Telus Canada has announced that they will start offering the new Blackberry Torch 9800 Slider Smartphone to their subscribers starting on September 24th for a price of $199.99. If you don’t remember from our previous post, the Torch 9800 runs the new Blackberry 6 OS and is also RIM’s first handset with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard but also features a touchscreen for finger navigation.

Telus will be offering the Smartphone with a 3-year contract, so soon the subscribers of Canada will be able to experience the new WebKit based browser and a whole lot more features that the Blackberry 6 Platform has to offer.

The Blackberry Torch was launched on AT&T in the US on August 12th, they are the only network that seems to be offering the Slider Blackberry right now, so far the Slider has not been successful as RIM anticipated. Like most anticipated Smartphone, the Torch did not sell out a few days after its launch. According to The Wall Street Journal, both RBC Capital Markets and Stifel Nicolaus belie that about 150,000 BlackBerry Torch units were sold over the week-end. Unwired also stated that in July 2009, when the BB Tour 9630 came out, Verizon sold about 275,000 units in just one day.

This is sending a message to RIM “When releasing a handset do not limit it to a single carrier, what about customers who doesn’t want to join that network.”

Roger’s had it listed for CAD$79.99 with a three year contract before RIM made it be known, however yesterday RIM stepped up and made a full announcement of its new BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 Smartphone. The Curve 3G will be coming with Blackberry 5 and is expected to be upgraded to Blackberry 6 in the coming months. The handset features a 2.4-inch TFT display with a 320×240 pixel resolution, a 2-Megapixel Camera, a full-QWERTY keyboard and optical trackpad for navigation, supports GSM Bands -850/900/1800/1900, HSPA Bands-850/1900/2100 and GPS Navigation.

Battery life up to 5.5 hours of talks thanks to the 1150mAHr removable lithium-ion battery, it comes with WiFi, Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR, supports microSD/SDHC cards and should be available by the end of this month.

Apparently the Blackberry Curve 9300 Smartphone hasn’t been announced by RIM as yet, However it is presently listed on Rogers’ website for a price of CAD$79.99 with a three year contract. This unannounced Blackberry Smartphone features a 2.4-inch display that offers a 320 x 240 pixel resolution, supports quad-band GSM and HSDPA 850/1900/2100 networks, WiFi 802.11n, a 2-Megapixel Camera, 256MB of RAM and a 2GB microSD card in the box.

The Handset is still to be confirmed by RIM, however prototypes of the smartphone has been spotted in video before. Until RIM says something, there isn’t much we can say… Do you know anything about this device, share it with us!

The BlackBerry Torch 9800 Slider Phone was officially launched yesterday at an event kept in New York right after it was approved by the FCC. The Torch 9800 is the first slider Blackberry phone and also the first to run the new Blackberry 6 OS.

The Blackberry Torch is also the first to combine a BlackBerry keyboard with a full touch screen experience, there is a 3.2-inch 360×480 capacitive touchscreen display, a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard with backlit, an optical trackpad for smooth navigation, a 5 Megapixel camera with flash, image stabilization and video recording, built-in GPS, WiFi connectivity and 3.5mm headset jack.

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Remember the Blackberry Slider Phone which was supposedly called the Bold Slider, well it has just been approved by the FCC and seems to be heading to AT&T. The FCC documents say this BlackBerry is called the RCY71UW which doesn’t say much, but which other Blackberry could it be.

According to the FCC, the BlackBerry 9800, comes with GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/1900 and GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800 MHz bands support, 3G via UMTS II (1900), V (850) and UMTS I (2100), Bluetooth and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n connectivity. The rest of the specs will be coming later today, when the device is announced at 11am.

Source: Engadget

RIM has started to show off its new BlackBerry Desktop Manager 6 for Windows, RIM has posted screenshots of the new Desktop Manager 6 on their Inside BlackBerry blog. The new Desktop Manager features a new, darker look and also have the capability to to sync media files such as music, pictures, and video to and from your Blackberry Device.

The new version for windows are looking more like the Mac version. You can take a look at the screenshot yourself by clicking on the source link below.

Source: PocketBerry

Today we have found a video Walk through of the BlackBerry 9670 Clamshell running the Blackberry OS 6.0. The Video is approximately 10 minutes and gives a complete walkthrough of the OS 6.0 on BlackBerry 9670 clamshell. The BlackBerry 9670 is a Clamshell-style handset that comes with a full QWERTY Keypad, optical trackpad, 480×360 LCD display, a 5 Megapixel, Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity.