There’s a dream that one day Viigo, a popular RSS reader and mobile content-delivery app, will someday be preinstalled on every BlackBerry. Well, the first steps are being made on that front, now that the boys out of Toronto have locked down a deal with Vodafone Australia to be their first Application Center app on…
Cortado Helps BlackBerry Users Save The Weekend
While meeting up with a fellow BlackBerry blogger at MWC, we got to talking about Cortado’s SMS2Text announcement, and he gave me a heads-up on another great free app they had released called Save The Weekend. In short, Save The Weekend clocks your BlackBerry in and out, limiting your e-mailing timeframe so you’re not constantly…
BlackBerry Internet Service 2.6 Update Official, Featuring GMail IMAP Integration
RIM’s knowledge base recenetly published features of the upcoming version 2.6 of BlackBerry Internet Service, most predominately highlighting integrated IMAP support for Gmail, so reading Gmail messages on your smartphone will show the same read status from the web browser. Unfortuantely, this sync is only one way, so reading messages from the browser won’t push…
Free BlackBerry Storm App: StormSketch
New apps for the BlackBerry Storm are coming fast and furious these days. The Storm is no doubt the focus of many developers these days, and the app catalog for the touchscreen device is growing and growing. With that in mind, if you’re looking for a fun (and free) app to throw on your Storm…
OS 4.7.0.109 Leaked for the Vodafone BlackBerry Storm 9500
Looks like another OS leak has dropped, this time around it’s for the Vodafone BlackBerry Storm users. That’s right, the Vodafone BlackBerry Storm 9500 OS has gone to version 4.7.0.109. No details or leaks on any leaks for the 9530, but rest assured one will be coming down the tubes sooner or later. As always,…
Lance Armstrong Rockin’ the BlackBerry Curve 8900
A little light Saturday afternoon photo for you all. For those of you that are following Lance Armstrong’s comeback to cycling, a new photo has dropped showing Lance snapping a closeup shot of his ride. Initially the thought was he had a BlackBerry Storm, but after some debate over at CrackBerry, it looks like the…
Friday Fun: President Obama’s Ideal BlackBerry
There’s certainly been nothing but concern and gossip surrounding President Obama and his BlackBerry ever since he was elected to office. Would it be safe? Couldn’t it be hacked? Shouldn’t he be on some sort of special super-encrypted Berry? World famous hacker Kevin Mitnick was even caught commenting that the President’s BlackBerry would still be…
Verizon BlackBerry Storm Gets All GPS’d Out on Google Maps
Some cool news via the Official Google Mobile Blog. Looks like if you’re running the BlackBerry Storm on Verizon, you can download a new version of Google Maps that puts the Storm’s internal GPS to work! After installation, Google Maps will be able to pull ‘My Location’ data via GPS, providing much more accuracy. Verizon…
iBerry Bottom Dock Theme for the BlackBerry Storm 95xx
Brand new from my buddy Artem over at GemBlock, comes the new iBerry Bottom Dock Theme for the BlackBerry Storm 95xx. The theme comes to us in part beccause of the leaked Plazmic 4.7 Beta. Designers have been hard at work theme-ing up Storms and Curve 8900’s ever since the initial leak… and of course,…
New Version of Plazmic 4.7 Beta Leaked
A little bit of BlackBerry Theme developer news this morning. Following on the heels of the leaked Plazmic 4.7 Beta (4.1.0.11), a new version of Plazmic has already been leaked! This new version, 4.1.0.16 is said to have a number of important fixes and updates. Among the more notable changes, user hastings over at CB…