Archive for the 'Vendor' Category
Friday, June 6th, 2008
RIM has released a free Flickr application for BlackBerry!!!
You can find all the details on RIM’s website at this link.
You can download the new application OTA or from your computer at this link
Share your world with the world! Snap a picture and post it to Flickr right from your BlackBerry® smartphone.
This mobile photo uploader is [...]
7 Comments » | Posted in Images, News, RIM, User Submitted, Utilities
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Now I can’t say why RIM tried charging for S/MIME in the first place. (Greedy?) I just got an email from one of our readers, Nick, that RIM has stopped charging for S/MIME support for BlackBerry. This should have been something RIM should offered originally as part of BES and has now learned its lesson. [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in BES, News, RIM
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Rogers has just announced the release of their 8120 Wifi BlackBerry. The best part is that Rogers is the first Canadian carrier to support UMA. I am surprised it took RIM so long! UMA means you can make calls over WiFi. I wish AT&T would follow suit but its taking awhile for carriers to realize that [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in 8100 Pearl, News, RIM
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
I just ran across a great Knowledge Base article on RIM’s website explaining how to calculate the free memory available on your Berry. They explain how the status screen comes up with the calculations. The only problem is that you need desktop manager to do it yourself to break down what is taking all your [...]
Leave Comment » | Posted in BlackBerry FAQ, RIM
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
In an interesting turn of events Kevin at CrackBerry posted some great screenshots of the new OTA Operating System updates for BlackBerry. He has a great description of the exact process necessary to update the OS over the air in the future.
It looks damn cool but sadly my sources and Kevin’s seem to be [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in News, RIM
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Recently I was using Picasa and had a bit of a flashback. During CES back in January RIM demoed a fully working copy of a Picasa Web Albums application for BlackBerry. I had it in my hand and it worked like a charm.
So I have to ask… What the hell is taking so long?
Why [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in RIM, Rant
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
I know I ran into the goofy (yet very friendly) BlackBerry mascot at CES this year but I didn’t realize he/she had a social calendar. Turns out that RIM has a whole area of their website dedicated to tracking the activities and location of their Mascot. I wonder if he/she has a name? (Curvy?)
He has [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in News, RIM
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Now this is a surprising step from RIM. They has just put up a knowledge base PDF file detailing:
Steps to take before selling, or after buying, a previously owned BlackBerry smartphone. (cropped screenshot of PDF below)
It is nice to see that RIM is making an effort to help users who have bought a used BlackBerry or are [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in BlackBerry FAQ, RIM
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
In a surprising move RIM has decided to take down the OS 4.5.0.37 from their partners website at www.BlackBerryuniverse.com. I wonder what prompted that?
Personally I think that RIM is always focusing on the cup half empty. This is the wrong approach. They should promote public beta testing to allow them to fix more of their bugs [...]
12 Comments » | Posted in News, RIM
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Hayden of PinStack has a sharp eye. He noticed that the www.discoverblackberry.com portal has been merged into www.blackberry.com. DiscoverBlackBerry.com was the portal for individuals to separate the business BlackBerry users from the consumer BlackBerry users. For example the business section would cover BES and the consumer section would showcase the MP3 player and camera.
It seems [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in News, RIM