How To Upgrade Your Blackberry Curve 8520 OS From 5 to 6

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Ojas Rahate

Blackberry screwed itself and RIM was into pieces. Just then, they were in time for the smartphone explosion in India with their cheaper line of handsets. The problem again is that RIM did not release OS updates for handsets like Curve 8520. Never mind, we here at etiole.com give you a way to update your Blackberry curve 8520 Smartphone from OS 5 to OS 6. The official OS 6 for 8520 was never released but we can managed to attain the same look using a mod. Here’s how to upgrade your BB OS 5 to 6 (Design Only).

Requirements

Blackberry Curve 8520 or any Blackberry supporting themes.
Phone must have GPRS or even Wi Fi will do.

Procedure for Updating

Open the browser from Blackberry Curve 8520.
Then go on the “Go To” and enter the link which is “http:www.bbthemelab.com/s/44behe“
Now you will see a new page and Now directly click on Download.

Now enjoy your OS 6 on your Blackberry Smartphone.

Nokia and Microsoft unify to break RIM’s marriage with corporate sector

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Monik

Research in Motion (RIM), the massive conglomerate that holds Blackberry has got a long lived relationship with the corporate sector, employees have embraced Blackberry phones as Pancakes!

Nokia and Microsoft, two of the Digital Biggies try to break RIM’s hold on the corporate sector by unifying and releasing stuff to make RIM pee in it’s pants. Today, they released Communicator Mobile, this application makes it easier to communicate with colleagues via Text Messages, Email, Phone calls. This made it to Nokia E52 and E72 models and it’s coming to other models soon.

This just marks the start, Microsoft is possibly planning for more apps for the Nokia app store invasion and next might be Office! Let’s see, if Microsoft can do the office magic on the smartphones, just like the way it did on computers?

BTW i remember, Apple iPhone has a got an app for it too, and it’s called “Enterprise”

RIM BlackPad to give Apple iPad a Facelift?

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Monik

Remember the Apple iPhone Vs. Blackberry storm? Ah, storm lost terribly, Design (though some say it won), OS, and the huge comparison between app store.

If reports are to be believed, Research in Motion (RIM) which is blackberry’s parent company has ordered 8.9″ display screens from producers, Hon Hai. This proves the probability of another tablet in the coming. After a huge trail of iPhone Killer posts, time has come for so called iPad Killer posts!

Sources claim that the tablet has been codenamed BlackPad or Charcoal and it would be equipped with complete Blackberry OS compatibility and functionality. The device is currently in just prototype development phase, and thus its surely not going start to ship before next year when iPad two rumors would be raining.

Blackberry overcoming the iPad could be lot of hard work, especially with the huge bounty of Apps trapped in Apple’s app store but if RIM has got that sensational touch, it might overthrow the iPad. No matter what it is, it will surely give customers some fresh concepts (hopefully!) and not another iPad rip off!

Apple to enter Mobile Advertising market with acquisition of Quattro Wireless

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Monik

Google acquired AdMob, silicon valley based startup for a price of $750 Million. This startup was focused on mobile advertising specifically for the growing smartphones, iPods, iPhones, Androids and so on.

Apple is also not behind in the race. Recently there was a cold war between Apple and Google over Google Voice application denial and also the most famous story of 2009, Eric Schimdt, who is Google’s CEO, resigning from Apple as board of director.

Apple is also rumored to be making a new map application which would challenge it’s rival Google Maps , currently used on all iPhones. Apple has challenged Google in nearly all fields and this step could be another challenge.

Quattro Wireless is also another startup which concentrates on advertising on Smartphones. It is supposed to be acquired for a price of $275 Million and the news is expected to arrive today.

Thanks AllThingsD

BlackBerry Curve 8520 is in India via Tata Docomo

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Adithya Ramesh

Blackberry at low cost? In India it wasn’t possible till now. I mean, here we get iPhones for Rs 30,000 ($537) so you know it’s not that easy to own an iPhone. Same goes with most of the other Branded cell phones.

