Have an AT&T/Cingular BlackBerry? Get ready for a change. Come October, AT&T will begin changing their @mycingular.blackberry.net addresses to @att.blackberry.net. I'd say it's a welcomed change! If this applies to you, your existing address will forward to your new address through March, 2008. [ via BG ] But if you're a REAL CrackBerry addict, you shouldn't be giving this...
Morning Class! We'll skip roll call, but I do have two quick announcements to make... First, we're going to have a guest instructor today, and second, we are going to have TWO classes this week!!! I received a ton of overwhelmingly positive feedback on our first BlackBerry 101 lecture, Why BlackBerry?, and also received the request from several readers to dive into more detail on two...
A Friday morning recap of some of the things going on in the world of RIM/BlackBerry this week. Headlines after the Jump! 1. Rogers 8310 Launches - That's right, RIM gave the Canadians a GPS-enabled Curve before those living South of the Border. Available as of September 11th. 2. Built for BlackBerry - RIM launched a Built for BlackBerry website (though it's built for your PC)....
No blogs from me yesterday as I spent the better part of it in airports and on airplanes as I traveled home to Winnipeg from Florida (where I got to hangout with the awesome Smartphone Experts team for a few days). But even though BlackBerry representation was one Winnipegger short for a day, a fitting made-in-Winnipeg BlackBerry story hit the news... Marty Rabu, a tooling technician...
Looks like the folks at Engadget got their hands on Sprint's 4th quarter phone line up, and there's good news for Sprint BlackBerry users - the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 is a coming!! We knew it was coming, but it's great to finally see this on official Sprint letterhead. :) Back in early August leaked slides finally provided visual proof of the long-rumored Pearl 2. And in mid August...
I just came across this photo from August 27th of Martha Stewart at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2007 U.S. Open in New York and just had to post it. While Anna Wintour (sitting behind) actually takes in the festivities, Martha remains in the 'CrackBerry Prayer' position and keeps her priorities straight and focuses on her BlackBerry. It's interesting to see she uses the index finger...
WICKSoft has just announced the latest release of their mobile document access (MDA) suite for the BlackBerry, WICKSoft Mobile Documents. CrackBerry.com loyalists will remember we named WICKSoft and their MDA app as the Winner of the CrackBerry.com BEST of WES 2007 "NO BRAINER" Award. WICKSoft Mobile Documents (formerly called PocketVPN) allows users to securely view, email, fax,...
Welcome to Class! No falling asleep!! We're going back to basics for the first few lectures, so if you're already a certified CrackBerry you may want to come back in a week or two when things get real hands on. But for those of you who are contemplating jumping aboard the smartphone bandwagon or are thinking about making a change to a different smartphone manufacturer, this lecture is...
**Update** - BIS back to normal! Click Here for Full Up to the Minute Coverage. That's right, for the second time this year BlackBerry Users across North America are enduring problems with their email service. The outage/delays appear to be affecting BlackBerry BIS subscribers to varying degrees on all North American Carriers. At this point no time frame for resolution has been...
If you haven't checked out CrackBerry.com's free user-contributed Ringtone Gallery yet, you're missing out! We've made it easy to browse/preview ringtones and get them on your phone (just put in your blackberry's email address and the url to the tone gets delivered straight to your berry for easy installation). You can browse by Genre, Artist, Album, Title or use the Search Box on...
We knew we were right, and now it's official. Research in Motion and Rogers today announced the release of the BlackBerry Curve 8310 Smartphone in Canada. And when can you roll into a Rogers outlet to get your hands on this GPS-enabled beauty??? drumroll please .... Tuesday, September 11th! Click Here for the Full Press Release & Details Sep 07, 2007 08:00 ET Rogers and RIM...
That didn't take long! It looks like the Rogers BlackBerry Curve with GPS has officially launched and is now available for Rogers outlets and retailers to begin distributing! Thanks yet again to our Rogers tipster (he's becoming a regular!) for getting us the 8310 Launch Release and Handset Launch Reference Tool .pdfs. He told us yesterday that "8310R" had shown up on Rogers order...
Here's a quick Round Up of some of the interesting headlines going on this week outside of the CrackBerry world: Foleo Cancelled! - looks like Palm is pulling the plug on this one for the time being so they can focus on their smartphone platform. Dieter over at WMExperts.com just posted an excellent follow-up article this morning in the wake of the Foleo's demise. Read Foleo...
*** Updated: September 4th, 9pm CST Click Here for Updated Post *** We beat the Boy Genius by a week on this one... on August 28th we announced the WiFi-enabled BlackBerry 8820 would start showing up in A&T stores on September 4th. It looks like our tipster was right! According to BG, the BlackBerry 8820 "soft launched" yesterday and should be available in stores as early...
Enjoy your last week of holidays... come Monday, September 10th, class will officially be in session! Course: BlackBerry 101 Start Date: September 10th, 2007 Class Time: Every Monday Tuesday Location: CrackBerry.com Tuition: FREE of Charge For the next eight months, each week CrackBerry.com will publish a new informative, educational and (hopefully) entertaining BlackBerry 101...
Most stores are closed on Labor Day, but for those BlackBerry Addicts who can't resist the urge to shop, it's lucky for you the CrackBerry Shop is open for business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year! So if you want to fuel the addiction on this Labor Day (or anytime this Labor Week for that matter), allow me to provide a few recommendations to kickstart your CrackBerry....
Alltel this week introduced the BlackBerry 8830 World Edition Smartphone to their BlackBerry offering. The BlackBerry 8830 World Edition is the first BlackBerry smartphone to combine technologies that allow it to connect to both CDMA and GSM/GPRS networks. The 8830 operates in the United States on Alltel's CDMA network and comes with an unlocked SIM card slot for international roaming...
Jibi, a legend in the BlackBerry world and owner of the coolest online 'handle', has set the record straight on all of the BlackBerry 8820 GPS 'Neutering' stories of the past two weeks. For those out of the loop, it started with BlackBerry Cool's August 16th Exclusive, which spread word that the soon-to-be-released BlackBerry 8820 would have its GPS 'neutered', which if believed...
According to Traders, RIM's stock rose to a record today on speculation that Research in Motion (or somepart of RIM) is going to be acquired by Microsoft. Bloomberg.com has the Details. RIM's stock gained $3.13, or 3.8 percent, to $84.95 at 11:21am this morning (New York Time) and earlier climbed as high as $85. Steve Sachs, head of trading at Rydex Investments in Rockville,...
The boys at BBSmart have released yet another update to their best-selling Email Viewer for the BlackBerry. If you're not familiar with BBSmart's Email Viewer, you'll want to check out CrackBerry.com's Interview with BBSmart's developer, Neil Sainsbury for all the details. BBSmart has a lifetime upgrade policy. If you already own a copy you can download the updated version for free...
