RIM’s Co-Chief Executive Officer Jim Balsillie has revealed a few more details about the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. According to CrackBerry, the device will have a 5,300mAh, non-removable battery, which will help it deliver more life than competing products. The similarly-sized Galaxy Tab packs only a 4,000mAh battery and a claimed seven-plus hour battery life when watching movies.

The PlayBook should last longer, obviously and maybe it will even match or surpass Apple’s 10-hour rating for its larger iPad. RIM’s smartphones are already very efficient and known for their long operation on a single charge. We hope some of this efficiency rubs off on the PlayBook as well.

Well, looks like what we reported last week is now official. It will be arriving on Sprint on Halloween. This device runs the all new BlackBerry OS6, has a 6 megapixel cam, and two high resolution displays (one external, one internal).

Other features include built-in GPS and WiFi, and a microsSDHC slot for up to 32GB of storage. You can preorder it as soon as tomorrow and it will ship on October 31st. It will cost you $99 on contract after a mail-in rebate.

The BlackBerry Style is headed for Sprint and according to BGR, the device temporarily codenamed the Oxford will be a Sprint-exclusive. The Style would arrive at Sprint on October 31 in gray. It will apparently become available in purple at a later date.

The flip phone will have BlackBerry 6 preloaded, a 5-megapixel camera, a QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, GPS and EVDO Rev. A support for its 3G. Bluetooth is onboard, and the handset should come bundled with an 8GB microSDHC memory card.

You can walk against cancer, run against cancer, crawl against cancer, or buy some pink gadgets. Personally, I can’t see that ever beating cancer, though it does put your money in some deep pockets to be mis-managed and pillaged. But if you are not as jaded as I, you might want to join the good fight and get yourself these pink OtterBox cases.

They support the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade and the 2010 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer by offering a limited edition, pink and white Commuter Series for the BlackBerry called “Strength” cases. The following BlackBerry’s will be supported: BlackBerry Curve 8500/9300 series, Pearl 3G and Bold 9700 series.

We’ve been hearing rumors of a BlackBerry tablet for some time now. We know it’s coming. The company has even registered the domain www.blackpad.com.

Now the rumor is that the BlackPad will be announced in late November and should be arriving late in the holiday season. The pricing is said to be $499 which puts it in the ballpark with Apple’s low-end iPad. But can a Blackberry tablet compete with the iPad? RIMs phones haven’t fared so well lately.

No one is safe from leaks. The latest leak is regarding RIM’s BlackBerry Storm 3. This isn’t 100% confirmation that this is the new Storm, but it’s what we have and it’s close enough.

There are no other full touchscreen BlackBerrys in production right now, so unless RIM has managed to keep something secret (Yeah sure) the phone above should be the Storm 3. In any case, it’s an interesting looking BlackBerry and it has our attention.

Only a day after Verizon Wireless released the BlackBerry Curve 3G, Sprint is rolling out the same 9330 model and giving subscribers more options. The BlackBerry Curve 3G will be available on September 26th and can be picked up via Sprint’s direct ship sales channels for $49.99 with a new two-year contract.

The BlackBerry Curve 3G comes with 512MB of flash memory, a microSDHC memory card slot for expansion, is BlackBerry 6 ready and comes in your choice of Graphite Gray or Royal Purple chrome-like finishes. The digital camera is just 2-megapixels and of course there’s the full QWERTY keyboard.

RIM’s BlackBerry Torch 9800 may not be all that we had hoped it would be, but that doesn’t matter to the folks at Colorware. They will color it up no matter what your feelings on the device are. And we have to admit, it looks pretty decent in the color scheme above.

It’s available to customize anyway you want for $250 or it will cost you $1,050 to buy new. You make the call.

Good news for those of you who own either the BlackBerry Pearl 3G or Bold 9000. Both devices have had their OS update leaked. It isn’t official, so do it at your own risk. But it’s nice to know things are moving forward.

Hit the link below for the download links. We would suggest backing up beforehand, since you know, this isn’t official and all. Better safe than sorry.

Word on the tablet street is that RIM will be using an operating system developed by QNX Software Systems for its upcoming tablet, the BlackPad. This is interesting news because it means that RIM won’t be using its own BlackBerry 6 OS.

Last month RIM acquired the Internet rights to blackpad.com, according to the Whois database. We can’t wait to see how it all plays out with this OS. It’s an interesting move by the company.

Is your 3G-equipped BlackBerry looking boring? Do you think it needs some freshinging up? It might be time to give the folks at Colorware a call. They have just started taking orders for repainting the Pearl 3G (aka 9100) handsets into whatever colors you want.

As always, prices are ridiculous, starting at $165 to color your device. It will cost you $640 for a brand new phone from them. Of course you could always try painting it yourself, but that’s just going to end in tears isn’t it?

Looks like U.S. Cellular will begin offering the BlackBerry Bold 9650 tomorrow. This CDMA/GSM 9650 handset is similar to the ones already available on Sprint and Verizon Wireless, but it runs on EV-DO Rev. A, UMTS/HSPA 2100 MHz, quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM.

Other average specs to go with average looks include Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, 512 MB of RAM, a 3.2-megapixel camera and it is BlackBerry OS 6 ready. It will cost you $230 with a 2-year contract and a $70 mail-in rebate. So if you have been waiting for this one, tomorrow is your lucky day.

The BlackBerry 9300 Curve 3G is finally official today. If you told T-Mobile to bring it, consider it brought. Though we still have no word on what it will cost. It’s basically an entry-level smartphone, so you can expect a reasonable price.

The 9300 Curve 3G will be able to support AT&T’s 3G bands, but there is still no word from AT&T on whether they will release the device or not. The BlackBerry 9300 Curve 3G is another BlackBerry device that runs on the recently introduced BlackBerry OS 6.0.

Quanta Computer, a notebook manufacturer out of Taiwan, will be handling the upcoming tablet device from RIM, which is called the BlackBerry BlackPad. Looks like this Android-powered device will launch in November 2010.

The BlackPad will include both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi as well as a 3G connection if it is hooked up through a BlackBerry. Orders will begin shipping in September and theY expect to move 2 million units this year, quadrupling that amount in 2011. For now, the price looks like it is $499.

If you have been losing sleep wondering whether the BlackBerry OS 6 will arrive on your Bold 9650, this should ease your worries. Verizon hasn’t officially confirmed it yet, but pictures of BlackBerry OS 6.0.0.80 running on the Verizon Bold 9650 have surfaced.

However, this leak also indicates that it’s running sluggishly, so hopefully the performance issue will be sorted out. Otherwise, what’s the point?