Word on the street is that Jersey Shore star Snooki accidentally Tweeted her BlackBerry PIN to her 310,000 plus Twitter followers. The ensuing wave of messages rendered her BlackBerry useless. Note to self… If you ever get 310K Twitter followers, don’t frigging accidentally Tweet your PIN out to all of them.
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Surefire Way To Blow Up Your BlackBerry: Tweet Out Your PIN When You Have Over 310K Followers
BlackBerry is defiantly one of the biggest BlackBerry related stories of the summer, and now RIM has taken it one step further by posting up new screenshots of the unreleased OS in the wild. The latest BlackBerry 6 walk through covers the user multimedia experience by showing off everything from music playback to the Podcast App, and even the new camera functions
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RIM goes Inside BlackBerry 6′s Multimedia Experience
Press Release SAN DIEGO, CA – July 20, 2010 – Slacker, Inc. today announced the addition of ABC News to the Slacker Personal Radio experience providing listeners with updated news from one of the nation’s most trusted sources. Slacker listeners now have access to a dedicated news station covering national, world, sports, politics, entertainment, business and tech as well as the option to include headline news for top of the hour updates on any Slacker Radio station. Slacker listeners have access to reporting and in-depth audio coverage on the ABC News station from a team of ABC News anchors and correspondents, including Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos
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Press Release: Slacker Radio Announces Addition Of ABC News To Personal Radio Service
Engadget was able to get their hands on, what looks like a training document for the upcoming “Oden Refresh”, possibly the BlackBerry Storm3, which appears to be a minor refresh of the BlackBerry Storm2. Notable updates include: New Refreshed UI (BlackBerry 6) WebKit browser 512 MB Ram and up to 32 GB media card 5 MP camera World Edition phone 802.11n Wifi 3G mobile hotspot To be completely honest, I hope that the Storm3 does have Wi-Fi tethering. Less, tethering, I am hard pressed to find any reason to move to this device if you already have a Storm2, unless, BlackBerry 6 is a memory hog and 256 MB isn’t enough memory to run BB6 effectively.
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Might The BlackBerry Storm 3 Function As A Wi-Fi HotSpot?
A slide detailing some specs of the upcoming BlackBerry Storm 3 has leaked. The Storm 3 is set to be a rather minor refresh of the Storm 2 , so don’t expect anything too groundbreaking. The most important changes won’t be in hardware, but in software, as it will be running BlackBerry OS 6 . The Storm 3 will double the Storm 2′s amount of RAM to 512 MB, the camera will be 5 Megapixels compared to 3.15. Also, the new Storm will come with WiFi 802.11 n support.
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BlackBerry Storm 3 details emerge, BlackBerry OS 6 WebKit browser gets tested
Vodafone has started sales of three new handsets in the UK, the BlackBerry Pearl 3G, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro and the LG Optimus . Vodafone’s Blackberry Pearl 3G (9105) is an odd one, as it’s basically a Pearl 9100 sans the QWERTY keyboard
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Vodafone UK now sells the BlackBerry Pearl 3G, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro and LG GT540 Optimus
With all the talk in the last few days surrounding the flaws in the design of the iPhone 4 antenna, it is easy to begin to overlook the positive impact that the iPhone in all its guises has had on the mobile industry as a whole. The iPhone is mainly responsible for kick-starting the whole mobile application industry, delivering bright, colourful applications that were easy to browse, purchase and install. Apple do receive criticism for the way they control the whole App Store experience, but the quality control is something that helps deliver a consistently high level user experience across all applications. Apps come in many forms, from games to useful utilities, and businesses are starting to see the benefit of giving access to their content on the move, and recently British Airways updated their iPhone app, and have also made it accessible to users of Android devices and RIM BlackBerry handsets, too.
