The “Break it Down” Blog

Sneak Peak at the BlackBerry 9000 / Niagara

BoyGenius had an article about the upcoming BlackBerry 9000-series (Niagara… which is the code-name for like 27 other corporate products from companies) that everyone was speculating was going to be a giant touch-screen back when the iPhone first dropped and rumors were abound. Well now it looks like it is going to stay with the tried-and-true [...]

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BlackBerry Outtage… AGAIN!

John Hering just sent a heads up that RIM (BlackBerry) is suffering another massive network outage (80% effected) just weeks after their 2nd outage in a year. Guys seriously… redundancy-what?

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BlackBerry Massive Outage Reported

Laurence Hartje sent in news of a massive outage for BlackBerry users across the U.S., affecting up to 8 million users apparently due to some massive hardware failure on RIM’s side. This is the 2nd massive failure in the last 10 months for RIM. Don’t you iPhone users get too smug, AT&T isn’t without it’s problems either.

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Touch Screen Blackberry: Coming Soon?

Rumors of a giant touch-screen Blackberry for the 9k series have been floating around for a while now, but always shot down. Jens Eckels sent in a link over to ZD Net where Russell Shaw takes a look at a LCD-based touch screen patent filed by RIM that suggests such a device is already through [...]

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Official Google Calendar Sync Support on Blackberry

Hole-ee-shit… Laurence Hartje just sent in the best news of my life from Boy Genius Report. It appears that Google just added support of Google Calendar synchronization with Blackberry devices. For me, this is an adventure that started almost a year ago after I got my T-Mobile Blackberry Pearl (which I love), and it looks [...]

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Getting GCalSync Working on T-Mobile BlackBerry Pearl

Update #1: I notice that a lot of folks are visiting this page, especially from the GCalSync Google Group, and wanted to let you guys know that Google has added official Google Calendar/BlackBerry Calendar syncing support by way of their Sync mobile application for BlackBerry. You can read more about it here. Ok so I just [...]

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