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.

Review: Electric Pocket’s TxtForward
Rating: 6.5
Link: http://electricpocket.com
Cost: $7.95 @ The BerryReview Store
TxtForward is a very simple application with a huge potential. The software takes incoming SMS messages and forwards them to the email address of your choice. Now many people wonder “Why in the heck would I want to do this?” Well, there are many [...]

Michael over at BlackBerryThemes.co.uk has just let me know that he has four new FREE themes posted on his website. Personally I’m a big fan of the “Bottom Dock” themes. With the release of Plazmic 4.5, themes just keep getting better and better. The themes are posted for the 88**,83** and 81** series devices. Keep [...]

Mike from gWhiz reminded me that back to school season is right around the corner. I thought it would be a great time to remind everybody about the 3 free applications that gWhiz released not to long ago. These applications are mostly targeted towards students. The three are:
gFlash+ - A flashcard and trivia application [...]

I was having some issues with my Gmail (BIS) account yesterday and finally figured out what was happening. Google forgot to renew their SSL certificate for Gmail. This caused most of the mail clients that connect to Gmail to throw up red flags. I wonder who is getting the flack about this at Google…
GigaOM managed [...]

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 [...]

I have not had a chance to try this one out myself so take this at face value. Slifter just released a BlackBerry application with a pretty interesting feature set. It helps you find products and deals based on your current location. You can just search for a product and find a promo or [...]

Sprint has finally released the Airave home cellphone tower that we mentioned before. The price is still too high in my opinion but the idea is very interesting. PhoneScoop just let us know that the Airave is now available for purchase from Sprint for $99.99.
The pricing breaks down like this:

$4.99/month to use the Airave but [...]

Honestly I have never heard of KeyToss before until Josep pointed out the Version 2 Beta to me. When I checked it out I was quite impressed. It is essentially a mobile portal for your smartphone that gives you quite a bit of functionality tailored to your preferences. Kind of like iGoogle for your [...]

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 [...]