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Hi, I just activated my reliance gsm postpaid with blackberry services. Surprisigly the service was fast and in half an hour I started recieving emails. Excellent service but network is not as good as cdma.

I am using a post paid gsm connection. Till now the signal is full wherever I go. Not recieved any bills yet so cant comment on that. Thanks lavi4u, which plan u have now? during the billing is they provide unbilled amount? or how much amount of minutes or rupess we have used yet? i ur plans which services are activated? Hi. I have taken the most minimum plan of 199 and waiting for them to launch blackberry services in gsm. I plan to eventually shift from cdma to gsm.

I am using a post paid gsm connection. Till now the signal is full wherever I go. Not recieved any bills yet so cant comment on that.

Hi. If u dont mind can u please give me the settings for the dolphin sim card for blackberry services as I have dolphin card and would like to use it in a blackberry Thanks Hey Lavi , No problem at all kindly note down the settings for Prepaid and Postpaid conections. APN (Access point name) type in for post-paid : gprsmtnlmum for pre-paid : gprsppsmum Enter User name:"mtnl" & Password: "mtnl123" and select Save. that's it , you have done. Let me know. Thanks very much. Lets see if my blackberry can access the gsm card now.

Hi. If u dont mind can u please give me the settings for the dolphin sim card for blackberry services as I have dolphin card and would like to use it in a blackberry Thanks

Great news ! RIM along with Vodafone, Airtel and Reliance launched curve 8900 today in India. 8900 launched in India for the special cost 27,500 INR. Soon after launching the BlackBerryblackberry Storm in India, RIM is aback again with BlackBerry Curve 8900. The phone has been launched by RIM in association with Airtel , Reliance Communications and Vodafone. “We are pleased to be working together with mobile leaders like Airtel, Reliance Communications and Vodafone who share our vision for wireless solutions in India. We have experienced growing demand for BlackBerry smartphones in India and we believe that the BlackBerry Curve 8900 will be a very popular choice amongst both businesses and consumers,” said Bawa, Vice President, India, Research In Motion. BlackBerry brings with it a full-QWERTY keyboard experience adopted in a stylish compact design. The dimensions of the phone are 109 x 60 x 13.5 millimeters. It boasts of a GPS, Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) and 512MHz next generation processor, 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, Bluetooth 2.0, all integrated in it. The camera is assisted with image stabilizer, digital zoom, and video recording capabilities. The multimedia functions also include a media player . The phone also comes included with a 1 GB card and a memory card slot for swappable microSDMicroSD /SDHC memory card and with a support for 16 GB memory. The key highlight of the phone is that it flaunts a large display screen with a resolution that is highest amongst those on any of the BlackBerry smartphones. BlackBerry Curve 8900 also offers instant messagings and options like BlackBerry Messenger, Google Talk, Windows LiveWindows Live and Yahoo Messenger. Social networking options include support Facebook, MySpace and Flickr. For these, there is an enhanced full HTML browser in desktop style. Additional features include preinstalled BlackBerry Media Sync, BlackBerry Internet Service and BlackBerry Enterprise.

Blackberry Storm launched by vodafone in India for Rs. 27990

BlackBerry Storm available in India starting January 15 Although Indian mobile users have probably hoped for this to happen in 2008, it’s only today that RIM and Vodafone Essar have announced the release of BlackBerry Storm 9500 in India. Already on sale in North America and across Europe, the Storm is RIM’s first smartphone to lack a physical QWERTY keyboard and to have a touchscreen display. And it’s no ordinary touchscreen display, but a large 360 x 480 pixels clickable one that ensures an intuitive navigation. Save for the physical keyboard, the smartphone has almost all the features you’d expect to find in a BlackBerry handset. These include: GPS BlackBerry Maps Full HTML browser Email Document editor A 3.2 MP camera with autofocus and flash A 3.5mm headset jack 1GB of internal memory MicroSD card support, up to 16GB BlackBerry Storm will be available starting January 15, exclusively via Vodafone Essar, for the price of Rs. 27,990 ($580).

