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CES 2009: BlackBerry Booth gallery, impressionsToday

While CES isn’t exactly a mecca for BlackBerry news, BlackBerry Cool is still dedicated to bringing you the latest from Las Vegas. Taking a break from roaming the strip and pretending to be Amy Winehouse, Power User Nan Palmero has finally made it to RIM’s CES booth, and has regaled us with photos and impressions.

Hit the jump to see what goodies the BlackBerry Booth brought to CES 2009 and don’t forget to post a comment if you want Nan to sniff something out.

SlingBox announcement was excellent. Zeemote really does help make the BlackBerry more fun, too!
–RIM has about 10 pods with three vendors at each, making it the most applications I’ve seen at a BlackBerry Booth yet. Here’s a quick list: Zeemote, EA, flycast, etrade mobile, ilane, nobex, slingbox, viigo, dipdive, glu, unify4life, NIM, ticketmaster, associated press, poynt, slacker, mobitv, gameloft, WSJ, schlage, pageonce.
–RIM is demoing the following BlackBerrys: BlackBerry Pearl (in a variety of colors), Pearl Flip, BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Curve 8900, a pink BlackBerry 8330 from VZW, Sprint’s 8350i and some T-Mo/AT&T Curves. The BlackBerry 8900 is looking awesome

Bplay launches Deep Blue 2.0 BlackBerry ThemeToday

Popular BlackBerry entertainment brand Bplay has released their first BlackBerry theme of the new year: Deep Blue 2.0. Deep Blue 2.0 is similar to the original Deep Blue, but is now animated, giving it that high-tech, 2009 feel! Click the link below to download Deep Blue 2.0. (unfortunately not compatible with the BlackBerry 8830).

Download Deep Blue 2.0. BlackBerry Theme

© Douglas Soltys for BlackBerry Cool, 2009

Homes for Sale launches for BlackBerryToday

Press Release

Smarter Agent launches their touted application on Blackberry

January 9, 2008 (Philadelphia, PA) – For the users of Blackberry devices, an exciting and interactive carrier-approved application has been added to the download list. Smarter Agent, the company that invented and patented the mobile location-aware real estate search, announced today that their Homes for Sale mobile application is now live on select Blackberry devices on all major carriers. Unlike other cell phone models, Homes for Sale is a free download for Blackberry.

Not only is Homes for Sale the first consumer-based real estate application that is available for download for the Blackberry, but it is also the only real estate application on Blackberry that is personally branded to brokers and agents for distribution to their clients.

The application can be downloaded to a consumer’s cell phone for FREE by visiting www.smarteragent.com/blackberry.

The Homes for Sale application allows consumers to search for properties directly from their Blackberry using GPS technology (where available) or by entering in a city, state, address or zi

Poynt now available for the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220Today

You might remember us last talking about Poynt during the BlackBerry Developer Conference, when we interviewed Peter Werry about Multiplied’s free local search service for BlackBerry. Poynt was a grand prize winner in the BlackBerry Developer Challenge.

Multiplied has announced today that their latest version of Poynt comes equipped with support for the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220. You can download the latest version of Poynt at the link below. Go nuts!

Download Poynt for BlackBerry

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© BlackBerry Cool for BlackBerry Cool, 2009

Bharti Airtel and RIM Launch the New BlackBerry Pearl Flip in IndiaToday

Press Release

Mumbai, India - Airtel and Research In Motion today announced the launch of the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone in India. Priced at Rs.21990 the smartphone is now available at Airtel authorized channels nationally.

“The BlackBerry Pearl Flip is a powerful, compact smartphone equipped to deliver a wide range of applications,” said Mr. Sanjay Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer, Mobile Services, Airtel. “This continues to reinforce our commitment to enhance and deliver the best communication experience to our users with the latest BlackBerry smartphones from Airtel.”

The new BlackBerry Pearl Flip smartphone harnesses the power of the BlackBerry platform and packs a wide range of useful features into a sleek flip design. Its spacious keyboard allows easy typing and dialing and the flip design opens to a large, vibrant internal display and provides the satisfying finality of ending a call by closing the phone. Customers will also appreciate the smartphone’s external display for previewing calendar reminders, email, text messages and phone calls at a glance.

The combination of RIM’s powerful mobile email solution and rich multimedia capabilities, together with support for text messaging, picture messaging, enhanced Web bro