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Do you remember my article “BlackBerry Pearl 9100 Copy B9100 found on Hong Kong Electronics Fair”? Well, the very same company had a big pot of name cards and it seems ours was in there. So they sent us an (unsolicited) email about their latest products with prices of course. The full email reads as followed:
Dear k,
Glad meeting you in Hongkong fair.I am Bill and from PT Industrial co.,ltd.Hope you can remember.
We are professional mobile phone manufacturer.We can provide OEM or ODM service for you.We sell at least 200k per month to Indonesia,South America,Thailand,Dubai and Africa.
On the fair,you were very interested in Qwerty phones.Enclosed is the price list for the clone iphone.Please kindly check.If you have any question,please feel free to contact with me.Hope to work with you soon.
Best regards,
Bill Wang
Tel: +86 755 81671609
Fax: +86 755 83019579
MSN:pt.sales@hotmail.com
Email: sales@pt-industry.com
website: www.pt-industry.com
On purpose, I didn’t correct the email’s mistakes. The funny thing: they openly advertise for a “clone iphone”. 
There was also a full price list (Excel) with pictures attached to their email. Here is a screen shot of the BlackBerry copies B9100 and B9700:
BlackBerry Copies B9100 B9700 (click image for high-res)
So you can get your BlackBerry Bold 9700 copy (called B9700) for just $51 and the Pearl 3G copy (B9100) for a buck less at $50. If you want more, you can even add “TV” and “WiFi” for just $6 respectivley $14 more. Wow! I didn’t know BlackBerry devices have telly support … must be some secret feature not even RIM knows about
Also quite interesting I think: They didn’t even bother to use photos of their fake B9700. Instead they used the original images RIM published for the Rogers branded BlackBerry Bold 9700. I call that bold man! 
- Fake Phone Company Website: PT Industrial China
- Fake Phone Price List: Price and Image List of Fake Phones (zipped Excel .xls file)
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BlackBerry Pearl 9100 Copy B9100 found on Hong Kong Electronics Fair
By k | April 21st, 2010 | No Comments »You won’t believe this!
On the Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) that took last week at the Hong Kong Convention Centre last week, hosted by the Hong Kong Trade and Development Council. We didn’t want to believe what we saw, but there were many Chinese cell phone factories present who showed “their” newest products. One of the most presented devices were nearly perfect copies of the brand new BlackBerry Bold 9700 and Pearl 9100. Take a look at this photo:
Sorry for the bad picture, I was trying not to get caught by the guys. As you can see, the shape of the device is pretty close to the Pearl 9100. However, the Chinese dudes call it a “B9100″ without mentioning BlackBerry anywhere. I was quite interested in that one as well as the Bold 9700 copy. If you take the device in your and play with the OS you pretty quickly see that everything is fake. However, I have to say that the copy is done quite well. Even the BlackBerry OS is a Chinese copy and looks very close to the original. I guess, people who never used a BlackBerry before would buy this device as a real BlackBerry.
Perhaps this is something RIM’s legal department should take a look at. 
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Featured Hardware Review: Stylophone Beatbox with BlackBerry Curve 8900 Free Style
By k | October 13th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Quite a while after reviewing the incredible X-Mini II speakers for BlackBerry we just received another nice and brand new gadget: the Stylophone Beatbox!
Though this piece is not purely for the BlackBerry, it works fine with it. I am actually a bit addicted right now and am playin’ all day long with this thing. My BlackBerry Curve 8900 plays the original tunes and I am hacking some ubersounds onto the betabox organ! Did you know that the original Stylophone was invented in 1967? Crazy, huh? Even David Bowie used it back then! Man – he must be old! The current license holder dübreq is still selling that one, but with the brand new Beatbox they kind of re-invented the Stylophone and made it compatible with the music world we know today!
