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The Tour! After waiting months to hear about it, we got official announcements a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, pricing and release dates were missing. That changed this week, as both Verizon and Sprint announced that they will release the device on July 12 for $199.99, after a mail-in rebate. There’s plenty to say about the Tour, so listen on.

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Every so often here, we go over BlackBerry quick tips, little tidbits that can make your BlackBerry life easier. Some of these are more advanced, but we also like to go over the basics. Today is one of those instances. In searching through the site yesterday, I realized we didn’t have a bit on how to delete applications from your BlackBerry. So after the jump we’ll go through the basic process.

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Last time we met for our bi-weekly theme review, we covered a number of Storm themes. Those tend to get neglected, so the post dedicated to just Storm themes made sense. To balance things a bit we’re going with some Curve themes this week, for all of you OS 4.5ers out there. Next time we’ll hit some Curve 8900 and Bold themes. The Tour should be out around then, and you can bet we’ll do up a bunch of themes for that, too. We should also probably work on some reviews for Pearl themes. After Storm users, I think they’re the most neglected of the BlackBerry users.

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Wow. It’s been over a year since we first reviewed YouMail, a free visual voicemail service. A lot has happened since then, and we’ve reviewed plenty more in that time. Earlier this year the company released a BlackBerry application, but it wasn’t met with positive reviews. In fact, many die-hard users recommended VyMail for YouMail usage. YouMail then updated their client, and all seemed right with the visual voicemail world. Yet there was still an issue or two to work out. YouMail has now addressed and corrected one of them involving the greetings feature.

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For the past nine months, I’ve been a BlackBerry Curve evangelist. This isn’t out of duty to the website. In fact, I was a bit underwhelmed with my first two BlackBerry models, a second-hand 8700 and then the 8830 World Edition. Not that they weren’t good devices; they got the job done better than any device I’d used to that point. When I got the Curve, though, I had a completely different view of the BlackBerry. It appears other share my enthusiasm, since the Curve was the best-selling smartphone in the first quarter of this year. Today I’m going to share my top five accessories, just for the other BlackBerry Curve geeks out there.

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Last time we checked in on the BOLT browser, we saw a few upgrades, mostly in the way of streamlining device function. As many noted upon the first private release, scrolling was way, way too slow. Not only did Bitstream, developers of BOLT, address this immediately, but they’ve seemingly made improvements in all subsequent updates. This is true, though to a lesser extent, of their latest release, Beta3. It’s available now. After the jump, we’ll go over the upgrades.

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Great news for Viigo users out there: the company has upgraded to Tango 9, which brings along a number of long-awaited upgrades. The new release furthers Viigo as the “everything” application for the BlackBerry. Where it was once an RSS reader, it is now an all-in-one source of information and entertainment. The new version brings an upgrade we’ve been clamoring for since WES 2008: Podcasts. Check out that, plus all of the other new features, after the jump.

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A couple of big smartphone releases took the spotlight over the past week: the Palm Pre and the Apple iPhone. That doesn’t mean we’re going to forget about BlackBerry, though. You might read in the media that the iPhone and Pre are going to do some damage, but just remember that the media feeds on narrative, and the narrative changes constantly.

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Starting with OS 4.5, Documents To Go, a BlackBerry version of the Microsoft Office suite, has been standard on BlackBerry smartphones. They’re not just giving away the software, though. The standard version comes on the phone, while Documents To Go Premium Edition costs $69.99. This provides key features unavailable in the standard version, including the ability to create new documents and spreadsheets. Michael at BerryReview thinks that $70 is a bit much for an upgrade, and I agree. Thankfully, he also provides a workaround of sorts to access some advanced features. It’s not perfect, but it’s something to check out on a summer Friday.

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Feeling overloaded with BlackBerry news and rumors? We know the feeling. We hear new things almost every day, and it can be tough to keep up with it all. that’s why we’re bringing you BlackBerry News from the Wire every Thursday.

We’ll catch you up on everything ‘Berry that happened over the course of the week. Not only that, but we’ll rank ‘em by importance, so you can more easily skim the items and read the ones of most significance. If you only have time to read one article, for instance, you might want to head down to our 5-star section. It’s All the BlackBerry News Fit to Geek.

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