Airtel and Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the launch of the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone in India. Priced at Rs.21990 the smartphone is now available at Airtel authorized channels nationally. In addition to the power Blackberry platform offers, the new phone packs a wide range of features including spacious keyboard into a sleek flip design, a company press release said. “The BlackBerry Pearl Flip is a powerful, compact smartphone equipped to deliver a wide range of applications,” said Sanjay Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer, Mobile Services, Airtel. "This continues to reinforce our commitment to enhance and deliver the best communication experience to our users with the latest BlackBerry smartphones from Airtel.”

Delhi Traffic Police will soon be seen with smart BlackBerry phones matching steps with the Scotland Yard. They would also be able to know about previous notices slapped on a vehicle, its accident record if any and details of the driver on a CDMA or GPRS handheld device. The department plans to start a system of ‘e-challans’ soon to make all this possible. Traffic police officers would also be able to print challans in English and Hindi on-the-spot and also forward it to courts. This new technology ‘e-challan’ system is expected to start in April. This is reportedly the first time in India that any traffic police department will be printing violation notices on-the-spot. Delhi Police has placed an order for 650 such handheld devices, which will be given to traffic cops all over Delhi. “It will save a lot of time. The challans can even be sent to court. The data relating to the vehicle held would be available on the device as it would be linked with the Central Database,” said a senior traffic police officer. Through this device, the challaning officer of Delhi Police will be able to know the status of the vehicle - whether it is stolen, involved in crime or otherwise, previous history of the vehicle or the driver in accident, previous prosecution history of the vehicle, pending notices of the vehicle and also access the system through the Internet. The device would be connected to a central database through which it would be able to search or access data on the basis of the vehicle number, name of the driver, parentage, driver’s license details, using wild card options on one or many fields. “In case any pending notices are shown by the database, then the device would generate all pending notices besides the current one,” added the officer. Officials said that the new devices would act as payment receiving stations for any challan or notice generated by any other device and issue receipts. This device, officials say, that would be small in size like a BlackBerry phone with a touch screen and stylus and would be attached with an compact printer to print challans in both English and Hindi. It would work in adverse weather conditions and would be able to receive/send small text SMS messages from and to the control server. The traffic cops may carry this device in their pouch and then fix it on their belt. The Delhi Traffic police already has a state-of-the-art control room with multimedia to track PCR vans fitted with GPS devices and the department also has installed CCTV cameras at major intersections to make Delhi’s traffic more smooth. The police are also planning a website for providing traffic-related services to the people.

BlackBerry has decided to open its showrooms in India. The decision has been taken by the Canadian multinational company Research in Motion (RIM) that manufactures BlackBerry handsets. This is the first time that the company has decided to open its dedicated showrooms in India anywhere outside United States and Canada. The decision comes despite the fact that RIM faced raging controversy over high security features that the company uses in its handsets. The Indian security agencies had asked the company to reduce the high level of encryption. Earlier Department of Telecommunication had asked the RIM to set up its local server in the country. This way it would have got more leverage over the company. But RIM had refused it as simply untenable. RIM had said that it will be very dangerous to lower the encryption level of the handsets as it will make it easier for hackers to hack into the important data of the Blackberry users. The company had said that lowering the encryption level will endanger the security of business data of its customers as it would allow easy access to hackers to users’ data. “Encryption with key lengths of 128 bits or longer protects business communications and online transactions from hackers, thieves and other wrongdoers. If escrowed keys ever fall into the wrong hands, individual businesses and consumers would be driven away from using the internet for private, commercial and confidential communications . A similar result would follow from the dumbing down of encryption to levels that fail to offer protection . Either would greatly disrupt the ability of information technology to contribute to India’s rapid productivity growth” Research in Motion is believed to have told the authorities. In another development the company had also said that it was being singled out by Department of Telecommunication (DoT) officials as there are several other companies providing similar services to customers with similar encryption level.

TO EACH TO HIS OWN

Sure BOSS. Your wish is my command

A supposed 2009 Blackberry Roadmap posted suggests that we'll not only be seeing the Curve 8900 next year, but also a touchscreen Bold and a Storm with a slide-out keyboard. It only says that the touchscreen Bold (9900, codename "Pluto") will maintain the same form factor and keyboard, and that the Storm slider is unconfirmed and targeted towards Europeans. which in addition to the aforementioned phones, also makes reference to HSPA and EV-DO versions of the 8900 (referred to as the 9220 and 8930, respectively), a 3G Kickstart, as well as an EV-DO/HSPA Bold.

