Nice timing on this data. With the Smartphone Round Robin now over and the editor's all having nailed down the Pros and Cons of each device and operating platform, Roughly Drafted has posted a story displaying Quarter 3 Smartphone Sales worldwide (good job guys - I'm sure hundreds of blogs will be sending traffic your way on this one!). While the Round Robin didn't declare an "...
Christmas is only 10 Days away! If you want to dress up your BlackBerry for the occassion you need not look further than CrackBerry.com. We have a growing assortment of free Christmas Ringtones and Holiday Wallpapers to bring your BlackBerry into the festive spirit, and if you want to be jolliest BlackBerry user on the block you can give CrackBerry.com's Holiday BlackBerry theme a...
While all the rumors of late are that RIM is working on a touchscreen device (again, these are still rumors..I have yet to see any concrete evidence other than mock ups), our friend Russel just found a new RIM patent app in the USPTO database that shows a CRAZY looking Angular keyboard on a mobile device. The Patent, entitled Angular Keyboard for a Handheld Mobile Communications...
Heading out of town this Holiday Season? Before you go "Leaving on a Jet Plane", be sure to check out WorldMate Live. With WorldMate Live on your BlackBerry you will be able to: Get real-time travel notifications so you are the first to know if you flight isn't on schedule. Use the itinerary viewer to check your flights, hotel, car rental and meeting details in an easy to read...
According to Inquirer.net, it seems a fire in Canada has damaged RIM's BlackBerry e-mail server link to Phillipines' Carrier Smart Communications, which has affected their customers' BlackBerry push email services. "Smart's Blackberry push e-mail service has been temporarily disrupted due to a fire that has damaged RIM's Blackberry e-mail server link in Canada," Smart said. "The...
* Winners Announcement: And the winners are... cnitzken, nimicus, GoCryWolfe, mprice, airshorty20, MetalGie, Maxberry, Chaz, maggie_may and summertyme98. Winners will be contacted by email on how to claim their free copy of Find My Berry. Thanks for participating!! ** It seems December at CrackBerry.com is give stuff away for free month! First the 12 Days of CrackBerry Giveaway...
Now that's funny. Just yesterday I made a post that Mobiun was looking for Beta Testers to give their new Mobile Google Calendar sync app a try. AND TODAY...lo and behold, Google themselves have released their own solution! Fire up your BlackBerry browse and head on over to https://get.google.com/apptips/apps/?utm_source=googlemobile&utm_campaign=redirect and install the...
Rogers Wireless announced today a national rollout of Voicemail to Text services powered by SpinVox . Delivered on Rogers’ GSM network through SpinVox, the service gives on-the-go professionals quick, easy and convenient access to voicemail messages by accurately converting them to SMS and delivering them in real time to their mobile devices. Rogers Voicemail to Text powered by...
Drum Roll Please… and the Winners of the Smartphone Experts First Annual Smartphone Round Robin are… Grand Prize: RickMG Runners Up: Antoine of MMM, Bla1ze, LFD153 RickMG has won himself a new Smartphone of choice and the Runners Up will each receive $100 to spend in one of the Smartphone Experts stores. You can click on the winners’ names above to see the comments that turned...
If I wasn't already going to Cuba in three weeks for a vacation I know what I'd be doing instead... taking a road trip down to Farmington Hills, Michigan to check out the world's first multi-carrier BlackBerry store! While I like to think of CrackBerry.com as the online Mecca for BlackBerry Users, with only one of these concept stores currently planned this might be just be the...
With Christmas just around the corner and holiday shopping season in full swing, we figured it was only right to help you save a few dollars while taking care of the presents for the BlackBerry user on your list by offering a 10% discount on ALL ACCESSORIES* in our newly revamped ShopCrackBerry.com store. And if you'd rather by a gift for yourself (and not someone else) that's alright...
The Annual Consumer Electronics Show is just around the corner, and from the sound of things RIM plans on making a splash with the 'consumer' market this year. Straight from RIM's mouth: Think BlackBerry is only for corporate executives? Think again. Las Vegas will have a new kid in town at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show! You can expect quite a buzz around booth #30333 in...
If you've browsed around the site lately, it's easy to see we are full swing into our Holiday Spirit: Santa is Rock'n Out with his BlackBerry on the CrackBerry.com logo, the 12 Days of CrackBerry Holiday Giveaway is open for entry and is offering a whopping 78 prizes to be won (BlackBerry Accessories, Software and even a new BlackBerry!) and now we're kicking up the holiday cheer even...
CDMA-based Canadian carriers Telus and Bell are really going after Rogers this holiday season with a FREE BlackBerry Pearl 8130 promotion. The catch? You need to be a new customer and commit to a 3-year plan of $45 or more per month before they hand you over the new phone. As Robb puts it, free in this case really means $1620 (at least) over the course of the next 36 months. It's...
It's Good to Be a BlackBerry User! Vive le BlackBerry! Wow, does it EVER feel great to be Back on the Crack again. The Smartphone Round Robin has had me going sans BlackBerry Curve for over a month, during which time I used the AT&T Tilt, Palm Treo 680 and Apple iPhone. And while I did manage to get over my initial BlackBerry withdrawal and survive the month on these other...
* Update: 12 Days of CrackBerry Site and Official Contest Threads are open for business! Spread the CrackBerry word and good luck to everyone! * I just couldn't keep this a secret any longer. We are getting ready to launch what I think will be the GREATEST BlackBerry Promotion EVER with CrackBerry.com's TWELVE DAYS of CRACKBERRY holiday giveaway. We'll be changing up the...
Kicking It Up a Notch in the Smartphone Game Thanks to the Smartphone Round Robin, I have now been without my BlackBerry Curve for over a month! I started out with the Windows Mobile/AT&T Tilt and from there moved onto the Palm Treo 680. With the Round Robin beginning to wind down, I am finally finishing up with my last smartphone of the month, the Apple iPhone. My iPhone...
At the beginning of the month I published hands on proof that the soon to be released BlackBerry OS 4.3.1 would enable video recording on the Curve. In all the excitement surrounding that huge news, I neglected to notice a MAJOR improvement that OS 4.3.1 brought to my BlackBerry Pearl 8100 - A2DP Stereo Bluetooth Support!!! Prior to OS 4.3.1, stereo bluetooth devices (like Motorola...
BlackBerry Made Simple has just released its newest book in their easy-to-read BlackBerry guide book series. This one focuses on the BlackBerry Pearl smartphone and includes material for the 8100, 8120 and 8130 BlackBerry smartphones. Right now it's available as an e-book download for $25.99 from BlackBerry Made Simple, and will be available in a hard copy edition in the weeks ahead...
Potentially good news for BlackBerry users in Canada. It seems the feds (federal government) have decided to open up the Canadian market to broader competition against the will of the big players (Bell, Rogers, Telus). An auction of the "wireless spectrum" will occur next May, which should shakes things up and hopefully result in lower prices, better service and more choices for...
