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Cocky Culture let us know that they’re offering a huge sale on their themes for the month of March. From now until the end of the month, all Cocky Culture themes are 65% off.
To take advantage of this deal, use the coupon code “spring2010” at the BlackBerryCool Store checkout.
Check out Cocky Culture themes in the BlackBerryCool Store and get them at 65% off.
My Battery by MMMOOO is a great app idea but reviews of the app said a battery drain issue was a deal breaker. The company have let us know the app is updated to version 2.0.1 and the battery drain issue has been fixed. My Battery gives you a homescreen icon and text that displays your battery status as well info such as temperature and voltage.
Check out My Battery in the BlackBerryCool Store and App World.
The BlackBerry Shield sounds like a great idea in that RIM will be able to offer some of the great functionality of SmrtGuard, to all BlackBerry users. On the other hand, it’s generally bad business for RIM to be competing with people like SmrtGuard, who have done so much to make the BlackBerry better for their users. The message RIM are saying is: don’t bother making anything useful, because we’ll steal your idea and make it ourselves.
Recently leaked BlackBerry Shield info suggests we’ll be seeing:
In the meantime, you should definitely be checking out SmrtGuard-Free, a product every BlackBerry user should have.
HedoneDesign have a new theme called Rainbow that features 6 user customizable icons (8 on the Storm), as well as 4 predefined icons (3 for the Storm), as well as a Today Preview and WeatherBug slot. This theme is very wallpaper friendly but I recommend sticking to the rainbow background. It reminds me of some of the preloaded wallpapers from BlackBerry but with a rainbow color scheme.
More information about the Rainbow Theme available in the BlackBerryCool Store.
We have been talking about the coming BIS 3.0 update for a while now and there has been a lot of speculation as to whether Gmail sync will be included in the update. It seems the BIS 3.0 update will come to North America this weekend, on March 28th, and 2-way Gmail sync will come later, by Spring 2010.
The official documents tell us exactly when this update will occur:
The Facebook app isn’t the greatest first party app for BlackBerry, but it’s definitely one of the hottest in terms of demand. With almost every single BlackBerry user on Facebook, a good Facebook app is crucial. The coming updates to Facebook, 1.8 and 2.0, will mostly address performance issues, but we haven’t seen much in the way of new features. Personally, I think this app needs to support Facebook Apps, and it will truly be the app we all want.
Upcoming features for Facebook 1.8 (coming May 2010) include:
Facebook 2.0 (coming end of year) will feature:
One of the downsides to RIM making an app is that updates come much slower than we would all like.
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