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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.

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

According to research firm IDC Research In Motion makes its first appearance among the top five vendors worldwide, with total shipments surpassing those of Motorola by nearly 2 million units. Research In Motion is the only vendor in the top 5 with a singular focus on smartphones, and as a result, the company enjoys the highest average selling prices within that group. Key to its success in the first quarter was the popularity of its BlackBerry Curve 8520 and BlackBerry Bold 9700 across multiple markets as well as its global prepaid offerings

Techdigest.tv tell as that Vodafone will start sell the BlackBerry Pearl 3G in the UK.

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

For all of you twitter users that is waiting to get your hands on the BlackBerry twitter client, well tonight is going to be a good night for you. I just recieved an email stating that the Twitter for BlackBerry client will be available in Public Beta for users around the world to check out. Here is the email message: The Twitter® for BlackBerry® smartphone application is about to go into public beta

A few weeks ago Verizon Wireless announced that Skype Mobile would be coming soon for their customers. Well we don’t have to wait to much longer.  BlackBerry users with the BlackBerry Storm 9530, Storm2 9550, Curve 8330, Curve 8530 , 8830 World Edition and Tour 9630 smartphones will be able to get in on this download. This is pretty big since you will be able to make Skype calls to other skype users without affecting there minutes

DriveCarefully and Listen to your email, SMS and PIN messages on your BlackBerry® smartphone with your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road.

RIM will start producing smartphones in Brazil.