BB Troll Tries To Make People Believe He Unlocked Verizon 8830 GPS...Just Shows His Ass In Public

A guy who goes by the name of tomgeist1 decided to go on a drive-by blogging on all of the BlackBerry Forums stating that he successfully hacked the GPS lock on his Verizon 8830...SWEET HUH?

Too bad TomGeist is a dipshit and doesn't know BlackBerry 101.

As you can see in the above video, he flaunts that he did it, with one small problem. Apparently Tom doesn't realize that CDMA equipped BlackBerrys don't have the full menu of information under the GPS. DOH!

Take any CDMA BlackBerry Tommy Boy, go to Options-Advanced Options-GPS...

Do you see Lat/Long/Assist/# of satellites/etc?

Didn't think so. Those only show up on GSM devices...And it CLEARLY shows in your fake video that those options do appear on your magical Verizon 8830.

So what do we have here folks? We have a liar. And not even a good one at that. Oh, and probably someone desparate as well, seeing as the video was posted around 3am in the morning.

The best quote to sum it up is LeetNeo on Pinstack who commented:
"Most ppl jerk it at that point in time....lol"

Right you are LeetNeo.

You are simply looking at an 8820 that has been reskinned in a Verizon housing (probably from cnn.cn).

So to make your bashing of him easier, we have compiled a list of all the forums on which he lied so you can call him out. Have Fun!
TomGeist1 YouTube Channel
TomGeist1 Fake Unlocked 8830 Video
TomGeist1 Fake Pinstack Thread About Unlocking His 8830 GPS
TomGeist1 Fake Howard Fourms Thread About Unlocking His 8830 GPS
TomGeist1 Fake CrackBerry Forums Thread About Unlocking His 8830 GPS

BlackBerry Thunder Pre-Order! (Yeah Right)

Blah..Blah...Blah...Blah...Blah...Blah...

So some website named eXpansys over in the UK decided to post that they were taking pre-orders for both the BlackBerry Bold AND the BlackBerry Thunder. Obviously this is completely an attempt to gain traffic to their site (a pathetic one at that), but what is even worse, is all of the BlackBerry Blogs that are actually reporting on it as if they really found some breaking news there!

Hey, guess what...We are taking pre-orders for the Thunder also!

We are also taking pre-orders for:

• 5-2022 Lamoborghini's
• 5-2019 Ferrari's
• 90% of the condo's that will be available on Space Station Berry (slated for launch in 2050)
  
• Hancock DVD's
• Next weeks USA Today Weekend Edition
• and...

Get the point?

It's not news because some company posts it up on their website with a bogus pre-order...You can pre-order anything. Hell, I just called and pre-ordered a sausage and mushroom pizza for Super Bowl Sunday next year...HA! TOP THAT!

Sprint's Ridiculous "Warranty" Gets Even More Ridiculous

Most people are aware of Sprint's bogus "warranty" that is offered on BlackBerrys. You know...The "warranty" where even though your BlackBerry is covered under a manufacturers warranty for one year, Sprint still screws you by making you pay $55.00 for a "warranty claim" or makes you pay $4-$7/month for "their insurance".

Let's break that first part down a little clearer:
Say you just bought a new shiny 8330 Curve from Sprint. WOO HOO! You're happy! You're asked if you want to purchase "insurance" for it, and you say "nah" because you suspect your BlackBerry is under warranty...

Well, 31 days later you wake up one morning to notice your BlackBerry isn't charging the battery. Upon inspection, you see that the USB port has somehow come disconnected from the board inside...CRIKIES!

You head on down to your Sprint store feeling not as panicked because you know it's warranty and you just bought it...

Get to the Sprint store, walk in the door, tell them what happened...and BOOM. They drop a bomb on ya! $119.99 for a refurb!!! WTF?

Typically this would be covered by (an already ridiculous) $55.00 "advanced exchange" fee, assuming you had no water damage to your phone. However, starting July 20th, it's gonna cost ya $119.99.

Absolutely ABSURD in our book.

Point of the story? 3 of them.
1: If you're going to break your BlackBerry USB port, do it within the next 5 days.
2: Now would be a good time to invest in the "insurance" that Asurion offers through Sprint ($50 deductible).
3: It's time to start looking for another carrier

TuneUsIn BETA Testing Streaming Music Videos To BlackBerrys

TuneUsIn has informed us that they are currently BETA testing a new music video section of the site.

Utilizing the 4.5 Operating Systems, you are able to visit the site, click on the music video that you wish to view, and it begins to play in your media player. Pretty spiffy!

There are already sites that somewhat already do this such as blueapple and even youtube itself, but what we like about the site that you don't have to dig through 4 pages of confusion in order to get what you want to view.

Check it out and let us and TuneUsIn know what you think. The link to visit from your BlackBerry is http://tuneusin.com/musicvideos.html

Buh-Bye Red 8130 on Sprint...

Adios amigo. 

This will be the last month for the color choice of RED for the 8130 on Sprint. That didn't last too long eh? Actually, it had a shorter life span than the POS 7100 on TMOBZ. HAH. 

Interesting enough though is that the RED CURVE is slated to come out on Sprint starting on the 9th. 

Oh, and by the way....You loyal 8703 owners...It's slated end-of-life for August...Not that it means anything to you since you already have one and it will still be available for warranty replacement, but we just felt that we should tell you in case you have any friends or co-workers who wanted to get a new one. 

