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Most people use calendars and such to know what day it is - I use my inbox. An email from Jeff Bacon means that it’s Monday and that he’s got some BlackBerry answers for those who have BlackBerry questions. Read on as Mr. Bacon tackles questions about voicemail on speed dial, service books, [...]

Woke up with a case of the Mondays, but all has since subsided with another visit from Mr. Bacon himself and another edition of “Bacon on BlackBerry”. This issue sees Magmic’s BlackBerry guru Jeff Bacon attack your questions about BlackBerry’s namesake, transferring your address book to your SIM card (the answer’s got bad news [...]

In what will now be a regular Monday feature, Magmic’s Jeff Bacon once again tackles the tough questions of the BlackBerry faithful. Unfortunately, no questions about BMWs this time. Make sure to post a comment to tell Jeff how he’s doing!

The BlackBerry Cool office is filled with a bunch of tech junkies who know everything there is to know about BlackBerrys. However, we’re so busy pounding the pavement and bringing you the latest in BlackBerry news that we don’t have that much time to answer all the questions you send us. So we asked Magmic’s [...]

Rob asked us the following question,
I have just bought a Blackberry 7100x on the O2 network and on the front screen it’s showing “Enterprise Activation”. I am not intending to use this device on an enterprise server and have signed up to O2’s Internet e-mail service at www.o2email.co.uk for the Blackberry.
Do you know how [...]

Chad asked us,
I have the blackberry 7105 and I need to save my numbers in my phone book to my sim card. How do i do that?
We’re guessing Chad uses another cellphone thus to make for an easy transition he needs to store his phone book on his SIM card. So instead of re-entering [...]

Heather asked us,
I am interesting in buying a Blackberry to use as a cellphone and a PDA. I’m not really interested in email or any web browsing so I don’t need a data plan. However the girl at the desk wouldn’t sell me just one with a voice plan saying I need to get the [...]

George asked us,
For some reason my BlackBerry is now showing ‘SOS’ where the reception bar indicators use to show. No emails are received and I can’t place any calls.
The SOS indicates that you can only place emergency calls. Usually this means that you have a bad SIM card in your device, either one that [...]

Kelly asked us,
I just picked up the new Blackberry 8700 and have been trying to connect it to the company’s BES. However it always gets stuck at a certain point and I have to restart it. Do you have any idea what the issue may be, we’re a small company so we don’t have [...]