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Generally themes don’t really turn my crank, but this new series from Triformity really caught my eye because it was about utility before looks. There aren’t any crazy new icons or obnoxious bundled backgrounds or wacky fonts – they simply offer more icons on the BlackBerry homescreen in a layout that is intuitive and useful. There’s plenty of room on the top bar for notifications of every type, and a miniaturized row of icons offer all the basic BlackBerry applications. For awhile, I had turned the Dial from Home Screen option off so the keypad could be used for shortcuts (M for Messages, A for Address Book, O for Options, etc.) instead of phone dialing, but a clever theme like this could have saved me that trouble without sacrificing customizable slots to core functions. These guys are very smart about their themes and appeal extremely well to us power-users. It’s only on the BlackBerry Bold right now, but drop them a line if you’d like to see it on other models. Hit up their site to take a look at the four Enterprise variants: Focus, Space, Simple and Speed.
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
