Whether it’s a case of bad company branding or it just doesn’t matter the fact that 37% of Blackberry owners don’t know who Research in Motion (RIM) are is quite a startling fact considering they are the company that manufactures the Blackberry line of smartphones. The poll, which was undertaken by rightmobilephone.co.uk, also threw up some other figures...

Vodafone has announced that it is offering three new smartphone handsets to its customers – the Blackberry Pearl 3G, the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro, and the LG Optimus. Prices will vary although there is no actual pay as you go price plan details available for any of the three models as yet so it’s possible that they will be contract only handsets. However...