Ahh, the new iPhone 3GS seems to have had a little bit of an identity crisis with its launch. First it was the iPhone 3G S, now Apple is scrambling to fix their branding all to say iPhone 3GS and while RIM plays name games with the BlackBerry loyalists with codenames such as Niagara, Onyx, Driftwood, etc. they at least (not yet anyways!) launch a product then scramble to correct their own branding of said product.

In any event here is a little poke at the new "iPhone 3GS" from CollegeHumor. Big thanks to all who sent this one in. Now what I wanna know is, who out there gets their "Wicky-Wicky" on? Don't lie, we won't judge you, promise!

I had this forwarded to me as an email this weekend, and it was too funny not to share it (of course there's nothing funny about being jobless or homeless, but I'm sure all will see the irony in this piece). You can discuss this story in the forums...

Recently Michelle Obama went to serve food to the homeless at a government funded soup kitchen.

Cost of a bowl of soup at homeless shelter: $0.00 dollars

Having Michelle Obama serve you your soup: $0.00 dollars

Snapping a picture of a homeless person who is receiving a government funded meal
while taking a picture of the first lady using his $500 BlackBerry cell phone: Priceless

According to FoxNews.com, Kasper Hauser has done the impossible - hacked into President Barack Obama's BlackBerry.  All messages will be copied into a new book that will be released today by publisher Little Brown and Company. Obama's Blackberry features sensitive BlackBerry messages from the Commander in Chief, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, California Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger, and even Nuclear Command Control itself.

Really, how could the President be so careless and foolish?  How could this situation seem so... surreal?  Well, maybe because it is.

Fear not, Kasper Hauser is a San Francisco-based comedy group that wrote this book containing intermittent text messages between political figures so don't worry; the future of Western Civilization is not as endangered as we may have thought.

The book's press release clearly states that it "is not endorsed, sponsored, affiliated with, or otherwise authorized by Research in Motion Limited, the owner of the trademark BlackBerry."

Here's some food for thought.. it might help ya get over the case of the Mondays you may be having. Not exactly sure when the original airdate of this was, but Jerry Seinfeld was on with Conan O'Brien and the topic of iPhones and BlackBerrys came up, check out the video and see if you can relate to any of what Jerry says. I know I did.

[ Thanks, Mark! ]

The tune above was posted to youtube just yesterday. According to the description:

The UK's No1 female comedian pokes fun at the new Blackberry craze with this funky house summer anthem. Look out for the heavy Show Me The Blackberry dance/skank, it will be all over the clubs!!!  

Take a listen. So whaddya think? Coming to a club near you? Or would you rather be dancing to Tunde's rendition of Hit Me On My BlackBerry? Sound off in the comments!

[ via MiBlackBerry ]

After the other day's RIM email outage, in which many people went without email for a while or at least were seeing some latency in the system, the folks over at BlackBerry News posted this video from the Hoofy And Boo show that pokes a little fun at RIM's expense as well as all us CrackBerry addicts out there.

Sure, we all get a little upset when our email or data goes down, many of us may even go into panic attacks, but hey.. that's part of being a CrackBerry Addict. At least we can look back once it's over and have a laugh or two and remember RIM still has a 99.80% uptime and sometimes, what is labeled as BlackBerry issues are more carrier related more so than RIM related. ;)

Here is a little humor to brighten up everyone's day, mixed in with a few words of caution for all you drivers that happen to be BlackBerry users as well. Mauricio over at BlackBerryRocks! found this tidbit of news regarding a police chief, his BlackBerry and an accident that happened. Oops!

The police chief of the south Seattle suburb of Federal Way has issued a public apology for a minor traffic accident that happened while he was checking his BlackBerry in his unmarked police car.

The city summed it up Thursday in a news release that began “Federal Way Police Chief Brian Wilson is mortified.” Apparently Wilson stopped for a red light on March 18 and glanced down at his BlackBerry to view newspaper headlines and e-mails. He then took his foot off the brake and collided with the car in front of him.

The Seattle Times reports no one was injured and the cars weren’t damaged. Still, City Manager Neal Beets gave Wilson a verbal reprimand. The police chief says he takes full responsibility.

