If all goes as planned this weekend, the Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) in the USA will get a boost to version 2.5. The BIS service provides Blackberry subscribers with access to email and other services (web browser) when they don’t have their own in-house servers to route emails. This important upgrade is needed to power any of the Blackberry handsets that are using the new version 4.5 handset software. Why would anyone want to be using version 4.5 on their Berry?

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It’s been about six months since I purchased my T-Mobile Blackberry Curve 8320. As anyone who reads Geardiary knows, I recently abandoned it for my iPhone. I was browsing Howardforums and found an interesting forum post that anyone considering purchasing a Blackberry Curve should read. It concerns a problem that has existed on every new model of Blackberry that I’ve used.

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On Friday I transferred my Blackberry phone number from T-Mobile over to my Apple iPhone, effectively terminating my contract with T-Mobile and ending a 15+ year practice of taking a Blackberry with me everywhere I went. In January I’d purchased an iPhone (”just to try it out”). Like many iPhone owners, I’d been hauling two phones with me. The Blackberry was my main email phone. The iPhone the web browser, Twitter client, music/video player, and picture taker phone. During the past week I was out at the Sage Software Insights Reseller Conference where they’d asked me to speak about Social Networking and Marketing. During this trip I decided for the first time in 15 years to leave my Blackberry at home. When I walked out the door Blackberry-less (and without guilt) I knew this trip would spell the end to our 15 years together. Here’s why I dumped my Blackberry and why iPhone is now my full time ride.

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Behold the newly leaked photographs of what can only be a prototype for a future clamshell Blackberry smartphone. There’s no information about what’s under the hood with this Berry, code named “Kickstart”. While certainly RIM is praying this model will continue their lucky sales streak, there are several things on my wish list for this phone. Will RIM introduce improvements to the Kickstart or is this a page from Motorola’s failed playbook of “release the Razr in umpteen colors and variations”. There are 6 things that will have to happen before I’ll spend money on this flip phone. Want to know what they are? Keep reading.

via: BGR

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