Barely There Case for BlackBerry Storm 2 (see Bold 9700 ) The Barely There is Case-Mate’s new line of sporty cases for the BlackBerry Storm2 and is also available for other BlackBerry device models including the Bold 9700, 9000 and Curve series. These cases are designed to protect the design of the BlackBerry Storm2 while allowing more of it to show.

* Download Link: Click here to download the BlackBerry Bold 9650 User Guide * With the leaked 9650 OS today , the included user guide not so surprisingly shows the device as being labeled as the Bold 9650. As has been rumored before and stated many times since on the blogs and in the forums, this update device to the original Tour (which now has WiFi, optical trackpad and more) won’t be released as a Tour but rather as a Bold, so any doubters can take this new user guide as one more piece of evidence. We talked more on the new CDMA Bold on yesterday’s CrackBerry podcast so be sure to take a listen there if this device is of interest to you

Is Verizon set to offer Push To Talk to its BlackBerry Tour 9630 users? BGR reports that it has been tipped off by an insider who says an OS 5.0 upgrade for the Tour 9630 will hit in 2 3 weeks. Along with the upgrade will come Push To Talk on Verizon’s network.

RIM’s stock has been upgraded and their stock is rising. BMO Capital Markets upgraded RIM from market perform to outperform citing improving demand.

Want something to do this weekend? How about upgrading your Bold 9700 to OS 5.0.0.536

Wind are the first carrier to officially launch OS 5.0.0.509 and they’re rolling it out on three devices. The Bold 9000, Curve 8900 and and 8520 are all getting this new update.

[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] The folks from Celio Corp were on hand last week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where they had a pod at the BlackBerry booth and I caught up with them to see how things were going.

  The best selling Made Simple Learning Training Center is now available for the Bold 9700 and Curve 8500 series smartphones. The Training Center’s include the Made Simple e-book for reading on a PC or Mac, VideosNow, and VideosToGo.

[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] OtterBox has long been know as the leader in “ultimate protection” for mobile devices.

The Smartphone Round Robin is finally into the wind down phase. With so many platforms and devices participating this year the event has run a little long and has been a bit confusing to follow, but the content has been nothing less than stellar. If you’re in the market for a new smartphone or are just curious to know how the experts perceive each competing platform based on their own favorites, do yourself a favor and check out all of the reviews