It just goes to show no matter what laws may be in place you really can't stop the addiction of that darn blinking red light and while there is humor in it being a police chief at the root cause of this one, don't berry and drive folks, it's dangerous (and not funny) for you and others out there.

[ BBrocks via AZ StarNet ]

Ok I know EDGE devices can do some weird things to other electronic devices around them, such as causing radios to crackle, interference on landline telephones and even being able tell when a text message is about to come through to your device by the sounds it causes your TV to make, but this one is just weird. Take a look at the video above... I think someone needs to call an exorcist as this Pearl has a demon inside of it!

[ BerryBlast ]

Two humor posts in one day? Sure why not! This one takes a satirical look at the Twitter phenomena that's sweeping the world by storm. I know Twitter users won't be offended by this and everybody else will get a good laugh :-)

It's pretty crazy. We all know how powerful our addiction to BlackBerry smartphones are and it seems Twitter has that same sort of grasp over its users too. The video's Twitter addict is an Ahh Frak phone user, but we all know it's really the BlackBerry Addict + Twitter Addict = Twouble!

• View our BlackBerry Twitter Client Roundup >>

Time for some Hump Day Humor! This Rudy Park strip appeared a couple days ago and tells it like it is.... Sorry Rene! Big thanks to spotmark for sending this in.

[ Rudy Park via Comics.com ]

This past Friday the maker of the BlackBerry-revenge video above sent me in the link right after he uploaded it to youtube, but I passed it on to Rene at TheiPhoneblog to post first as it seemed only fair that an iPhone fan site get to bask in its 14 seconds of Apple glory.

The video has now made its way around the interwebs, ending back up in the BlackBerry space. I guess it was really only a matter of time before the Apple community responded to the BlackBerry video released by Guava. It's funny...but still not as funny as that College Humor Cell Phone Reunion video. Pooor iPhone :-)

[ TiPb via BlackBerrySync]

Lol... now how many of you guys reading this agree with 'ole Dilbert on this one?!

Thanks to RazrRob for sending in.

Having attended CES earlier this year and both witnessing the unveiling of the Palm Pre and getting to go hands-on with it, I know when it officially gets released (assuming Palm lasts that long of course) that it will be a device worthy of the CrackBerry title Public Smartphone Frenemy #2. It's a big compliment to Palm that a crazy CrackBerry Addict like myself and an Apple fanboy for life like Rene Ritchie (of TheiPhoneBlog) both see innovations in the Pre and Palm Web OS that we wish our favorite devices possessed.

In anticipation of the Palm Pre entering the smartphone game for realz, Rene and I have been arguing back and forth over the past couple of months trying to decide what sort of nickname suits the Pre and those who stand in line to buy one when it goes on sale (especially those who may be converting over from another smartphone). Today we took the argument to Twitter (@crackberrykevin, @reneritchie) and got a lot of helpful feedback. As it turns out, the Pre name is an easy one to poke fun at... I've taken a liking to Pre-Jects while Rene thinks Pre-Verts is where it's at. And of course we all know Pre owners are really just Pre-BlackBerry owners!

Think you have a better name? Toss it in the comments! BlackBerry has CrackBerry and iPhone is the Ahh Frak phone. It's only a matter of time before the Palm Pre gets stuck with a name... it might as well be one picked out and perpetuated by CrackBerry Nation :-)

* Update: PreCentral.net has already thrown back... with Pre-Fects. Read the rebuttal >> * 

I got bored waiting for that 10pm BlackBerry App World announcement to roll around and couldn't help myself. And besides, after reading some of the comments to that $2.99 Minimum Price for Paid Apps post we needed to lighten the mood here on the blogs just a little :-)

And if you do happen to want a 99 cent fart app for your BlackBerry, you can pick up iBee Farting by visiting CrackBerryAppStore.com on your device browser and checking out with coupon code CBFARTDISC. That'll save you 50% off its $1.99 price. 

Dang... first it was the BlackBerry Bold punching the crap (literally) of an iPhone in that hilarious College Humor video we posted a couple weeks back. Now it's the team from Guava having the BlackBerry take a chomp out of Apple. NICEEELY done!

[ Guava via BerryReview ]