AT&T Now Selling Sapphire Blue 8320 With Free Wi-Fi Access
Nothing really new here other than the slick Sapphire Blue color for the tried and true 8320. Other than the usual AT&T is throwing in free Wi-Fi from AT&T. AT&T has Wi-Fi at Starbucks, Barnes & Noble and thousands more restaurants, airports, hotels and other places around the US so that should be useful. It…
8110 & 8120 OS 4.5.0.110 Officially Released By AT&T
BenC let me know that AT&T has officially released OS 4.5.0.110 for the 8120. I guess this is the official “Screw You” from AT&T for all the old 8100 users out there. Sorry guys! These are the details from the 8120 release BlackBerry Handheld Software v4.5.0.152 (Multilanguage) Package Version: 4.5.0.152 Consisting of: Applications: 4.5.0.110 Software…
AT&T 8310 OS 4.5.0.110 Officially Released
Thanks to everybody who sent this in. AT&T has officially released OS 4.5.0.110 for the 8310. I guess they are slowly telling 8300 & 8800 users that they won’t be upgrading their devices. This is after they upgraded the 8320 & 8820 to 4.5 recently. BlackBerry Handheld Software v4.5.0.152 (Multilanguage)Package Version: 4.5.0.152Consisting of:* Applications: 4.5.0.110*…
AT&T Scheduled To Test Femtocells In 2009 – Kills My Hope For UMA
In case you don’t know femtocells are little cell phone towers that piggyback on your home broadband internet connection to provide you cellphone reception in your house. This is perfect for people who have shoddy reception in their apartments or houses. Sprint has already released a femtocell for their network called the Airave. The problem…
AT&T OS 4.5.0.110 Released For 8320 & 8820
AT&T gave the 8320 & 8820 some love today by releasing OS 4.5.0.110 for them. You can find the new downloads at this link: https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do?code=577BCC914F9E55D5E4E4F82F9F00E7D4 Thanks to Jonathan, Phillip, AZwildcats, & Ben for sending this one in!
AT&T Finally Allows Native AIM & ICQ Applications
Joshua over at the BoyGenius spotted the fact that AT&T has finally sent out the required service books for AIM & ICQ to work. For some reason AT&T was taking forever to release this and was instead pushing their text messaging based OZ messenger. I guess they finally caved and released the two applications. You…
NSFW – AT&T Ad Spoof Makes You Think Twice – More Bars In More Underground Bars…
Personally I think that AT&T does not have the most bars everywhere but this funny ad spoof gave me a quick laugh. It contains some vulgar language but tries to portray why more bars will protect you if you work for the mob and have a hit put out on you. Check it out at…
AT&T Cellular Video Problems When Upgrading To The Bold
The Bold is RIM’s first smartphone that supports AT&T’s Cellular Video service. Our buddy Troy over at BBNews got a hold on an intranet posting at AT&T pointing to some issues users might have if they upgrade to a Bold. If you are just buying a Bold and starting a new BlackBerry plan the Cellular…