It looks like Research in Motion is going to keep itself pretty busy next year, because this leaked roadmap for 2009 is pointing toward a few notable launches of new BlackBerry devices. Going a little further down the list, perhaps the two most notable mentions are that of a Touchscreen Bold 9900 "Pluto" and a Storm Slider. The touchscreen Bold will take on much the same form factor as the existing Bold 9000, except the display will be a touchscreen. We're expecting an announcement at 2009 WES with launches at AT&T and Rogers for about $199 to $299 with contract. The Storm Slider falls in line with products like the HTC Touch Pro. The BlackBerry Storm is the first touchscreen BlackBerry from RIM, but some people will still want a physical QWERTY keyboard. This is unconfirmed at this point, but we expect 3G, WiFi, and a Euro-centered release.

I could post the road map but outside links are not allowed here. Just google it.

MySpace for BlackBerry now available You can now download this new application onto your compatible BlackBerry device. Simply visit www.blackberry.com/myspace on your BlackBerry browser. Overview Get the premium mobile MySpace™ experience – designed for BlackBerry® smartphones - for free. Now the features you love can travel with you, so you can share events and experiences as they happen. Send and receive MySpace mail Update your Status and Mood View and send Bulletins Add comments Post your photos And much more.

Just called reliance CS and they said gsm services are launching on dec 15th in all major metros. I also asked them whether I can shift my 93 number to gsm. They said reliance gsm will be all 90 numbers

Since the application’s launch on November 13, 2008 there have been more than 400,000 downloads which represents an all-time high for both MySpace and RIM in terms of first week application downloads. Through the MySpace for BlackBerry® smartphones application, users collectively sent and received more than 15 million messages and updated their mood and status over two million times in the first week.

Being President of the USA will cost tech-savvy Barack Obama his 'Blackberry.' New York, November 16 If media reports here are to be believed then President-elect Obama, who is apparently addicted to Blackberry, will, in all probability, have to abandon the hi-tech gadget, before occupying the White House. In addition to concerns about the e-mail security, the New York Times says, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts all his correspondence, even personal, in the official record and ultimately up for public review, and the threat of subpoenas. Quoting Obama's aides who doubt his being the first e-mailing president of America, the paper said that the President-elect, however, seems intent on pulling the office at least partly into the 21st century. His aides told the Times that Obama hopes to have a laptop computer on his desk in the Oval Office, making him the first American president to do so. Although Obama has not sent a farewell dispatch from the personal e-mail account he uses he has not changed his address in years but friends say the frequency of correspondence has diminished. In recent days, though, he has been seen typing his thoughts on transition matters and other items on his BlackBerry, bypassing, at least temporarily, the bureaucracy that is quickly encircling him, the paper reported. Obama is the second president to grapple with the idea of this self-imposed isolation. Three days before his first inauguration, the Times reported, George W Bush had sent a message to 42 friends and relatives that explained his predicament.

Once a Blackberry user, always a Blackberry user

Vodafone has announced its plan to sell the BLACKBERRY STORM exclusively from next month in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand

19 Sep, 2008, 0908 hrs IST IndiaTimes Network Canadian company Research In Motion on Thursday said it will be launching its latest Blackberry smartphone in India over next two to three weeks at Rs 34,990 with three operators of the five it has a tie-up with. The launch of the latest and supposedly the Boldest Blackberry was announced by RIM's co-CEO Jim Balsillie in Mumbai on Thursday, thus indicating that the company is set to join the fight for the marketshare of top smartphone sales along with the likes of Nokia, Apple, Samsung and HTC. The latest Blackberry was globally launched barely three weeks ago. On paper, it has the features and chutzpah that can make it take on the Apple iPhone (priced at Rs 31,100 for a 8GB and Rs 36,100 for a 16GB model) and Nokia N96 (priced at Rs 35,000) in the Indian market. Blackberry Bold would be sold at an identical price by Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance and will be made commercially available to prospective customers from September end. While Airtel and Vodafone will be launching Bold towards September end, Reliance Communications will launch it a month later in October. No immediate plans were announced to retail the set through BPL Mobile and Tata Tele-services, which has become the fifth operator to start Blackberry services in India from Thursday. The presence of Jim Balsillie -- on his first visit to India -- indicates the high stakes the company has in the Indian market where it seems to be taking up the gauntlet thrown by Nokia and Apple. Balsillie is in India to take stock of the company’s virtually non-existent Indian setup, besides scouting for opportunities that could see RIM setting up a much larger research and development, manufacturing, logistics as well as support centre in the country. On Thursday, he said the company was keenly looking at starting manufacturing and logistics operations in the country, besides introducing some country-specific phones . "We plan to increase resources to manage Indian operations. We are developing a new India strategy that includes starting manufacturing and logistics operations in India. We are committed to some of the very special plans and programmes, and are working with our carrier partners," he said. In almost similar comments made during an interview with Indiatimes Infotech in March 2007, Balsillie had said RIM would soon set up its R&D and support operations in India. But the company developed cold feet thereafter.

