Well everyone its August 21st! This means its BlackBerry Bold launch day for Rogers in Canada. We have heard rumors of more software delays but for now the Bold is available on Rogers.com and its showing as orderable. Pricing goes as follows: $399.99 with three year contract and “regular price” (is that no contract?) for [...]
Warning this story is a little sad… Boy Genius was un-loading his car this morning and dropped his BlackBerry Bold. The BlackBerry Bold dropped out of his hands and on to pavement. I can only imagine the pain he must have felt. After picking it up he discovered that it was a little damaged. [...]
21 August 2008
Well everyone its August 21st! This means its BlackBerry Bold launch day for Rogers in Canada. We have heard rumors of more software delays but for now the Bold is available on Rogers.com and its showing as orderable. Pricing goes as follows: $399.99 with three year contract and “regular price” (is that no contract?) for [...]
20 August 2008
myBoxTone Insight is a new beta that is now in testing. This software monitors your BlackBerry’s health such as signal strength, battery remaining, free memory, data sent and received and call logging (outgoing and duration). MyBoxTone is currently in beta testing and is free to obtain. Visit my.boxtone.com/insight for details.
20 August 2008
CNN.cn has done it again. Now they have successfully taken apart a BlackBerry Bold 9000. If you watch this video you will learn how to take it apart piece by piece, although we don’t recommend it. Click on over to check out the video or check out their other disassembly videos by them. You need [...]
20 August 2008
Expansys seems to love outing RIM’s unreleased handsets lately. Just a few weeks ago they were showing the BlackBerry Thunder as coming soon. This time Expansys is showing RIM’s unannounced BlackBerry Kickstart aka Pearl 8220 and 8210 as coming soon. They also list that both models of the Kickstart will sport PTT (Push to [...]
19 August 2008
So Rogers has accidently listed the BlackBerry Pearl 8220 (aka Kickstart) on their gaming downloads page. This could mean one of two things either Rogers will be launching the Pearl 8220 within the week or two or that they simply made an error and listed it way too early. Our bet goes along with previous [...]
19 August 2008
Remember JiveTalk? It’s been a long time favorite for multi-account instant messaging on my BlackBerry. JiveTalk has been rebranded into BeeJiveIM. BeeJIveIM now supports AIM, iChat, MSN/Windows Live, Yahoo!, Google Talk, MySpace, Lotus Sametime , ICQ & Jabber. The new BeeJiveIM version 1.1.10 now includes: Group Chat Support for AIM®, Yahoo!®, MSN® / Windows Live, and [...]
19 August 2008
That’s right folks! Rogers is officially launching their BlackBerry Bold 9000 smartphone this Thursday August 21, 2008. Invites have been sent to the media to attend the Bold launch. Pricing isn’t confirmed anywhere but its expected to launch with a price of $399 with three year and $650 without contract. The Canadian Press is [...]
18 August 2008
Steve from Pimp My Berry has sent me a link to themes he made celebrating Michael Phelps’ Gold Medals won at the Olympics this summer. The themes are available for both the BlackBerry Curve and Pearl. Click the links below to check them out… BlackBerry Curve Link & BlackBerry Pearl Link
17 August 2008
Seems that Rogers’ BlackBerry Bold will remain at $399 with three year contract, however it seems the outright price (MSRP) is better than expected. The Bold will run you $649.99 with no contract, which for some people sounds a whole lot better if you don’t want to be stuck into one of those lovely [...]
17 August 2008
Warning this story is a little sad… Boy Genius was un-loading his car this morning and dropped his BlackBerry Bold. The BlackBerry Bold dropped out of his hands and on to pavement. I can only imagine the pain he must have felt. After picking it up he discovered that it was a little damaged. [...]
15 August 2008
Interesting enough Rogers has the BlackBerry Bold in one of their new flyers. The price will be a little heavy at $399 with contract and nearly $1,000 without contract. Looks like some people might be waiting for BlackBerry Javelin or BlackBerry Thunder after all… Click on over to see the flyer! [Via CrackBerry]
15 August 2008
Ever wonder how big the upcoming BlackBerry Javelin is compared to other BlackBerry smartphones? Well someone over at HoFo posted an image comparing the un-released Javelin to a BlackBerry Curve and 8800. This thin BlackBerry will basically be the 3G-less version of the new BlackBerry Bold. It will be released sometime later this year [...]
14 August 2008
The folks from a new site called Black Light Themes contacted me to let everyone know about this new site. They offer tons of free premium BlackBerry themes and to get them all you have to do is register on their forum! Once registered you will have access to over 100 themes including their new [...]
14 August 2008
As a Mac user I never was happy with the options for syncing my BlackBerry and Mac together. I always wanted RIM just to design a Desktop Manager like they have for Windows for Mac. Well I went over to the BlackBerry site today to discover that a new version of Pocket Mac (4.1.25) [...]
14 August 2008
Speck Products has released stylish new colored hard cases for the BlackBerry Pearl 2 series (8110, 8120, 8130). The new colored cases are available in clear, pink, green or red and include a flexible belt clip that secure it to your belt. These new cases are available from Speck for $24.95 USD at SpeckProducts. Press [...]
14 August 2008
Electric Pocket is introducing PhoneFace, a new application for BlackBerry which creates on touch speed dials for any of your contacts. Plus PhoneFace will sync with Facebook to scan through your friends pictures for one touch access to them. You can pick up a free 7 day trial from PhoneFace.com or purchase it for [...]
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