November 18th, 2009 
BBerryNews 
The TELUS BlackBerry Storm2 9550 is now available. You can pick it up for $199.99 CA on a 3-year service agreement.
New on the BlackBerry Storm2 are SurePress toucescreen technology which is much more responsive the TruePress introduced on the original Storm. The Storm2 also has Wi-Fi and support for 3D graphics acceleration.
For more information, check out TELUS’ site…
TELUS Launches The BlackBerry Storm2 is a post from: RIMarkable
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Tags: 3d Graphics, Blackberry, Fi, Graphics Acceleration, Information Check, Telus 
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As many of you may already know, memory has been a point of contention for BlackBerry users for quite some time. To get straight to the point, there simply isn’t enough of it. Sure, the newest devices have 16 gig media cards and 2 gigs of internal memory, but, you really only have 256 MB of application space. Once you factor in the OS you are probably only talking about a 100 MB or so from which to install and run applications and if you don’t have a BlackBerry Storm2 or better, the problem is dramatically worse.
The big hit at the BlackBerry Developer’s Conference this week was OpenGL ES which brings 3D graphics support to BlackBerry applications. Starting with the BlackBerry Storm2 and the BlackBerry Curve 8530, developers are going to deliver applications and games that rival what you see on the the iPhone. The problem for RIM, however, is that 3D graphics take up space. They take up a lot of space and the BlackBerrys antiquated way of handling memory is going to be a huge bottleneck.
BlackBerry App World’s ability to archive rarely used applications and store them on your media card allowing you to reclaim that precious application memory is great feature, but, it gets really old really quick when you have do it with apps you use regularly simply because you are out of memory.
RIM needs to fix this…
What Will RIM Do About Memory Problems On The BlackBerry? is a post from: RIMarkable
Posted in RIMarkable Tags: 3d Graphics, Application Memory, Application Space, Blackberry Applications, Blackberry Curve, Bottleneck, Developers, Games, Gig, Gigs, Graphics Support, Internal Memory, Iphone, Media Cards, Memory Problems, Point Of Contention, Quite Some Time, Rim, Storm2, Straight To The Point Comments Off November 12th, 2009 BBerryNews 
The hottest device coming out of Research in Motion right now is the BlackBerry Bold 9700. The hottest news coming out of Research in Motion is OpenGL (3D graphics) support. The BlackBerry Bold 970o, unfortunately, doesn’t support OpenGL.
The question to you is does the Bold 9700 still sound just as hot?
Currently, only the BlackBerry Storm2 and the BlackBerry Curve 8530 support OpenGL ES. RIM has stated that new CDMA BlackBerry devices with Qualcomm chipsets going forward will support OpenGL as well. I am sure that GSM devices will eventually get it, but, how long will they have to wait?
At least for a short time, there will clearly be a case of the haves and the have nots when it comes to application support.
Does The Lack Of OpenGL Support Make You Want To Hold Off On The BlackBerry 9700? is a post from: RIMarkable
Posted in RIMarkable Tags: 3d Graphics, Application Support, Blackberry Curve, Blackberry Device, Blackberry Rim, Cdma, Chipsets, Gsm Devices, Hot, Hottest News, Motion Graphics, Nots, Qualcomm, Research In Motion, Short Time, Storm2, Support Opengl Comments Off November 12th, 2009 BBerryNews 
The BlackBerry Curve 8530, which has been announced from Sprint, will come with OpenGL support. This is going to be huge for the device as it will bring some really slick applications which compelling UIs and 3D graphics.
The news comes as we recently got clarification from RIM that CDMA devices with OS 5 and the latest Qualcomm chipsets, will all ship with OpenGL support.
So not only will you be able to get the 8530 in Black, Royal Purple and Red, but it looks like you will also be able to get some awesome games like Super Monkey Ball (not confirmed).
© Kyle for BlackBerry Cool, 2009
Posted in BlackBerry Cool Tags: 3d Graphics, Blackberry Curve, Clarification, Games, Monkey Ball, Opengl, Qualcomm, Rim, Royal Purple, Sprint, Uis Comments Off
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