Archive for the 'News' Category
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
I know that this is not a BlackBerry tool but I decided to mention it anyway. Quite a few themes and applications are released in a .zip format making a free unzip utility a must have. Especially when users start running into the more commonly found .RAR & .7z extensions for compressed archives.
The one [...]
5 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, Utilities
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
I am not sure how we missed this application, but we are human. Thanks to Frank for bringing it to our attention. Turns out that a small developer, Orion North America, released an application that essentially lets you set a popup email notifier that will let you know when you get an email while [...]
20 Comments » | Posted in News, User Submitted, Utilities
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
I read books on my BlackBerry all day so when I got an email from S4BB that they are beta testing BlackBerryBooks.com I got excited. It has over 25,000 public domain books for downloading and they are all compatible with the free Mobipocket eBook reader.
Check it out by pointing your browser to www.blackberrybooks.com and [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Ebooks, Mobile Websites, News
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Otterbox have just made available their new case for the BlackBerry Bold.
I have not got one of these yet but from the looks of the pictures they certainly look to enhance the already slick lines of RIM’s newest baby. They are available in 2 color choices, Black or Yellow and rest assured as soon as [...]
Leave Comment » | Posted in 9000 Bold, Cases, News
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
I don’t know how this flew under the radar but Ed @ Brighthand managed to catch it. We mentioned the Agendus for BlackBerry beta back in July but the full version has now been released to very little aplomb. Iambic really needs to do some PR & advertising. The application looks stunningly well designed [...]
9 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, News, Utilities
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
I was just reading a writeup on Flurry by Doriano @ Mashable and thought it was worthy of mention. Flurry has just announced a new free mobile application analytics service for developers letting them know more about their users. I am not sure how intrusive this is to users but the idea seems pretty [...]
Leave Comment » | Posted in Free Software, News
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Last week MyPoynt updated their application for the Bold with some new features and an cool new user interface. Tom let me know that the UI changes have now made their way to non-Bold devices with the release of v0.9.6. They also added some new options for mapping multiple results in Google Maps. This application [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, User Submitted, Utilities
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Review: UniqueSkins Custom Skin Decals
Rating:
Website: www.uniqueskins.com
Cost: $6.99
I recently had the opportunity, along with some other members of the BerryReview Team, to play around with skins from UniqueSkins.Com. For those of you who may not have heard of them, UniqueSkins offers customized skins for several electronic devices, including Blackberry smartphones. What’s ‘unique’ about UniqueSkins [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in News
Monday, September 29th, 2008
One of our secret agents picked up this official announcement via the PartnerZone and felt it was needed to share it with all of you:
The upcoming BlackBerry® Storm™ is the first touch screen BlackBerry smartphone from Research In Motion and it builds upon a variety of existing BlackBerry features and capabilities to produce a truly [...]
10 Comments » | Posted in 9500 Storm, News, RIM
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Its times like these that I am glad I live in Manhattan without a car. I rented a car two weeks ago and tried to check an email while I was driving and realized how distracting it was. I can only imagine if I was trying to type a response…
With that said Paul just sent [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in News, User Submitted