We never got to see the side view or what the guts look like from the back. I’m glad to see rubberized buttons, meaning this isn’t such an early prototype. Why oh why must it be so thick though? I understand it has slider capabilities with the keyboard and all but we’re in 2010. We have a paper thin iPad coming around the corner, you mean to tell me we can’t have a paper thin BlackBerry? Hit the jump to check out the sexy back.
That’s it. We officially have a very confusing series. The Bold family is just as confusing as the Curve family, only worse. So RIM doesn’t want to discourage current Tour users by calling it the Tour 9650, so they flip the name to the famous Bold to attract everyone. In reality, this 9650 is a Tour cosmetically and at heart. Nothing about it is Bold, and we are all unhappy about this new addition. The image above comes from a leaked user guide found over at CrackBerry for the BlackBerry Bold 9650, not Tour, not Tour2 but BOLD. The link is dead now as this was released late last night, but now you know.
-by Otoniel Bruno
This is all based off a newsletter PDF being passed on by T-Mobile BlackBerry agents to retail store representatives. We found it to be useful and hopefully you all will as well. These BlackBerry Consumer Quick Links are based on a variety of official links from Research in Motion including social networking apps. Hit the jump to check out the full list of quick links.
This has to be the best news I’ve heard all day! I’m currently very unhappy with the current BlackBerry Curve 8530 with Verizon. Currently, I am getting very poor battery life, while it sucks to see others who have 8520’s go on for over a day. Adam over at CrackBerry has spotted that Verizon will be officially releasing an important big update for the 8530 bringing it to OS 5.0.0.508. Some main features in this new OS will be:
Stay tuned for more from Verizon as they get ready to unleash this official OS update.
-by Collin Sorp
Tour 2 9650, Bold 9650, who knows what to call it anymore. It looks like the OS has been leaked online, without any promise of the device launching anytime soon. All we’ve been left with is the rumor that it might be coming by mid second quarter (of 2010). So if you currently have a 9650 at hand, download this leaked OS and see what it can do for you!
-by Otoniel Bruno
Source: BerryReview
The whole idea behind BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express is that if you have any BIS plan on your BlackBerry, you’ll be able to use it. Verizon seems unhappy with BESX and have decided to force users who user BESX to upgrade their data plans to the corporate rate. I couldn’t imagine RIM approving of this at all, and I sense some dispute will be occurring over this. Hit the jump to check out the official memo from Verizon.
Not so long ago I did an in depth review on SmrtGuard. Given that I loved the app, I decided to try a similar one, smaller and more basic. Everyone’s issue is memory these days. Not everyone, but those who have their BlackBerry smartphones crunched with lots of emails and apps. Memory becomes less of an issue these days with the newer BlackBerry devices out with their extended memory. So BuddyGuard is pretty much a lighter version of SmrtGuard doing some similar taskts.
We’ve had one hectic week of BlackBerry OS leakage and here’s a great way to end it off. Here’s for all your angry BlackBerry Tour 9630 owners who are mad Verizon still hasn’t released an official OS 5.0. If you’re on the Sprint network, then I guess you can try this for you know what and giggles. So here’s OS 5.0.0.548 for the BlackBerry Tour 9630. It is a leaked version so download and install at your own risk. Special thanks to the folks over at BBLeaks for this good find. Enjoy!
-by Otoniel Bruno
Based on the recent OS updates out there (OS 5.0 and up) and Bla1ze’s speculation on the matter, the mute button no longer puts the BlackBerry in standby when pressing it down for a few seconds. Will standby forever be missed? I don’t think so. I’m another one of those people who never understood its true purpose. Although I did see people use standby a lot instead of traditionally locking it, but for me it didn’t make any sense. So goodbye to standby mode. I’m proud of RIM for taking out the unnecessary feature.
-by Mac Jadalhack
It annoyed most folks trying to figure out how to use the all new leaked emoticon and smileys for BBM. Sure there’s the traditional ones but a couple weeks ago we showed you the exclusive and unreleased ones ranging to about 300 in variety. Copying and pasting them was a pain as they appeared to be blocks in any other app besides BlackBerry Messenger. You could surely add them to AutoText, but it’s not so convenient remembering all your custom words you added for each smiley and picture icon. Picticons is a new add-on application for BlackBerry Messenger 5.0 that lets you select all these exclusive picture icons and smiley at the press of a button just like you usually do for regular ones that come stock.
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