After the commercial on CBS this is starting to get old. We are getting advertisements for devices that are not even confirmed by RIM to exist yet… Looks like Time and Gizmodo are betting that an announcement will be made tomorrow. I personally thought they were going to wait until the developers conference.

Vodafone BlackBerry Storm Commercial via CrackBerry - This commercial is hot!

You can also check out the Verizon viral video at this link - via BoyGenius

Sick and tired of getting teased by the Storm? So am I. Thanks to everybody who sent this in!

Now that Halloween is just around the corner, it might be a good time to get your Berry in on the festivities. That’s right, NancyDrew has created ScaryBerry Today Plus, a cool and ‘ghoolish’ looking Halloween theme for 8300 & 8800 Blackberry devices running OS 4.2 and up. Now you can dress up your Blackberry for Halloween! It’s available for only $1.99 from eShopsLimited via this link. AND if you forward your receipt to NancyDrew, she’ll send you additional, alternative wallpapers to use with this theme.

Sally sent in this tip that I thought was interesting. Google has created a mobile site that gives you basic election information for every state. It gives you links to the election hotline for that state along with the deadline for registering. Also they link to the states informational pages for the elections. You just enter in your 2 letter state code for information.

Check it out at m.google.com/elections and let us know if you found a better resource. Nothing groundbreaking but mobile election resources are useful in my opinion.

Eric let us know that Viigo has updated their project tango release. It looks like the version went up from 3.0.225 to 3.0.246. I am still getting hourglasses and all but I am a bit of a version addict… Install if you think it might help.

You can pick up the latest BerryReview Viigo Project Tango Edition at:
Desktop Install | BlackBerry OTA Install

Both Tom & BeamBerry let me know that they have a new application in free beta testing. BeamBerry is working on BeamBerry which is a native PDF application for BlackBerry. This will be in direct competition with the RepliGo Reader PDF viewer that is in private beta currently.

Check out the features below or pick up a copy of the public beta at this link.

Displays Original PDF Fonts

Unlike other solutions that use substitute fonts, BeamReader displays all original PDF fonts. This makes the PDF document look exactly as it would on a regular PC. All of the original fonts, images and formatting is preserved. Take a look at the difference display of original fonts makes!

Fully Native and Secure Solution

BeamReader does not require any server side pre-processing to display the PDF documents. All document rendering is completely local to the BlackBerry device. This also makes BeamReader a secure PDF reader because your PDF documents never leave your BlackBerry device for server side conversion.

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InfoSync caught some hands on time with the upcoming iDen/Nextel 8350i phone that is set to replace the aging 7100i on the iDen network. Hopefully iDen is not sold before then but you never know. According to InfoSync the new device has a much more rugged feel compared to the regular Curve and weighs more. I like the slick new yellow ring around the trackball. It uses Nextel’s walkie talkie interface instead of Sprint’s newer EVDO Qchat walkie talkie service. Release date rumors seem to be floating between the 15th of November and sometime in December.

Anybody waiting for this device to come out?

via InfoSync via BBnews

Ian let me know about yet another AT&T BlackBerry Bold Launch party that was not listed on the sales rep training web page we saw before. Turns out that once again RIM is holding a launch event in Manhattan for their latest BlackBerry device. Previous launch events were usually in either NYC or and another city so this fits the mold. The NYC one this time is happening on October 16th so all signs point to a late October early November release. Crossing our fingers…

So who is invited?

With all the leaks surrounding the Storm so far this is not really surprising. The BoyGenius managed to score the BlackBerry Storm user guide for your viewing pleasure. Nothing crazy new here but there are a bunch of screenshots to drool over. It gives you a detailed view of the media player, camera, GPS & BBMaps, phone, and keyboard.

I still can’t find any confirmation of DivX & XviD support like the Bold but hopefully it is in there also… Check out all the images at this link. The BoyGenius seems to be having some server issues so you can find some of the images on CrackBerry or other sites until they figure it out.

You can now also play with an extremely limited demo of the G1 Android Google Phone that I found on MobileCrunch to compare the upcoming touchscreen goodies.