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.


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Blackberry Cool Tests Bold 9700 and Bold 9000 OS 5.0 Boot Test

Written by SyncMaster on December 16, 2009 – 12:12 pm -

It’s a RACE!
speed

The Bold 9000 Versus it’s younger brother Bold 9700 versus the Storm and Storm 2!!! Which will boot the fastest?

The answer is! Our dear, sweet old friend, the Bold 9000 on OS 5.0!!!!!

It’s kind of sad that it took the Bold 9700 over 5 minutes to BOOT it’s operating system! Unbelievable!


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Bold 9700 – Warning before .351 Upgrade

Written by admin on December 3, 2009 – 1:42 pm -

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


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Bold 9700 Themes Are Not Clear

Written by admin on November 25, 2009 – 12:01 pm -

Warning for all Bold 9700 users, the theme sites like Handago have not yet updated their sites to reflect which themes will and will not work for your phones.

The big ticket on all sites to watch for is things that say a theme is “OS 5.0 Ready” and very few are going ahead and saying that, with the exception of MobiHand which kindly does list exactly this.

Unfortunately, We’re not seeing any animated themes thus far for the gorgeous 9700, however I can tell that they’re not far away… I’m not sure about Bplay who claims their themes are 9700 compatable, but then spells out that they’re not supported on OS5.0 Devices… Watch out for that.

Some folks are saying that Themes for the 8900 work on the 9700. This isn’t totally true. Themes designed for 8900’s running OS 5.0, probably… So read the fine print.


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