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Review: MoonCal for BlackBerry

30 July 2010, 5:56 pm by: Summer
Review: MoonCal for BlackBerry Rating: 10 out of 10 stars Cost: $2.99 @ the Store My children have always been fascinated with the moons. They love watching how it moves from a new moon through all the phases until they reach their favorite moon of a...

J.D. Power Gives T-Mobile USA Highest Customer Service Award

30 July 2010, 1:01 pm by: Ronen Halevy
T-Mobile once again took the award for the highest wireless customer service from J.D. Power and Associates. They just received the highest ranking in their 2010 Wireless Customer Care Performance Study –Volume 2. J.D. Power regularly gives these a...

Report Shows 4 Of Top 10 Mobile Video Sites Are Porn…

30 July 2010, 10:31 am by: Greg Myers
Anybody surprised? Bytemobile has compiled a report (PDF Link) of mobile video usage for this quarter and found some interesting data. It looks like mobile video is really causing network congestion and occurs on all networks. High definition content...

RIM Promises Developers OS 6.0 Walkthroughs – No Word On Tools…

30 July 2010, 10:13 am by: Ronen Halevy
RIM just posted on their official Developer Blog that they will be covering the new developer features in BlackBerry 6 in the coming weeks. With rumors that the BlackBerry 9800 running OS 6.0 stating that it will be released as early as next week thi...

Free face2face Social Networking App With Facebook LinkedIn & Twitter

30 July 2010, 9:00 am by: Ronen Halevy
Face2face is a new cross platform social networking app that gives you access to Facebook, Twitter, & LinkedIn all in one place. It even adds a cross platform chat where you can chat with any of your friends by signing into your social networks....

Giveaway: imgEdit From Toysoft 30 Free Copies

30 July 2010, 8:00 am by: Luis Merlos
The BlackBerry lags behind with options to edit pictures compare to other devices so the job is left out to 3rd party apps like imgEdit from Toysoft Development Inc. ImgEdit lets you edit pictures right from your BlackBerry with preset options such a...

HOT! Textender & FindMeHere Free Until July 31st!

30 July 2010, 7:01 am by: Ronen Halevy
BerryCodes has made two of their apps free until the end of the month. I am not sure about FindMeHere but Textender is a must have app for all CDMA devices. It lets CDMA users send multipart SMS text messages bypassing the 160 or 140 character limit...

Presidential BlackBerrys Are “No Fun” Says Obama

30 July 2010, 6:31 am by: the BerryReview Team
Who would have thought that having a presidential BlackBerry would be no fun. From the start of Obama’s tenure he had to fight to keep his BlackBerry instead of a government approved Sectera Edge. They severely hampered his device by only authorizi...

BlackBerry Bold 9780 Caught On Video Again!

30 July 2010, 6:18 am by: the BerryReview Team
For all of us waiting to get a BlackBerry Bold 9780 the leaks just keep coming. The team at BBLeaks has compiled a nice video (no audio) along with some more pictures of the device. The specs of this current device can be found below. Keep in mind th...

RIM Officially Announces App World 2.0 Beta

30 July 2010, 6:07 am by: Ronen Halevy
I am not sure how we missed it but RIM has finally officially announced the App World 2.0 beta. We kind of assumed we could mention it since everybody and their brother received an invite but its good to get some confirmation. Even at their media eve...

Tether For BlackBerry 50% Off Today Only – $24.97

30 July 2010, 2:44 am by: Ronen Halevy
The team running our store was getting some high demand for doing another half off sale for Tether. The popular Tether for BlackBerry app is 50% off for today only which translates to $24.97. That’s a great deal considering the crazy regular pr...

MobileCity Taking Preorders for BlackBerry 9800 ($599)

29 July 2010, 9:53 am by: the BerryReview Team
I always love when small online retailers offer unreleased/unannounced devices for preorder. The latest to join the fray is MobileCityOnline which is listing the BlackBerry 9800 for $599.99 on their website for preorder. The funny part is that they a...

BlackBerry App World 2.0 Beta Released – Users Crash RIM Servers…

29 July 2010, 9:44 am by: Luis Merlos
I guess nobody ever schooled RIM in anticipating demand. They just opened up the beta program for App World 2.0 for all users in the BlackBerry Beta Zone. The problem is that the bum rush of users trying to download the app has crashed RIM’s server...

