We oasis’t seen much from RIM in the past tense year or so, although handset gross sales rich person been very strong scorn our misgivings about the BlackBerry manufacturer’s stream direction.

The BlackBerry Pearl 3G is the first new Pearl "candy bar" headphone since the 8110 announced over deuce days ago, and it’s the first base Pearl handset to documentation 3G. It’s amazing to think that the Pearl has come all this means without 3G support, but in fact criterion electronic messaging trading operations really father’t motivation anything more than plain old GPRS.

This is more than the old edition of the Pearl with 3G support slapped on, the Pearl 3G comes with a very high gear solving 360 x 400 pel exhibit, a 3.2 megapixel photographic camera with flash and autofocus, support for 802.11 b, g and n wireless local area network (ace of the few phones that supports the new, faster 802.11n protocol). Inside is a 624Mhz C.P.U. (twice as fast as the 8110) and 256MB memory. The Pearl 3G has GPS documentation built in, and it supports Bluetooth 2.1 and microSD memory cards up to 32GB as well.

The operating system and drug user interface has been upgraded to version 5.0 of the BlackBerry OS, and it now supports synching with iTunes and Windows Media Player. From what we can see of the drug user interface, the whole thing matter has been tidied up from the previous version which looked rather cluttered.

One key feature is that the Pearl 3G has dropped the trackball on the front and has replaced it with a small optical trackpad. In our experience the trackpad is much easier to manipulation than the old trackball, and it should be more resilient too. There are dedicated media keys on the very top of the Pearl 3G to make medicine playback easier.

There are two different versions of the Pearl 3G, the 9100 comes with a familiar spirit version of the SureType keyboard, the 9105 uses a traditional mobile phone layout for the keypad which whitethorn wellspring appealingness to new customers. The overall designing is much smarter and more conventional than previous versions of the Pearl, and it’s nice to see a capable messaging smartphone in a such a pouch friendly design.

The large 1150 mAh battery is quoted as gift up to 5.5 hours talktime on 3G networks, and overall the Pearl 3G weighs just 93 grams and measures 108 x 50 x 13mm. This is a tri-banding UMTS/HSDPA device with documentation for quadrangle-band GSM, so we expect this to twist up on tons of different carriers worldwide.

RIM say that the Pearl 3G should be available from May 2010 onwards, although at the consequence we rich person no steering on pricing or networks.

BlackBerry Pearl 3G Promo Video

This is a legal brief promo from RIM showing how impossibly glamorous your sprightliness will be if you buy ace of these.

The iPad is a great gimmick for casually surfboarding the vane and potentially acquiring some work done while suspension out at a cafe or on the couch. But, the matter about the iPad is that it currently is only available in wireless local area network-only trim. That means you’ll either rich person to bounds yourself to your living way, or frequent caffein-selling establishments with WiFi service. That is, unless you have a Sprint (New York Stock Exchange: S) MiFi or Sprint Overdrive 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot. In that lawsuit, you tin go nearly anywhere in the US and always have a radio internet joining handy. If you’re in a Sprint 4G market, you’ll even get 4G information speeds up to 10x faster than 3G. So, it makes sense that Sprint is push their Overdrive onto iPad customers. To that end, the aircraft carrier has just announced they’ll be gift away their new iPad lawsuit for free at participating C. H. Best Buy stores.

The Sprint iPad lawsuit features a little pocket that you tin manipulation to hold your Sprint Overdrive. That means, you never lose running of the hockey puck-sized wireless modem, and you’ll always be sure to rich person an internet joining for your WiFi-only iPad. The troupe is giving away 10,000 of these cases at select C. H. Best Buy stores (likely those in 4G markets) while supplies shoemaker’s last. The promotion started on Apr 17, so you’d do wellspring to smash up your local Best Buy to grab a lawsuit before they run out!

For consultation, Sprint has 4G up and run in 28 US cities, including as battle of Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Charles Frederick Worth, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland, Ore., San Antonio and Seattle. In 2010, Sprint plans to rich person more markets advent online with 4G, including Hub of the Universe, Cincinnati, Grover Cleveland, Denver, Kansa City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and St. Joe Louis. For more info on Sprint 4G markets, hit up this website.

More information on the Sprint iPad case and the Overdrive here.