Have you always been waiting for a low cost Blackberry?
Your solution is here. If you’ve wanted to own this black beauty (i mean Blackberry Curve 8520) you can get your hands on it now! This lightweight (only weighing 106 g) smart phone has its glossy finish and touch-sensitive trackpad and makes scrolling smooth for an easy and user friendly navigation experience.

blackberry-8520

With a music player playing almost all formats and quite good sound quality and dedicated music keys makes this blackberry a real music one.

This model is loaded with 2MP camera with video recording, a touch-sensitive trackpad, full HTML browsing,Wi-Fi, messages, social networking,mobile access to email, as well as impressive multimedia feature.

Its other features include voice activated dialling, Bluetooth support for hands-free use with headsets, car kits, and a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack.

Blackberry Curve 8520, which offers almost 4.5 hours of talk time and 17 days of standby time, also supports expandable memory supporting cards of up to 16 Gigabyte.

Blackberry Curve 8520 is priced at Rs.14990!

Breaking : RIM and Adobe join hands to deliver Rich Content and Applications for Blackberry

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Monik

Today, Adobe Systems at 2009 BlackBerry® Developer Conference, Research In Motion (RIM) in India, announced that they were going to give the Creative Suite Professionals the chance to make Rich Content and applications for Blackberry!

Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO, Research In Motion said, ” There is tremendous opportunity for RIM and Adobe to align our platforms to help developers create BlackBerry applications that are highly engaging and deeply integrated in order to deliver the best user experience in the market”.

Flash is coming to Blackberry soon, with the Release of Creative Suite 5 in which developers will be given the features to make Image and Video content optimized for Blackberry’s from Adobe Dreamweaver®, Adobe Fireworks® and Adobe Device Central, Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator® and Adobe After Effects® and a lot more.

Amazingly, it will support flash’s key component, and that is Adobe air. The Company was working on a open source project to make the Flash Player for BlackBerry and so, Adobe air is going to be a part of it.

The biggest advantage of having such things, is that it simplifies the work of developers to spend hard time working for their applications to work on Blackberry, but after they get hands on Adobe’s Creative suite 5 all this will be history and you can expect a lot more cooler applications!

Press Release after break,

RIM and Adobe to Simplify Delivery of Rich Content and Applications for BlackBerry Smartphones

Adobe to Deliver Support for BlackBerry Smartphones within Adobe Creative Suite; RIM to Incorporate Flash Platform into BlackBerry Platform

INDIA — Nov. 9, 2009 — At the 2009 BlackBerry® Developer Conference, Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) and Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today expanded their collaboration and announced that creative professionals and application developers will be able to use the Adobe® Flash® Platform technology and Adobe Creative Suite® content development and authoring tools to easily create rich content and application experiences for BlackBerry® smartphones.

“There is tremendous opportunity for RIM and Adobe to align our platforms to help developers create BlackBerry applications that are highly engaging and deeply integrated in order to deliver the best user experience in the market,” said Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO, Research In Motion. “We are working closely with Adobe to enable our developer communities to build rich content services and BlackBerry Widgets that leverage the latest runtime environments, APIs and network services through Adobe’s industry leading design and development tools.”

“RIM is at the forefront of driving smartphone innovation, and it’s only natural that further integrating our respective platforms will set new standards for engaging content and applications,” said Shantanu Narayen, president and CEO of Adobe. “The expanded partnership between both companies will open up great new opportunities by making it even easier for content designers and mobile application developers to create rich and compelling content for the BlackBerry platform.”

Future versions of Adobe Creative Suite starting with Adobe Creative Suite 5 will provide the ability for designers to create optimized graphic assets, such as image and video content, from tools such as Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator® and Adobe After Effects®, for the BlackBerry platform. These graphics assets can then be easily imported into BlackBerry application development tools, including the BlackBerry® Java® Plug-in for Eclipse™
(www.blackberry.com/developers/java) and the BlackBerry® Web Plug-in for Eclipse™
(www.blackberry.com/developers/web), for use in applications and user interfaces. Backgrounds, icons and images created with Adobe tools such as Adobe Photoshop will also be able to be used in the new BlackBerry® Theme Studio (www.blackberry.com/developers/themes) to create compelling BlackBerry themes.
Adobe Dreamweaver®, Adobe Fireworks® and Adobe Device Central software will also be enabled to support the creation and testing of BlackBerryWidgets and web content optimized for the BlackBerry® Browser. Additionally, users will be able to directly import photos and video captured on their BlackBerry smartphones and edit them using Adobe’s consumer offerings including Photoshop Elements and Photoshop.com.