Google has announced that they've just launched Google Mobile App for BlackBerry . It's a free download that you can get by visiting m.google.com from your BlackBerry's browser. Some of the Google Mobile App for BlackBerry features include: Fast Google search - enter queries without waiting for a browser to load Search history - easily access and amend your previous queries Google Suggest - complete queries with less typing Easy access to Google products for your phone - click once to download and install our applications for BlackBerry, and get immediate access to our web-based services Google Apps support - get direct links to your Google Apps Calendar and Documents/Spreadsheets (select Menu, Options, Use Google Apps Domain: yes, and then enter your domain name) Update alerts - learn about new versions of downloadable Google mobile applications and upgrade with just one click (Google Mobile App replaces Google Updater for BlackBerry)

MONTREAL — The BlackBerry is getting a new look as a flip phone, a design that its maker Research In Motion (TSX:RIM) hopes will appeal to the North American consumer market which seems to prefer the shape. Co-CEO Jim Balsillie said the new BlackBerry Pearl Flip is the company's first smartphone to deviate from the familiar rectangle shape. "I am not aware of another flip phone in the smartphone category," Balsillie told The Canadian Press in an interview. "I would expect, and that's just a personal expectation, that it would go more to the consumer market." Balsillie said about 70 per cent of cellphone users in the United States use flip phones, a market he said is underserved by RIM in the smartphone category. "The flip is traditionally more of a consumer-preferred form factor. We will see soon enough. We have no doubt that it's an underserved market." While he didn't have any figures available for flip phone use in Canada, Balsillie expects its use would parallel the U.S. situation. In Canada, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip will run exclusively on the Rogers Wireless (TSX:RCI. GSM network. Photos and details of the BlackBerry flip phone were revealed on the Internet at the beginning of May with the Boy Genius Report website reporting at the time the design and functions of the new flip phone and that it would be out in the fall. Balsillie said the phone could also appeal to business users, but it will be a choice because "form factor is a personal thing." The new clamshell smartphone has the familiar BlackBerry function of secure push email. It can be used to make calls, browse the Internet, take a picture, watch a video or listen to music. It's also Wi-Fi enabled and has all functions of a smartphone. It has a hinge that separates the keyboard from the screen to maximize space for the Suretype keyboard and trackball. The new phone is the successor to the BlackBerry Pearl, which launched two years ago. Both models have 20 keys and double up some letters on each key, in contrast to the wider, more professionally oriented models that have more keys and assign only one letter to each key. But Balsillie, who was speaking on his BlackBerry Bold, said the "guts are the same. It's still a BlackBerry." BlackBerry and competitor Apple, maker of the iPhone, are often compared and it's generally noted they are each trying to compete in the consumer and business markets. But, Balsillie said RIM has more than 50 per cent of the smartphone market in the United States. "The one consistency is that they always get defined vis a vis BlackBerry," Balsillie said of his competitors. RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky wrote a research note on the flip phone last May when it was only a rumour. "It shows RIM is unafraid of reinventing itself to target competitive opportunities," Abramsky wrote at the time. "In our view, RIM is positioning itself for significantly larger market opportunities beyond its traditional base," he wrote. Abramsky had said the flip phone would be aimed at North American consumers and go head-to-head with mass market phone vendors such as Motorola or Samsung. "The clamshell BlackBerry is likely aimed at expanding Blackberry's addressable consumer market opportunity."