RANT! RIM Needs To Put a Limit on Carrier Homescreen Shortcuts

This has really started to get out of hand. A year ago when I registered a new BlackBerry on AT&T I received about 13 homescreen shortcuts promoting AT&T applications. Now a year later I just received yet another 10 homescreen shortcuts that I really could do without. At least this time AT&T had the decency to put 8 out of the 10 in the downloads folder but they are really starting to piss me off! You cannot delete these homescreen shortcuts without removing the service book which keeps coming back. You can hide them but if you un-hide in the future you will have to scroll through these unwanted links.

Just look at the latest 10 homescreen shortcuts AT&T has pushed out:

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  1. AT&T Mall
  2. Brain Challenge Vol 2
  3. Make-UR-Tones
  4. MobiTV
  5. Music Videos
  6. My-Cast Weather
  7. PAC-MAN by Namco
  8. Scrabble
  9. Tetris
  10. WikiMobile

Seriously AT&T! Was this really necessary? This is on top of the 13 icons you have already pushed out to my device!

  1. AT&T Navigator
  2. Cellular Video
  3. Shop Applications
  4. Shop Games
  5. Shop Multimedia
  6. Shop Themes
  7. Shop Graphics
  8. Shop Tones
  9. Shop Music
  10. Music Apps
  11. MusicID
  12. XM Radio
  13. Yellow Pages.com Mobile

RIM really needs to get a handle on these homescreen shortcuts. Its bad enough that RIM promotes them so much but letting carriers just push out as many as they want and never expiring them is just getting ridiculous. I now have 23 hidden AT&T homescreen icons on my device! When will it end?

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