Cocky Culture has a variety of themes, very unique and very original. We’ve posted the review of Conquest, which is a fave of mine.  The theme I’m reviewing is Rocker Chic. The theme is very rock styled and classic. And there couldn’t be a better time for a new theme, especially with the fifty percent sale!

Themes by Cocky Culture are half off for one more day. So as I go into detail about the theme, keep in mind that you can even find two for the price of one!

This is the description given for the theme:

Rocker Chic is an edgy, progressive design that maintains its sense of femininity all the while pushing a harder, edgier look. Everyone deserves to feel like a Rockstar, even your Blackberry!

I downloaded the theme to my BlackBerry 9630 Tour. The theme is dark yet vibrant. It sports wings behind a heart that is edged in black, like an antique valentine. The battery bars are displayed in lavender. The wings are like burnt sienna. The heart is a dark red and in the right lobe sits a skull within the heart. There’s a blotch of white in the background. Five icons sit on the bottom, messages, contacts, calendar, browser, and media. Those are default, but they are able to be personalized to the five you’d like to show. When the menu is pulled up, the background is a salmon pink, and has antique like etching in the background. It reminds me of my great grandmother’s table cloths. The designed icons have black edging around them. When pulling up messages, for example, the menu is a darker salmon.

Now here’s another surprise. When you get a message, a heart appears in the corner of the icon, such as a message, or im. Even the browser has decor from the theme. It didn’t slow my Tour down, and adds personality. There are eleven different Premium themes that Cocky Culture has available, Rocker Chic being one of them.

This theme reminds me of a rocking Valentine every day. Now I rate according to how appeasing the theme is, which is very, the customer service which Tony is outstanding, and how my phone reacts to it, which was great. So on all counts, I give this theme 5/5. Conquest is really nice too, I can dress my phone with themes to show my mood or feeling of the day.

If you hurry today, you can grab the theme for fifty percent off, if you use the following code: 2d50off .

You can download Rocker Chic from Cocky Culture here >

Compatible with BlackBerry handsets: 83xx Curve series, Curve 8900, 8700, 88xx World series, 82xx Flip Pearl series, Storm 95xx series, Tour 9630, Bold 9000

Compatible OS: 4.5, 4.6, 4.7

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

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.

You can download ÜberTwitter here at the ÜberTwitter download OTA>.

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It’s not secret President Barack Obama is a BlackBerry addict. Before he entered the White House there was concern that he wouldn’t be able to keep his trusty BlackBerry 8700c and that he would have to rely on one of the NSA’s Sectera Edge Windows Mobile smartphone. Instead apparently Obama has convinced the NSA to take his standard BlackBerry and add a super-encrypted package to it. Obama is only able to use the device for personal communications and only senior staff and a small group of personal friends will be able to reach him on the BlackBerry. Regardless this is great news for the President and all addicts are the World.

[via BBCool]

Just in case you don’t have a BlackBerry Storm or Bold the folks over at CrackBerry grabbed a ton of leaked beta OS’ for nearly all GSM BlackBerry models. If you own any of the following models here is a beta OS for you (click model to download): BlackBerry 8700, Pearl 8100, 8110, 8120, BlackBerry 8800, 8820, Curve 8300, 8310 and 8320. Before installing these please keep in mind that this is a beta software and it has not been officially released by RIM. Be sure to make a backup of all data on your device before proceeding. Installing the software is done at your own risk so be sure you know what your doing. But anyways enjoy!

Even though with all these fancy new BlackBerry smartphones on the market, some people still prefer the old and tough BlackBerry 8700 series. Our friends at OtterBox know that. Originally when we saw the 8700 case from OtterBox it was HUGE (nearly double to the size of the phone). Well today OtterBox has redesigned the case to make it slimmer and more compact much like the ones for the Curve or Bold. The new cases are available from OtterBox for $49.95 USD, which is nothing considering the protection you get for your device. Check out our previous reviews of the OtterBox family

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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Verizon Replaces Field Technicians' Laptop PCs With BlackBerry Smartphones

Verizon Partner Solutions Uses First-of-Its-Kind Network Application to Replicate Functions of 8-Pound Laptop PC on 5-Ounce Wireless SmartphoneCompact Smartphones Offer Big Benefits to VPS Unit and Its Customers

May 15, 2008

Media Contact:

Les Kumagai, 213-434-2693

ORLANDO, Fla. - The Verizon Partner Solutions (VPS) unit and its force of 2,250 field technicians and managers are experiencing big boosts in mobility and operating efficiency – enhancing their ability to deliver higher levels of customer satisfaction – after replacing their 8-pound laptop PCs with 5-ounce BlackBerry® 8703e smartphones from Research In Motion (RIM). Verizon unveiled the new application Thursday (May 15) at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium 2008 in Orlando.