When you open up the Stylophone Beatbox box it might look like this:
Including a manual, of course. The Beatbox is battery operated with 3 AA batteries and a silly battery cap for which you need a screwdriver to open it. Who had that stupid idea? Anyway, the rest of the piece is fine and the manufacturing quality seems to be quite good. Connecting to the BlackBerry is very easy, just plug the 3.5 mm headphone cable into the headphone jack of the BlackBerry and the other end into the “MP3″ jack at the Beatbox. When you know play music on the BlackBerry, it will come out of the Stylophone
Here is the official detail listing:
Stylophone Beatbox Features
- Three new sounds: Beatbox, Percussion and Steel Drums
- Record Loop and Playback function
- Tempo Adjust
- Volume control
- MP3 function – play along to any music – includes two way adapter
Product Details
- For ages 7+
- Requires 3x AA batteries – not supplied
- Original features
- Packaging (approx) 27cm(W) x 15cm(D) x 6cm(H)
- Product (approx) 15.5cm(W) x 10cm(D) x 4cm(H)
- Headphone socket
The BlackBerry Curve is the perfect bro for the Stylophone Beatbox. I got some help from my better half which is a bit more music savvy than me, but still not a professional musician. An official demo video can be found here. Here in action with Michael Jackson and the some free style performed Beatbox beats:
The Stylophone Beatbox also works alone and can record and play tunes:
The Stylophone Beatbox is available for only $25.50 plus shipping. Lucky me – reviewers get a free one; isn’t that great?
Website: Stylophone Beatbox!
Previous Featured Hardware Reviews:
- X-mini 2 – Speaker for your BlackBerry with Incredible Sound
- Solar Charger for BlackBerry Wireless Handheld
Edited 2009-10-21: new and awesome video online! Check it out!
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Schedule Email and SMS Text Messages with MessageSchedule for BlackBerry
By k | July 24th, 2009 | No Comments »
That nice little program looks awesome!
May be I just said that because one of the example use case the vendor mentions on the product page is just too true:
Use MessageSchedule™ when you meet your Buddies!
Imagine … you are out this night drinking with your buddies but you do not want your loved ones to worry so you want to send them an “I miss you honey! It is so busy at work – I will be home soon. Love you!” SMS or E-mail later on. However because you are out drinking and having lots of fun, you might just forget to send the message. With MessageSchedule(TM), you can preset messages to be sent at the right time so you can have fun with peace in mind!
Seriously, everyone of us was in the situation to need such an app! Let me honest with you guys, I might not use that app too often, but I am sure it is gonna “save my life” when I need it. It is kind of like with condoms and guns: It is better to have it and don’t need it than to need it and don’t have it.
OK, back to the topic. MessageSchedule has some nice features including message logging, templates, and it even plugs into the native BlackBerry® Messages which allows me to reply to a message (SMS or EMail) with a delay. See, sometimes I just don’t want to reply to our boss’ email instantly because then he might think I don’t have anything else to do other than checking my BlackBerry. In fact, I know the answer to his question and I want to reply to him, but just not right now. So I can now actually hit “Schedule Reply” from the menu, type my answer, set a time and click save. The message will then be sent out at 1:23 am (for example) in the morning and my boss is even gonna be impressed because I am still working at that time!
Enough of talking! Check it out yourself: MessageSchedule™ for BlackBerry®
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Maxis Launches BlackBerry Pearl Flip Smartphone In Malaysia
By k | January 15th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Maxis Communications Berhad and Research In Motion have launched the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone in Malaysia.
The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 is the first BlackBerry smartphone to feature the popular “clamshell” or “flip” design building on the success of the original BlackBerry Pearl series and offers phone enthusiasts a new fun and stylish choice.
Matthew Willsher, Maxis Chief Marketing Officer said, “Today, we are extremely excited to bring our customers the next level of mobile communications with the BlackBerry Pearl Flip, a great-looking phone and so much more. It has a design that people are comfortable with and will enjoy using for voice calls, multimedia applications, text and email messaging and Internet browsing. This innovative phone is the ideal choice for first time BlackBerry smartphone users, and we hope it will encourage our retail customers to enjoy the freedom of accessing their emails, communications and multimedia needs on the go.