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British Airways Updates Mobile App
Research in Motion has introduced a new feature in its Locate Service offering cell tower geolocation capability to developers for free. Users can be indoors with no GPS coverage, but your app will still be able to guide them to restaurants or points of interest (POI) around them. Although the accuracy of the fixes obtained from the Geolocation service may not always be as high as with GPS, it has use cases for apps that require highly accurate GPS fixes as well as apps that do not. Apps that require high accuracy can use this service to quickly show the user an approximate location while it waits for a more accurate location fix using GPS.
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RIM Updates Locate Service Introducing Geoloaction Using Cell Tower Triangulation To Developers
The BlackBerry Curve 9300 has been making its rounds on the internet for the past few months, and now its getting ready to roll into Canada. It was reported earlier today that Bell employees will begin training for this slightly upgraded smartphone shortly.
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BlackBerry Curve 9300 “Curve 3G” Coming to Canada
Found under: BlackBerry , webkit , Browser , iPhone 4 , Android, , RIMs upcoming BlackBerry webkit browser is supposed to be a great tool to browse the Internet from your favorite mobile device. And it looks like the browser in question has already been compared to the iPhone 4s and Androids browsers.The BlackBerry 9800 Slider the iPhone 4 and the HTC Droid Incredible have been put to the acid tests and the webkit browser on the RIM-made smartphone came out a winner scoring 208 points video available below. The iPhone 4 and the Droid Incredible Read More Read more in mobile format
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New BlackBerry Webkit Browser Compared to iPhone 4 and Android Browsers
As you likely already know, it’s all about location in the mobile world these days. GPS is the primary driver in determining one’s location, but it doesn’t always prove reliable inside buildings or areas without a clear and unobstructed view of the sky.
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RIM Bolsters Blackberry API To Allow Cell Tower Location In Addition To GPS
The Official BlackBerry Developer Blog posted this morning about an update that is available to developers. This brand-new feature they introduced is able to get a location fix in seconds using the nearby cell tower information. The new Geolocation service is part of the Locate Service and it free to developers. Read on.. This is going to be a great improvement for user experience
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Attention Developers: Locate Service Update Allows GPS-Free Location Searches
ParkVu, a Canadian company from Waterloo, Ontario, has launched Music WithMe. It’s an app that allows you to wirelessly sync your iTunes playlists with your BlackBerry. I know there’s the options in the BlackBerry Desktop Manager, but this is wireless. There’s no need for a USB connection, no iPod necessary. Check it out… The features of Music WithMe are as follows: Using Wi-Fi or cellular connection, wirelessly syncing iTunes playlists to your BlackBerry Automatically updates your playlists on your BlackBerry- make changes to your playlists on iTunes and Music WithMe will mirror changes on the BlackBerry App runs in the background- Music WithMe does not have to be open on BlackBerry to sync Works with BlackBerry’s native media player- store and play your tracks as usual.
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Music WithMe, Have Your iTunes Synced Wirelessly To Your BlackBerry
Normally we reserve videos like this for News From The Wire , but when they come this early in the week I like to get them up on the site tout de suite . These come courtesy of Salomondrin, who continually posts excellent videos of upcoming BlackBerry developments. Today we see three videos involving OS 6. These include an overview , a look at media functions , and finally a WebKit browser comparison
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A few looks at OS 6
Gowalla announced last Friday that Gowalla for BlackBerry , which they have been working on for some time, is now available in a public Beta… The beta release now includes photos and commenting on Spots, as well as better notification options. Trips and Items will be coming soon to Blackberry as well. Point your Blackberry browser to Gowalla.com and you’ll find the link to download the application for your phone.
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Gowalla For BlackBerry Now In Public Beta
When it comes to BlackBerry Twitter clients , there certainly is no shortage of options for you to choose from. Unfortunately, however, the BlackBerry Twitter client considered by many to be the best, Social Scope , has been in closed beta for what seems like the past couple of years and a production release, or, even an open beta available to whomever wishes to download it is no where in sight.
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Will The BlackBerry Twitter Client Social Scope Ever Come Out Of Beta?
