RIM’s BlackBerry Pearl Flip isn’t exactly the most popular BlackBerry device to ever come out of Waterloo, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t deserve its time in the spotlight. US Cellular is rumored to be picking up the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 in mid-June, but it looks like Alltel will be beating everyone to market…
New Viigo Feature Lets you Make Restauraunt Reservations
Viigo has teamed up with OpenTable.com to let you make dinner reservations right from your mobile – just check out the Local Interest channel and pick your city and region. It would be nice if there were some automated suggestions based on GPS location, or if it let you initiate a call from within Viigo,…
StormSlider Turns Your BlackBerry Storm into an iPhone… um… Sort of.
Are you a BlackBerry Storm user that wishes you could lock your device just like the iPhone? You know, the ‘slide to unlock’ screen that keeps your device safe from random touches? Now, thanks to StormSlider from David Grant, you can get that same type of functionality right on your BlackBerry Storm. Many options are…
OS 4.7.0.132 Leaked for BlackBerry Storm 9530
While heading down to my office this morning, I caught myself thinking ‘I wonder what BlackBerry OS leak will hit us today?’. After about 30 seconds on the computer, I was presented with yet another OS leak, to no surprise at all. The latest leak os OS 4.7.0.132 for the BlackBerry Storm 9530. Folks running…
T-Mobile UK to Offer Whole Year’s Worth of Unlimited BlackBerry Service for One-Time Fee
Here’s a head-scratcher: as of May 1st., T-Mobile UK will be offering a new unlimited BlackBerry data and messaging plan that will cost £179.99 (around $US 260) and keep you covered for a full year. That’s a pretty hefty initial investment T-Mobile is expecting from consumer in a recession, especially considering there’s still pay-as-you-go voice…
BerryWalls.com: The Free BlackBerry Wallpaper Search Engine
Matt from BerryWalls just dropped us a quick note to let us know a new public beta of ‘BerryWalls’ has been launched online. The site is a repository/search engine for BlackBerry Wallpapers. Try it out, it’s kinda cool. Start off by visiting BerryWalls, type in a search, and if the engine returns results, you can…
Facebook 1.5 for BlackBerry Released
After getting an early sneak peek last month, Facebook 1.5 for BlackBerry is now available. Integrating Facebook friends with BlackBerry contacts is the biggest change, allowing profile pictures to find their way to your caller ID and event invitations to pop up automatically in your calendar app. Smaller tweaks, like additional language support and notifications…
Contest: Tip Calculator for BlackBerry Storm Up For Grabs
Here’s a cool freebie for those of you out there running a BlackBerry Storm. My bud Kevin over at CrackBerry in collaboration with the folks from Cleric Software Solutions have put together a little contest. They’re giving away 20 copies of ‘Tip Calculator’ for the BlackBerry Storm. Cool! As you can see from the screen…
Verizon Wireless Outs OS 4.5.0.138 for BlackBerry 8830
Without further adieu, Verizon has finally pushed OS 4.5.0.138 for the BlackBerry 8830 out the door for all to download and install. This is an official update folks, so anyone rockin’ an 8830 should really take a look at this and install if they want to keep on top of the latest and greatest. We…
More BlackBerry OS 5.0 Improvements Reported
The latest BlackBerry operating system leaked out two weeks ago and now that everyone’s had some time to play around with it, the finer upgrades have been identified. Most of them require an appropriately updated BlackBerry Enterprise Server as well, which we’ve already heard will support remote file access, conference call-in functions and e-mail flags,…