Archive for the 'News' Category
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
One of our readers left a comment about a free application for AMERITRADE clients that allows you access to your account on the go. MarketSimplified looks like the most powerful trading application for BlackBerry to date. I have not had that long to play with it but it packs a bevy of features that combines [...]
7 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, User Submitted, Utilities
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Brian from PimpMyBerry.Com is at it again with a new theme called ‘iSunset’ for your Blackberry. This theme boasts a really tranquil image of a sunset overlooking the water with icons that are ‘iPhonish’. Brian has thought of everyone here making this theme available for 81xx, 83xx, 87xx & 88xx devices running either 4.2 or [...]
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
MTN South Africa have approved Handheld Version 4.5 for multiple devices they support on their network. Granted the code version they have opted for so far is an older code release which we have seen come and go on the WWW, nevertheless it is a step forward for the support of numerous model’s, more [...]
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
I recently got an email from American Airlines that RIM is now officially a participant in American Airline’s AAdvantage program offering an exclusive offer for AAdvantage Members:
“Buy a BlackBerry® smartphone online with any of the nation’s major service providers and enter your American Airlines AAdvantage® number during checkout to earn 4,000 AAdvantage miles with [...]
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
I had a good laugh when I read about this on Engadget Mobile and felt I had to share in case you did not catch it. Turns out that some guy is selling 75 pounds of Verizon promotional gifts on eBay. So far the bidding is at $114 with $75 shipping but with 2 days [...]
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Bplay just released another one of their slick animated themes over the weekend. This one is called Airshow for obvious reasons. The background of the theme is a cloudy blue sky with jets and planes doing flybys and loop-de-loops. Not really my style but definitely an eye catcher. The icons are all the same color [...]
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Tim let me know that Verizon has released version 4.1 of their VZ Navigator software. It seems to fix a bit of the image issues on the Curve but other than that I could not find any other record of changes. You may need to uninstall the previous version to install this version. You can [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in GPS, News, User Submitted, Verizon
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Our pal Kevin @ CrackBerry has managed to get his paws on a BlackBerry Javelin/8900 and make all of us jealous. I was just glad to read that he was not the poor schmuck who paid 17 large for it. The Javelin is essentially shaping up as a new Curve with all the features except [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in News, User Submitted
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Jibi at the BoyGenius gave us a quick look over the weekend at a totally under-whelming OS 5.0 on a 8310. Essentially it adds some OS 4.6 features to OS 4.5 like a clock and accessibility options and not much else. The only thing of note was a Files application that let you open [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in News, Rumors
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Nikolaus let me know that Linksys has updated the firmware for the latest T-Mobile @Home router to 1.00.09 this week. In true Linksys tradition there is no changelog so we will have to guess what they updated.
Pick it up at this link
NOTE: This update is for the latest Linksys router for T-Mobile with the two [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in News, T-mobile, User Submitted, Wifi