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Just when I thought we were through with this story, the 9700 gets thrown in the mix during Apple’s press conference.  Personally I really am through with this story, but have had some fun anyway trying to make the bars on my Bold 9700 jump up and down.  Oh what a busy life I lead… For those of you who’ve tried in vain to replicate the Steve Jobs demo: If you attempted this in a well lit-up area for network coverage or in a building with cell repeaters scattered on every floor – it probably ain’t gonna happen.

So today Apple held a Press Conference to talk about the Antenna problem that the iPhone4 is having.

Well its been a few hours after the Apple iPhone4 Press Conference and after Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that all Smartphones, including the BlackBerry Bold 9700, have the same antenna issue when you hold the phones with the same death grip.

HedoneDesign is the Mobihand Theme Throwdown 2010 winner, and it’s no wonder considering some of the great themes they’ve created. To thank passionate BlackBerry customers for their support and to celebrate the award, HedoneDesign and the Berry Reporter Store are offering up a great deal – 11 of their most popular themes for only $1.99, that’s $5 off the regular price! This amazing discount only runs until Wednesday, July 14th, so get to the Berry Reporter Store now to check out these amazing themes. Many of the HedoneDesign themes feature DFK (Double Function Keyboard), which provides access to many functions via specific key combinations.

We’ve seen plenty of videos lately covering new handsets and even a few showing off some of the new OS 6 features, though we have yet to see a whole lot of the upcoming WebKit browser.

Recently if you have been watching and listening to what people have been saying about Research in Motion you know that people haven’t had too many kind words for the BlackBerry maker.  A lot of people are saying that RIM is falling behind the game of other Smartphone makers.  RIM, in many people’s eyes needs to do something fast about this public perception

I received my second BlackBerry ever this week in the mail and I am so far, pretty impressed, however there are some issues that I am sure the more recent BlackBerry phones take care of.

The boys over at BGR spotted this one and it makes me want a 8900 already.

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With yesterday’s big announcement of the BlackBerry Bold 9650, the only other thing that we need was to hear the release date for the carriers. Well right on the heals of it being made official, Sprint announces that it will be releasing this device on May 23rd. Check out the press release for more details