Until a law passes that any cell phone user can get out of carrier contracts, without paying early termination fees (and without a big fight with the carrier), it may seem that people who are unhappy with their current carrier are stuck. However, that may not have to be the case for the moment.
Have you [...]

Just got another notice from Joe at Dataoutages.com and confirmed by Remzi. Turns out there is an outage scheduled for North America next week. From what I am gathering this is an update to the BIS 2.4 servers. Anybody know if they are upgrading to BIS 2.5?
June 7-8 North America
Maintenance Summary: BlackBerry Internet Service v2.4 [...]

Josep has a sharp eye and noticed the first support document on RIM’s knowledge base about OS 4.5. It lets you know how to how to download and save an email message attachment in its native file format.
The caveat with this feature is that it is only available on BES and the size limit is [...]

First there was SpinVox, then there was SimulScribe/Phonetag, then callwave, the latest contender is GotVoice. Everybody has their favorites but I personally love PhoneTag. Now there is a new contender.
GotVoice has the same core voicemail to text functionality but they have added a few twists. First of all they have a funny thing called Talking Avatars where [...]

James on CrackBerry spotted this Gem of an application. I just can’t explain it any better than the developer. I cant count how many times I have seen people just mad at their BlackBerry for not ringing and giving them an excuse to get out of a meeting. This is your solution. Its also a [...]

If your part of the countries included in the Asia Pacific region you might want to read this. The admin of BB-Outages has confirmed two outages happening over this weekend. RIM is getting ready for the BIS 2.5, which supports HTML emails and has lots of other updates.
2008-May-30 Friday
Region: AsiaPacific
Severity: Critical
Service Type: Relay
Summary: BlackBerry Infrastructure [...]

John from GadgetBean has released another slick theme that I really found interesting. It is an Icon only theme with red blue and black icons that just really change up the look of your Berry. The top bar is slick and has a nice smooth setup. The battery meter just looks cool. The menus are [...]

I know this only pertains to the Jewish crowd but I hope all of you will bear with me and ignore the post if you don’t find it interesting.
Hebrew in Hand is a free application that lets you read Hebrew text on your BlackBerry. There is already JewBerry & JewishContent.org in this field but Hebrew [...]