RIM has just about doubled its market share of smartphones in the past year but has been pretty much helped by selling low cost smartphones like the Curve and Pearl Flip where Apple and HTC have often kept to selling higher-end devices that are less susceptible to pressure for price cuts.

Analyst Mike Burton of ThinkEquity stated and warned on Friday that RIM is most likely going to suffer on the verge of a price war against other  smartphone makers such as HTC and Apple.  He advised investors to sell their stocks immediately before the “price war.” Burton understands that carriers and competition are pushing even high-end phone makers like RIM, Apple and HTC to drop the prices on their phones and that RIM’s BlackBerries are likely to struggle without significant price cuts. Although the Canadian phone maker already has budget models as well as premium devices, these weren’t considered enough.

Burton mentioned “We think that even [RIM] with its multiple product cycles underway will have trouble growing in this environment,” Burton said. “To combat this decreased spending environment we believe that [RIM] will be forced into making more price concessions.”

-by Mac Jadalhack

Source: Electronista

Some say it’s the most useful application made for the BlackBerry.  Others say it’ gives your device a new feel when it comes to sending attachments.  I say it’s the missing application RIM didn’t ever think to implement in their devices.

After two weeks of usage, we have decided that vPost is indeed the most useful application out there.  A lot of BlackBerry users end up sending attachments separately out of not knowing how to add additional attachments or just because it was easier.

With vPost, it provides the most user friendly platform seen in any application on the BlackBerry App market, while delivering a quality product with the best bang for your buck.

All different types of attachments can be put together into one email easily.  Feel free to send a photo with a personalized voice message and a video while you’re at it.  It doesn’t have to be media already saved either!  That’s right.  You can record a video/voicenote and take a snapshot picture all in the vPost application.  Then it will simply attach them in your message.  Want to send your GPS coordinates?  You can enable GPS and vPost will automatically include your coordinates in BlackBerry Maps and provide a link in your email.  Feel free to write your personal message along with the email and your good to go!

The application is only $9.95 to purchase and as you can see from what it does, it’s a great deal.

Click here to download the trial

Click here to purchase today

-by Mac Jadalhack

The latest BlackBerry smartphones come equipped with cameras that include a digital zoom function, a built-in flash and lighting options. They’re perfect for capturing spur-of-the-moment events. Click here to get the full scoop on the 12 ways to make full use of your BlackBerry camera.

-by Mac Jadalhack

Hello everyone! Here is another one of those apps not enough people no about. Yesterday, I posted about an application called SocialScope that “extends Twitter and Facebook functionality”. Well, here’s another app like that but does quite a bit more. I personally love it, although the overall look need an update but other than that im sold. Anyways, here’s your run down folks!

MobileTribe lets you organize your information from Internet and desktop in your pocket, by blending together popular social and address book communities – Facebook®, MySpace®, Orkut®, Plaxo®, Yahoo® and Google® into one easy-to-use application on your mobile phone.

Play video, music by streaming media to your phone from Youtube®, Blip.tv®, Social networks and from Personal desktops through Orb®. View pictures on flickr®, Picasa® and Social Networks. Call and SMS your friends internationally at savings up to 98%, by selecting your friends on Social networks and on Address Books – Plaxo®, Google® and Yahoo® from your phone. Be reachable internationally to your friends without roaming charges. Send/Receive emails using Yahoo mail and Gmail. And, all this from ONE client on your phone!

You can find out more about MobileTribe, click HERE .  If you would download it over the air, tune your BlackBerry Browser to http://m.mobiletribe.net/ .

-by Cory McCoy

How much do you love your BlackBerry?  Enough to buy a handmade bar of soap shaped like a 71xx series BlackBerry?  Perhaps, and if you are indeed interested it is available for purchase.  For only $5, you can have this trendy smartphone piece of soap.

-by Mac Jadalhack

Click here to purchase today

Source: GeekSugar, Etsy

For those of you who have SocialScope I thought I’d let you know that it has been updated to version 0.9.3.6. I know some people already knew this because the application is supposed to prompt you when its updated but I for one received no such thing. Even though I did for the last update?! Anyways here are a couple of the updates made:

• Fix: Improved Connection Stability

• Fix: Improved Posting Speed

For those of you who have not yet downloaded this application ill give you a quick run down of what its all about.

SocialScope is a brand new app that extends Twitter and Facebook functionality right to your BlackBerry. Simple enough right! It is going to most likely put all of those twitter applications to shame, twitterberry better step it up soon! In twitterberrys defense it kind of is better in the sense that it is more available (SocialScope is a closed beta and you need to sign up using your email to get an invite).

Anyways, if you want to update your version of SocialScope click HERE and sign in. If you do not yet have it click HERE and sign up!

-by Cory McCoy

Bloggers unite! CellSpin on your BlackBerry smartphone lets you blog instantly with Audio, Video, Photo and Text support to all your favorite social sites, including MySpace, Facebook, Blogger, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and more – all at once!

CellSpin is one of my favorite application for BlackBerry and i felt the need to share. Not enough people know of the greatness that is CellSpin.

One of the reason’s i hear quite frequently is how to even get around to downloading CellSpin! It’s true sometime’s the CellSpin site can be confusing at time so no more excuses – here is the OTA! To download CellSpin OTA click HERE to download this amazing application!

For those who do want to enjoy CellSpin but like me have way to many application’s on your BlackBerry than just sign up for an account HERE and start posting to go@cellspin.net!

-by Cory McCoy

Hey all! I’m a brand new poster here at PocketBerry.com and have the luxury of bringing news of everyones favorite app, Viigo!

Today verion 3.0.861 was updated to version 3.0.892. This doesn’t seem to be a major upgrade seeing as how nothing was released from Viigo. The upgrade seems to address a small issue with adding Custom RSS feeds. Make sure to download the new version of Viigo at www.getviigo.com on your BlackBerry’s native browser!

- by Cory McCoy

Vodafone Essar, one of India’s leading cellular service providers, today announced the launch of a new BlackBerry service plan — Prosumer Lite @ 299 — that offers BlackBerry service users unlimited access to up to 10 supported personal/business email accounts as well as various popular instant messaging (IM) services, at a monthly rent of only Rs. 299.

-by Mac Jadalhack

There’s a new ebook reader for your BlackBerry in town called eReader.  It is free to download and YES it supports the BlackBerry Storm with incredible functions for it.  It currently supports Curve, Storm, Pearl, Bold, 7130, 8110, 8120, 8130, 8220, 8300, 8310, 8320, 8330, 8350i, 8703e, 8707, 8800, 8820, 8830, 8900, 9000, 9500, 9530.

Check out below for the BlackBerry functions you can use in eReader 

Trackball: You can scroll the trackball up to go to the previous page and down to advance the page.

Keyboard: Pressing “Space” will advance the page and “shift+Space” will go to the previous page.

Touchscreen (where supported): Clicking the screen on the bottom half or right side will advance the page. Clicking the screen on the top half or left side will go to the previous page. You can also swipe the screen to the right to go to the previous page and swipe the screen to the left to go to the next page.

You can also use the “Table of Contents” and “Go To Page” items in the menu to jump to any section of the eBook.

Click here to download OTA

-by Mac Jadalhack