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If you’ve already locked your jowls on the recently released video of BlackBerry OS 6… chances are you want it on your BlackBerry, and you want it now. Sadly, you CAN’T have it now, but thanks to the theme developers at WJD Designs… you can have the next best thing… a BlackBerry Theme based on…
You may recall the iLike BlackBerry Theme from HedoneDesign that I told you about last week. It’s an ideal solution if you want to marry the masterful UI of the iPhone with the functionality and business sense of your BlackBerry. If you checked it out, and felt that maybe it just wasn’t for you, a…
RIM has just posted another video running through the upcoming BlackBerry OS 6. It’s mostly nothing we haven’t seen before, but there are a few new tidbits. Individual apps seem to get their own home on the today screen, so you can see Twitter and Facebook items separately. Visual Voicemail makes its first appearance, which…
We’ve been hearing about a project from RIM called BlackBerry Shield for some time, first in March, then again a few weeks ago. The rumours were all true, and RIM has announced the private beta of what they’re calling BlackBerry Protect. It exists as both a web service and an on-device application, and can help…
Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar is claiming that the upcoming BlackBerry tablet will include two cameras, one rear-facing and one forward-facing for video calling. To power such graphically intensive activity, Kumar says the tablet will use a 1 GHz processor, which would be the first time RIM used something that fast. He also claimed…
We’ve seen a few stills and a staged demo of RIM’s Webkit browser to be launched with BlackBerry OS 6, but now we’ve got a slightly more in-depth tour of the new BlackBerry browser The start screen looks a little rearranged, but all of the parts of the original browser are still there (search, history,…
I don’t know about you, but when I think about American Eagle Outfitters, I immediately think about high-end smartphones. Well, not really, but the company is trying to get some of that smartphone halo around its brand by giving away devices like the HTC Aria, LG Ally or BlackBerry for free when you try on…
I just made a new best friend: it’s called BerryReader, which is an app for BlackBerry that just came out today and plugs right into Google Reader with full two-way sync. Read items match up, you can star stuff for later retrieval, change flags and tags, and even drop Likes on the good stories. The…
We’ve seen Ford SYNC cars be cell-phone friendly in a lot of ways, like Wi-Fi sharing, and smartphone application APIs; today they’ve got two more features that will keep drivers both safe and connected. First up is a Do Not Disturb mode, accessed from the snazzy MyFord Touch console, which mutes incoming mobile calls, e-mails,…
Above is a leaked roadmap for the devices T-Mobile plans to release for the rest of the year, and things are looking pretty exciting on the Android front. Please excuse the picture above, it’s very blurry, but tells a good story. The picture may be a little out of focus, but for the most part,…