RIM Confirms BlackBerry e-mail

Talk about unfortunate timing. Research In Motion (RIMM) has confirmed reports that Blackberry users across North America have been experiencing e-mail problems this morning. Evidently, the outage is affecting all BlackBerry users who rely on RIM's Internet-based e-mail service instead of corporate servers, regardless of carrier.

This, just hours before the company is to release its third-quarter results.

In a statement, RIM said customers "may be currently experiencing delays receiving email" but phone services and PIN-to-PIN messaging are working just fine. If offered no explanation for the service interruption, but said it engineers are doing all they can to resolve it.

Download BlackBerry e-mail User Guide here

Update Status in Facebook for BlackBerry User Guide

Let's face it. Unless you're rocking a touch-screen BlackBerry, you just don't have the real estate for the gargantuan app you would need to really appreciate Facebook. If you've ever seen Facebook on an iPhone, you'd see where you'd miss out with a hugely interactive interface, smooth swiping, pinch and zoom photos, and so on. Yet Facebook and RIM have made the best of it with this app. The newsfeed includes a status bar for your immediate updates, and tiny thumbnail photos smaller than your fingernail. You can sort the feed by news, updates, photos, and links, but you'll wait each time for the page to load anew. You'll also wait for a reload if you'd like to travel farther down the timeline.

There's commenting, liking, poking, writing on a friend's wall, and viewing your message in-box and friends. While the photo uploader makes it handy to scroll through your image collection, you can't upload videos from your BlackBerry. You're able to invite a friend via e-mail, but not search Facebook's site for pals who have already joined.

The app makes up for this in part with some integration into the BlackBerry environment. You can mash contacts (and their itty-bitty profile pictures) into your address book, and trigger a wall or private message or a poke from there. Facebook events might also wind up in your calendar, like birthday reminders. You'll also receive notifications of new Facebook messages if you've configured the app for that. While there's plenty of room for improvement, using Facebook for BlackBerry is the only tenable choice.

Download Facebook for BlackBerry User Guide here

Blackberry Tour 9630 Best Internet Service

Long awaited, the RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 has finally arrived in town, and it's putting on quite a show. As the replacement to the RIM BlackBerry 8830 World Edition, the Tour offers 3G world roaming capabilities and brings a number of improvements in all three departments of design, features, and performance. While we're disappointed by the lack of Wi-Fi and other minor annoyances, the pros far outweigh the cons.

Pros: Design pulls the Curve 8900, the Storm, and the Bold all into one sleek package
QWERTY keyboard is like the one featured on the Bold and the 8800 series
Updated Blackberry OS adds nice design touches and brings a nice update to the older aging OS Cons: WIFI!!! Where did it go? This is the first blackberry without wifi in recent months.
Design could use some tweaking

Summary: A friend of mine who works a local I.T. Tech firm recently got his hands on this new handset through connections at Verizon and I have to say it is a great improvement over Verizon's old Blackberry series. Verizon is the best carrier it seems around the downtown.

Download BlackBerry Tour 9630 Manual Guide here

BlackBerry 7290 - Full phone

Hi guys,i have just been given a old blackberry 7290,i downloaded the desktop drivers for syncing etc,but i keep getting a prompt please give a password for reset the blackberry,please advice,i am using windows 7,my o2 sim is working fine,i can make calls no problem,its just the desktop issue i have! Be carefulif the BB locks itself (there should be a timer) you will not be able to unlock it either (the password on the device and the password

please help, how to install the facebook on blackberry 7290 is there any software apps for the facebook version of how The 7290 is a very old device. You need to have first have a BB data plan and then check BB App World to see if it is available.Hiya,i also have a old 7290,having never used one before,i am very impressed,don`t know how i did without one for so long,i will definitely be upgrading soon,how do you get a bb plan

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