This does actually mean: you can only get a GPS position fix onto your BlackBerry with an external Bluetooth GPS receiver.

• BlackBerry® 8100 smartphone
• BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8120 smartphone
• BlackBerry® 8300 smartphone
• BlackBerry® Curve™ 8320 smartphone
• BlackBerry® 8700 Series

Source: BlackBerry.com

There are also many people who are not sure if they have to pay for GPS or not. We hope we provided an answer to that question already. There is also a very interesting field of GPS applications that should not be forgotten. GPS applications are mostly just treated as simple navigation apps that shows you where to get a Caffe Latte Venti. There are also some few companies which make high professional GIS applications for the BlackBerry platform by combining the Global Positoning System with many kinds of map services like the OpenGIS:WMS standard. However, business proofed tracking applications for BlackBerry are available as well.

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BlackBerry devices are always in development and new models are released quite often. Therefore, the available resolution of the BlackBerry and its different models is changing from time to time. Generally, this resolution is increasing and getting more and more sharp. We check the current devices and prepared a quite complete overview of the currently available BlackBerry models and their resolutions for you.

This is especially interesting as the new BlackBerry has been released which comes with a new resolution again.

Display Resolutions:

There are different resolutions on the BlackBerry’s display. The first devices with very low resolutions even had monochrome displays.

The very first BlackBerry devices had 160×100 pixel (e.g. BlackBerry 6210) or 160×160 pixel (BlackBerry 5790). All those devices came with a monochrome display. Models with higher resolutions also brought colors to our world. Starting with 240×160 pixel (72xx, 75xx series) we went over to 240×240 (77xx series), 240×260 (71xx, 81xx series), 320×240 (87xx, 83xx, 88xx series).

The new BlackBerry Bold will have twice as much space as the most current devices at the moment. This seems to be enought space for the user’s requirements right now.

The display resolution’s future

What benefit do we have from those resolutions? What can we do with that? The direction is clear: new resoltuions allow business users to view stock quotes (see free Stock app) in reasonable sizes. Also SAP applications are going to be used on BlackBerry devices.

Also the BlackBerry needs to keep pace with other new mobile devices like the iPhone. We will see what the future is bringing, but there will definitely some nice applications that will use the new space. GPS Navigation and mapping will be one interesting field here as well as graphic and image based applications.

Article based on the original one at BlackBerryInsight German

The good thing: Our free wallpaper service here at BlackBerryInsight already supports the new BlackBerry Bold’s resolution as well as all other BlackBerry models. Check it out at: http://www.blackberryinsight.com/blackberryinsight-wallpapers/

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Thanks to BGR for this Bold Tip
We’ve got two independent tips on this date, so let’s hope it pans out to be true. AT&T corporate is still telling their Fortune 500 customers that the Bold will launch in “July/August”. Hopefully Rogers will swift kick them in the ass and get them moving. What’s holding up the Bold, you ask? Well, nothing. The units went into production a while ago and the latest software build is extremely stable. It’s all up to the carriers now. What say you, friendly Canadians? Raiding a Rogers store on June 25th for a BlackBerry Bold? Our previous Rogers release dates were spot on, so we’ll see!
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I wouldn’t, but it seems there are some LG users who might be interested in that

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Well here it is the Skinny on the two hot new devices about to drop, I never realized that the bold only had one less inch of screen….man, I think I would for sure go the way of the Bold, more features, a true one handed device, and a real classy look…..anyways thats just my opinion.

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The guys over at Trusted Reviews found a picture of the BlackBerry 9500 Thunder online at Howizon Wireless. Check it out:

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This is even more than the 35.1 per cent RIM raised the US smartphone market share in Q4 2007.

Palm and Samsung raised their share by 13.4% and 8.6% respectivley.

Apple and Motorola - two other leading companies - tumbled! Apple lost 7.5%(!) from 26.7% in Q4 to 19.2%; and Motorola lost 4.9% from 7.5% to 2.6%!

It seems RIM is obviously the winner in the smartphone market right now!

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Here we go:

• Family will include HSDPA and EV-DO versions (including an AWS-capable 1700MHz version), much as we’d heard
• 480 x 320 display
• 625MHz CPU, 1GB internal flash memory
• 802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 (with A2Dp), GPS, MicroSDHC
• 480 x 320 video recording, photo geotagging
• 4.5 x 2.6 x 0.55-inches, 4.7 ounces

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