I haven’t taken to reviewing any themes because I’ve found so few that really satisfy me. But I recently stumbled across an eye-pleasing theme that changed all of that. The Curve 8900 Replica Theme by BNS Designs is sharp and clean, effectively turning your old curve – one you may thought of turning in for a new BlackBerry 8900 – into a fresh new device. Yes, it’s just the theme – you won’t magically find the wi-fi icon in the home tray (unless you already have that feature) – but it’s much more aesthetically pleasant than Telus’s OS 4.3 stock theme. Click through to read more about this great theme
Genesis themes for the BlackBerry Storm, BOLD, 8900, 8350i, Curves, 8800 and Pearl have been completed and you can buy one today with a limited time offer discount.
The discounts start today and will end Sunday, April 12th.
Day 1 – $3 till 12am PST
Day 2 – $4 till 12am PST
Day 3 – $4 till 12am PST
Day 4 – $5 till 12am PST
Day 5 – $5 till 12am PST
Day 6 – $6 till 12am PST
Day 7 – $6 till 12am PST
This theme is usually $7 so buy now to get the best possible price.
Not that Howard Stern is necessarily a good judge of what a good mobile phone is, but nonetheless he chose the BlackBerry Bold over the Palm Pre. Stern said that the Pre was a fine phone (it’s unclear whether he actually held it), but said its inability to connect to Lotus Notes was a dealbreaker.
Again, the world’s finest smartphone for consumers and enterprise alike wins.
Bono was recently quoted as saying RIM is giving him total access to their labs and facilities. When asked about the deal between U2 and RIM, Bono said “I’m very excited about this. Research In Motion is going to give us what Apple wouldn’t — access to their labs and their people so we can do something really spectacular.”
When reporter Mr. Cross attempted to guess at what the partnership would include, he asked if RIM was working on a special U2 application that would help the band interact with fans as part of its “U2 360″ tour
“You’re not far off,” Bono said, before slipping away into the crowd.
Personally, I’m hoping the partnership goes beyond just developing an app. Ideally, Bono would work with RIM on developing a new device entirely. With all of Bono’s charity work in the 3rd world, this would be a good opportunity to develop a device that would contribute to his non-profit work, while helping to promote a great new piece of hardware.
“We used to hold up lighters [at rock concerts]. Now we hold up cellphones,” Mr. Cross said. “What’s going to happen if U2 can, from the stage, instantaneously communicate to each individual person? What form is that interactivity going to take? Are you going to give them a song, are you going to give them a code, are you going to give them an opportunity to text to a screen or meet each other?”
CB has posted their exclusive on a new free theme called ‘Slick Pool‘ designed by Obscene (BlackberryThemes.Ca). The theme is a nice and simple design and animated to boot. Watch the water rippling across your homescreen. Don’t worry, this theme won’t slow down your device.
The attachment limit has been increased to 15 which is great if you want to send a whole batch of pictures or media in seconds.
If you click on pictures in the media ring there is an enhanced preview mode.
The whole UI theme has been polished to be dead sexy.
It’s faster to load and it’s smaller in size (~480kb).
The settings menu has more options and the 1500kb total size limit has been made configurable.
You can also add multiple emails to the favorite widget by placing comma’s between addresses in the settings menu.
GPS can be disabled & enabled by clicking on the GPS indicator. With vPost the user is in control of your media and your location vs. being tracked.
Vpost is listed in the Social Networking and Sharing category of App World.
Here’s the desciption of vPost from App World:
“Use vPost to enhance and expand the BlackBerry experience! Capture and share the moments of life as they happen like never before. vPost makes it possible to bundle, geo-tag and email any combination of pictures, video and audio. Send vPost’s to friends, family, colleagues, blogs or social networks. Get vPost today and start sending rich-media to anyone and everyone!”
