6 Precision Blackberry Themes...

With the new release of Blackberry 6.0 coming soon for the Torch and AT&T, all the other blackberry devices have been doing slight upgrades to keep up.

I personally will wait until the download is available for my Tour.

I do however like the fact there are new colors for the blackberry themes. I love the precision blue, but now there are red, yellow, green, black, orange and purple to go along with the original.

Thanks for the tip from http://www.pocketberry.com/

Scan the bar code to download the new themes...

Emergency, Man Down...Man Down...

To use or not to use...it's not just a question, its a lifestyle choice. Yesterday, millions of North American Blackberry smartphone (i.e. Crackberry, a powerful, addictive cellular device that gets work done while being mobile) users scrambled for dear life because their best friend/phone was living in a nonfunctional, lifeless state due to the Internet data service temporarily being down.

RIM, manufacturer of Blackberry smartphones, reported a service outage to the whole North America for a period of time. I personally must admit, I'm an avid Crackberry user and with my device being down, I suffered from functional withdrawals.

(Pookie voice from New Jack City) It's bad man, I needed my Crackberry man...it just keeps calling me.

Now, some of you may say, I don't get what's so big about this device that makes people freak out, but I want to point out a very important issue while throwing a SSD flag as well!

First, ALL phones, ALL phone carriers and ALL technology comes with service issues from time to time so before you iphone users start jumping for joy and other "trendy-following, use-a blackberry-because-its-cool-users" start switching to other phones, I want to say PUMP YOUR BREAKS!

*sidenote, To be honest, the Iphone can never truly be "superior" to Blackberry until it does a few things which I will get to.

Ok, so why are these crackberry junkies going nuts for their device? Blackberry has superior functionality because it manages a lifestyle, network or business with the touch a few buttons all while being mobile. Sort of a computer on the go without having to lug your laptop around.

Yes, Iphone has a world of great apps, but the fact remains and will ALWAYS remain that until Iphone is able to be used on ALL cell phone carriers and offers a physical keyboard it can never be superior. Blackberry delivers the consumer an array of options such as a physical keyboard, touchscreen, and the option to choose a device on all major cell phone carriers. Choice is always superior to limitation.

Like I said, it comes down to superior marketing vs. superior product. I'm sure there are fair weather friends that switched to different devices during the RIM outage, but do you really think RIM will go out of business soon?

No, because RIM has a superior product. Of course Apple won't stop selling Iphones either because they have a superior marketing team.

In the end, you personally have to find the phone that works best for you. And that is not selling dreams but realizing the truth. For I$H, I despise ATT as a service and I HATE touchscreens so the choice is obvious, its crackberry for life!

Blackberry and Adobe Flash...

Uh oh, talk about leveling the playing field. If there is one thing I will admit is that the iPhone is most definitely a great wireless device.
But on the same hand, I will also admit that Blackberry is just as good of a device.
Obviously, there will always be pros and cons to each device and I really don't want to get into this Coke, Pepsi, iPhone, Blackberry, Mac, PC and Canon or Nikon debate right now. All of these products are superior and it really is to each his own or else these products wouldn't be a part of fortune 500 companies.

Hey, this site is dedicated to erasing the hype so I won't hype any of them up. I will say that Blackberry finally getting Adobe flash will definitely give an edge to RIM up on the wireless battle for supremacy. Believe me when this happens, I will be the first person streaming imeem, as well as a few other "flash" sites from my blackberry! Ha...

Check out more info on Pocketberry...

Going On Tour anytime soon?

CDMA or GSM cell phone technology!? The constant battle for supremacy looms on. A lot of people probably don't know or even care about the difference between the two. Without getting TOO technical, SSD is here to BREAK DOWN THE HYPE, erase the layers and get to the bottom of things, right?! Lets get to it...

Okay, GSM is a cell phone technology used commonly around the world and usually has a sim card so you can interchange phone carriers throughout your travels. Heres the catch: For the states, if you have an ATT or T-Mobile world phone (which uses the world common GSM technology) then yes you can go around the world with your phone, but you still can't use it with Verizon or Sprint because these particular US cell phone companies use CDMA technology and DO not use sim cards which makes them incompatible. (SOME WORLD PHONE! Bleh, just more hype!)

If you plan on going on tour and have sprint or verizon this is a good phone for you to cop. Even if youre not going on tour, this particular blackberry has the newest upgrades, operating system and fast processor so it really is a great addition to the blackberry family especially for us CDMA customers.