For postpaid, just text: BlackBerry MAX BB MAX 50 to 8888 for P50 valid for 1 day. BB MAX 220 to 8888 for P220 valid for 5 days. MYBB MAX ON to 8888 for P599 valid for 30 days – effective August 06, 2011. BlackBerry Social BB SOCIAL ON to 8888, P299, valid 30 days [...]

1. Options > Display > Screen Display > 1.1 Backlight Brightness = 0 1.2 Backlight Timeout = 10 Seconds 1.2 Automatically Dim Backlight = Checked 2. Try not to use Vibrate Mode with incoming calls, emails, sms notifications. 3. Always turn off WiFi when not in use (this is the biggest factor in battery saving [...]

Following the massive server outage at RIM’s headquarters in October through November 2011, the company has paid for premium apps for users to download free–sort of like the company’s “peace offerings”. The apps are definitely topnotch and users can still get them until the 31st of this month. Here’s a list of some of the [...]

Sometime this year, an odd-looking (albeit futuristic) BlackBerry phone surfaced in YouTube reviewed by a Chinese video blogger. At the time, OS 7 has just been introduced by RIM and this strange-looking phone appeared like a “mutated” copy of the Bold Touch 9900. I have then forgotten about the video thinking it was one of [...]

With all the fuss around the recently released OS 7, and the yet to be introduced BB OS 10, users of the previous BlackBerry Bold 9780 running on OS 6 (released in Q3 of 2010) can’t help feeling a little left out, especially when you’re not yet ready to get an upgrade. So the recent [...]

Celebrate the most festive time of the year with BlackBerry App World’s Christmas offerings. RIM is definitely in on the fun as a couple of these apps are for free. So dig in to the App World now and get them in time for the holidays. 1. Santa Dash (Game)– in the tradition of the [...]

I know that a lot of BlackBerry users aren’t aware that these alphanumeric buttons spread across the better half-part of their phones correspond to more than just letters and numbers. Some users just press a certain key combination by mistake and voila! it turns out to be a keyboard shortcut for something. With that in [...]

The game phenomenon has finally found a home in the BlackBerry App World. Notably, a lot of Pinoys are infatuated with these feathered characters after massive numbers of merchandize have flooded the market: from phone back cases to adhesive skin, phone wallpapers to screensavers, the Finnish-developed computer game has definitely maintained a lingering status since [...]

Like Twitter and Facebook, Foursquare is one of the most popular social networking sites around with a reported 10,000,000+ active users worldwide. As it seems, RIM has been quite aggressive in updating its dedicated social networking apps for the month (check the new version of Twitter for BlackBerry) with Foursquare getting quite an upgrade in [...]