Archive for the 'RIM' Category
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I am not sure if you have been keeping up with the touchscreen technology so I will stop to explain. Haptics is essentially a form of forcefeedback. When you push a button on a touchscreen the phone will vibrate in response. Its really that simple. Just as a quick geek fact. Haptics is derived from [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in RIM, Rumors
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
RIM is slowly learning what they need to provide for their developer community. Back at WES they announced the BlackBerry Developer Conference which will take place on October 21st & 22nd in Santa Clara, California. Now they are reaching out to the developer community to share their hard earned expertise with everybody else.
So RIM has [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in News, RIM
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Nikolaus Walch just let me know that there is a new version of Google Talk available.
This is an upgrade from 2.0.46 to 2.1.33. As usual no changelog.
Let us know if you notice anything different!
To download head on over to:
www.blackberry.com/googletalk or go to this link
16 Comments » | Posted in IM Services, News, RIM
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
So now we know how John Mayer got his BlackBerry Bold back in May. I wonder if he reads BerryReview…
I was just reading on PampelMoose about how RIM has sponsored John Mayer’s Summer Tour. The summer tour has taken center stage on www.johnmayer.com and RIM has even created a little microsite for the tour at [...]
5 Comments » | Posted in News, RIM
Monday, July 7th, 2008
I know many of you have been trying the new FutureShop.ca support of BlackBerry wallet that we told you about. Everybody who installed the support was asked to install an application called RIM’s ECOE or Ecommerce Content Optimization Engine.
This little application is a homescreen shortcut on steroids. Essentially it hijacks you browser and adds website [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in BlackBerry FAQ, RIM
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
UPDATE: May be a false alarm. This seems to have application version 4.5.0.37 in a 4.5.0.52 build…
UPDATE #2: Looks like a false alarm. I just thought this was too good to be true and it was. Forgive me for getting your hopes up… Still waiting for confirmation.
UPDATE #3: Confirmed this is a false alarm. Once [...]
13 Comments » | Posted in 8100 Pearl, 8300 Curve, 8800/8830, News, RIM
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
I know 2 rants in one day is a bit much but I am curious to learn what happened to this promising application. We told you that it was released back in May. We then followed up with instructions on how to integrate it into a mobile website. Now we are almost 2 months later and [...]
9 Comments » | Posted in RIM, Rant
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Originally the BlackBerry was designed for business. Now everybody seems to have a smartphone of one sort or another. Josep pointed out to me that RIM even has a section of their site dedicated to students with some pretty crappy offers. We have mentioned the StudentBerry class/task management application previously and I am sure the [...]
8 Comments » | Posted in News, RIM
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
“Find & Name that BlackBerry” seems to be the new game in town. We have been guilty of playing quite a few times in the last year. The latest contestant is the knowledgeable Jibi @ BBnews.com.
He managed to confirm that the touchscreen Thunder is now officially the 9500 but that is not really new. Keep in mind [...]
7 Comments » | Posted in RIM, Rumors, Sprint / Nextel
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Back in May we told you about a promotion where RIM was giving out $10 gift cards in the owners lounge. I just wanted to let you know that the $10 prepaid AmEx gift cards are just starting to arrive. So if you managed to sign up before the promotion quickly expired you can hope to see [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in Giveaway, News, RIM