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Are you one of the many eagerly waiting for RIM to FINALLY release their Twitter for BlackBerry and LinkedIn applications to the public? According to RIM’s newsletter, the “Two Popular Business Apps Are Almost Here!” This is enough for you guys to get excited about! I’m excited to see if and what changes they have made to the Twitter app.

I’m still curious to see what you guys want to see in the official release of Twitter for BlackBerry, sound off in the comments!

via: CrackBerry | BerryReview

Here’s another leak for the Bold 9700. These OS leaks are coming more and more frequently, and I don’t quite know what to make of it. I can’t keep up with them at this rate. About the time I get my phone updated and just the way I like it, they leak another OS and I repeat the process.

Download OS 5.0.0.545

Enjoy!

via: CrackBerry

Amongst all of this talk of BIS updates, it seems that there has been sparse claims of BIS outages. I have been experiencing it personally today and a few friends of mine as well. Others claim their data has been working fine. There do seem to be some reported outages for some carriers…if we hear anything official we will let you know.

This is becoming an all to common experience for us BlackBerry users. I figure it may have something to do with BIS upgrades coming soon, or just a common technical issue. Either way, I hope they get everything squared away soon. I hate it when my emails and BBM’s come in on random spurts.

EDIT: Here’s the update folks, over 24 hours later and I’m still having intermittent BIS problems on the AT&T side of things. I’m still getting BBM’s and emails in random spurts every few hours. Some friends of mine on Verizon are reporting issues, other are not. So this apparently isn’t affecting everyone, but this is truly ridiculous.  I have been disconnected for almost 48 hours now, and all I can do is sit and wait.

Also, if you have any outages to report, leave them in the comments!

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According to BerryReview, BIS is scheduled to be upgrade to 3.0 on March 14th, or next Sunday. This is only scheduled for EMEA, which is Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Soon thereafter (March 21st) North America should follow. With this upgrade to BIS 3.0 comes two-way Gmail syncing. This is great news for all of us, and it is a greatly anticipated update. Part of the email can be read after the break.

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So, you’ve figured out your BlackBerry for the most part and are ready to venture past the “just-out-of-the-box” functionality of the phone, but you’re not quirt sure how? No worries, it’s very easy. Click the link to continue reading and to learn how to add third party applications to your phone.

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Are you on Sprint and looking at buying a new BlackBerry Curve 8530 but not really digging plum or black? Well rumor has it that a red version of the 8530 is coming to Sprint in the very near future. The red 8330 was one of the coolest BlackBerry’s of its day, and I know I always wanted to get my hands on one. I’m sure many people are going to feel the same way about this one. The plum is a very bold color, and the black can be bland at times. Red will be the perfect addition to the 8530 series on Sprint to fill that in-between void. No official release date has been posted, but GizmoFusion is claiming as soon as March 14. Sit tight pups, we’ll let you know when it’s official!

via: CrackBerry | BerryAndroid | BlackBerrySync

LouiV over at bbleaks.com seems to have got his hands on two snapshots of the rumored BlackBerry slider prototype, or Storm3. This doesn’t confirm anything for sure, but it definitely shows that RIM is working on a slider phone. I don’t quite know what to think of this just yet. When I saw the post about there being a vertical sliding BlackBerry I just laughed at the idea. RIM falling in line behind Palm took me by surprise. I like BlackBerry’s Storm series, and I love BlackBerry’s keyboards, but I’m not quite sure that these mesh well. From what I can tell in the picture, the device is huge! The 9500 series is large and heavy to begin with, adding a keyboard will only make it bigger, and heavier.

Hit the link for other picture.

via: BBLeaks

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I’ve been waiting around for the longest time for Facebook Chat support on my BlackBerry, and I’m just too stingy to pay $39.95 for an application to only use it for that purpose. Luckily, SHAPE Services released a lite version of IM+ for free. While the application is free, it still retains many of the full version features along with some ads. This is not a bad substitute at all for an IM client if you want an all-in-one experience. I’ve been using IM+ Lite all day, and I must say, I love it. It seems to be a little on the sensitive side with the trackpad, but I can deal with it. It has been working perfectly for me. Here is a link to the original post by Adam Zeis of CrackBerry.

Click here to download and to learn more about IM+ Lite.

via: CrackBerry

Here’s another nifty little accessory for your BlackBerry that was announced a while back. This time it’s the BlackBerry Presenter. This is accessory is for sharing PowerPoint presentations via Bluetooth from your device through the presenter and displaying it on either a monitor or displaying through a projector. Click the link to keep reading.

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A neat little piece of the puzzle has been discovered today. For a while now, BlackBerry users all around have been in search for new symbols to use in BlackBerry Messenger. Sure, while finding what already existing symbols would actually display on your BlackBerry and saving them to AutoText was cool and exciting for a while, but a world of extended emoticons specifically for BBM has been unveiled today. Thanks to the people from the forums over at CrackBerry and Adam Zeis for the tip on this one. Now I have something fun to fill my weekend with. If I find time, I may try to create an AutoText backup of some of these symbols.

Some people have been having problems getting the symbols to display. I have got them to work on my Bold 9700 just fine. I saved them to a memo where they only display in their original form. They’re BlackBerry Messenger specific, so anywhere else they’re going to display as question marks, black boxes, or Asian characters. When you copy and paste the symbols into BBM, they will finally display.

Here is a link to the thread in CrackBerry’s forum where this originated, and here is the original post by Adam Zeis. Enjoy!

via: CrackBerry