VZAppZone available to OS 4.5 BlackBerry devices

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Verizon Wireless recently made its VZAppZone available for OS 4.5 devices. Until recently, only OS 4.3 and below BlackBerry devices could access and install the AppZone. What is VZAppZone? It is Verizon's mobile market place for browsing and purchase of add-on applications, ringtones, music, and real-time news, weather and support options. ...

RIM Makes Official Announcement about the 4.5 OS

Friday, September 12th, 2008

RIM announced via the newsletters section on BlackBerry.com that OS 4.5 is coming soon with a list of feature enhancements. Check out the post here: BlackBerry Newsletter Thanks to zerog46 from BlackBerryForums

AT&T to Release 8320, OS 4.5 for 8310 on 23 September

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

Thanks to a tip from an informant, BlackBerryNews has learned that AT&T will release the WiFi-enabled 8320 Curve in its titanium variant on Tuesday, September 23rd. Running OS 4.5 out of the box, the 8320 will cost $199.99 on a 2-year contract with a $100 mail-in rebate available to those ...

OS 4.5 on AT&T download mid-September

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

According to Boy Genius, a leaked internal powerpoint slide from AT&T states that OS 4.5 will be available soon from att.com/bbdownloads in mid-September.

Dude, where’s my calendar?

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

With the recent month's onslaught of OS 4.5 releases for the BlackBerry (and of course the numerous beta OS leaks, as well), many users have upgraded to find all their calendar entries blank, duplicated or missing. After your OS 4.5 upgrade, you might experience missing or duplicate calendar entries after syncing ...

Virgin Mobile Canada Releases 8130 Pearl with OS 4.5.0.56

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

A few days ago, Virgin Mobile Canada jumped into the BlackBerry world by offering users a free BlackBerry Pearl 8130 with 8GB microSD card on a 3-year contract. But what makes the Virgin Mobile Pearl so interesting is that it is the first CDMA Pearl to have an official release ...

BIS 2.5 Arrives in the Americas with HTML E-mail and More

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Early this morning, RIM completed its update to BIS 2.5 in the Americas, enabling a slew of new features for those of the BlackBerry faithful running OS 4.5 and above. The most noteworthy update is support for HTML e-mail, but there are some other long overdue great features as well.

Vodafone.de releases OS 4.5

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Our German friends over at Vodafone have let'er rip on four model releases of the long awaited 4.5 OS! If you are using 8100, 8110, 8310, or the 8800 -- hop on over to BlackBerryforums.com and download from the Sticky Notes in the top of those models' respective forums.