TrapCall Restricted Number “Unblocker” Now Supports OS 7 and 7.1
Some of you may have heard or TrapCall before but in case you have not its worth noting the service. TrapCall is a subscription service coupled with a BlackBerry app that attempts to solve the problem of annoying blocked calls. There is nothing more annoying than sitting in a meeting to receive a call from…
Sprint Offering $125 Rebate for Individuals Porting to their Smartphones
It has been awhile since carriers were offering incentives for customers to defect from another carrier. Sprint has been bleeding customers and their latest initiative is offering customers with single lines a $125 service credit if they port their number to Sprint and get a smartphone. As long as you port your number to Sprint…
RIM is Running Out of Model Numbers… What Will be Next?
If you have been following the latest rumors for upcoming RIM smartphones you may have noticed that RIM is getting close to crossing a boundary. Currently the model numbers go as high as the Torch 9800 but the latest rumors have a 9900 Bold Touch or Torch 2 model which makes me wonder where RIM’s…
Google Voice Number Porting Goes Live for All!!!
Just last week Google was teasing their Google Voice users by doing a soft test of their number portability feature. We are happy to report that Google has now taken that feature live for ALL current Google Voice users. New users will get the feature within the next few weeks. Google admits that this is…
SWEET! Google Voice Now Lets You Port Your Phone Number!!!
It’s hard to believe the day has actually come. One of the biggest drawbacks of Google Voice until now was that you had to use the number assigned to your by Google. This made for a fun game of using both your old phone number and your Google Voice number. Now Google has finally implemented…
Phone.com Rolls Out Cloud Based Phone Service BlackBerry App
Phone.com let us know that they have released a BlackBerry client for their cloud based phone service. The service works kind of like Google Voice but has more features and tends to be geared more at small businesses who do not have a PBX. The app lets you dial out from your virtual Phone.com number…
Do You Still Memorize Peoples Numbers?
How many of you still bother to remember peoples phone numbers by heart? It used to be an art form to memorize as many of your friends numbers without having to pull out a address book (the paper kind :)). I was reading an article in the New York Times about how Travis Erickson lost…
eVoice Releases Free BlackBerry App For Their Users
I was waiting for a vendor to finally release an app like this. eVoice is sort of like a business focused take on Google Voice. You pay for the service unlike Google Voice and in return you get actual customer service which is necessary for business services. The eVoice solution lets you easily meld your…