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I get about 10 emails per day from someone in the BlackBerry community asking me for help with their device. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the email, but I simply can’t help everyone. As an alternative, you can ask BlackBerry Joe, who can answer all your BlackBerry questions.
Another alternative, is to head over to the BlackBerry Support Community Forums. There, you’ll get all the BlackBerry help you need. Recently, they celebrated a whole year of helping the community. Congratulations!
Epic Applications is an online vendor of BlackBerry Storm applications that offers 6 apps for $0.99. The number of apps may increase in the near future but currently there are 6 with some free apps thrown in. Check out Epic Applications and see if there is something you like.
Found an app at Epic Applications you like? Comment and let us know.
BGR has got his hands on some leaked codenames for upcoming BlackBerry devices. The specs for the devices are confirmed, but the release dates are still unknown. Here is the breakdown:
BlackBerry Onyx:
* GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS device
* GPS
* Camera
* Wi-Fi (no UMA support)
* QWERTY keyboard
* 480×360 resolution screen
* Confirmed carriers: AT&T
BlackBerry Driftwood:
* GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS device
* GPS
* Camera
* Wi-Fi with UMA
* QWERTY keyboard
BlackBerry Magnum:
* GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS device
* GPS
* Camera
* Wi-Fi (no UMA support)
* QWERTY keyboard
* 480×360 resolution screen
* Confirmed carriers: AT&T
Click through for more information about these devices
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“My blackberry has been clearing my phone log at random. Yesterday it also cleared all my text messages. Why is it doing this and how can I stop it from doing it?”
This seems to be a feature RIM has implemented when you run out of device memory. Phone logs and messages begin to purge themselves to allow the OS to continue running smoothly. There are several ways to fix this issue, the first being to manage your memory. Uninstall any applications you don’t use and through the Desktop Manager. Remove items such as languages, sample videos and help files if you don’t use. The second way to help to keep your Berry from running out of space is to delete old messages and clear Browser cookies and cache.
Menu key and select Options > Cache Operations. Clear History & Clear Cookies
Lastly, Themes are a memory hog. Try to limit yourself to as few as possible. “Plus” themes seem to be a lot bigger in size than standard Today, Icon and Zen themes. So be aware of the size when installing new themes.
Thanks for the questions Susan A.
To get your BlackBerry questions answered by BlackBerry Joe, leave them in the comments.
“How do you change the default browser from the blackberry one to a 3rd party browser app?”
The short answer is: you can’t. This is one functionality I wish existed with the Blackberry OS. It would be nice to fire up your favorite Browser when clicking a link from within an email, text or other 3rd party application. There are other browsers out there that I think blow the native Blackberry browser out of the water in terms of function such as Bolt and Opera Mini but unfortunately RIM hasn’t given us the option to change this as of yet! RIM are you listening?
Thanks for the questions Ryan!
This is part of Joe’s weekly Ask BlackBerry Joe column. To get your BlackBerry questions answered, just leave them in the comments.
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