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BlackBerry listened. The "Splat" has officially been rebranded to the "Spark"

Posted by CrackBerry Kevin on 26 Jan 2013 9:32 am EST
Back in August 2012, we asked CrackBerry Nation what new name should be given to BlackBerry's red circle with white asterisk symbol. Internally at Research In Motion, the symbol was long nicknamed and referred to as the splat (the original symbol looked a lot like a tomato being thrown at a wall). The splat has been a visible graphic within the BlackBerry operating system for years, but more...
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Call it Spark or Splat (or whatever you want), this BlackBerry symbol means Action!

Posted by CrackBerry Kevin on 15 Aug 2012 8:05 pm EDT
  We set out earlier this week on a CrackBerry quest to give a more fitting name to BlackBerry's asterisk-on-circle notification icon than "splat", which is the nickname it has been referred to in the past internally by Research In Motion employees. Hundreds of suggestions later, we narrowed it down to the best five and then we put it to a vote by CrackBerry Nation. The winner? Drum roll...
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