I haven’t seen RIM’s protective cases around in a while but apprently they are still making them. Recentaly the BlackBerry Protective Holster for become available for the BlackBerry Curve 8300 series. You can pick one up now from The BlackBerry Sync Store for only $29.95 plus shipping! If you’re not a big fan of these cases we might also recommend checking out OtterBox’s durable cases here.
Your Smartphone is designed with your work and lifestyle in mind – and for some, that work (or play) takes place in the toughest environments. This rugged holster offers smart design features to help keep your device safe wherever you need to be.
With its reinforced leather frame, and four heavy-duty snaps on the back of the case, this holster attaches to your belt and keeps your Smartphone secure in extreme or unpredictable environments.
The magnetic proximity sensor (sleeper function) tells your BlackBerry smartphone when you’ve put it away – so it can automatically switch off the screen and preserve your battery life. The sensor can also work with your device to enable it to switch notification settings depending on if your device is in or out of the case. This holster works as hard as you do.
I’m starting to get addicted to Twitter (@blackberrysync). While checking out my followers I noticed Elecite (@eveek) announced 5 new Premium Themes for the BlackBerry Pearl Flip. They have just introduced some of their most popular themes (iBerry, PSB, Scion, Leopard & Inspirat) for the sometimes forgotten flip BlackBerry. if you want to check them out click the link below and browse by each title (you will notice on the side if the 8220/8230 is supported). Enjoy!
Our friends at Elecite have just introduced their first Premium Themes for the BlackBerry Curve 8350. They have released not one but ten premium themes for the iDEN Curve. Themes supported for this model include: Ascarii 2.0, Distinct, Droid, Grunge, iBerry, Inspirat, Leopard, PSB, Scion, and xBerry. All of which can be found under the themes page (just check the supported models).
ÜberTwitter released their next Beta, 2. With all the Twitter clients out there, including TwitterBerry, SocialScope, and TweetGenius, ÜberTwitter has been working hard to improve and work on their client as well. Some of the new features and fixes include several new and great things to look forward to including: two notification profiles, internal GPS support, view your friends and their information, your friends’ list of followers, when your friendss joined Twitter, shortcuts, marking tweets as faves and unmarking faves, support for wifi, and support for scrolling BlackBerry phones such as the 8700 just to name a few. For a total list of updates and fixes, you can visit the ÜberTwitter homepage.
For those who aren’t too familiar with ÜberTwitter, it’s a Twitter client that integrates with Google Talk and also works with cell sites not just Satellites for GPS allowing you to list your location. If you have it and haven’t updated, it’s time. And if you’re interested in trying a new Twitter Client give it a try.
Vlingo was introduced less than a year ago, and millions of users are using it and are familiar with it. Vlingo Corporation, maker of Vlingo, has now launched version 3.0. Vlingo is a program that already gives meaning to the power of speech, but now it’s even more. It currently gives users the ability to send and reply to emails and text messages, searching on the mobile web using various search cues, dial a contact, look up contacts, and launch certain applications in the phone by using the voice of the user. The program utilizes the side buttons so the user can press a button and speak. But that was 2.0, and with 3.0, it just got better.
Now with v3.0 users can use the enhanced text-to-speech read-back features so that now you can have confirmation of what was said, the ability to speak action requests giving new enhancement to voice command such as send, and support for wired headsets and many Bluetooth headsets.
It’s now available for many BlackBerry BES users, making it available to more users. The BlackBerry Storm also features a special version, which is optimized for the touch screen interface.
With Vlingo v3.0, the user’s voice now has the ability to:
Send and reply to text messages with other users who also have Vlingo
Web search
Dial the phone
Send a “note to self”
Facebook and Twitter status updates
Tell A Friend
Optional read-back of the full text or email message that was spoken.
Speak action requests such as “send” or “search”
Launch native and third party applications
But that’s not all, there’s a paid version called Vlingo Plus, that also includes the ability to send and reply to text messages and emails to anyone for a one-time charge of $17.99. And rest assured, for those existing users of Vlingo v2.0, you can still continue to use it at no additional charge.
Vlingo is currently available for the BlackBerry: Bold, Storm, Pearl, Curve, and 88xx series.
US, Canadian, and UK users are able to download Vlingo v3.0 rights from BlackBerry App World.
Today was a very exciting day, with the official release of a new Twitter client named TweetGenius. I know there’s Tiny Twitter, TwitterBerry, SocialScope, SocialScope Lite, and ÜberTwitter, so what makes TweetGenius so unique? It’s not like SocialScope or ÜberTwitter, it doesn’t integrate Facebook or Google, or any other program with Twitter. It’s not like TwitterBerry or any other applications. This is everything you ever wanted in a Twitter application and more. The description said it was made for BlackBerry users by BlackBerry users who know what they want. I’ve been hearing so much about it on Twitter, and very excited that it’s finally out. As you can see by the following video, it’s pretty impressive in what it can do.
