The Blackberry Bold 9700 & Blackberry 9000 Review

UberTwitter for Blackberry Bold 9700 and 9000 Devices

I know, it’s been a while since I posted a ton of material on the site here. This was one of those things where, you’d feel guilty if you didn’t tell fellow Bold 9700 and Bold 9000 users about.

See, when I first got my blackberry the only Blackberry Bold Twitter client program or application available was from Orangatame software and it was called “Open Beak” now, i can’t complain about free software too much, but honestly I think…

…having this software for so long actually HURT My opinion of Blackberry Phones!!!

Why? Because it’s so basic, so ugly and so simple that the very features of Twitter that make it an exciting platform just aren’t there. You don’t get the social interactivity feel of actually chatting or interacting with people… You read other people’s stuff, you read your own stuff… and you post stuff.. whoo hoo? It’s like a blog!

Twitter’s not a blog!??!!!

Well, it’s microblogging, but with the @replies and such its’ alot more than a blog, it’s a social network with active communication going on! But not with Openbeak.

This week, a few minutes before bed, I downloaded UberTwitter and my life changed. Yes in 48 hours my life became a different life. Twitter became people I could talk to, i found a report spam button for all those idiots who keep DM ing me stuff, you know who you are… I mean goodness! I have over 325 DM’s sitting in the inbox, do you REALLY think i’m going to read them? Spammers!

Ubertwitter’s allowed me to see threads of conversations, interact and read other conversations, and actually find MORE tweets fitting on my screen (it seems) then my desktop computer, and easier to read!

If you haven’t tried it your doing yourself a major dis-service, it may in fact actually change your life and grow your business just by installing it. Don’t blame me if you loose hours of precious family time and even have a divorce over how addictive this thing is to use.

Daniel J Deyette

Share Blackberry Internet With Your Laptop – 50% Off

Probably one of the most useful pieces of software available for the Blackberry Smartphone today is the Tetherberry software… Which this week got re-branded to just “tether” due to it’s arrival in the Blackberry App World store.

There’s all kinds of controversy over this app, because apps similar to it aren’t allowed in the Apple store and I imagine the Droid app store has the same song and dance… Whatever the case may be, it’s on at 50% off from now until January 10th, 2010. You really should take advantage of this… Because $24.98 for a $50 program is a good deal – and it was even too rich for my blood until they announced this…

What’s is “tethering” anyway?

Tethering is where you connect your Blackberry via USB to your laptop and use it’s internet connection. If you get an unlimited internet plan from your cell phone provider – this is essentially free internet wherever there’s a signal. If your provider gives you 1GB per month or similar (..and your probably finding your not using it all anyway) you can tap into that for quick email checks and save paying Starbucks any cash.

This works with any provider.. but some require a different config than others, but this software very much simplifies the whole process. This entire process can work easily with a mac or a PC, with windows 7, windows 98, windows 2000, even a server your troubleshooting somewhere that needs a patch or an update… Just brilliant! It’s your swiss army knife, and $25 could easily save your bacon one day even if you don’t need it today…

Download Blackberry Internet Sharing “tetherberry” today.

Amazon App For Blackberry – Can’t wait for Kindle!

Apparently, Amazon recently released “Amazon for Blackberry” but they’re working hard on Kindle for Blackberry… It’s all over the news sites, trust me.. I’m watching so many sources on that and we’ll release that as soon as it’s available…

<— See why you should sign up for email updates on the left!!

Yeah, you can sign up to have Amazon update you too on their site, but we break news for all cool things Blackberry Bold!

Handango Offers 25% Off All Blackberry Bold Software for New Years

Handango, a popular merchant among smartphone users, is now offering 25% off all purchases between now and December 31st.
Shopping cart code to enter is YEAREND .

There’s quite a bit in their store and they do have their own Mobile App Store that I was going to profile in the distant future… I like their version of the Blackberry Appworld because it has a nice news reader built in. I love news, so the more I can get of that going the better in my eyes. Plus it lets you download from a selection of Blackberry software that very much rivals the real Blackberry appworld.

You can also read reviews of various software titles and screenshots too.. but overall the handango App store is quite a nice little utility and worth playing with. I guess I should stop being lazy and post some pics, i’ll do some screenshots up and update this later at some point. Meanwhile – go get your 25% off, if there was something you were thinking of buying before, now’s the time. Yeah, I know 25% aint much, but they usually don’t offer more than that so a discount is a discount!

Vonage voip for blackberry now an option

Yeah, I often get excited about affordable calling on the blackberry, but hey! Who doesn’t like money saving tips?

Vonage brought out a blackberry app bacl in october so that’s kinda old news, but what’s new is their $24.95 plan rates instead of paying by the call… Who’s up for unlimited USA blackberry calling??

Bold 9700 – Warning before .351 Upgrade

I’m on rogers wireless and just this morning, while syncing up with my blackberry via the Desktop Manager to upload those christmas wallpapers I shared here, I got prompted for an upgrade…

Since doing that upgrade, Gmail needed it’s user/pass re-entered… Ah so what.

But.. I went to check all my news sources via Viigo My most favorite blackberry program, and boom! It shut off radio (Wifi/Edge/3G) and froze! I gave it a few minutes but no dice…

Then I rebooted and was surfing around and thought, ah I still wanna check the news, so I hit up Viigo again! Froze… this time just plain froze up… Gave it about 10 minutes and again no dice!

I’ll try re-installing Viigo now but if that doesn’t work I’m going to be trying to find some way to go back to the old OS 5.0 it shipped with because I need my news!

Dan

Blackberry Bold Freeware

Navigating what will and won’t work for your Blackberry is no easy task, especially if you’ve never owned a Blackberry or been thru the entire lifespan of these things.

We’ll try and keep things focused around Blackberry Bold’s only on this website and so for that purpose… There’s really only 2 types of “Freeware” that will work for you.

Generation 1 Bold – OS 4.7 Software.

I don’t know why they haven’t upgraded the bold 9000 to the new OS 5.0 yet, because it seems pretty stable and should run fine on an old 9000 but regardless at this stage 4.7 is only available on newer devices.

Generation 2 Bold – OS 5.0 Software

Available on the Bold 9700, this system appears to be slowly being rolled out to all the Blackberries in the lineup. It’s currently available on the Storm, Storm2, 8900, and a few others as they come out. Many of these apps for the 8900 will work great on a Bold 2 (Aka, 9700) however many Storm specific applications will NOT work on a Blackberry Bold 9700 as there’s a major difference between a touch screen application and a trackpad app.

Later I’ll take the time to post some resources to getting freeware for each.

EverythingBerry
BestFreeware Download
Bold 9700 Themes FREE
Bold 9000 Themes FREE
Blackberry Download
Blackberry Freeware

Bold 9000 – Gmail doesn’t work on wifi

Yes, it’s true, Gmail and other applications like Viigo don’t work on WIFI.

As you know, I stopped using the blackberry 9000 as my daily phone, but my wife is now using it as a web browser around the house and the truth is that it’s great for that via wifi and battery life doens’t become such an issue anymore. But if you want to use it to check your GMAIL, your hooped… at least via the Custom Gmail App Google designed.

The real trick comes when you realize there are POP3 email softwares out there that you can install on it and then use the Gmail pop3 settings to continue using it as an in-home email/web browsing device.

That’s the work around solution we have right now.