Editorials Archive

While we’ll have our own up soon, BlackBerry Forums stud Jibi has emailed us his thoughts about the best thing he saw at WES. Unsurprisingly, Jibi shows his IT Admin true colors and raps about BES 5.0. Check it out, but by no means believe anything he says.

Of course, the news of the day will be the official announcement of the BlackBerry Curve, but there’s another — and almost as important — story attached to it. That story is the power of tech blogs and the influence they have over what they cover.
It’s been well documented how the efforts of one juvenile [...]

The United States market is a critical one for RIM, giving the company about two-thirds of its revenue. Therefore it’s always good for BlackBerry fans to keep an eye on trends in this country.

Whew, what a busy time in the BlackBerry world! It’s enough to make even the most diligent blogger want to hide under their desk, disconnect from the Matrix and receive sporadic news updates through this wonderfully new contraption we’ve heard about called the “newspaper” (it comes on paper!).
To help us sort through the mess, [...]

BlackBerry Forums mainstay and BlackBerry Cool hero Jibi lays down the reasons why he’s looking right past 2007 and into 2008. Here’s a hint: it might have something to do with this.

I am sure many of you thoughtful readers out there have in mind a good idea of what your “perfect” BlackBerry would be. Judging from the comments on this and other BlackBerry sites, I would say that for many the ideal BlackBerry would have 3G, WiFi, GPS, camera and multimedia player, just for starters. [...]

To start, I want to disclose that my personal tests should be considered biased, for obvious reasons, and that they will likely vary from your own results. I have no science behind my opinions, aside from what’s best for me. I’d like to hear some feedback from our readers here at BlackBerry Cool [...]

I’ll bet that most of you thoughtful readers out there like discounts, and like free stuff even better. So it’s no surprise that one aspect of the cell phone market that most people like is the carrier practice of offering phone discounts or subsidies. Indeed, many phones are offered to the public at [...]

Before my time in the BlackBerry community, I’ll admit, I would scoff at the players who would whip their devices out, slide them onto the bar, and wait for the cute bartender to notice. I thought that would change when I became part of the BlackBerry brotherhood, but you know what? It hasn’t. [...]