One of my biggest complaints with BlackBerries, and the main reason I’ve moved on to the iPhone and soon Android is the fact that the OS feels old. Sure there are tons of themes to pretty it up, but at the end of the day even the leaked 5.0 beta is essentially the same 4.1 OS from years before. RIM is taking baby steps in the right direction however with their release of an official BlackBerry widget SDK. The widgets will pull from several languages including HTML,...

**Disclaimer: As to not confuse anyone, Flash web browser support (read: watching/listening/viewing flash based content via Mobile Safari) is still unsupported and not possible at this time. However, Flash inside of applications is an entirely different story. Flash, the often sought after white knight of the mobile web is coming to an iPhone/iPod Touch near you. In fact, it’s already here. More about that in moment though**. While the story we discussed earlier...

With all of the controversy and public fixation on the Apple App Store approval process (or lack thereof) and the seemingly increasingly ridiculous app rejections that are coming to light, many have called for an explanation. Being the tightly run and secretive company that Apple is, answers to such pleas have gone largely ignored until recently when the FCC jumped in on the bandwagon with the Google Voice rejection. However, the real sweet bit of information came when...

Push capabilities is by far one of the Blackberry’s strongest and most often talked about strong points.  Even today, no other phone hardware or software operates and functions as easily or efficiently.  It is with great happiness and excitement that I let you all in on some exciting news.  The full push API for Blackberry is now available outside of the beta stage meaning developers can finally create apps with full, 100% push technology incorporated into their...

It’s no secret that the App Store wars are nearing full swing in a multi manufacturer sense as you app stores already launched or in the process of from Apple, Android, Microsoft, Nokia, and RIM.  RIM’s much hyped Blackberry App World has the Blackberry user base in a frenzy as they have for quite a while now wanted a more unified app system.  After Apple’s amazing success with their app store everyone changed course from hardware being number 1 to...