Good ol’ Best Buy; droppin’ prices and takin’ names, week after week. Though I am not 100% sure how successful they have been with their “Free Phone Friday” campaign, it must be doing well if it returns week after week, with periodic breaks in between. This week’s featured “free” phones are the BlackBerry Bold 9780 [...]

Remember we told you in mid-March about BlackBerry releasing a Facebook for BlackBerry 2.0 BETA app into their BlackBerry Beta Zone? Well, news has surfaced on BerryReview.com that BlackBerry has decided to release another update to this app that remains in Beta and in the Beta Zone. The new version is Facebook 2.0.0.16. This version supports [...]

Big news for people members of the BlackBerry Beta Zone - Facebook for BlackBerry 2.0 has been released today to be tested by Beta Zone members. This is the update that Facebook users who own BlackBerry’s have been hoping and praying for and it is available to a limited number of people who register for [...]

You may remember back in December I told you about some VPN software being developed for Android and iPhone and I mentioned I thought it “almost looks like a shot across the bow at BlackBerry and their stranglehold on Enterprise clients”. Well, it looks like BlackBerry did not take that news sitting down and they [...]

Yesterday, Mobilicity announced that they had become the first Canadian Carrier to offer an upgrade to BlackBerry 6 for the BlackBerry smartphones in their lineup, the Bold 9700 and the Curve 3G (a.k.a. 9300), that do not ship with BlackBerry 6 already installed on the devices. They have provided on their site (and linked below) [...]

As mentioned yesterday, Poynt updated their BlackBerry app to version 1.7.0.47 but this new version still doesn’t have support for Reverse Number Lookup from within the Call Log screen on devices running BlackBerry 6. With the newest version of Poynt on a BlackBerry Torch with operating system version 6.0.0.246 installed when you try to get [...]

BlackBerry 6 has been talked to death. It’s better than OS5 but not good enough for people not to be leaving the platform in droves. It’s got a nice touch overlay, but it still runs very nicely with a trackpad. In fact, I’d argue it works better with the trackpad. The Style 9670 is a [...]

Managing email messages can be a cumbersome task these days, especially on your smartphone. When threads go on and on, it’s very easy to let things go and become unorganized. It really bothers me to have messages in a thread all over the place. One of my coworkers was praising the desktop Gmail client’s capabilities [...]

The BlackBerry Bold 9700 was like RIM’s Coming Out party. It was a popular brand already, loved and used by millions of people, but with the successor to the popular Bold 9000, it managed to supercede the Enterprise, move past just the Business Man, and leap right into the hands of teens, mothers, nerds, and [...]

(BlackBerry 6 on left, OS 5 on Bold 9700 on right) I think every Bold 9700 owner wants BlackBerry 6, just because. He can’t quite figure out why, but it’s just better; those smooth transitions, the touchpad-sensitive gestures, the WebKit browser. I’ve seen the Bold 9780 and it is indeed an upgrade from the 9700, [...]