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RANT! What Is The Point Of Retail Pricing For BlackBerry Devices

Have you ever tried to buy a phone at the retail prices? I have. I purchased an 8700 once from AT&T for $450. Then the 8800 came around with an even higher retail price. On top of that Sprint just upped the retail price once again. Their upcoming device the 8330 will retail for $749.99!!!
The [...]

I hate Skype

Skype made an important announcement yesterday.
Today, the company released a beta version of Skype for your mobile, a mobile “thin” client that works on about 50 of the most popular Java-enabled mobile phones from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.
The beta version of Skype for your mobile is available worldwide with a feature set that [...]

Rant ; Where’s our privacy !!!

Now anyone who follows my articles knows I don’t get upset very easily. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I wrote a Rant.  
But this has really steamed me up so I thought I would write about it. 
Now for those who don’t know, Australia is a Free country. (As free, if not more so [...]

Rant! Another Rediculous BlackBerry Limitation?

Stefano of BBworld just sent me a knowledge base article from RIM that just made my jaw drop. Granted I have never actually noticed this issue before but I just cannot believe it exists!
From RIM’s Knowledge Base
Reply to all is not received by more than 32 recipients
Details: When an email message is received by more [...]

RANT! Why The Long Boot Times?

I know it is going to be hard following up on the heels of Luciano’s rant about the Owners Lounge but this one has been annoying me for awhile already.
One of the things that always bothered me about the BlackBerry OS is why it takes more than a minute to boot after I pull the battery to restart. Many [...]

RANT! More Red Sofa Nonsense

WARNING: This post is not for the faint of heart or for RIM employees read at your own peril… (evil laughing subsides)
More about the so-called Blackberry Owners’ Lounge. By now it’s very clear what that Lounge thing means: throw a red sofa here and there around the site, call the site an “Owners’ Lounge” [...]

RANT! My BlackBerry Has Lost Its Memory… Part III

This has been going for weeks already! I already wrote about the first and second experience and this third installment is my cry for help! Everything I have tried to do has gone to no avail. The 39 comments on the second post just go to show that I am not the only one pulling my [...]

RIM Adds Google Search To Mobile.BlackBerry.com Website

RIM has added a nice little Google search box to the top of the mobile.blackberry.com website that we know and love. This may be a sign of RIM working closer with Google but it has one critical flaw. The morons mentally challenged directed the search towards the desktop version of Google search!!!  It makes me [...]

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