Research in Motion (RIM) officially introduces the new BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone for AT&T, which is the first slider Blackberry phone and the first to run the newest BlackBerry 6 OS. The phone is also the first to combine a BlackBerry keyboard with a full touch screen experience. More of this gadget »

RIM’s Blackberry Bold 9800 is the company’s first slider smartphone. After being spotted in a video last month, Chinese website Blackberry Times shows us some clear photo shots of the Bold 9800 and a video walkthrough on the BlackBerry OS 6 running on the device.

Here is a shot of the Blackberry 9670, another clamshell smartphone from RIM, which runs the Blackberry OS 6.0. It is said that the Blackberry 9670 will be released exclusively by Verizon and the OS 6.0 will debut in Q3 2010.[cellularguru]

Blackberry phones are fantastic on the average, but they’re also a little singleminded.  Basically, if you’re not planning to use a Blackberry for business then you’re largely out of luck.  Blackberry phones don’t seem to do too well with things like games, video and music, though some do better than others.  And the Blackberry Tour is pretty much what you’d expect out of a Blackberry.

The Blackberry Tour is a 3G phone with three megapixel camera, two hundred fifty six megs of onboard memory, enhanced media player, built in GPS, the exclusive BlackBerry Maps, organizer, web browser, a battery with five hours of talk time, a front trackball, a set of dedicated keys, and Bluetooth connectivity.

On a functional level, the Blackberry Tour works all right, even if that trackball is entirely too sensitive for its own good.  It doesn’t offer a lot of fun, which is odd in a cell phone these days, but all right.  There’s a lot to like about this, but only under specific circumstances.

There’s a new app out for the BlackBerry called FlightView where you can in real-time get flight information and weather conditions. The app actually syncs with your device so you can get alerts directly from BlackBerry’s calendar. FlightView costs $5 and you can get it from the App World…

Yay I guess? Nothing a Droid can’t do… for free.via

Dictation software used on various mobile handsets for productivity has been growing in popularity and for leading law firm Bond Shoeneck & King, turning to the BigHand voice productivity software for Blackberry Smartphones promises to deliver a more mobile workforce and result in greater productivity anywhere.

The software is easy to setup and use. Thanks to this new voice productivity software, lawyers and staff on the go can be able to dictate and produce on-demand client work faster. BSK joins the growing list of law firms turning to this new technology for better and efficient services for operations and their clients.

The famous photo sharing website called yFrog has recently released two new applications made for the Blackberry and the Android.

In case of the Blackberry, the latest Yfrog version supports the operative system 4.2 and more, and has the following fetures: being able to tweet images + video; view tweets; search on yfrog; check followers and twitters that you are following, and lastly, view messages and mentions.

As for the Android application, it is supported for Android OS 1.5 to 2.0 and comes with many more features, like being able to search directly on twitter, check if the video encoding quality is pretty high like it should be; and even includes a GPS location of a spot after doing the upload to yFrog.

Check the yFrog website for more information.

The BlackBerry  Curve 8530 has already launched on Verizon as the WiFi-toting update to the already capable BlackBerry Curve 8520, but it has yet to land on Sprint ’s network. Last we heard, the Sprint BlackBerry Curve 8530 was rumored to launch on December 18th, but new information has landed in our inbox indicating that the handset will go live on January 10th of next year (2010). The Curve 8530 will feature the same specs as the 8520, but with the addition of WiFi and BlackBerry 5.0 OS.

According to our source, the Curve 8530 is already in Sprint’s device launch calendar, which specs out launches four weeks in advance. If true, we’ll have to wait until next year to put hands on the updated Curve from Sprint.We’ll probably have a better idea for the Sprint Curve 8530’s launch in the next couple weeks

We just saw what happens when ColorWare gets their hands on a BlackBerry Bold 9700 and were met with some great results. However, you can’t just waltz into a store and get a colored 9700 but you can get a white BlackBerry Bold, in the States at least.

Lucky for you NTT DoCoMo subscribers in Japan, starting on December 3rd, you too can pick up a white BlackBerry Bold.[via aving.net]