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Rogers’ account management application for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android has added a few more features. You can now manage which numbers are on your My5 list (particularly handy for when you suddenly remember how many minutes you burn through with someone in particular), ringbacks for custom songs playing in place of standard ringtones, and advanced…
An internal list of devices Verizon intends to axe has snuck out, giving us the dates when certain phones are reaching end of life. The BlackBerry Curve 8530 is being taken off the shelves September 16, the BlackBerry Storm2 9550 exits stage left on October 10, and the Palm Pre Plus hits the dusty trail…
BlackBerry Pearl 3G and Bold 9000 users, time to catch up with a few OS releases I missed earlier this week. The first, well, it’s not actually an official release, but a leak. If you’ve got a BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100 or 9105 in-hand, you can download OS 5.0.0.884… if you choose to. Remember, this…
The BlackBerry Curve 3G is eking out to GSM carriers, and we got one from Telus to arse around with. As you might expect, it’s an awful lot like its forefathers, the Curve 8520 and 8530, with a few superficial changes; the trim is a darker titanium chrome, and the battery door has a really…
Bell has just launched their landing page for the BlackBerry Torch 9800 (which is also coming to Rogers and Telus, let’s not forget). We still don’t have an official date for the BlackBerry Torch launch in Canada (mid-September seems likely), but at least now you can sign up for e-mail alerts when there’s any info.…
Now that a bunch of GSM carriers have squeezed out the BlackBerry Curve 3G, it’s time we start seeing it on CDMA carriers. A RIM knowledgebase article (which has been pulled since being published) described a problem with the unannounced BlackBerry Curve 9330, particularly for Sprint. It’s worth noting that “3G” is left out of…
Facebook is showing off some of its mobile usage data and it shows that its Apple iPhone and BlackBerry users handily outnumber Android users. According to the company’s Facebook for iPhone page, there are nearly 105 million active monthly iPhone users. This number seems a bit fishy because Apple recently said that iOS is on…
British BlackBerry fans who aren’t fond of the Torch 9800 headed their way, but want something higher-end than the Curve 3G 9300 may be interested to hear that the refreshed BlackBerry Bold R020 (9780) is coming to Vodafone UK according to internal stock files. I’m still a bit confused about the R020 designation we had…
RIM just picked up another company to join the ranks of Chalk Media, QNX, Viigo and Dash Navigation: Cellmania, whose primary business has been in carrier app stores. Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T, Telus, Telefonica and lots of others have used Cellmania to power their mobile content marketplaces for ringtones, wallpapers, games, apps, and the like.…
A tip from Verizon has hinted that there are problems at RIM affecting BlackBerry service across the board. This isn’t the first time BlackBerry servers have had a glitch, and it certainly won’t be the last. Every time service goes down like this, folks get worried that relying on RIM’s central infrastructure for work e-mail,…