Blackberry Bold 9000 A Great Revolution....

The Blackberry Bold offers the ultimate convergence of business function and entertainment. Now, however, Blackberry has unleashed a phone that goes way beyond the ordinary. For starters, the Blackberry Bold is a 3G phone, enabling blazing fast connectivity, html web browsing, a best in class brilliant display, GPS (with Blackberry Maps), and Wi-Fi. The Rim Blackberry 9000 Bold also offers extreme multimedia features, such as an integrated media player that plays both music and videos, along with stereo Bluetooth. The 2 megapixel camera also includes video recording. If that wasn’t enough, the Rim Blackberry 9000 Bold has expandable memory slot for storage of all your favorite music, photos and videos. Finally, Blackberry has delivered a QWERTY phone that even iPhone users couldn’t help but envy.

The Blackberry Bold 9000 is one of the most connectable BlackBerry models out there and also one of the few to support a variety of Wi-Fi speeds and HSDPA. Its internet and messaging features are quick but you should be mindful new BlackBerry email and instant message accounts are needed for the speediest access to messaging and those not wanting to part with their personal accounts should consider this. Regrettably the Internet browser, email and instant messaging all have a dull black and white lay out.

The Bold’s video and picture quality are great, so it is rather disappointing that the camcorder records grainy images and the camera isn’t more effective. Measuring 4.48 inches tall, 2.6 inches wide and 0.59 inches thick, the Bold isn’t exactly palm-sized unless you have very large hands.

Available Features

• Camera (2.0 MP)
• Built-in GPS
• Media Player
• Video Recording
• BlackBerry® Maps
• Wireless Email
• Organizer
• Browser
• Phone
• Corporate Data Access
• SMS/MMS
• Wi-Fi® support

Size and Weight

Height:

4.48 inches (114mm)

Width:

2.6 inches (66mm)

Depth:

0.59 inches (15mm)

Weight:

4.8 ounces (136 grams)

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AT&T Re-releases BlackBerry Bold Firmware with Visual Voicemail

OS 4.6.0.297 for the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Bold on AT&T (NYSE: T) is once again available after an initial release followed quickly by some technical difficulties and a retraction of the firmware earlier this month. The big deal with this particular patch is the addition of a free visual voicemail application, allowing subscribers to cruise through their voicemail without having to dial in. To get started on your Bold, go to RIM’s software download site for AT&T, and pick out the BlackBerry 9000 from the drop-down menu.
Tags=AT&T, BlackBerry, BlackBerry OS, Voicemail

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AT&T Re-releases BlackBerry Bold Firmware with Visual Voicemail

OS 4.6.0.297 for the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Bold on AT&T (NYSE: T) is once again available after an initial release followed quickly by some technical difficulties and a retraction of the firmware earlier this month. The big deal with this particular patch is the addition of a free visual voicemail application, allowing subscribers to cruise through their voicemail without having to dial in. To get started on your Bold, go to RIM’s software download site for AT&T, and pick out the BlackBerry 9000 from the drop-down menu.
Tags=AT&T, BlackBerry, BlackBerry OS, Voicemail

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Is OnLive OnCrack?

We just tried out OnLive, and of course it worked perfectly, being a demonstration on the order of 8-10 machines set up by the company itself. The people we talked to were naturally very optimistic, and my concerns over the availability and reliability of multi-megabit connections were waved away. That isn’t the only problem, though. OnLive will need a top-tier computer for every player at all times, and when a new game is introduced, the volume and subsequent will be unsupportable. Add this to the fact that video quality (which looked okay to me) is questionable at the framerates they’ve set forth, and things start looking a bit pie-in-the-sky.

This informative article at Eurogamer is immensely skeptical, and understandably. These are serious questions, and they demand real answers from OnLive, even if they have to be coy about the details. If they want to serve 20,000 people at a time, they’ll need 20,000 computers or the equivalent thereof. Even at the hugely conservative estimate of $1000 per machine, that’s $20 million just to start. Is growth sustainable? Is the revenue sufficient? Once the shine wears off, will we find that OnLive is making promises it just can’t keep? We’ll know soon. Until then, I’m withholding judgment, but leaning towards calling BS.

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Blockbuster Coming to TiVo: World Talks About Apple Instead

That Blockbuster plans to bring its On Demand service to TiVo is news enough — the Netflix rival certainly needs to shift its streaming movie service onto more devices than the proprietary MediaPoint player you currently need in order to use it.

In fact, this news should tickle TiVo owners, whose box is fast becoming the best single way to watch movies instantly via the internet. But the news that is catching everybody’s attention is a small fact that Blockbuster senior VP Kevin Lewis let slip when talking to Reuters — Blockbuster will stream content to “Apple devices". Sadly, Reuters didn’t quote directly, so we don’t know which devices exactly, only that they will be “the normal places that consumers want to watch movies."

This could just mean a Mac client, something it took Netflix a while to get around to. Or it could mean iPhone or Apple TV. Or it could mean absolutely nothing. Remember Adobe’s increasingly desperate bleats that it is bringing Flash to the iPhone, and that “Apple and Adobe are collaborating"? This “collaboration" was in fact wishful thinking on the part of Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayan.

Could it be that this is merely a Freudian Slip on the part of Lewis? That his desire to be on the iWagon is so great that it bubbled up from Blockbuster’s collective unconscious and spilled out all over the TiVo announcement? We don’t know, but if company philosophy is any indicator, we’d put money on a Netflix/AppleTV double-team instead.

What we do know is the the whole TiVo lineup will be able to use the Blockbuster service in the second half of the year. There will be 10,000 titles to choose from. Prices are yet to be confirmed, but they are likely to be similar to today’s Blockbuster.com prices, at $2-$4 for rentals and $10+ for purchases. The biggest shock, though is this quote from Lewis: “You have to think about what the consumer wants." Yes, he really said that.

Blockbuster aims beyond stores with TiVo deal [Reuters]

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George Foreman USB Grill

The George Foreman USB grill is a god send to the geeks of the internets. You don't even have to leave the comfort of your high-backed leather office chair to cook a steak any more!

The George Foreman USB grill converts all your bandwidth into a tasty meal. Clever huh?

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