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- Verizon BlackBerry Bold 9930 & Torch 9850 OS 7.1 Desktop Install Files Posted
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| RIM Announces Six BBM Generation Protégé Challenge Grand Prize Winners Posted: 13 Jan 2012 10:55 AM PST
We have been keeping you up to date on RIM's BBM Generation Protégé Challenge that started in October of 2011. It gave young people a chance to meet and work with some top "Celebrity Influencers" in six different categories. They went through a few rounds of challenges and now RIM has finally selected the six grand prize winners (one for each of the six Celebrity Influencers). Congrats to the winners. You can find their names below or check out their entries here!
BlackBerry Announces Six Grand Prize Winners of the BBM Challenge Eight-week contest inspires young people to pursue their passions as they vie for the chance to meet their celebrity idols Waterloo, ON – January 10, 2012 – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the six winners of its BBM™ Challenge contest, which was designed to partner aspiring young adults with some of today's top celebrity influencers. Utilizing a variety of social applications for BlackBerry® smartphones including BBM™ (BlackBerry® Messenger), 150 young adults competed in an intense eight-week contest for the opportunity to meet their idols in person.
Officially launched on October 3rd, 2011, the BBM Challenge tapped into and encouraged the enormous creative talents of young adults as they pursued their passion in the areas of fashion, music, film, sports, popular culture and entrepreneurship. The contest was centered around the BBM Challenge Council – a group of high achieving celebrity influencers who represent the accomplishments derived from talent, hard work and the spirit to succeed.
RIM is pleased to announce that the following individuals have been selected as grand prize winners of the first ever BBM Challenge:
Theresa Tran of Vancouver, BC will be meeting fashion designer and television personality Whitney Port
Audrey Morgan of Cherry Hill, NJ will be meeting teenage singing sensation Greyson Chance
Devon Carlson of Shaunavon, SK will be meeting film and TV actress Michelle Trachtenberg
Amy Loverin of Walnut, IA will be meeting U.S. Women's Soccer Goalkeeper Hope Solo
Tristan Josef of Garden Grove, CA will be meeting celebrity blogger Jared Eng, JustJared.com
Brittany Hohn of Somerset, NJ will be meeting entrepreneur and "Intern Queen" Lauren Berger
"Our youth are a new generation of collaborators, who use social tools, like BBM, to get things done together in innovative and creative ways," said Rick Costanzo, Regional Managing Director – Americas at Research In Motion. "What better way to promote the pursuit of their passions than to connect them with their biggest celebrity influencers through BBM, one of the largest mobile social networks in the world."
During the course of the eight-week contest the celebrities played an integral role in mentoring, advising, and encouraging their Protégés using the social communication tools on their BlackBerry 7 smartphones.
Here's how the BBM Challenge contest worked:
Further information about the BBM Challenge, including full contest details, rules, regulations and full entries can be seen at http://bbmchallenge.blackberry.com/desktop/en/us/home.html If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, January 13, 2012, 1:55 pm. | RIM Announces Six BBM Generation Protégé Challenge Grand Prize Winners | One comment |
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| Cosmos BlackBerry OS 7 Compatible Theme Free for a Limited Time (Magmic) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 10:04 AM PST
Magmic had some holiday spirit remaining and decided to make their Cosmos BlackBerry 7 compatible theme (also including earlier devices) free for a limited time. That means you can test out a solid premium theme on your BlackBerry 7 device for free! They are not saying how long the free price will stay but they want to know what you think! So far the only BlackBerry 7 devices it supports are the Bold 9900/9930 and Curve 9350/9360/9370/9380. Hopefully more are coming! Pick up Cosmos free in App World at this link. It is available for most OS 4.2.1+ devices. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, January 13, 2012, 1:04 pm. | Cosmos BlackBerry OS 7 Compatible Theme Free for a Limited Time (Magmic) | One comment |
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| Free BerryReview OnTheGo Reader Beta With Push Notifications, Comments, & OS 7 Support! Posted: 13 Jan 2012 09:05 AM PST
The JoeMobi team is on a roll with a sweet update to their WordPress BlackBerry App. We have just released our first public beta of our JoeMobi app which allows you to read BerryReview from your BlackBerry smartphone. We also have a PlayBook version coming soon (PlayBook OS 2.0) if all goes well. The BerryReview OnTheGo beta app allows you to read the latest 10 articles on BerryReview and comment on them. You will also get BlackBerry Push notifications when a new article is published.
BerryReview OnTheGo also gives you access to search BerryReview along with filtering by categories. We also have thumbnails by each article and the comments are all pulled in with the commenter’s avatar in a separate tab. We also have an Android version of the app for all our Android readers waiting for BB10 to join back.
