OS 5.0 For Blackberry 9000 Official

Written by admin on January 5, 2010 – 11:12 am -

… At least from Bell Mobility! Great job, Bell! At least this is a clear sign that it will be released for other carriers.

As reported from BerryReview, CrackBerry,  Phone’s Review and other sites out there. I mentioned before that I was hoping for Os 5.0 to bring battery improvements to the Bold 9000. There’s no guarantee though so we’ll just have to see how it goes.

This was also one of the reasons I stated that it made sense to buy a Bold 9700 over a Bold 9000 for “futureproof” reasons. However, i’m not sure that’s a big deal now that they’re both officially going to support the latest OS, it’s going to be more of a question of what you like better and if you’re ok with a shortened battery life and lower quality camera.

P.S. – For newbies, yes you can still do the upgrade if you’re not a Bell Mobility customer. Yes, it’s the exact same hardware.

Tags: bell, bold 9000, fix, install, newer, official, os 5.0, update, upgrade
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OS 5.0 for the bold 9000?

Written by admin on December 25, 2009 – 2:26 pm -

Rumors are floating around the web that os 5.0 will come available for the Bold 9000… That its one week away.
According to many sources, RIM claimed they’d have it rolled out before the end of 2009, which of course is very very near….

I sure hope that’s true. They’re still selling the device, now in white too.

Its a much needed upgrade and I hope battery life improvements we saw on the Bold 9700 come along with it. But, if it does come out soon for the Bold 9000 I will be doing the upgrade on my spare as it’d be nice to see how it runs on it compared to how it runs on the Bold 9700…
What about you? Will you do the update if RIM rolls out OS 5.0 to the Bold 9000?

P.S. This week we removed Google Adsense from the site, hope that keeps the site clean for everyone! It’s really about the content more than the revenue ideally…

Daniel J Deyette

Tags: battery, bold 9000, fix, improve, install, newer, newest, operating system, option, OS, os 5, repair, RIM, update, upgrade
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Bold 9700 – IS your trackpad low?

Written by admin on December 4, 2009 – 10:46 am -

“Is… your… trackpad low does it wobble to and fro? Can you tie it in a knot? Can you tie it in a bow…”

Sorry, that was pretty funny… But in all serious news, the Bold 9700’s trackpad has been a strange new twist in the Blackberry Bold’s design. Anyone who’s used a Bold 9700 for greater than a week as their full time device has probably found it to be strange and yet comfortable.

I’ve had mine probably a bit more than 2 weeks now and It’s growing on me, but there’s times when it’s really annoying — But oddly enough I can’t go back to the trackball either.

A number of people have complained the trackpad leans, or wobbles and I think someone who goes by the name BaRTiMuS on Crackberry Blogs has commented with graphics about the situation. He actually took his unit apart and got pictures.

In his post, he showed the community that the trackpad itself is resting on a pedestal or a post of some kind and basically attached only by a ribbon cable to the device’s main-board. This entirely clears up the myth that this is a design issue or something that may need repair.

In this picture to the right, you can see the trackpad sitting on it’s pedistal where it’s free to roam, slip and slide only held back by it’s ribbon cable.

I waited a bit to post these pictures because I wanted to make sure I had permission from the author, Bart (thanks bud!) who did get back to me when I asked if I could use these pictures in a post to describe the situation.

Mine doesn’t lean like some people’s does, and mine doesn’t wobble too bad, but it does feel cheap and like it shouldn’t have so much give and wiggle as it does which forced me to study this so hard and dig thru the forums until I stumbled upon BaRTiMuS’s smashing conclusion. His post stopped a 9 page thread of people trying to figure this one out.

Sitting on a Pedestal…

Daniel J Deyette

P.S. COMMENT!!! That’s what it’s for, let us know what you think!
I personally hope RIM recalls and offers to repair free. It’s not that it’s broken, I get that! But it’s because it’s a flawed design… You can look at the early releases, this thing came out of the design shop with a ball and last minute switched to a trackpad. Other trackpad devices have this thing nestled in it’s own box and not up on a plastic post.

Tags: broken, design, fix, lean, leans, repair, slant, slanted, slide, trackpad, vibration, wiggle, wobble, wonky
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