Using a new, first-of-its-kind network solution developed by Verizon, the specially configured BlackBerry devices deliver the same computing and data communications functions as the retired PCs – at a fraction of the size, weight and cost of a laptop computer.

Verizon Partner Solutions is a wholesale provider of networks and network services to wireless, Internet, cable and telephone companies based in the U.S.  VPS field technicians use automated electronic systems and software applications to manage their daily service workflow, which includes the critical tasks of installing, maintaining and repairing services for customers.

"Prior to the deployment of the BlackBerry smartphones, technicians working at remote locations in the field could only connect using laptop PCs," said Diane McCarthy, senior vice president of customer experience for Verizon Partner Solutions.  "It was a cumbersome process that limited their access to routine work-assignment, testing, close-out and time-reporting applications, and their ability to communicate job-status updates to customers and supervisors."

Charles Henry, vice president of systems management for Verizon Partner Solutions, said, "What we were hearing from our techs in the field was a call for a new communications tool that would empower them to better manage their work assignments and fulfill customer requests more efficiently.

"We took their suggestions to our IT group and determined that a wireless smartphone could be the answer.  But we couldn't find an existing product that fulfilled all of our techs' needs.  So, working with our colleagues at Verizon Wireless and a team of vendors, our IT group built this new first-of-its-kind wireless solution for us," he said.

The new solution was designed to address four key technician requirements:

• Portability - Reducing the volume of equipment that technicians hand-carry into and out of work sites saves time by preventing repeat trips, which in urban areas can stretch for several city blocks.  Carried on a belt or in a pocket, the hands-free portability of the Blackberry 8703e increases technicians' carrying capacity by removing the laptop PC from their gear load.

• Speed - Because the smartphones are always on, they give technicians fast access to the systems and applications they need – eliminating the time-consuming PC start-up and shutdown cycles that halted technicians' progress whenever they used their laptops. 
• Simplicity - After becoming familiar with the device, technicians are up-and-running quickly because they use the same Verizon systems and applications they accessed via their laptops.  In addition, because the smartphones combine both data and voice communications in a single device, they relieve the technicians of carrying and caring for a separate mobile phone.
• Customer Communication - Timely technician-to-customer communications are an essential element of quality customer service.  Verizon systems and software applications accessed using the smartphones have been upgraded to automatically prompt submission of real-time job-status updates to VPS customers – enabling technicians to provide customers with greater real-time service and support information.

"Without question, the new BlackBerry smartphones are a huge leap forward in our ability to serve our wholesale customers," said McCarthy.  "One of the best features, in my mind, is the real-time job-status reporting function enabled by Verizon's customer support systems.  Keeping customers apprised and aware of the status of their service request is a crucial element of a positive customer experience."

While the benefits of the conversion are most visible with technicians in the field, the smartphones are also having a measurable impact on the VPS unit's operations.

"Our cost to issue a fully loaded BlackBerry 8703e smartphone to a field tech is less than what it used to cost us to equip that same technician with a laptop," said Henry.

The lower cost of deployment has allowed VPS to make the BlackBerry smartphones the standard communications device used by all of its technicians.  This has enabled VPS to streamline its internal IT support and help desk operations, focusing on the smartphones rather than a variety of devices and operating systems.  And in the future, use of the smartphones should reduce the overall cost of periodic equipment refreshes across the field force.

Data security is always an operational concern.  The BlackBerry 8703e smartphone eliminates the need to secure a PC hard drive – the system and application servers used are all shielded by a network firewall – and its home screen is locked and password protected.

The new device also supports Verizon's green environmental initiatives by reducing the number of energy-consuming devices used by VPS technicians, while reducing the number of PCs that the VPS unit will decommission and recycle in the future.

"Our field technicians' response to the smartphones has been positive, but that's not surprising because we designed this solution using their recommendations," said Henry. "Going forward, our plan is to solicit their continuous feedback on the device to help us plan future upgrades and improvements.  We believe that enriching the utility of the device for our techs and their managers will correspondingly enrich the value of our relationships with our wholesale customers."

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), headquartered in New York, is a leader in delivering broadband and other wireline and wireless communication innovations to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers.  Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, serving more than 67 million customers nationwide.  Verizon's Wireline operations include Verizon Business, which delivers innovative and seamless business solutions to customers around the world, and Verizon Telecom, which brings customers the benefits of converged communications, information and entertainment services over the nation's most advanced fiber-optic network.  A Dow 30 company, Verizon employed a diverse workforce of approximately 232,000 as of the end of the first quarter 2008 and last year generated consolidated operating revenues of $93.5 billion.  For more information, visit www.verizon.com.

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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