The Application is the vision and design of Boy Genius from the Boy Genius Report. The code for the program was done by Dossy Shiobara, a master coder. The current version is 1.0 with 1.1 in the works. The program is $9.99 but for now the only versions supported are the Curve 8900 and the Bold, so they are offering the application for $4.99 for two weeks as the Storm, 88xx, and 83xx versions will be out by that time. The price includes free upgrades till v2.0 and is tied to the pin, but don’t worry, this will include if you have to get a warranty or insurance replacement as long as it’s one application on one phone at any given time.
The TweetGenius Twitter icon
TweetGenius in front of T-Town
Friends
To message
Options
Writing a message
I have to agree
Missed the Poof
So now with the review. I installed the application and the first thing you see is the classic blue Twitter bird icon. Click on the icon and it brings up TweetGenius by BGR. The colors are appeasing to the eye in white and different shades of blue. It’s a cartoon city in the back (Must be T Town), and there are three icons on the front: Friends (with a person and shadow icon), Replies (with the @ sign), and Direct Messages (with an open envelope that has a letter coming out). On each of these icons you will see a bubble in the right corner with the number of unread messages. Clicking on either one of these icons will move the screen up and the next screen rolls up from the bottom. Click on any of the messages, and the the full message rolls in from left to right. Click on the name of the friend and the friend’s profile rolls down from the top. Pretty sweet how it rolls and is like an intricate cube you roll to read. If you click the option button you have Refresh, Mark all read, Send tweet, Friends Timeline, Replies, Direct Messages, Public Timeline, Go to user, Search, Options, and Help.
When going into your Friends and other messages, your friends pictures show on the left, and your’s on the right. When you click on a tweet and click options and choose to tweet, retweet, or reply, a quotation balloon shows up, and the background darkens. Fill out what you want to say and hit the options button. Now the choices are: Select; Check Spelling; Send; Insert my location; Clear Field; Show Symbols; and Close. Choose send and “Poof!” your message disappears in a cloud of smoke! It’s like message be gone!
The program is nice in that you can follow through it. When you are on someone’s profile your options are: Select; Refresh; Reply; Direct Message; View timeline; Go to user; Follow this user; Track this user; and Close.
So in rating this application, the colors and how appeasing to the eye it is makes this a five and a half stars out of five. For user friendliness, it’s definitely five stars. For the way the program rolls and works, amazing, and for that I would give it ten stars! It looks and works like an application for Twitter you could only hope for, it’s very much like what you see on your desktop only much more impressive. It’s amazing enough to earn an icon on your BlackBerry because it’s just as awesome as our BlackBerry phones we have come to love. So great job Boy Genius! And hats off to Dossy Shiobara as well. And most importantly, there hasn’t been one error message yet, which really impresses me. It’s great on my battery and I haven’t missed a tweet yet. When I’ve had to restart my phone, I haven’t had to log in to get my messages.
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To learn more about TweetGenius, to take advantage of the special going for $4.99, and to download this great application that will bring Twitter to you in a new way, the way it should be presented, click here.
Currently the program is only compatible with the Bold and the Curve 8900, will be compatible with the Storm, 88xx, and 83xx series.
Our friends at Elecite have just introduced a new theme to go along with their gaming themes. First they started with PSB, which was based on Sony’s Playstation. Now Elecite is proud to introduce XBerry, which changes the look of your BlackBerry to Microsoft’s Xbox 360 interface. This hot theme features a sliding bottom dock (on Bold, Curve 8900 and Storm) with 10 icons (7 on Storm) and 2 today screen icons to keep you in sync with your phone. It’s a pretty hot design and available for BlackBerry Bold, Curve 83xx, Curve 8900, Storm and 8800 series for only $6.99.
Even though the BlackBerry Curve is an “older model” for say it’s still highly used around the World. OtterBox has just introduced the new slim Impact Case for the BlackBerry Curve 8300 series. The new impact case for the BlackBerry Curve fits all of the 8300 series including 8300, 8310, 8320 and 8330. Think of this case of as heavy duty silicon skin featuring an ergonomic design and separate screen protector. You can purchase the Curve Impact Case for only $19.95 from OtterBox.com and soon in the BBSync Store.
The folks at Sprint-Nextel has finally released the camera-less version of the iDEN Curve 8350i. This means you now either have the option for the camera or camera-less version for $149 with contract. Next up Telus should be releasing the camera-less version as well on their MiKE network so stay tuned for that…
You can find complete details on the Nextel 8350i at Sprint.com.
An official release of OS 4.6.1.204 has arrived via Sprint-Nextel. This new OS is said to fix several key issues including echo issues with the mic, MMS issues, other audio issues, and resetting issues. For full details see the image above. Keep in mind TELUS users may also install this OS by simply removing the vendor.xml file.
