GtechBB is a theme by BB-Freaks that features a pop-up dock that is activated with a space bar click to reveal 7 customizable icons and a Today preview. The theme is very wallpaper friendly, allowing you to select a custom wallpaper which is framed within the theme. Overall. this theme has a metallic color scheme and that would go really well with the 9700′s silver bezel.
TELUS and the QEII Foundation have announced a “pink” campaign to help bring new innovative breast cancer equipment to Nova Scotia. Between May 6th and October 31st, TELUS is donating $25 to the QEII Foundation for every pink BlackBerry Curve 8530 or upcoming pink BlackBerry Pearl 3G sold.
The TELUS “Go Pink” campaign is spread across Canada and helps by funding breast cancer technologies in facilities such as: BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre Foundation, Alberta Cancer Foundation, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency, CancerCare Manitoba, Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation in Toronto, The Ottawa Hospital Foundation, Segal Cancer Center at the Montreal Jewish General Hospital and QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax.
Initially, Verizon’s Tour 9630 users were quicker to adopt OS 5.0 than Storm users. One month after the official release of OS 5, 71.1% of users upgraded to the new operating system. The Storm 9530 in comparison, saw only 61.4% after the first month, and took a full three months to get past the 70% mark.
The higher rate for the first month may be due to pent up demand after Verizon and RIM took their sweet time releasing this. Although, the early release of OS 5 was more productive for the 9530 which has since climbed to 81.4% adoption.
These statistics come from the time of download of the popular free game Pixelated. Given that this game has been available for both devices for a while now, it is doubtful that there is any early adopter effect distorting these numbers.
ShortcutMe is a QuickLaunch style app that lets you set shortcut keys for apps on your BlackBerry. A walkthrough of the application is available from this YouTube clip. The app has recently been updated to version 3.10 with the following features:
Launch ShortcutMe with Space key If you are in the BlackBerry Home Screen and no other app is assigned to launch with Space key.
Multi-Space-Key Click feature From BlackBerry Home Screen just double, triple and quadruple Space key to launch your most used apps.
Nicer look with background images.
Download new background images from shortcutme.com.
Background image rotation instead of always having the same background image.
Multi-click apps view allows you to view if you click any of the multi-click keys 5 times.
Pageonce Personal Assistant is an app that lets you aggregate personal account data from multiple financial institutions, utilities and more, and presents you with alerts so you can better manage your finances and avoid fees. The app has recently gone version 3.0 with calendar integration, performance improvements and a new user interface.
Here is a quick breakdown of the 3.0 update:
Calendar Integration – Integration with your calendar, all upcoming events, including bill due dates and upcoming itineraries will automatically be added to the calendar.
Super Fast – The application is running in the background and as a result is now super fast, over 1000% performance improvement from previous versions.
Enhanced Notification system – This feature was already introduced in version 2.5 and now has enhanced capabilities with more alerts, such as APR change to your credit card and more. Also, all alerts are shown aggregated in a new alert tab.
Improved user interface – More readable account information screens and ability to refresh all accounts at once (refresh all available only for the premium version).
The BlackBerry 9670 clamshell now has a leaked video up on YouTube but sadly the audio has been taken out. The walkthrough shows some of the inner workings of OS 6 and the navigation looks very smooth. The rubberband effect is present throughout the menus, much like the experience you get on the Storm2. As ugly as the device seemed in pictures, it actually looks pretty good in-hand. Some of the applications we get to see in action include BBM 5.0.1.5, Facebook, Twitter, Viigo and App World, which we’re all hoping comes preloaded. If the video gets taken down we have some screenshots after the jump. Continue reading ‘Video Walkthrough of BlackBerry OS 6 on a 9670 Clamshell’