Motorola is sending out a much-needed microcode update to the CLIQ, addressing many issues. To what extent, we’re not sure, but this MotorBlur gimmick needed some kind of updating. Unfortunately it’s not the Android 2.1 update everyone has been hoping for.

T-Mobile (New York Stock Exchange: DT)’s first base Motorola (NYSE: MOT test) Android gimmick whitethorn not be the best phone you tin get on the land’s 4th largest aircraft carrier, but it’s still a nice device. If you can get over the limping of MotoBlur, that is. The new update is said to address quite a few issues that have been bugging owners of the device since the start. The update includes bettor battery life, improved touching screen sensitivity, faster GPS, bettor audio frequency quality for calls, and more. So far, we oasis’t heard from anyone who has received the update yet, nor do we know if the update addresses the issues completely. It’s not clear if the device will motivation another update for all issues to be ironed out, but anything is better than nothing!

Right now, if I were to base on balls into a T-Mobile computer storage and was looking to buy an Android device, it would be a pretty tough call option whether to pick the CLIQ, or the MyTouch 3G. The CLIQ has a keyboard, and a directional lodgings that is placed on the left, which appeals to me for using emulators, like NESoid. On the other helping hand, the MyTouch 3G looks nicer to me boilersuit in my ruling, and has a much wider dev pedestal, with many different ROMs available to it I could hack my way through. And, you know, no MotoBlur on the MT3G is a big summation.

With news of this update advent down the pipes, it would shuffle the determination that much harder. But I think I’ll spliff with my Nexus One.

A full leaning of the update is below:

Relocated “End Call”Improved Text MessagingImproved Battery LifeImproved Touch Screen SensitivityImproved Audio Quality for CallsImproved MOTOBLUR Seth-Up ScreenBetter Audio RoutingImproved Caller NotificationFaster GPSSupport For Additional Windows Media Formats CompatibleBluetooth ImprovementsSIM Card ManagementAdditional StabilityThe Latest Versions of Google (NSDQ: GOOG)Updated Quickoffice

Glad to see Motorola has their users’ backs, and push out updates to improve their user experience. For anyone who has the Cliq, and has received the update, how’s it treating you? Let us know if the comments below!

[Via: AndroidGuys]

Recently I had the chance to takings a looking at the Nokia E72 and INQ Chat 3G, and compare them with another QWERTY keyboard device, in the shape of the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Curve 8900. We take a quick circuit round the devices, start with dimensions, then moving on to look at keyboards. Check out the video below to see how the various devices form up against one another:

The Samsung u820 is a 3-inch, WQVGA touchscreen, with physical QWERTY yellow-bellied terrapin action. It also has a 3.2MP photographic camera on the backrest, with video gaining control, 3.5mm headset jack, MicroSD circuit board one-armed bandit, full hypertext markup language browser, and full Microsoft Exchange email documentation. That photographic camera and full keyboard should come in handy, as Samsung is retention up with this whole thing social net integration thing. The u820 include a widget called Communities, where you’ll be able to update your status, as well as billet pictures to all your sociable networking sites. It also features WouchWiz 2.0 for good measure.

While the phone whitethorn not be that nice on the eyes, it will get the occupation done for most customers. Especially for teenagers who motivation to be connected with their social sites at all times of the twenty-four hours. Verizon Wireless is the carrier of selection for this little nugget of delight, and it will cost you somewhere in the park between $80 and $100 with a new (2-year) agreement. If this device is for you, you’ll have to wait until Apr 30th, when it should officially smash store shelves.

[via PhoneScoop, effigy via CNET]

It took quite a while for Verizon (New York Stock Exchange: VZ) Wireless to get ready the CASIO G’zOne Brigade for the functionary declaration. We’ve first seen the rugged device at the attack aircraft carrier’s leaked roadmap back in July of 2009. Then, a month later, it got the Federal Communications Commission’s seal of approval and now, more than half a year after that, it’s officially out.

As you whitethorn know, all G’zOne phones ar about toughness, and ar made for business customers in such industries as building, public base hit and utilities, who motivation a reliable device that stand up to ruffian employment conditions. The Brigade is not an exclusion and it too tin hold water, electric shock, rubble, dousing, vibration, humidity, saltiness daze, height, high gear and low temperature warehousing, and solar radiation resistant conforming to MIL-STD-810F.

