Rant! BlackBerry blog has new, lame design
I didn’t even know there was an “Official BlackBerry Blog.” I should have known. A friendly reader just told me that the “Official BlackBerry Blog” has a new design. It’s the beautiful thing you can see above. Ain’t that pretty? I like it. But wait…
RANT! RIM Please Communicate With Your Customers & Users
There is one thing you can always count on RIM doing (or in this case not doing) during a crisis. Communicating and providing transparency for their users. RIM has a history of data outages over the years culminating with 2 outages in the past 7 days. They might have a reason for the outage and…
Big Red Wins Me Back?
So for those of you who don’t know, I started using the Tour 9630 the day of its release. Aside from one little tiny problem (shattered screen which I replaced via insurance) I have been incredibly happy with the phone. It does everything I need it to do and more. However, this is not a…
Developers – Please Customize Ported Games for BlackBerry
RIM has been making some great strides recently in their communication with the developer community. Their recent webinar on web development had over 500 attendees from around the world. They were even kind enough to offer a recording of the webinar for those who missed it. Brian Z., a RIM employee, wrote a great article…
Rant: 3rd-Party Apps That Break OS Functions!
I just needed to rant about something that I have seen more and more lately – well, ever since I transitioned from my 8830 to my 9630 (aka Tour)… It appears that more and more frequently as BlackBerry third-party application developers attempt to code around API limitations, they stomp upon some other capability that is…
I Have A BlackBerry Dream – An Open Letter to RIM
I have a BlackBerry dream that one day RIM will embrace their consumers and not compromise that relationship with carrier whims. This letter was a long time coming but I finally decided to write it when a few RIM employees mentioned that I have been a bit harsh and negative towards RIM recently. In my…
RANT! RIM Needs To Put a Limit on Carrier Homescreen Shortcuts
This has really started to get out of hand. A year ago when I registered a new BlackBerry on AT&T I received about 13 homescreen shortcuts promoting AT&T applications. Now a year later I just received yet another 10 homescreen shortcuts that I really could do without. At least this time AT&T had the decency…
The Storm comes to Brazil. I am not thrilled.
The fact that I speak English (at least, I try) makes me very insensitive to certain issues that I only realized last week, when I read that the BlackBerry Storm would be officially released in Brazil. But I have a very good reason to be insensitive: I am not running a multi-million dollar company. What…
