Update: It’s a weird scenerio.  When clicking the webstore link it shows up invalid, but on mobile devices it’ll open up in App World now.  So you can still go about downloading it since that’s what counts.  Point your BlackBerry Browser to appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/58652 or click here.

Yesterday a new application called BeepUs showed up free in BlackBerry App World.  It provided free push to talk services for BBM.  Basically all your BBM friends who also downloaded the application would show up in BeepUs where you can choose to open a session up to chirp them.  Now it looks like the app has been removed from BlackBerry App World for who knows what reason.  Perhaps there’s a bug discovered with the app and needs to be resolved to make it back in App World.

Have you downloaded BeepUs?

With BBM Connect really taking off, and apps like Wikitude launching to all BlackBerry 7 devices. I notice that a lot of users debate over their visibility. With Wikitude, the application allows you to control your privacy settings with options like:

• Invisbile- No one can see you and no BBM information is shared.
• Contacts- All your BBM contacts can see you.
• Public- ALL other BBM users can see you.

It’s really cool to be able to open your BlackBerry messenger  up to anyone who has a BlackBerry. It’s kind of like having Pinwall or being part of any one of the many pin sharing sites, but the benefits to this you don’t have to keep updating your pin, or searching through pages and pages of contacts. You can easily open Wikitude, and see who is in your area, and increase BBM contacts that way.

Of course those who are afraid of  sharing information with strangers, can keep it to invisible so no one can see them in the Wikitude application. Or you can set it up to where only your BBM contacts can see you.

So download Wikitude and hold up your device and explore your area with BBM integration.  Now the question remains how will you set up your privacy settings? Will you choose to be seen or not to be seen?

Pingr was one of my favorite BBM Connected apps; well to be honest it was one of my favorite apps in general. For $0.99 it gives you the ability to Ping your friends as many times as you like. You could even set a time interval so they aren’t all back to back. It was a fun app, however it was a little annoying if your friend got you back. Some friends and I watched as his BlackBerry danced across the table after being “pinged” from Ping’r 50 times in a row.

So recently after wiping my handheld and downloading everything from scratch I noticed the app is no where to be found, and it looks like it has been removed. I understand it can be a little annoying but just like the farting apps it is still very funny.

So it looks like the BlackBerry Curve 9380 and BlackBerry Bold 9790 are RIM’s last OS 7 devices they will be releasing.  We’ve seen one too many over the last few months that by now you should definitely find the Berry customized to your needs.  So what’s next? BBX it is!  BBX is the next operating system RIM will be launching on BlackBerry smartphones.  Formerly known as QNX which is currently what BlackBerry PlayBook OS consists of,  BBX will be the single OS to be on all platforms.  It’s nice to see RIM go the same direction Apple and Android went with their tablets and devices keeping it all under the same platform.

There’s one too many benefits with BBX OS and we can’t wait to get one of these devices on hand already.

AT&T is definitely throwing people off here.  The all new BlackBerry Torch 9810 is referred to as the “BlackBerry Torch 4G” at AT&T, but shows H+ on the screen which stands for HSPA+.  The AT&T BlackBerry Bold 9900 is also claimed to be “4G,” but is still titled the “BlackBerry Bold 9900” on the box rather than “BlackBerry Bold 4G.”  On the screen it shows 4G as the connection and not H+.  Confusing for some, but based on what AT&T told me which could be total BS, the Bold 9900 is 4G capable with AT&T’s real 4G bump up from HSPA+.

A very strange thing happened yesterday after purchasing my new BlackBerry Bold 9900 from AT&T.  Across the top where the carrier name should be, I saw “Sim not allowed:3” show up, but my device was still working without WiFi or anything.  Just a message that popped up and I thought my sim card was shot.

The solution? A simple reboot did the trick.  No harm was done with the error message showing, but it was annoying seeing the fault.  Maybe a later OS update eliminates this issue, hopefully.

There’s no reason the BlackBerry Torch 9800 and BlackBerry Torch 9810 are both available at AT&T for $49.99.  The original 9800 went on sale for $199.99 when it first launched, then the 9810 received a $49.99 price tag from day one.  Of course over time the 9800 dropped in price as it aged.. all the way until it reached $49.99.  Once the new Torch came to town, the 9800 should of dropped in price!  But as you can see, both devices carry the same price tag which could call for lots of confusion when shopping for your next or even first BlackBerry smartphone.  Let’s just hope these AT&T store reps are smart enough to distinguish the two for customers.

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During BlackBerry World 2011, we were promised by the one and only Mike Lazaridis that Angry Birds was headed to the BlackBerry PlayBook, and here we are still empty handed.  At DevCon we got to see many different games get ported over to the BlackBerry PlayBook including Cut The Rope, and many other famous titles on other OS platforms.

With that said, we should be getting Angry Birds now along with all these great game titles.  There’s no telling what the delay is, whether it’s from RIM, or Rovio simply stalling because they want out of the BlackBerry platform completely.  Is anyone else itching for a fix or are you over it?

I was using Poynt for my BlackBerry PlayBook and I realized that Poynt using RIM’s push APIs to develop PlayBook pairing was a great idea. For those of you that haven’t used Poynt’s PlayBook pairing it’s a simple concept. You pair your BlackBerry smartphone and your BlackBerry PlayBook one time, and any time you use Poynt on your PlayBook you can send commands to your BlackBerry smartphone such as adding reservations to your calendar or even placing phone calls. Now what the end user doesn’t see is the behind the scenes on how it works, which is still pretty simple. Using RIM’s Push API’s to push information from the PlayBook to Poynt and it’s servers which then pushes it to your BlackBerry smartphone.

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After this outage that cause many BlackBerry users to go throw withdrawals, and then quickly relapse back into their crackberry ways we can now return to our regular scheduled programming!

A lot of people had gained a bad taste in their mouth towards RIM, and their BlackBerry smartphone, because of the issue. This I can understand; not having the ability to get your information on the go, whether it was a tweet, a Facebook message, an email or a BBM. I mean come on to have the ability to stay connected while on the go with those who matters most is the reason we chose to use a BlackBerry Smartphone, regardless of the use (work, play or both). So the gripes, the complaining, the anger, and the impatiently waiting is all that we could do. The behavior is justified because we are a “please me now” society, and if we can’t get it now we through fits.

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