Last week, after sitting in Madison Square Garden for three hours while watching Iron Maiden and Dream Theater, I got a call from a good friend. I had just seen him that past weekend, which made the call seem odd. Did he forget to tell me something? Were we in some kind of trouble
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Auto lock your BlackBerry for convenience and battery life
Epidsode #28 of the Simple Mobile Review Podcast is up. Regular subscribers may have noticed that we’ve changed the day that the show is recorded and aired. At least for the rest of the summer, the SMR Podcast will be recorded on Sunday nights as compared to Wednesday. In this episode, as you can imagine, we talk a lot about Apple’s press event last Friday , Antenna Gate , as Steve Jobs referred to it. Let’s just say that Mr. Jobs threw out quite a few statistics without context. Research in Motion had a big week as well… Hosts: Rod Simmons, Chris Ashley, Brent Harman, Robb Dunewood Recorded: July 18th, 2010 Published: July 19th, 2010 Duration: 1hr 30Min 41Sec SUBSCRIBE FOR AUTOMATIC DOWNLOADS Standard RSS BlackBerry Users: Simple Mobile Review Podcast App Powered by PodTrapper SHOW TOPICS Apple’s press conference for the iPhone 4 issue Rod says that Steve Jobs had a very condescending tone during the conference Robb goes on the offensive and puts some perspective on Steve’s Blackberry thoughts Brent really dissects Steve’s statistics Chris thinks that Steve BlackBerry was supposed to have the news this week RIM, Nokia, Apple, and Google all bid for Palm Robb says that RIM really dropped the ball here Rod says he likes some of the features he saw in OS6 Chris is wondering if RIM is doing too little too late Brent mentions that some of his friends didn’t know there was an app store for their BlackBerries Verizon sold Out of Droid X online Rod says that he is no longer considering getting this phone Brent explains what the eFuse chip does to the phone Robb says that he wouldn’t be surprised if Verizon put the chip on all of their phones Microsoft slips some news in this week too Chris mentions that the ‘”Hubs” on windows phone 7 has more functionality than we first thought Rod says that he really likes what he is seeing Mentioned Links Demo of coding on iPhone vs.
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Simple Mobile Review Podcast #28: Lies, Damn Lies, And Statistics
Following on from the Apple press conference on Friday, it seems that Apple have ruffled the feathers of rival manufacturers, by trying to implement them in the issue of reception problems. You may recall, that during the conference, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs came out to defend the iPhone 4 , amongst growing criticism of the iPhone Death Grip, where holding the iPhone 4 in a particular way can lead to signal going from full bars to no bars in a matter of seconds. One response from Apple to this problem is to admit to a flaw in the software algorithm that calculates signal strength, which has been dealt with by a software update that was rolled out via iTunes last week. Despite going on to say that less than 1% of all calls to Apple Care regarding the iPhone 4 related to signal problems, Apple acknowledge that where problems exist, encasing the handset in a case, or Bumper can help, so promise to be giving out free cases and Bumpers for the iPhone 4 up until 30th September. What happens then remains to be seen.
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Apple AntennaGate Fallout
The BlackBerry WebKit Browser isn’t available to us just yet, but with any luck RIM will be launching along side of BlackBerry 6 (OS 6.0), within the coming months. Our buddy Salomondrin has just posted a great preview of the upcoming WebKit Browser running on the BlackBerry Slider 9800.
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BlackBerry Webkit Browser vs. iPhone and Android Browsers
The BlackBerry Storm2 is starting to reach end-of-life status with a couple different carriers in North America, but that hasn’t stopped Manitobia’s own MTS from finally launching it. The BlackBerry Storm2 is a CDMA smartphone, with world roaming abilities. As of now you can grab the BlackBerry Storm2 for $199 with three year term and voice and data plan. For more details visit MTS
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BlackBerry Storm2 9550 Now Available from MTS