Archive for the ‘BlackBerry News’ Category

Opera Mini 4.2 upgrade available for BlackBerry

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Opera Mini has posted their 4.2 beta upgrade for Over The Air mobile download. The upgrade reintroduces their previously popular skins, and greater performance. According to the website, "Opera Mini 4.2 can use our newly established server park in the US. This means significantly faster page downloads for our users in ...

Verizon Testman Site Prices Storm

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

It's official. Well, almost. The Verizon BlackBerry Storm is up on Verizon's testman site. The Storm is going to cost $219.99 on a 2yr contract. The mail-in rebate details, if any, haven't been announced, but it looks like the Storm will be $219.99. We'll have to wait until it hits the ...

Storm Live Demo available from BlackBerry.com

Monday, November 10th, 2008

BlackBerry.com has made available a live demo of the Storm with detailed user info, setup, and advanced setup tips. Pretty darn nice tutorial for the uninitiated! Click on over to BlackBerry.com for the Live Demo, also check out the 360° views, photos and video while you're there.

9500 Storm Delayed on Vodafone / New Hands-On Video online

Friday, November 7th, 2008

The word from across the pond is that the Storm has been been delayed a week by Vodafone. Why? I don't know, but since Vodafone has been been taking pre-orders and November 11th launch date were fairly firm, my suspicions are this has more to do with stock availability for what ...

AT&T Internal Bold Tips/Tricks, Datasheet, WiFi Tips for review

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

..... ... ..... BerryReview has placed four AT&T internal documents up for review. The Tips sheets is great for a new or experienced BlackBerry user. The WiFi Network sheet has info for using AT&T HotSpots such as at Starbucks. Download each at the link below... Bold Tips Tricks.pdf Bold Datasheet.pdf Bold ...

BlackBerry Storm 9530 Manual Appears

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Well, it is about time something NEW about the Storm appeared... it has been about three days since the LA launch and after being spoiled with new images, video reviews, announcements, etc., I was beginning to feel unloved. But no more. Download the 249 page 9530 Storm Manual Here. Update: New download ...

AT&T begins field testing the 8900 Curve (Javelin)

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Two stories here: Word is that AT&T begins their field testing of the 8900 Curve in November, which raises the question, has T-Mobile? Meanwhile, Gizmodo has posted some very sweet shots and a hands-on review of the BB 8900 Curve (formerly known as the Javelin) on their site. This device is ...

AT&T to Offer Free WiFi to its BlackBerry customers

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

AT&T Wireless announced yesterday it will begin offering free WiFi access to those WiFi enabled BlackBerry customers with an unlimited Data Plan on its network. According the press release, that adds 17,000 more reasons (WiFi locations) to be an AT&T customer!

BlackBerry Partners Fund Announces Investments in buzzd, Digby and WorldMate

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

As many of you know I returned from the BlackBerry Developer Conference very excited about the future of BlackBerry application development and also about the BlackBerry Partners Fund. (Addition information on the fund at the bottom of the article)  Yesterday I had the great opportunity to speak with John Albirght and ...

AT&T BlackBerry Bold Internal Launch Documents

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

  November 4th is getting closer and we have the internal AT&T BlackBerry Bold documents showing some very interesting details about their new Bold. According to the document the BlackBerry Bold on AT&T will have a $100 Mail-In-Rebate, but only from 11/2 - 12/25. The documents show a lot of details ...