As you might have tried, charging a Blackberry phone on PC requires installation of RIM drivers, which of course come only with whole download of desktop manager, which weights at heavy 90 megabytes!

We love to provide solutions for our readers, and as we did with our automated searcher for latest version of firmware/software for your blackberry model here (we also suggest you read the upgrading guide), we also found a solution for USB charging on PC with no Blackberry desktop manager installed…

As a solution to this nuisance, we offer you download of USB only driver for Blackberry. This will allow your PC to properly recognize the phone and charge it thru USB connection. Read the full article on charging blackberry phone thru USB and find a download link here.

First pictures and data leaked on Blackberry’s next device – Storm… While we published some news on RIM’s iPhone “clone” few months ago, this new information shows that Storm is closer to completion than thought before. From what we learned Storm will be available by mid November in Europe (Vodafone) and US (Verizon). AT&T will probably stay loyal to iPhone 3G/3,5G as shows their internal document.

So, what is Storm bringing to the table? Storm will be available in two models – GSM only, and EVDO/CDMA version. It looks like Storm will not have tri-band HSDPA, and all favorite Wi-Fi radio is also among missing. There was a lot of speculation about interface, and whether Storm will support multi-touch as Apple’s iPhone does. But with Storm, you will still be able to sync your BlackBerry with DRM-free music in iTunes which means saving a couple of dollars in music stores…

As seen on the photos, the keyboard-less slick new interface for the BlackBerry Storm looks promising, and of course very much like iPhone’s. Is RIM entering a battle with Apple? Overall feeling is that iPhone is for play only and BlackBerry is for business. Is merging of the two concepts possible? Storm will definitely tell.

The resolution on the screen is quite nice but many noticed, that the interface, looks too much like a text only Blackberry. The calendar, email, and browser look incredibly text-based for a touch screen device, where one would expect a lot of heavy graphics, More on Blackberry Storm Coming Soon to a store near you

Blackberry maker RIM, is moving away from its traditional phone design, and will soon unviel a phone that can fold in half. New phone that will be officially released later today will sell under a name of Blackberry Pearl Flip. It’s availability is limited to US and T-Mobile, but we expect it on worldwide markets by end of october. Flips' unique feature is that it can place calls over Wi-Fi.

Pearl Flip replaces the original Pearl, which was with us for two years. Pearl was one of RIM’s more successful phones, as it was the first model to enter consumer smart-phone mass market. Both phones have 20 keys and double letters on eacy key.

Recent IDC study showed that RIM ownes more that 53,6% of US smart phones market in Q2/2008.

Although earlier reports described two or three different models of phones, it is now clear that all this fuss is just for one and only phone model. Dubbed the "iphone clone" the 9530 is first Blackberry phone with display covering almost whole front side. While all details are still not clear (RIM should introduce 9530 in October), a leaked box picture can tell us a lot…

As you can read on the box phone comes equipped with an 8GB microSD card pre-installed, 3.5mm headset jack, pre-installed SIM card. We can now confirm that advanced features like Wi-Fi are not present.

Here is the break down on that: the BlackBerry Storm is for Verizon, and the BlackBerry Thunder is the name for the device on other carriers such a Rogers and Vodafone. Different names for the same device hint on some eqclusivity deals with mobile operators, but generally it is not a good practice we would judge…

More info on Engadget

Are you using Google Talk application on your Blackberry? What about Yahoo messenger? Do you have contacts on other networks as well – like ICQ, AIM, MSN?

Blackberry is promising MSN IM client for quite some time, but still nothing… Alternative is of course commercial application, like very capable and nice IM+, but at $90 it is not the cheapest application around… On PC end we have some choice even in this department, although many use good old free Trillian which does the trick nicely. And paying for something, that should be free – well, that’s another story.

Today we will show you a trick, where you can start communicating with your other IM contacts thru free blackberry application Google Talk! Read on.

We have written an complete overview on WHY and WHEN to update your Blackberry device, and also HOW to do it. 

As you know Blackberry devices run operating system (OS) developed by RIM. This OS is frequently updated by RIM, to include updates on minor bug fixes and additions of new features and functions.

We offer free tool for easy finding latest OS version for your Blackberry ,no matter which model you have. 

If is very positive that RIM also supports older models of Blackberry phones, and it is not suprisingly that new versions of OS are also available for three years or older models.

To know more, read complete overview on WHY and WHEN to update your Blackberry device. 

Below you can find samples of 10 photos and 1 video taken with Blackberry Bold. In phone camera is only 2 megapixels, and its quality is not among the highest… But still in my opinion, photos are better than those taken with Curve.

Outside motives – with sun and enough brightness are pretty decent, while photos taken inside, even with Bold’s white led flash – leave much to be desired…

Click images to get full-size Bold’s photo files.

Photos taken outside – on sunny day

More on Blackberry Bold - Photo and Video quality – samples!

It's new Blackberry. It's Blackberry Bold. After three years in making, RIM finally launched all new Blackberry device, and for the first time in company's history it is a 3G phone! Bold is a major step up for RIM, as on one side it continues evolution from 88xx series, and on the other side is bringing new technologies to the table.

Since this is RIM's first take on 3G, we were especially curious, how phone will work in this environment. As you know by now, we had to wait for final OS before publishing this review - so we had enough time to test device with new patches, and recheck some of more problematic scenarios…

All in all we can say that BOLD is here, and is here to stay… Click here to read full review on blackberry Bold!

We got our Blackberry Bold few weeks ago, (approx. the same time as Boy Genious - which posted excellent review here - see date on picture and EXIM), but since we promised our source to wait until official OS build, that fixed all known bugs, we are breaking the news these days… This finally happened yesterday, as we received this email from RIM:

Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 15:28 +0100
From: not-telling-you@rim.com
Subject: RE: when to publish bold review

Hi,

As you know our Bold was delayed until today!

No one from the press did get a review sample up to this minute as we
had to wait for our final software. I am currently getting our devices
being updated tomorrow or on Wednesday and from there I can start
sending them out.

So today or tomorrow we will be flashing our Bold with latest OS, and then wrap up the review (it is mostly written, but we have to check whether new OS fixes or changes something in a dramatic way)… So expect our review here in next few days. As we also made over 100 photos so far, be sure to install PicLens plugin for your browser, so get best experience! We will include a comparison photos with our old lab rat, 8820…