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According to official information, BlackBerry Bold 9780 will be available in “many operators around the world since November,” BlackBerry Bold 9780 which is basically an update BlackBerry Bold 9700 with the new operating system BlackBerry 6 and some hardware upgrades.

As a result, we would expect further price reduction on BlackBerry Bold 9700 to make way for the enhanced Bold. On the device itself, the Bold 9780 doesn’t differ much compared to the 9700 that it replaces. The only difference is improved camera, increase on-board memory to 512MB and it runs on the newer BlackBerry 6 OS.

Specification:
•BlackBerry OS 6
•GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
•850/900/1900/2100MHz UMTS
•GPRS / EDGE / UMTS / HSDPA
•WiFi
•109mm x 60mm x 14mm
•122 grams
•Battery 1500 mAh
•2.44-inch VGA screen TFT (480 x 360 pixel)
•5 megapixel camera
•IMAP/POP/Exchange
•Bluetooth Stereo
•512MB
•MicroSD card slot up to 32GB and includes a 2GB
•aGPS navigation
•3.5mm audio jack
•Micro

So, are you a blackberry phone user, which feature you’re looking forward to the most!

The Blackberry PlayBook has a 1,024×600 pixel, 7-inch display, which is smaller than the iPad’s 9.7-inch screen. It includes both a front-facing and a rear-facing camera, and a 1GHz dual-core processor. The initial models will offer Wi-Fi-only connectivity, but RIM has said it plans to offer 3G and 4G models in the future. And unlike the iPad, the PlayBook will support Adobe Flash.

The PlayBook may be available through retail stores such as Best Buy and Target as well as from mobile carriers, Balsillie told Bloomberg. Following its North American debut, the tablet will be released elsewhere in the second quarter. South Korea will be one of the first countries on that list.

Watch this space or follow our twitter feed for latest updates, thank you.

According to Bloomberg, RIM will start selling the 7? BlackBerry Playbook in North America in Q1 2011 under US$500 (arround RM1550 based on local currency today). According to RIM, the Playbook pricing is competitively priced against Apple’s iPad which starts from US$499. We can only hope that BlackBerry Malaysia will make it more affordable than the Galaxy Tab which retails at RM2699 for outright purchase.

It is too early to tell how well iPad’s real competitors will fare at the moment. The Samsung Galaxy Tab has just launched and the Playbook has yet to make an appearance. The new tablet rivals would also need to prepare themselves for a new iPad which is expected to offer newer features and a possible price reduction. So far the major differenciator for the tablet now are screen size & flash support. Looks like 2011 would be an interesting year for tablet wars.

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Last week there was a lot of speculation on the Nexus Two which is rumoured to be developed by Samsung. Now a new story by a Korean news site had reported Samsung denying such speculation and rubbishs the mock design above as nothing but a rumour.

With their November 8th media event, it’s now believed that the new device is more likely the new Samsung Galaxy S based Continuum that comes with a dedicated 2nd screen for time and various status.

However that doesn’t mean that a Samsung developed successor of the Nexus Two is impossible. We would just have to wait and see if there are more sightings or possible leaks on the rumoured device.

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Steve Jobs has been busy bitching about Android lately and he certainly has a good reason to brag. The official figures for iPhone have been revealed with a massive 14.1 million units sold by Q4. This is huge jump of 91% over the same period last year. Last quarter they managed to sell 8.4 million units.

According to MobileCrunch.com, At the end of the last quarter, Apple had shipped just shy of 60 million units, with 59,550,000 handsets (or so) sold. Add on Q4?s 14.1 million, and that the grand total at right around 73.5 million iPhones.

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