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BlackBerry is one of those brands that always keeps technophiles at the edge of their seats. The concept itself, when first introduced — the ability to send and receive emails on the go — was unheard of. Sure, there was the Palm, but that had to be plugged in and synched. The BlackBerry provided freedom and accessibility, and for some, a pain in the ass. It’s morphed from a brick with buttons to flashy rollerballs, a touch screen, and now the Crackberry has officially come full circle with a model for every personality. Introducing the Pearl Flip. That’s right — it’s a BlackBerry. It’s a flip-phone. It’s the coolest piece of electronic genius to fit into your pocket, and starting at $149, it won’t drain too much out of it either.
Source: BlackBook
You can buy the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 from Amazon now!
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BlackBerry Video Generator 2.5 supports Bold, Curve 8900, Pearl Flip 82xx, and Storm
By k | January 8th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The BlackBerry Video Generator now supports new devices. Just a month ago we had the previous version in our free software download. Until then this program just supported the BlackBerry Pearl (81xx), Curve (83xx) and 88xx models. The brand new version now also supports all current models from our beloved BlackBerry series. Please keep in mind: Though the name might indicate it, this program is NOT meant to be installed on your BlackBerry wireless handheld. It is supposed to be installed on your Windows PC and operates there by converting and optimizing your videos to a format the BlackBerry understands best! Below is the full list of supported devices of version 2.5.
Supported BlackBerry Models:
- BlackBerry 8800 Series
- BlackBerry Bold
- BlackBerry Curve 83xx & 89xx
- BlackBerry Pearl 81xx & Flip 82xx
- BlackBerry Storm
Supported Aspect Ratios:
- 4:3
- 16:9
The Video Generator supports nearly every video format / codec as well:
- MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video.
- MPEG-4 in all variants including DivX, OpenDivX (DivX4), DivX 5 (Pro), XviD.
- Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/2).
- Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) (using x86 DLL).
- RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 (G2).
- RealVideo 3.0 (RP8), 4.0 (RP9) (using Real libraries).
- Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3), Cinepak, RPZA and other QuickTime codecs.
- DV video.
- 3ivx.
- Intel Indeo3 (3.1, 3.2).
- Intel Indeo 4.1 and 5.0 (using x86 DLL or XAnim codecs).
- VIVO 1.0, 2.0, I263 and other H.263(+) variants (using x86 DLL).
- MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats.
- FLI/FLC.
- HuffYUV.
- various old simple RLE-like formats.
I even downloaded a video from YouTube using downloadyoutubevideos.com and converted it for my BlackBerry Curve 8320 and my Bold. It is awesome!
Get more info here: BlackBerry Video Generator 2.5
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BlackBerry Made Simple has just published the newest print book in its easy-to-read BlackBerry guide book series. This one focuses on the BlackBerry® Pearl™ ‘Flip’ 8200 Series smartphone and includes material for the 8200, 8220, 8230 and all 82xx Series BlackBerry handhelds. Purchase it for $18.99 (Soft cover, 350 pages) online at on amazon.com.
Some of the highlights include:
- Dozens of hidden or little-known time-saving tips and tricks.
- Synchronizing your BlackBerry with your Windows™ or Mac™ computer.
- How to squeeze every ounce of power from the Address Book, Calendar, Tasks and MemoPad.
- How to become “Master of Your BlackBerry Email”
- Support for both BlackBerry Internet Service and Corporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server users.
- Tips and tricks to unlock the rich Media Features of the BlackBerry Pearl.
- How turn your Pearl Flip into something that could replace a video and audio “iPod™”
- How to setup the WiFi features of your Pearl Flip
- Learn how to go Online as well as update your Facebook and Myspace pages – right from your BlackBerry
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Research In Motion, in collaboration with Bouygues Telecom announced the availability of the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone in France.
The first flip phone under Blackberry brand will be available from mid-December for a suggested price of 129 EURO (approx. Rs. 8,110).
Source: TechGadgets
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Micro SD Cards for your BlackBerry Pearl, Curve, 8800, Bold, Flip, and Storm
By k | November 16th, 2008 | 1 Comment »Those micro SD cards should work fine with any BlackBerry Wireless Handheld which comes with an expansion slot.
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