Emotions and Your Cell Phone Purchase

Written by admin on January 15, 2010 – 2:55 pm -

It seems that a lot of people fight over the decision between whether to call themselves a blackberry user or an iPhone user. The camps are very entrenched like two different religious views.

When I wrote the top 10 things a Blackberry 9700 can do that an iPhone couldn’t, I wasn’t trying to knock the iPhone. I think the iPhone is a nicely designed gadget. However, I find it tough adding something like that to my daily life.

Something that’s screen smashes out when you drop it… Something that has no feeling when you type on it…

But phones are very much an emotional purchase unless your in business and require your phone for work. Your influenced by your friends, the media, and all kinds of other external and internal motivations. Let me say that the screen on a Bold 9700 and the look & feel has now started to really reflect those of the iPhone, with the scrolling time setting in the Alarm and Calendar… The sleek touch of the track pad…

I had the privileged this last couple weeks of chatting with these underground blackberry theme creators and boy… There are now things a Bold 9700/Tour can do that really make it’s interface look BETTER than an iPhone and not just looks… but practicality.. Some guy at methberry named Chad making themes that really revolutionize what a Blackberry can do.. I’m sure the functionality was there all along, but they’re unlocking that…

Like transparency.. I mean I can actually see what time it is while I set my alarm, how practical and yet sweet looking is that? I think that theme is called Eminence.

And as soon as they give me the word, i’ll be letting everyone know about these innovations and more…

Daniel J Deyette


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Valentines Day theme for Bold 9700

Written by SyncMaster on January 12, 2010 – 7:17 pm -

Are you ready for Valentines Day?

If your the type that gets right into the holiday in every way… Perhaps this new theme is right up your alley since February is not that far away. I honestly don’t get that much into that holiday from a theme perspective, but regardless this one is really cool. The graphics are amazing.


Download Valentines Day Theme for Bold 9700


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FREE Animated Themes for Bold 9700

Written by SyncMaster on December 15, 2009 – 10:34 am -

I bet you’ve been wondering where to get descent quality, really neat ANIMATED themes for your Blackberry Bold 9700 and maybe even some of those in the 9000 crowd too! I know I hunted for a long time, and ended up just buying the high quality ones at Bplay because I just didn’t like the corny poorly coded ones at other sites.

Here’s one free one that’s pretty awesome… Even during Christmas, this one really seems kinda “Vacation like…”

Youtube Link

This one is a Crackberry Forum exclusive and you can get this one and others by watching the Crackberry Forum for updates…

Some other sites that may have free animated themes…

BlackberryThemes.ca

OTAThemes.com

Themes4BB.com


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switching themes

Written by admin on November 28, 2009 – 1:14 am -

I’ve discovered that switching themes can really lower your blackberry productivity.

It often changes where your default icons usually are and causes quite a few headaches sometimes moreso than its worth for the pretty looks you get out of it.

Yes there are lots of steps you can take to prevent it but maybe have a weekend planned of reorganizing before you install any theme…


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Bold 9700 and Waterfall Theme from Bplay

Written by admin on November 25, 2009 – 2:27 pm -

Well, over the years, I’ve bought tons of themes from Bplay… Some of the ones I’m most fond of are:

  • Fireplace
  • Snow Globe
  • Saltwater

And others…

But this week I bought Waterfall for the Bold 9700 and I have to say i’m really unimpressed. What bothers me the most is that on the home screen when you scroll back and fourth it lags dramatically not giving you the quick response you need to quickly hit up your calendar, contacts etc…

bbscreen

Scrolling thru the menu of all your icons is super fast… so no complaints there…

bbscreen2

Also, the animation clearly lags and jerks as it plays which isn’t what they show on their sample page on their site at all!!

If your waiting for juicy animated themes for the Bold 9700, keep waiting I dont’ think they’ve perfected it in OS 5.0 yet. The other thing that was kind of strange was that the default font changes to a Times New Roman kinda look & feel when the original blackberry font was so much easier to read.

I also eagerly await a response from Bplay on it.

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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Themes For Blackberry Bold 9700

Written by admin on November 5, 2009 – 1:53 pm -

Truth is that I could do what I do without my Blackberry 9000 and Now, It’ll be with the Bold 9700 once it arrives on Friday or Monday. Clients would be come angry and
upset if they found out some days I have to run around to banks, programmers, designers and other labor sources to get jobs done and didn’t get their emails answered or
Inquiries dealt with in a timely fashion.

Blackberry 9700 Themes

Yes, they’re not practical and they can slow a device down, but truth is when I see a happy picture on my device thru the day it makes me stay positive.
Apparently the secret is the Bold 9700 will be using the same themes and designs as the Tour 8900 that I yelled & screamed about in a previous article. So if you see any themes out there for that broken feature poor Blackberry 8900 that look appealing… They should be compatable with the Blackberry Bold 9700!

All for now.


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Get the Saltwater Theme from Bplay.com!