February 26th, 2007

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Do You Want To Change The Color Of Your BlackBerry Pearl or 8800 TrackBall?

BlackBerry Forums member SanFrancisco has posted a detailed walk-through on how to change the color your BlackBerry Pearl or BlackBerry 8800 trackball complete with pretty high quality photos showing you exactly what to do.

This mod isn’t exactly like tricking your BlackBerry 8700 out in 18K gold, however, is pretty cool all the same.

If we get permission we will update this post with a picture of the finished product, however, if you really want to see it, you can check it out here.

UPDATE: We got permission…

Written by Robb Dunewood on February 26th, 2007 with 10 comments.
Read more articles on BlackBerry and BlackBerry Tips and Tricks.

How Can Apple Get Away With No Third Party Application Support On The iPhone?

I was just reading Jibi Jabber over on BlackBerry Cool and one section that really got me to thinking was when he talked about how Apple isn’t allowing third party application support on the iPhone.

With the announcement of iPhone and all the media hype and fanboy lovefests that have come with it, one striking inconsistency has stood out, for me, moreso than the beautiful vector graphics and gorgeous design of the device - the lack - nay, the refusal - of third party applications. This particular stance by forward-thinking Apple suggests that people don’t want choices when it comes to desired functionalities, or it simply states that we simply don’t use our mobile communications devices for much more than mobile communications and a few other basic functions, such as portable entertainment

To make a long story short, Apple isn’t really doing anything that RIM didn’t do on early model BlackBerry devices…

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Written by Robb Dunewood on February 26th, 2007 with 5 comments.
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BlackBerry 8800: Initial Thoughts

I had the chance to play around with a BlackBerry 8800 for a few hours over the weekend and here is a brief summary of my initial thoughts:

The BlackBerry 8800 for the corporate business user is not a bad upgrade if you are coming from a device older than the BlackBerry 8700 and are already a Cingular subscriber. Outside of the BlackBerry Media Player and GPS, the 8800 doesn’t do much more than the 8700, however, has that sleek design to it that QWERTY BlackBerrys have been lacking until now.

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Written by Robb Dunewood on February 26th, 2007 with 7 comments.
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