Robb from RIMarkable has been keeping an eye out on the Verizon pre-order page for the BlackBerry 8130 Pearl 2. The 8130 is now available from Verizon for pre-order with a price tag of $199.99 with a 2 year contract. The phone is scheduled to ship on November 8th so stay tuned.
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This news seems to have stormed my inbox today. I have recieved over 10 different emails about this new customer satisfaction survey results released by J.D. Power and Associates. It turns out that the BlackBerry ranks highest in overall customer satisfaction among smartphone users. The survey was based on the following facts: ease of operation [...]

I have been hearing so many conflicting reports about whether this will work or not on the new BlackBerry 8310 curve. I just purchased the new Sandisk 6GB card to give it a try and will report back when I get them tomorrow or the day after. Even RIM seems to be a little confused [...]

BoyGenius has struck gold again with some inside documents showing that the BlackBerry 8130 Pearl 2 will be launching on Sprint on November 23rd. That is not far off from the originaly rumored date of the 19th. The launch is only a few weeks away and I am sure that Sprint users will be excited [...]

Ernie Oporto let me know that many users were having problems upgrading from the older Yahoo Messenger 1.0 to the new 2.0 version. I stumbled by a new knowledgebase article on RIM’s website that explains how to fix the issue and get your messenger back working. It seems that if you upgrade from 1.0 to [...]

Stefano has just tipped us off about a new deal that RIM is running to entice companies using IBM Lotus Sametime and Lotus Domino to use BlackBerry Enterprise Server. If you are a small organization and you happen to run Lotus this may be a good way to step up to a BES. Check out [...]

RIM has released a new version of their BlackBerry Java Development Environment today that should lead to some new application features on our new devices. Some of the new features in the JDE are listed below:

create a player that displays a video in a field
let an application’s screen display content created in Plazmic Media Engine [...]

I have introduced many BlackBerry users to the built in Smart Dialing feature that many of them were unfamiliar with. This feature is extremely useful for setting up your BlackBerry device to understand how to handle your companies phone system extensions. RIM has done us all a favor and explained the feature in detail in [...]

Spencer_CDS has posted an update to his great tutorial on BlackBerryForums.com on how to get the RIM Yahoo client to work on AT&T. For all of you who are privlidged enough to have Yahoo working on your carrier just ignore this post. AT&T has never provided the service books required to get Yahoo messenger working [...]

I have to say that the BlackBerry OS has less lag than the other smartphone OS’s but in some regards it is underpowered. It seems that RIM has taken this to heart and released a Knowledgebase article on how to optimize your BlackBerry so that it performs at the best of its capablity. Check out [...]