Sprint BlackBerry Curve 9350 Review

January 28 12

I have been using a Sprint BlackBerry Curve 9350 on and off for the last month or so and I have to say I really am drawn to the device. It feels like RIM finally came up with a BlackBerry Curve model that didn’t have a sacrifices like a low resolution screen or no flash. [...]

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Free BibbyCam Filters Your BlackBerry Photos With 14 Filters & Social Integration

January 27 12

One of our anonymous tipsters let us know about BibbyCam becoming available on App World. The app tries to compete with Instagram by offering up 14 photo filters on your BlackBerry smartphone. It also lets you connect your account to Facebook or Twitter to share the filtered pics and like/comment on others pics.  It also [...]

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BlackBerry User Base Slightly Skewed Towards Affluent & Older Crowd in the US?

January 27 12

  ComScore released an interesting new study that shows the breakdown in ages and household income in the US. They found that compared to the index BlackBerry users were about 12-20% more likely to be between 35 and 64 compared to the median smartphone user. They also found that they were 4% lower than the [...]

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Join the Petition for Skype on the BlackBerry PlayBook

January 27 12

We have seen signs pointing to Skype coming to the BlackBerry PlayBook since January of 2011. We also saw it again in April of 2011 in another leaked slide. I actually heard from a few sources that the reason it never launched was because Skype wanted RIM to pay them to bring their video chat [...]

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Add Some Clipart Flair or Filters to Your Photos With FunCam (OS 7.0+)

January 27 12

ToySoft let us know about their latest app FunCam which aims to help you create funny pictures specifically on OS 7.0+ devices. It has a library of 40+ fun clipart pictures like hair, glasses, etc that you can spice up your pictures with. It also has custom effects/filters like grayscale, emboss, negative, paint, sepia, and [...]

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Prem Watsa “The Warren Buffett of Canada” Doubles Stake in RIM

January 27 12

Breaking news this morning has new RIM board member Prem Watsa increasing his stake in RIM to 5.12%.  Prem Watsa is the CEO of Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.  Mr. Watsa, Fairfax, and other companies related to them bought 6,499,500 shares of RIM on Wednesday and an additional 7,550,700 on Thursday, according to filings with U.S. [...]

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Test out your inner Audiophile with Beat The Intro

January 27 12

Beat The Intro is a great new free game for your BlackBerry smartphone.  You need to guess the song as fast as you can after listening to the clip.  It also has BBM integration, challenge all your friends and compete for the highest score.  Built in is access to the 7Digital music store, in case [...]

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UberSocial Gets Another Small Update to v1.308 to Fix Connection Bugs

January 27 12

AnV let us know that UberSocial has pushed out another update to their popular Twitter client. This one also brings some small hotfixes like they did earlier this month to v1.304. The change log for this version is: Loss of 3G and/or BIS connection after starting UberSocial Use of the carrier data plan even though [...]

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NHL Players Association Launches New PlayBook Themed Campaign With RIM

January 27 12

When I first heard of this it immediately brought to mind the fact that Polar Mobile has signed a deal with the NHL players association for mobile apps in December. Hell RIM signed a deal with Polar back in March of last year for 100 PlayBook apps that we haven’t seen yet. Now Bla1ze @CrackBerry [...]

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64GB BlackBerry PlayBook From Shop BlackBerry Only $239.20 With 20% Off Coupon!

January 27 12

Update: We are getting reports that ShopBlackBerry has now pulled the coupon code. Hopefully we will score another one soon! That was a pretty sweet deal for a 64GB model. The deals keep on coming for the BlackBerry PlayBook. My buddy from Tabletaholic let me know that RIM has a coupon code for the BlackBerry [...]

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