The collaboration aims to accelerate the mobile application and content development workflow between BlackBerry application and web content developers and creative professionals that use Adobe tools. It will also reduce the re-creation of graphic assets and iterations that designers and developers have to go through to generate rich application user interfaces, animations, images and video content when supporting multiple platforms.

Today’s news builds upon the recent announcement that the two companies are working together as part of the Open Screen Project to bring the Adobe Flash® Player browser runtime to BlackBerry smartphones. The two companies will also be collaborating to adapt other key components of the Flash Platform including Adobe AIR®.

RIM and Adobe are demonstrating a sneak peek of the enhanced mobile authoring workflow during the keynote address today at the 2009 BlackBerry Developer Conference. To learn more about this collaboration, developers can visit the BlackBerry® Developer Zone (www.blackberry.com/developers/adobe) and Adobe Developer Site (www.adobe.com/devnet).

T-Mobile to offer BlackBerry 9700 on 11th November

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Muhammad Ali

Yesterday we informed you about BlackBerry 9000. Yes you guessed it we are here to talk about another BlackBerry phone. The smartphone under the spotlight is none other than BlackBerry 9700. In this post I will be informing you about the release date for BlackBerry 9700.

One thing I would like to clear in the very beginning is that the news is more of a rumor. But one which can be trusted with high degree of confidence. Rumor has it that T-Mobile will start selling BlackBerry 9700 in USA from 11th November.

So that means AT&T now has a partner or should say competitor when it comes to selling BlackBerry 9700. However it seems that AT&T has an edge already over T-Mobile. The reason is quite simple, its because it will be rolling out BlackBerry 9700 as early as 21st October.

Here are the specifications for BlackBerry 9700

Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
UMTS/HSDPA
480×360 resolution display
Wi-Fi a,b,g
OS 5.0
QWERTY keyboard
3.2 megapixel AF camera
Bluetooth

ÜberTwitter for Blackberries : Now thats called tweeting!

Posted on August 13, 2009 by bastab

If you happen to use a blackberry and side-by-side is on twitter,and though you get the best of all the exciting stuffs going around the Technological world,you wish you could have got stuffs like the apple iphone users can access.

Twitterberry was the best alternative till date,before UberTwitter launched its Blackberry application.The application covers all the Twitter basics in your palm-top.You get to tweet(i.e. post messages),you get to check your replies,your DMs(direct messages),and more than that you can Twitter-search,use Twitpic,and will be able to RT(ReTweet) anything from your timeline.

But the best feature being UberTwitter can use GPS tracker of the phone to track the precise location of the user.And this track search one can use for tracking down other tweeps tweeting all around within 10-20 miles of the user.

You can download UberTwitter from: http://www.ubertwitter.com/bb/download.php

Blackberry Storm to storm out Iphone

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Monik

Blackberry’s Storm , Termed to be as the “Iphone Killer” (i know that
so many phone hve been named that but this is a perfect one!)
Even i thought of checking it out and found out that it could really bring a storm in the phone market. I will give you a overview of the features of
Blackberry Storm 9530. It has vast features.

3.25 inch touchscreen
360×480 screen Resolution
624MFz processor
1 Gb internal memory
128 MB ram
3G
3.15 Megapixel Camera with built in Flash
Built in GPS
A-GPS
Java
3.5mm audio Jack
Blackberry Maps
Customary Blackberry OS

Check out some of the snapshots of the cellphone

Credit: Blackberry’s official website.

However Blackberry has not revealed anything about the release date or even the Price for this heart throbbing cellphone. For more Details visit blackberry.com/blackberrystorm.

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