The 2009 CES is bringing in a lot of good news for all of us techie freaks. The latest buzz is that Sling Media Inc. has announced that the beta release of SlingMedia Mobile on select BlackBerry smartphones from RIM (Research In Motion). SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry smartphones is now available to Slingbox customers in the UK, the US and Canada. What is more, this can be downloaded free of cost during the public beta period.

SlingPlayer Mobile, which requires BlackBerry Device Software 4.5 or greater, gives the user an amazing home TV experience of local channels, news and events, pay per view and so on, right on his BlackBerry smartphone, employing a standard network 3G Cellular, WiFi connection. In addition to this, SlingPlayer Mobile lets the user manipulate his home digital video recorder and play them as per his preferences.

The list of BlackBerry smartphones that are supported in the beta version are the BlackBerry Bold, Curve 8900, 8820, Curve 8320, Pearl Flip 8220 and Pearl 8120. You can download SlingMedia Mobile at http://mobile.slingmedia.com, from your BlackBerry browser.

BlackBerry Curve 8900

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The giant European carrier Orange is in dilemma as its undecided on whether it should discontinue the Bold from its lineup due to several unresolved and ongoing “technical issues”. Orange employees who have been heavily involved with this issues state that the Bold has the highest return in its category. In October Orange momentarily relinquished sales of the Bold due to a high occurrence of dropped calls, crashes and piss-poor performance. However, after a better structured OS release from RIM was in place, Bold sales continued as they had left off.

The way it’s seen is if Orange officially decided to pull the Bold from its lineup then it would most likely remain invisible to consumers for the remainder of its marketable lifetime, thus this would cause RIM some hardship as Orange is one of the largest handset provider and carrier within Europe and other underlining countries. Good luck to Oranges Bold and we hope RIM and Orange can come to an agreement in order to properly address this issue.

BlackBerry Bold 9000

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Yahoo! has recently made their Go application version 3.0.47 compatible with the all new sleek BlackBerry Bold. This bold new leap (pun intended) to make this application compatible with the Bold is one of faith as more and more users have started to explore Yahoo! Go possibilities. Yahoo! Go claims to give its users “The Best Internet Experience for you Phone”, now that sounds like a catchy marketing phrase, but can it live up to the same standards it holds itself up to is the question.

This nifty application allows you to send emails, upload photos, go though maps, check current stock prices, find breaking news and more, all this is said to be done from this one handy app.

You can scoop up Yahoo! Go by clicking the following LINK. If you have the BlackBerry bold all you have to do is insert it from your Bold’s Internet browser! That should be it!

Yahoo! Go Now Available for the BlackBerry Bold

MTN has announced the BlackBerry Bold smartphone which is available through MTN dealers in South Africa. MTN subscribers can subscribe to unlimited email and web browsing when using the BlackBerry Internet Service on the new MTN AnyTime packages from as little as R60 per month.

BlackBerry Bold is an amazing smartphone which supports tri-band HSDPA high-speed networks around the world and comes packed with integrated GPS and Wi-Fi. Bold features its most famous QWERTY keyboard, a 2 megapixel camera with video recording capability and preloaded with DataViz most famous application Documents to Go.

BlackBerry Bold Desktop Manager includes Roxio Media Manager for managing music and videos as well as Roxio Photosuite 9 LE for creating photo albums. BlackBerry Bold comes with 128 MB Flash memory plus 1 GB on-board storage memory and that’s not all, Bold’s enhanced browser supports high-resolution and ultra-bright display give a joyous browsing experience.

BlackBerry Bold 9000