The BerryReview OnTheGo app is still in beta so expect changes. Once we get fully setup we will put the app in App World. You can find download links to both the BlackBerry & Android versions below. Download BerryReview OnTheGo Beta from your BlackBerry!
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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, January 13, 2012, 12:05 pm. | Free BerryReview OnTheGo Reader Beta With Push Notifications, Comments, & OS 7 Support! | 4 comments |
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| Nobex Radio Updated to v3.3.14 – No Changelog Posted: 13 Jan 2012 08:46 AM PST
Nobex Radio updated their hugely popular app this week to v3.3.14 from the previous version 3.0.6. I have no idea what is new in this version but I have reached out to Nobex and have not heard back. Scott let us know about the update but he also did not notice anything significant. Either way if you use Nobex regularly you will want to check out the latest v3.3.14 in App World If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, January 13, 2012, 11:46 am. | Nobex Radio Updated to v3.3.14 – No Changelog | One comment |
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| RIMs Tips for Animated BBM Avatars & BlackBerry Traffic Voice Guidance Posted: 13 Jan 2012 07:43 AM PST
This week RIM rolled out a new version 6.1 of BlackBerry Messenger along with an update to BlackBerry Traffic anytime now. One of the nice improvements to BBM was animated avatars but RIM did not give much guidance on what the optimal settings are for BBM at launch. They have thankfully followed up with a knowledge base article that does just that:
RIM has also posted up some tips for those using BlackBerry Traffic who are having trouble hearing the new voice guidance directions on BlackBerry 7 devices. Here is the tip RIM gives:
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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, January 13, 2012, 10:43 am. | RIMs Tips for Animated BBM Avatars & BlackBerry Traffic Voice Guidance | One comment |
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| RIM Recaps “What happened in Vegas: BlackBerry at CES 2012” into a 1 Minute Video Posted: 13 Jan 2012 07:15 AM PST If you wanted to catch up on what happened in Vegas for BlackBerry and RIM you can check out a new video RIM posted. It is titled "What happened in Vegas: BlackBerry at CES 2012" and does a fun job of boiling down the highlights of CES into a little over a minute. Check it out and let us know what you think! Desktop Video Link | Mobile Video LinkIf you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, January 13, 2012, 10:15 am. | RIM Recaps “What happened in Vegas: BlackBerry at CES 2012” into a 1 Minute Video | One comment |
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| Verizon BlackBerry Bold 9930 & Torch 9850 OS 7.1 Desktop Install Files Posted Posted: 13 Jan 2012 06:28 AM PST
Tom was kind enough to let me know that Verizon has finally put up OS 7.1.0.163 desktop install files for the BlackBerry Bold 9930 & Torch 9850 on their website. Many people already upgraded to this version via wireless update or other methods but there is a place for desktop install files. Wireless upgrades do not always work for everybody and users on a BES usually have to wait until the carrier releases the desktop install files before their company rolls it out to all users. If you have been looking for them you can find both downloads on the Verizon BlackBerry download site. Tom sent in direct links to the Bold 9930 standard and multilanguage version but you will have to enter in your Verizon phone number to access the 9850 ones for now. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, January 13, 2012, 9:28 am. | Verizon BlackBerry Bold 9930 & Torch 9850 OS 7.1 Desktop Install Files Posted | 2 comments |
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| AT&T CEO Says Shared Data Plans Are Still Coming Posted: 13 Jan 2012 05:51 AM PST
If there is one thing I am hoping carriers do in 2012 it is proper shared data plans. It is starting to get ridiculous where I have three smartphones and a data card on a family plan and each one now has a separate data bucket. Each smartphone has 2GB and the data card has 5GB. It gets even worse if you want to tether to your BlackBerry where you are expected to pony up more money per phone to be able to use 4GBs with tethering. Once we moved off unlimited there is no reason at all that data from a tethered connection should be any different than a smartphone or a PlayBook over bridge. Better yet I want all of my gadgets like my camera and laptop to be able to use that same data bucket without more monthly fees. We have been hearing that both Verizon and AT&T are working on shared data plans but so far we have seen diddly squat. AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega just reconfirmed to AllThingsD this week that AT&T is still working on that "It just takes a little more time than we all would want it to take. But sometimes it's better to make sure you take your time and get it right." What do you think? Are carriers just dragging their feet because they have not found a way to charge us even more for shared data plans? If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, January 13, 2012, 8:51 am. | AT&T CEO Says Shared Data Plans Are Still Coming | 9 comments |
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