There have been several reports along the east coast, specifically in the Long Island area of BlackBerry Messenger via Verizon Wireless not sending or receiving any messages.  Data connections have been found to be issues as well.  No other carrier but Verizon Wireless seems to be having problems as it pretty much is  East Coast Verizon customers getting affect while the west enjoys the fastest 3G network, allegedly.  The information is not confirmed yet as this has generated from a huge population of people in a designated area.  Dozens of BES actiavted handhelds went down about a half hour ago, displaying “1x” and “1xev” signals.  If you are having outages in your area, please drop a comment and let us know what region you are in.

-by Jill Braswell

Maybe this isn’t universal for everyone to use but it surely is convenient as you get the full effect out of your background images.  The whole theme is based on flowers, but definitely not the kind that makes it all  girly, narrowing down its downloaders.  Instead it is very unisex and the icon highlighter is really cool as it is a round sphere hovering underneath each icon. Special thanks to  for providing this great theme.  OTA link is available below the screenshots.  This theme is only for the BlackBerry Curve 8900.  Enjoy.

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Plazmic 4.7 finally got an update patch enabling the creation of BlackBerry Tour 9630 and BlackBerry Curve 8520 themes.  The 8520 users did not have to wait as long as the poor Verizon customers using the Tour did, but it was definitely a good thing they both released together in one patch.  Prepare for a whole new generation of themes for these new devices.

If you’re a theme builder, click here to download Plazmic 4.7 with its patch.

-by Mac Jadalhack

Source: BerryReview

“This is really about creating a formidable challenge for RIM rather than anyone else,” said the Nokia executive vice president Kai Oistamo in a conference call Wednesday.  It seems to be rather aggressive if you ask me.  Nokia seems to be pissed about RIM and Apple’s small marketshare which is profiting greatly throughout the world.  Basically Microsoft and Nokia are currently working together to bring up mobile versions of the Microsoft Office programs onto Nokia phones which run on the Symbian OS.  In an interview, Nokia executive vice president Robert Andersson said that RIM has an almost dominant position in the North American market for mobile email. “That’s the application where they really are strong,” he said.

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The Analog Theme by Elecite presents you BlackBerry themes like you’ve never seen before as usual.  Being the most fashionable theme company on the market, Elecite creates a very unique home screen here.  Since it is called “Analog,” the battery meters and signal appear accordingly.  The applications go diagonally across the bottom left.  There will be moments where you will forget you’re even on a BlackBerry any more because this theme takes it so far with customization.  Check out the screen shots below or click here to check out the Analog Theme by Elecite.

This theme is compatible with the BlackBerry Curve 8900, Bold 9000, and Storm 9500/9530

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Vringo has extended to the BlackBerry Bold today.  For those who aren’t aware of the application, Vringo is a video sharing community which allows you to find and create video ringtones (or Vringos) and then share them with your friends — all on your phone. Use Vringo to find hot new video ringtones and get them on your phone.  You choose the clips you’d like your friends to see and they choose the clips they’d like you to see. Vringo clips are from the best of movies, TV and music, or created by you, either online or on your phone.  Get connected with your friends through video clips on your phone. Upload video’s and send your friends the latest thing going on with you by sharing a video — all on your mobile phone!

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RIM says be there if you are a BlackBerry developer or partner, beginner or master mobile application developer, web developer, .NET developer, Java developer, and business lead in mobile application development.  With that being said, if you are any of the above, you should attend this conference as it is made for people like you!  It is being held in San Francisco, California form November 9-12.  Here’s an interesting promise RIM makes as to “what you’ll take home.”

• The inside scoop on developing for the BlackBerry platform and the very latest in software, hardware and tools from RIM and its partners
• Invaluable information directly from RIM experts who will personally share their expertise
• First-hand experiences from developers who have successfully created, integrated and managed wireless applications
• Best practices from industry leaders to shortcut development cycles and drive new applications to market

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With the BlackBerry Curve 8520′s recent release, we have already started to see leaked OS updates for it.  We don’t have a log as to what this build fixes or does for your device but nevertheless it is a leak, and you must do it at your own risk.  This is the 4.6.1.286 build for the BlackBerry Curve 8520 only and is NOT compatible with any other devices or generations of the Curve.  Again, download at your own risk but if you decide to download it, let us know what you think!

Click here to download OS 4.6.1.286 for the BlackBerry Curve 8520

-by Otoniel Bruno

Right from BlueRoomSolutions, we present you one the nicest themes for the BlackBerry Bold 9000, giving you a dock like you’ve never seen before.  The E2 Today Theme for the BlackBerry Bold 9000 gives you a dock on the right side with stylish icons matching its background.  At the same time it’s a Today theme displaying your calendar and messages as you scroll through them on the right.  Click the image above to see a larger image if you’re still not convinced.  Otherwise click the OTA link below to download absolutely free.

>>Click here to download OTA<<

-by Otoniel Bruno

UberTwitter has been titled the number one Twitter application for BlackBerry due to its incredible attributes and availability as freeware.  They have just released their 4th beta today, coming with all sorts of neat features including the ability to have multiple Twitter accounts running, video integration, and much more.  See below for the full update list from UberTwitter.

• Multiple Accounts – You can now configure multiple accounts, each with their own set of on-device preferences.
• You can now BLOCK people!
• Video Integration – We have partnered with TwitVid.com to offer you an outstanding video integration.
• Goto user – You can now enter twitter users name and go directly to their timeline
• URL Shortening – we’ve integrated with bit.ly so you can easily send those long URLs now and not bump up against the 140 limit
• MUCH faster photo uploads, significantly improving the user experience.
• Use of the internal GPS is now solidly supported with proper fallback to cell tower based location when GPS isn’t available.

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