LONDON, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading high street mobile retailer Phones 4u today announced that the BlackBerry® Pearl(TM) 3G in white will be available from July 17th nationwide and will be free for customers on selected monthly tariffs only at Phones 4u.

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Networks In Motion (NIM), the creator of Gokivo and the award-winning global wireless navigation, hyper-local search and location-based services (LBS) company, today announced it is expanding Gokivo support for BlackBerry(R) smartphones to international markets with support for the UK, Western Europe and Canada.* The company said owners of the BlackBerry(R) Bold(TM), and BlackBerry(R) Curve(TM) 8900 smartphones, can now download Gokivo directly to their handsets from BlackBerry App World(TM).

Research In Motion has announced that Telefonica will introduce its BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220, the first BlackBerry smartphone to come in flip form factor, in Spain.

By Edward C. Baig Business or pleasure? Ask BlackBerry owners why they carry the gadgets, and most will say business. BlackBerrys have a solid reputation for helping road warriors stay on top of e-mail.

Those who don't mind carrying a paperweight already have plenty of options for "smart" phones that do more than just make calls. The rest of us are stuck with a sad compromise between size and function.