BlackBerry has unveiled its newest touchscreen smartphone called BlackBerry Torch 9800 running on its latest BlackBerry 6 OS. BlackBerry Torch features a 3.2" 360×480 capacitive touch screen display with a 35 key full QWERTY backlit vertical slide-out keyboard. This is the first device from BlackBerry to run on its latest BlackBerry 6 OS and it is powered by a powerful 624 Mhz processor with 512 MB Flash memory. Torch has a 5 MP camera with flash and can do video recording at up to 640×480 resolution.

RIM has announced that it will be updating its servers to BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) 3.0 on between 2AM and 6AM EDT on Sunday, March 28th. So BlackBerry users will be out of service during this time. BIS 3.0 has good enhancements like 2-way Gmail sync, the ability to add/delete Gmail labels, support for .wma and OpenOffice files and more.

yfrog makers of video and image sharing site for Twitter have released 2 new apps: yfrog for Blackberry and yfrog for Android. With these apps you will able to easily share photos and videos on Twitter directly from your Android or BlackBerry phone and the best thing about these apps is that they are available for free.
yfrog App for Android Features

Tweet images and video to twitter
View tweets
View followers and people you’re following
View messages and mentions
Search Twitter
Queue multiple uploads
Included GPS location with …

Seesmic a provider of web and desktop applications has ventured into Mobile application space, by developing apps for Android and Blackberry phones. For Blackberry it has released a fully featured Twitter Application.
Features:

Seesmic for Blackberry allows you to group all twitter timelines into the same app. With just one click away from the main menu, you can check saved search, view a list or find a private conversation with a friend or scroll through your friends timeline.
Seesmic for Blackberry provides native application like interface for the twitter streams …

One of the most popular radio applications for the Blackberry phones, the Slacker radio app has been updated to version 2.0.2. Recently a Blackberry Storm version of the application was released and well received. Version 2.0.2 includes a variety of bug fixes and enhancements.

BoyGeniusReport has revealed that their sources at VZW confirm a new OS, 4.7.0.148 for the BlackBerry storm 9530, will be released on Sunday, May 31st at 3pm. According to Verizon, this is a “general maintenance release that improves the overall user experience.”
People who are very frustrated with the current buggy version of the OS can directly go to blackberry.com/update after that time to get the software update. For users with a less urgent desire to upgrade their Blackberry Storm OS, a rolling OTA upgrade (Options> Advanced Options > Wireless Updates) …

During the WES 2009 held at the beginning of this month, one of the applications that grabbed a lot of attention was the Gwabbit for BlackBerry which is an application that help business users manage their large database of email contacts.
gwabbit automatically scans incoming BlackBerry emails, finds contacts, and instantly transforms them into contact records within your address book with a single click!

Over the next few months, there is going to be some fierce battle between the smartphone devices like Palm Pre releasing on 6th June, iPhone next gen expected to release on June 8th, Blackberry storm 2 and the Nokia N97 for the title of the top touchscreen smartphone. While not all of these four smartphones have been officially announced, rumors have been flying around for weeks anticipating the new Apple iPhone and the second iteration of the BlackBerry Storm. And there are enough leaks out there to put head to …

According to a new report from the market research firm Gartner, Smartphone sales surpassed 36.4 million units in the first quarter of 2009, a 12.7 per cent increase from the same period last year. This in spite of worldwide mobile phone sales decreased by 8.6 per cent as compared to the first quarter of 2008.
iPhone saw its share of the smartphone market more than double year-over-year for the first quarter of 2009. Apple’s share jumped to 10.8% in the quarter, compared with its 5.3% share in the first quarter of …

In an interview at the WES 2009 (The Wireless Enterprise Symposium 2009), Nickel Buddy the developers of high quality Mobile device applications and games, announced that they will soon be introducing the first tower defense game for the BlackBerry. And sure enough they have now release the Field Towers BlackBerry Storm Game.