Images of the BlackBerry Bold Slider are surfacing again, and now we get a glimpse of the device’s insides . It looks like the Slider has a Bold 9000 style physical keyboard, and a virtual keyboard is displayed in landscape mode. The battery is an F-S1 and we’re still unsure about the megapixels on the camera (rumored to be 5MP liquid lens)

[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] I’ve got to do some cleaning this weekend and in looking around my mess of a home office I noticed I had a pile of BlackBerry-related books lying around. So I figured I’d kill two birds with one stone and while carrying them off to the bookshelf give them a few minutes of fame in youtube video primetime action. You can check out the video above for a quick look at BlackBerry books that will help you get BlackBerry smart

2009 was a HUGE year for BB development. It started with BlackBerry App World, and has steadily snowballed from there.

There is only 1 week left until RIM promised us that OS 5.0 would be available. It would be great if it’s still coming but with only a week left you have to wonder if they can do it. Also, given this is the holidays, they are surely short staffed.

[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] OpenGL seems to be all the rage now that its out in the open (pun intended), and we got a quick look at Concrete Software’s doings with one of their most popular games. PBA Bowling has been around for a while, but with this new technology it will be better than ever. Excelerated graphics and lighting make this game look amazing

YouTube video from IntoMobile So far at the BlackBerry Developer Conference we have seen 3 games for the BlackBerry Storm2 using OpenGL. The first, Need for Speed Sprint by EA, was by far the most impressive. The game uses 10 years and millions of dollars behind EA’s 3D mobile graphics engine and it looks amazing on the Storm2

Bolt 1.5 has finally been officially released.

The developers at S4BB are having a 50% sale on all productivity and self-improvement apps as well as their series of eBooks. There are some great deals here so take advantage before the sale ends September 16th.

S4BB is running a 50% sale on all of their popular productivity and self-improvement apps as well as their series of ebooks in the CrackBerry App Store. You can snag some great apps for a huge discount here. A few of their apps have some crazy price tags, so if you’ve been holding out now is your chance to get it while the gettin’ is good.

RIM will be hosting its first ever developer webinar at 2 pm EST today, September 10th. The free webinar will present an overview of web development for BlackBerry smartphones and describe best practices for creating great mobile web applications.