RIM Opens First BlackBerry Retail Store in China

29 July 2010, 9:03 am by: Ronen Halevy
UPDATE: A spokesperson for RIM confirmed that this is not a RIM run store but rather it was opened by Digital China. That makes more sense because RIM is not in the habit of entering the retail space. RIM has really had a slow rollout heading into Ch...

Mystery Store Display Showing Up in AT&T Stores for BlackBerry 9800 Launch?

29 July 2010, 7:21 am by: Ronen Halevy
Now here is a real head scratcher. AT&T has been shipping a large monolith display box to many of their stores. Gizmodo got a picture of the display but managers and store workers have no idea what is inside the big black box. They have dubbed it...

Music WithMe Wireless iTunes Sync Application Updated

29 July 2010, 7:08 am by: Ronen Halevy
ParkVu’s Music WithMe is an awesome app/service that lets you sync your iTunes collection with your BlackBerry wirelessly. We told you when the app launched in June and since then they have processed over a million iTunes songs. The cool part about...

RIM Creates Cute Paper Cutout Promotional Video for Enterprise Use

29 July 2010, 6:30 am by: Ronen Halevy
I guess RIM is trying to simplify the BlackBerry’s value proposition in their latest video spotted by BBNews.pl. In this video RIM describes why businesses need to buy into the BlackBerry “Platform” instead of just a smartphone. It actually mak...

BlackBerry Bold 9780 Gets A Video Review

29 July 2010, 5:40 am by: Luis Merlos
The guys over at Driphter.com released a few screenshots of the BB 9780 just a few days ago and now they have a video for us. The Is running BlackBerry 6. On this video we see them demo the new Webkit browser something we have seen before on the touc...

RIM Picks Up BlackPad.com & BlackBerryTorch.com Domains

29 July 2010, 4:40 am by: Ronen Halevy
The latest news that has everybody talking is that MobileCrunch noticed that RIM picked up the domain BlackPad.com. They are speculating that it is for RIM’s upcoming tablet. PocketBerry noticed that RIM also owns BlackBerryTorch.com which they thi...

RANT! Why Can’t RIM Let Us Delete Our BIS Account?

28 July 2010, 5:55 pm by: Ronen Halevy
For years I have had one big issue when I try to sell, buy, donate, or give away a used BlackBerry when I switch carriers. If a person has not updated the BlackBerry associated with their BIS account to a new PIN then your BlackBerry will remain asso...

Screenshots of OS 6 Running on BlackBerry Bold 9650

28 July 2010, 1:22 pm by: Luis Merlos
If you were at all worried if your BlackBerry Bold 9650 would be getting BlackBerry OS 6.0 then this should make you sleep better at night. The team at BBLeaks got screenshots of a BlackBerry Bold 9650 running OS 6.0. It looks like that 512mb of ram...

Validas Study Provides Insight Into US Data Usage

28 July 2010, 12:01 pm by: Ronen Halevy
Validas released some highlights from their study on wireless data consumption from US carriers. It uses data drawn from consumer bills from 2009-2010. They did not provide that much detail but the highlights are pretty interesting to note. The one t...

FAIL Blog Gets Free BlackBerry App

28 July 2010, 10:58 am by: the BerryReview Team
A few readers sent in tips about a new app from RedLightOfLove which gives you easy access to the popular FAIL blog from your BlackBerry. It has some great content and comes from the I Can Haz Cheezburger network. The only downside is that it require...

Antennagate App Tracks Your BlackBerry Signal Strength

28 July 2010, 9:11 am by: the BerryReview Team
I still get a bit of a laugh when friends mention the Apple Antennagate issue. I have finally conceded to a friend that if I wrap my 9700 completely with both hands I can make it drop a bar or maybe even two but nothing like his iPhone 4. We first to...

Giveaway: Game Run Stickboy Run For BB Storm

28 July 2010, 8:30 am by: Luis Merlos
Cleric Software Solutions, LLC recently released a new game for the BlackBerry storm called Run Stickboy Run. This game looks simple but can become addictive like other strategy games I have played in the past. This one is more of an action game, the...

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