In an interesting twist from their PictureID application Toysoft has released Picture Dial. It is essentially a customizable speed-dial application based on pictures. It lets you dial a contact, send an SMS/email, or browse a website just by clicking pictures. There does seem to be a trial available and you can pick it up for [...]

Now this service is clearly targeted towards English speaking users heading to the Olympics in China. Turns out that Jajah launched a new service today that translates between English and Chinese Mandarin in quasi-realtime.
You just call their US, UK, or Australian access code from any phone and talk into it. It will then confirm what [...]

We saw on the 16th Ronen posted about the Launch of BlackBerry Answers - Shortcut To VERY Simple Answers.
I see this evening that as of today the Announcement over at http://supportforums.blackberry.com has been updated to Worldwide Launch to all English BlackBerry Users.

Get fast, personal, step-by-step help right from your BlackBerry® smartphone BlackBerry® Answers is an [...]

A reader just sent us this little tidbit of news. We told you about EZ Reregister before but it required a yearly subscription fee. They have now decided to remove the subscription fee for Basic accounts. I listed the difference between the basic and premium accounts below:

The basic account lets you store your application registration [...]

Kathy asked me where she could find Bejeweled for her BlackBerry so I did a bit of research. Turns out that EA/Handmark has licensed the Bejeweled game and is selling it for the BlackBerry for $14.99. A bit pricey in my opinion but a fun & addictive game nonetheless.

With a little bit more [...]

I was heading to mobile.blackberry.com on my friends berry and ran into a new message at the top of the page. Turns out that RIM created a page of links that you can use to follow the upcoming Olympics on your BlackBerry. Nothing groundbreaking here since their are only homescreen shortcuts or applications (like Viigo).
From [...]

Jibi @ BBNews enjoys digging deep into the BlackBerry OS. While playing around with the simulator he ran into a funny easter egg. An easter egg is a hidden message or feature in an object. I guess one of RIM’s engineers was bored with the simple JVM errors. Check out what Jibi found below.
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Well so much for the short-lived KickStart, right when this name was starting to grow on me, I came across this post on Cell Phone Signal. Basically it says that according to “internal documentation from BlackBerry,the new Blackberry Kickstart will be called Blackberry Pearl 8220″ This is more accurate in a way because there are [...]

I just got an email from RIM that registration is now open for the BlackBerry Developer Conference we told you about before. As a reminder it is in Santa Clara, CA on October 21st and 22nd. I wonder if they got any responses to their call for papers they announced a month ago. If you [...]

Review: Pop Cap Game’s Chuzzle
Rating: 10/10
Link: www.bplay.com
Cost: $9.99 from bplay
By far the greatest game ever released for your BlackBerry! In my humble opinion of course! - Nathan

I recently had the chance to play around with Pop Cap Game’s Chuzzle, from bplay. This game is made by the same people that brought you Bejewled and [...]