One of the most popular sites for cell phone parts CNN.CN has posted videos on how to take apart your BlackBerry smartphone. They offer videos on how to disassemble and assemble your BlackBerry 8100, 8300, 8700 and 8800. While we don’t recommend taking apart your BlackBerry if you need too this is a great guide!

Check out the videos at CNN.CN

Here is the Pearl 8100 disassemble video:

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If you have recently installed RIM’s new operating system version 4.5 on your BlackBerry, then its time to customize it! Our good friends over at eVeek have designed three new hot themes for you. What’s the best part about these themes? They are free!

To get started simply select your model: BlackBerry 8800, Pearl 81xx, Curve 83xx, 8700.

For anyone who is using the new OS 4.5 on your BlackBerry here is a really cool theme. This theme was designed with the new Plasmic 4.5 CDK and will ONLY work for OS 4.5 (sorry 4.2 and 4.3 users). This theme is complete with bouncing icons on a unique home screen menu. You can grab this theme for free for 8100/8300/8700/8800 series smartphones. Here are the OTA (Over the Air) links to download the theme: Pearl 81xx | Curve 83xx | 87xx | 88xx.

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So Verizon technicians use to have to carry around a laptop looks like now its been replaced with a BlackBerry. That's awesome but wait. Verizon replaced it with the BlackBerry 8703e?! weird. We aren't too sure why Verizon would replace laptops with such an old model BlackBerry now with the new 8830 Word Edition or 8330 Curve in the game. Anyways click on over for the press release. 

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Rogers Wireless in Canada is now offering BOGO (Buy one, Get one) to clear out their BlackBerry 8700g stock. So now you can buy any BlackBerry device and get up to four 8700’s free! OR you can buy any BlackBerry device and get $100 off up to four BlackBerry Curve 8310’s. Both these offers of course require a three year contract. See your local Rogers store for details.

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Bell found a way to clear out its out BlackBerry stock. They are offering buy one BlackBerry 8830 World Edition or Pearl 8130 and you can get up to four free BlackBerry 8703’s. This deal is great for almost any business we wants to get connected by the power of BlackBerry’s.

Bell also launched new data sharing packages allowing the 5 users to share certain amounts of data. For example: $25/4MB, $40/8MB, $60/30MB or $100/1GB (1024MB) then you can add any users over your 5 for just $20/month. Kind of a neat idea for small businesses.  You can find the details over on Bell.

Well its about time but Research In Motion (RIM) and Alcatel-Lucent have signed an agreement for the distribuation of BlackBerry handhelds in China. The first BlackBerry smartphone to ship to China will be the classic BlackBerry 8700, then most likely followed by some newer models. 

“Following our launch of the BlackBerry service with China Mobile, we are very pleased to now enter this smartphone distribution agreement with Alcatel-Lucent and Alcatel Shanghai Bell. Our partnership with Alcatel-Lucent has been very productive in other regions and has been key in our progress to import smartphones into the Chinese market,” said Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO of Research In Motion. “The BlackBerry platform offers robust and unmatched benefits for enterprise customers that wish to enhance mobile productivity and competitive advantage. We look forward to building on the early interest and momentum we are experiencing in China with both multinational and domestic corporations.”

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Research In Motion (RIM) has been fighting for years to be able to sell their handhelds in China. Eight years later RIM has received the OK to begin selling them. The BlackBerry 8700g will launch in China by the end of the month. They have already received orders for nearly 5,000 devices. 

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The CrackBerry team has reviewed a very neat case for the BlackBerry. The OutterBOX BlackBerry cases are available for both the 8700 and 7200 series models. It encases your device making it dust, drop and crush proof in a polycarbonate/ABS body. The best part is you can still do everything with your device such as send/receive calls, write messages and charge it.

The “stylish” OutterBOX case will cost you a whooping $129.99 USD however it’s a great idea for protection in heavy duty environments. Check out OutterBOX.com for details and other cases for iPods and Treo’s just to name a few.