Anonymous on BBNews just did a great detailed review of the upcoming BlackBerry Bold. Its interesting to see that his review unit is a T-Mobile Germany BlackBerry Bold. This is a seed unit and is not full production so there is no unboxing screencandy yet…
Check out the full review at BBNews

This was posted by Blackberry Cool two days ago already, but I thought it was so interesting I thought I had to share it with as many people as possible.
The Northeast Maritime Institute is working on something called the Golden Shellback, splash proof coatings. It is …
a unique coating that protects critical operational equipment against [...]

Thanks to quite a few anonymous tipsters who sent this in! OS 4.5.0.69 for the 8310 has been spotted all over the interweb.
For example:
Here & Here
NOTE: Do not install this software if you do not know what you are doing. It may make your BlackBerry FUBAR or just plain angry.

 Telstra Australia has released the first of the v4.5.0.xx firmware for their 8310 devices today. Hopefully this will be the first of many of the new operating system upgrades across all networks in Australia. You can get the upgrade at this link; Download
Source; BlackBerry Forums Australia.

With a release date right around the corner this was inevitable. Turns out that two retailers have just started accepting pre-orders for the BlackBerry Bold. TigerDirect is offering the Bold unlocked for $649.99 win a ship date ETA of September. Mobile City Online is offering it for $699.99 with a estimated ETA of August 14th.

Not [...]

Mo just let me know that Bplay has released a slick new FlowBerry theme to follow up on their ground breaking crossbar theme. The theme has a slick coverflow-like menu bar that just looks awesome. Sadly you can not configure the coverflow menu yourself but it does include: Messages, Calendar, Address Book, Media, SMS, BlackBerry [...]

Stefano spotted this hot new theme by Sasha on Themes4BB. This one is OS 4.5 only and looks positively gorgeous on my 8300. The main menu is 6 icons spaced out in a circle which looks really slick. The top menu is nice, simple, and easy to read. The icons are from the Bold and [...]

I know this came out on Friday but most of us were already out for the weekend. So just in case you missed it the BGR hooked us all up with a great video preview of the BlackBerry Bold browser. Things look pretty good and I cant wait to be rocking a Bold myself. [...]

Just got an anonymous tip from an anonymous reader (Lets call him Mr J). They found OS 4.5.0.55 online for the 8320. The 8320 has been having a rough time with OS releases but hopefully this latest version will work out.
One example of where 4.5.0.55 can be found is at this link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/132732724/8320AllLang_PBr4.5.0_rel81_PL2.7.0.68_A4.5.0.55.exe.html
NOTE: Do not install [...]

Some of you who have already handled the Bold may have noticed this small added feature on the Bold. It lets you lower the number of icons that you see on the icon homescreen. The grid options are 4×4 icons, 3×3, 2×2, & 1×1. You can see what I mean below. It also adds some [...]