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If your a BlackBerry theme developer, you may already know about this, but Wikimedia Commons has a helpful Open Icon Library called Crystal Clear by Everaldo Coelho. The icons are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, which I’m pretty sure means they’re fair game for themes. While they may not be theme directly from the Wiki, a slight modification to many of these icons would make them ideal for a BlackBerry theme.
Images of the BlackBerry Bold Slider are surfacing again, and now we get a glimpse of the device’s insides. It looks like the Slider has a Bold 9000 style physical keyboard, and a virtual keyboard is displayed in landscape mode. The battery is an F-S1 and we’re still unsure about the megapixels on the camera (rumored to be 5MP liquid lens). There is still a lot we’d like to know about this device and so far it looks like a lot of features that will complicate the development process. Now a developer needs to accommodate for a trackpad, touchscreen, physical keyboard and touch keyboard.
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In terms of news I’d say it was a slow week for the BlackBerry Nation. On the bright side, there were some great apps that launched in both App World and the BlackBerryCool store. SmrtGuard-Free launched in App World, as well as Rove’s Mobile SSH for BlackBerry. Foursquare was also updated to version 1.7.0 with visual enhancements and tips features, and you can find them on App World now too.
Also worth mentioning is that BlackBerryCool currently has SIX contests on the go where winners haven’t yet been chosen. I’m going to choose winners for some of the older contests before Monday morning so make sure you’re entered in all six.
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There is a rumor that the BlackBerry Bold 9650, which we originally thought was going to be the Tour2 9650, will launch in May of this year. There is a lot of speculation about why RIM chose to go with the Bold 9650 versus the Tour brand, and most likely it’s because owners of the Tour 9630 would harbor some resentment that an update to their device came out so soon after they purchased their BlackBerry. To mitigate this possible PR disaster, RIM marketing have decided to go with the Bold label. It’s sort of funny how easy the general public can be misled with a simple marketing twist. Speaking of Tour devices, it also looks like a Verizon OS 5 upgrade will be coming in the next 2-3 weeks and will include PTT for an extra $5 per month.
Back at the BlackBerry Developer Conference, in the Experts Zone, there was a giant Tour 9630 made of LEGO bricks. It turns out that the BlackBerry was designed by a professional LEGO artist (yes, they exist) named Nathan Sawaya. Nathan is a former lawyer who now makes a living building artistic sculptures entirely out of LEGO. His portfolio includes a life-size Han Solo frozen in Carbonite, as well as a giant Monopoly game and a working cello.
A picture of the original after the jump
One of the value propositions of BES Express was that corporate users would be able to use their BIS data plans on a BES, thus saving the company money on data plans and a BES license. It turns out Verizon will be requiring all users on BES Express to upgrade their data plan to the corporate rate. It seems RIM may have been unaware Verizon was going to do this, as they said “This means if you can browse the Internet from your BlackBerry smartphone today you are already on a service plan that can be used with BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express.” This is now technically incorrect.
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