Archive for the 'Vendor' Category
Monday, August 20th, 2007
I have been waiting for Monopoly for awhile and Magmic has finally stepped up to the plate and delivered. Monopoly is a great time wasting game to port to the BlackBerry and I hope to review it in the next few days. I am crossing my fingers and hoping that Magmic offers online multiplayer options [...]
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
The good guys over at BlackBerryCool have released some very sad information about the upcoming BlackBerry 8820 WiFi phone from AT&T. They have a source in AT&T which is telling them that they will be locking down GPS functionality in the 8820 to only work with TeleNav for $10 a month. As an AT&T [...]
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
BoyGenius has done it again. I know it has become expected of him to leak info on new BlackBerry devices but it is still quite impressive when they get good stuff like this. There is even talk of streaming media over WiFi or EVDO. You owe it to yourself to check out the info here [...]
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Call Of Duty 3
Rating: 8.5/10
Link: www.magmic.com
OTA Link: magmic.com (No Trial Option)
Cost: $8.99 CAN
Magmic has really pushed the envelope and left the competition in the dust with Call Of Duty 3 for BlackBerry. They have done an amazing job pulling off the game controls on a cellphone. If you have ever played [...]
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Sarmana Mitra takes an interesting look at each of the iPhone competitors. Yesterday she ran an article on how RIM is being affected by the iPhone. I found this to be a interesting read considering the fact that RIM CEO’s stated that the iPhone is helping rathing than hurting RIM. I found that Sarmana Mitra [...]
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Friday, August 3rd, 2007
eWeek has a great article about what AT&T needs to do to increase the reliability of their network. They need to take into account how addicted BlackBerry users are to their email when they deal with service reliability. This was highlighted once again wit an outage on August 1st. Hot on the heels of outages [...]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Seidio 2-IN-1 Earbuds Headphones For BlackBerry 8100 / 8800 / 8830
Rating: 7.5/10
Link: www.seidioonline.com
Cost: Standard $29.95 / Retractable $34.95
Seidio has quite a lineup of headphone accessories for BlackBerry 8100 and 8800 devices. After the popularity of the review on the Seidio Headphone adapter (~6,000 hits to date) we decided to cover another Seidio [...]
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Well the BlackBerry 8820 WiFi Phone that EngadgetMobile showed us before now has some interesting hard specifications. Thanks to MiBlackBerry for reporting the new specs. The specifications are also confirmed by Marketwire press release.
Main Features:
+ Wireless 802.11 a/b/g: WEP , WPA/WPA2 including VPN support
+ UMA support for switching calls from Cellular to WiFi
+ A2DP for [...]
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Cursed Game for BlackBerry - Magmic
Rating 8/10
Link: www.magmic.com/game/cursed
OTA: magmic.com
Cost $7.95 (CAN)
Magmic has released a interesting RPG game for BlackBerry devices. This has to be the first RPG game that I have ever enjoyed on a BlackBerry. Trust me the story of this game is a riot. There is everything from zombies and maidens in distress [...]
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
For all of you BlackBerry Curve users. If you haven’t already heard RIM has released a patch to fix the calendar reminder and duplicate calendar entries bug. You can get more info on the patch at this link: http://www.blackberry.com/select/calendarPatch2007/ . The patch can be performed OTA at this link: http://www.blackberry.com/CalendarPatch/patch/index.shtml. It is actually the [...]
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