However, unlike most other ruggedized handsets, this ace comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, allowing users to case faster. In summation, there’s a 3.2-megapixel photographic camera with car-direction and flash on board, 2.9-in 400×240 pixels main blind that’s coupled with smaller 1.2-in 128×96 pixels external display, Global Positioning System, Bluetooth, EVDO Rev A. data, and a microSD memory card one-armed bandit. In terms of pre-installed apps, we discovery HTML browser, written document viewer, media player, VZ Navigator node, electronic mail node and so on.

Finally, the price – Verizon is merchandising the CASIO G’zOne Brigade for $249.99 after a $50 chain armor-in rebate and with a new two-year customer agreement.

A band aid here for any T-Mobile (New York Stock Exchange: DT) customers rockin’ an Android device. If you use the T-Mo My Account app, you’ll be pleased to know it has been updated with some new features:

App is now separated into II briny areas: ‘My Account’ and ‘Help’Customers tin can now frame-up paperless billing and make payments using previously stored payment methodsExtra security measures now integrated. Login with your T-Mobile River password or last 4 digits of your SSN

So the app is now more secure, it encourages you to go paperless, and it makes online chronicle management and payments possible. I’d give this a thumbs up. Well done to T-Mo on this update, I’m looking at forward to what they wealthy person in store for their customers in the next version. Should be good stuff.

The updated ‘My Account’ app is now available (for free people, of course of action) via the Android Market.

[Via: TMoNews]

Adobe’s Connect Pro Mobile River for the iPhone and iPod Touch is a solidness, free means to connect to Web conferences on the go, but what’s really interesting is that this is the first base app that has shoehorned Flash on the platform. The app was created in Flash Professional CS5 beta and uses Adobe’s Packager converter to work on the iPhone.

As for the app itself, it gives mobile workers the power to union Adobe Connect session over Wi-Fi or 3G. It includes video recording and blind-sharing capabilities, live text chatting and VoIP merging audio can be streamed to the handsets. The app is free but the Connect service costs businesses at least $45 a month.

I poked around with the app a little and it looked clean and functional, which is a good indicator of what can come from Adobe’s converter. Flash developers distillery greatly outnumber iPhone developers but we all know Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) chief executive officer Steve Jobs isn’t a big buff of Flash. The Packager should be a good workaround for some Flash content creators to get on this increasingly-important chopine.

Adobe Connect Pro Mobile River (Free) [iTunes Link]

[Via Adobe]

As usual, HD Mini is enhanced with HTC Sense UI, helping you check close to the important friends and colleagues in your spirit by providing a 1 contact sight that displays individual communication snapshots of your conversations regardless of whether it was a call option, text, status update or email. HTC’s Windows-based Twitter application, HTC Peep, enables you to tweet and follow your chirrup stream.

HTC HD mini includes capacitive touching for wake, zooming and resizing websites, Microsoft® Office files, PDF documents and pictures with just a arrest of your fingers. Leveraging its 3G broadband connectivity, the HTC HD mini also offers personal Wi-Fi anywhere for your computer or other devices. The HD mini tin can also be further enhanced to reflect your needs and style by downloading a diversity of applications from the Windows® Marketplace for Mobile River.

The new HTC HD mini will be broadly available to customers across major European and Asian markets commencement in Apr.

Novatel Wireless and Virgo Mobile Canada, have announced the launching of the Novatel Wireless MiFi Intelligent Mobile River Hotspot 2372 and Ovation MC998D Wireless Broadband USB modem on Virgin Mobile Canada’s HSPA network.

“Virgin Mobile’s customers are constantly on the relocation and wish to be able to connect online wherever they ar.  These new additions to our line-up shuffle it easy for them to halt connected to all of their sociable networks – with photos, electronic messaging, medicine and more – piece on the go,” said Robert Blumenthal, President of the United States, Virgo Mobile Canada. “We ar excited to partner with Novatel Wireless to provide our customers a simple, fasting and convenient way to hook shot up online using either ace of these mobile broadband products on Canada’s largest high-speed network.”

Compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems, the MiFi 2372 delivers download speeds up to 7.2 megabits per second base with enhanced performance for simultaneous uploads/downloads and large file transfers. The MiFi 2372 also offers optimized functionality for video recording streaming and online gaming.

Check out the details on the 2372 here.