RIM has finally brought the BlackBerry Bold told to South Korea, with a little help from SK Telecom. A localized version of the BlackBerry Bold smartphone will be available here, starting this week. The region had almost banned all foreign handsets being promoted by local carriers, but now it’s all over.

Of course, the local faves are still undoubtedly LG, Pantech and Samsung. So we are not yet sure about how well a device with an English QWERTY keyboard might fare out here. But then it’s always good to have some more competition, right, folks?

SK Telecom BlackBerry Bold

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This past week we saw unofficial updates for the BlackBerry Bold and Curve 8900 smartphones to bring the devices up to OS 5.0. So it comes as no surprise that BlackBerry Desktop Manager 5.0 has also now shown up on the web.

CrackBerry has provided a download link for Desktop Manager 5. At first glance, this looks fairly close to an official release. To download and install for yourself, visit this link. Please let us know if you encounter any problems or issues during the download or installation process. And as always with these unofficial leaks, use at your own risk!

BlackBerry Desktop Manager 5.0

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Pandora and IHeartRadio are now active on select BlackBerry smartphones. Though neither are functional on T-Mobile, both work well on any other BlackBerry Bold, Curve and Pearl handhelds.

IHeartRadio on BlackBerry

The BlackBerry Storm might also be included in the “coming soon” list, at least as far as Pandora is concerned. For those who are already aware of this news and have tried it out, do drop in your feedback here.

Pandora BlackBerry

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RIM and DOCOMO recently announced that the BlackBerry Bold smartphone is now available with DOCOMO corporate and other retail outlets, all across the nation, in Japan. The BlackBerry Bold smartphone has been designed especially for business professionals and other power users. It gives users a combination of both functionality and performance, thanks to the high-speed 3G network. It also offers the user a fantastic mobile experience, along with support for global roaming.

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone also offers industry-leading messaging and email capabilities, full-fledged organizer, powerful multimedia functionalities, fast Web browsing and full access to a wide variety of mobile business and lifestyle applications as well. This handheld from DOCOMO features a novel QWERTY keyboard with Japanese text input support, GPS, Wi-Fi and optional 2MP camera with video recording. Additionally, the new device also offers the BlackBerry Media Sync application, which allows users to synchronize iTunes with the smartphone.

BlackBerry Bold