Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
I am about to head on out next week for vacation so I thought we could offer you a treat before I left.
The scanR contest: Win a 1 Year Subscription for BlackBerry Users
Following the release of scanR’s new Mobile v2 application for BlackBerry camera phones on March 28, the company was kind enough to [...]
5 Comments » | Posted in Giveaway
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
I know you have been hearing quite a bit about Viigo’s Project Tango in the last few months. Project Tango promises to really revolutionize the BlackBerry with features such as:
Audio Podcasts
Live sports scores & standings
Weather
Flight status
Hotel Ratings
Conference information
New innovative interface
and much more. You can even register to become part of the Project Tango beta testing [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in News, RSS
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Now this one just surprises me. The Pearl is one of T-Mobile’s hottest smartphones. Also the new Pearl 8120 can support their leading Hotspot@Home technology over WiFi. So it makes me wonder why they are one of the last carriers in the United States to get the Pearl 2 with WiFi! Even AT&T got it before [...]
Leave Comment » | Posted in 8100 Pearl, News, RIM, T-mobile
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
One of our readers who likes to call his/herself “anonymous” sent in this really nice pink theme. I thought the theme developer Tammy deserved some recognition because it has some really nice styling. I already had my friend install it.
The irony of this whole situation is that I did not even know what John Deere [...]
8 Comments » | Posted in 8300 Curve, Free Software, Themes
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Okay guys expect a quite a few BlackBerry Pearl themes to be posted in the next few days. Steve of Themes4BB pointed me towards a website by a theme developer Zach that has quite a few great themes for the BlackBerry Pearl. We will be adding these themes to our directory one by one.
The first [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in 8100 Pearl, Free Software, Themes
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
I know I keep on receiving questions asking how to take screenshots of what you see on your BlackBerry screen. There are three different utilities/applications that I know of that let you do this. The first two are free and the last is commercial. I wont go into how to use them because they are [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in BlackBerry FAQ, Free Software, Utilities
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
The BlackBerry 8110 Pearl has finally been released on Australia’s largest telecommunication carrier, Telstra.It’s about time. Talk about dragging your feet… I wonder how long it will take them to release the 9000 when it finally gets released.Anyway, it’s available now from their on-line shop or at any Telstra Shop across the country…
1 Comment » | Posted in 8100 Pearl, Hardware, News
Monday, April 14th, 2008
One of our readers, Jeremy, just sent this one in. Larry Farmer struck again after releasing his WinIphone theme last month. His latest creation is called Aqeulla Slax Linux and is based on Slax Linux look and feel. The icons have a really slick look and feel and the title bar is very nice.
It may [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in 8300 Curve, Free Software, Themes
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Seriously I have been called an addict, a Berryholic, and a crackberry before but this one is a brand spanking new label.
Nomophobia – The fear of being out of mobile contact
Google’s Mobile Blog just posted about this newly diagnosed affliction after it was covered on the Evening Standard. I just thought we could chalk it up [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Editorial
Monday, April 14th, 2008
UPDATED: Redid the images to not have anything grayed out
To follow up on the screenshots we posted of BES 4.1.5 I wanted to show some of the new features. Some of these new features require a combination of OS 4.5 and BES 4.1.5. The main ones you will notice in the screenshots below [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in BES, News, Rumors