Google BETA Testing Voice Support For Google Maps On Pearls...

Now another reason comes along for people to claim BlackBerry users are even more crazy, as if vlingo and BlueTooth weren't enough already... 

See the guy above? That can be you! Of course, if you used vlingo before they updated it, you probably already have taken the above pose a few times this week. 

Anyways, Google is now testing voice support for Google Maps on their BlackBerry, but it's only limited to the Pearl series (WTF?-Seriously? The PEARL? NOT the CURVES?-Oh well). 

We will probably find a way around this and get it put onto the Curves by using the Java Command Loader, but if you are on a Pearl right now and want to check it out, let us know what you think. 

All you have to do is point your BlackBerry browsers to www.google.com/gmm and it will automatically update. 

 

Now we just have to find a Pearl somewhere around the offices in order to get the file for the Curves. Too bad almost everyone here ditched their Pearls about a year ago...

UPDATE: 

Good...We are lazy today and want to do any REAL work, and we don't have to now! 

Over at BERRYREVIEW they already found the direct OTA download link that will work on the Curves and 8800's. 

Knock your socks off kiddos! CLICK HERE WITH YOUR BLACKBERRY BROWSER

Vlingo...Take 2

After pissing off approximately 3/4 of the BlackBerry owners in the world earlier this week, vlingo has released a statement AND an updated version of their application which enables voice-commands on your BlackBerry...And it works this time!

Head on over to their release page by CLICKING HERE and give it another shot. If it didn't work for you the first time after trying for hours upon hours upon hours, and you swore vlingo to hell and that you would never give them another chance...well...give them another chance.

Pay close attention to the entire post, mainly the part where it tells TMO and Rogers users to change the port settings to ALTERNATE.

Thanks vlingo for jumping on this so quick and saving yourselves from our "Palringo Category".

BBText2IM-Update: Now available for BETA

A few days ago we told you about the BBText2IM, which pretty much is going to allow you to view Text Messages in-line like you do Instant Messages. 

Finally the BETA is out, so here is the OTA download link if you want to check it out. 

We just got into the office and haven't had much time to play with it yet, however, the big crucial part that we notice is missing is the "Use Once" option that usually would appear when trying to create a text message using the standard SMS folder. 

One other "annoying" thing we have found about it is the fact that if you don't use the "Find" feature when going into your "Address Book" and start to scroll down, if you attempt to scroll back up, then it takes you directly to the find. Not a big PITA, but still something they probably will want to check before the Alpha version is released. 

So check it out and let us know what you think. 

Bullhorn Is Full Of Bullsh!t

I was browsing around over on the "Bullhorn Support Forums" as a parnter who I work with was asking about BlackBerry integration with the program.

First off, it can't be done. So if you are or were thinking about using Bullhorn and you use a BlackBerry, don't. (Keep reading to find an alternative that actually works).

Now, you CAN get your emails on your BB by setting up forwarding rules and "filters. By the way they are a complete pain in the ass because you have to "rank" the filters and most of the time your BlackBerry filter is going to be pushed to the bottom resulting in 3/4 of your emails never coming in. Apparently the reasoning for this is that some Brainiac at Bullhorn decided to build the software so that when something is ranked as "not spam", it actually creates a filter for that person which is ranked HIGHER than the BlackBerry. HAH. WTF? Morons.

Anyways, back to my rant about Bullhorn. You would think after being around for so long, that this company some way or another would realize that they could make SO MUCH MORE MONEY and have SO MANY MORE CLIENTS if they would just get off the little Windows Mobile/Palm fetish that the geek-boy developers have, and started working on a BlackBerry solution.

Why do I make my above comments? Here are some quotes from the "Bullhorn Staff" and "Bullhorn Developers" in the support forums:

Scavallo (Bullhorn Support Staff):

There are several advantages to using the Bullhorn Wireless client on a supported device and sync with mobile devices as opposed to simply vieweing Bullhorn Mobile via a blackberry.

1. The contacts which you sync with your device using intellisync will be integrated with your device. You can look them up on your device to call them easily from your phone, and their name will resolve on the caller ID. The webclient will not do this. Yo Scavallo-Then get your program developers off their ass and find a work around.

2. Intellisync is an offline client. You can read emails and respond when you are offline which is great for airplanes and travelling. Eh...Yeah...You can do that on a BlackBerry too..

3. The contacts on your device will be backed up in Bullhorn as private. If your device is lost/stolen/damaged/replaced, you will have a backup of all contacts which can easily be restored to a new device. You can easily publish them in Bullhorn as well. WTF? This is WHY Bullhorn needs to be integrated with BES you dolt.

4. Usability - It is also much easier to use. Yeah yeah yeah...I've got $500 on the table right now that says Scavallo uses a treo and has probably never even picked up a BlackBerry before.

cseibert (Bullhorn employee):

We don't have a way to sync to Blackberry. Talk to them about supporting third-party integrations; they're not interested. Yeah Cseibert. Probably because they saw "Sent from my Palm Treo. The bestest bestest bestest cell phone in the world" in your signature line of the email.

Not only that, have you ever heard of a competitor of yours called WinSearch? Hrmm...THEY use a BES server. THEY integrate their software into the BES server...SO...why can't you? (Those of you who actually have been thinking about Bullhorn and want a solution that IS BlackBerry friendly, check out WinSearch)

So in other words, we are going to say this about Bullhorn.....B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T.

We know that you are nothing but a bunch of little TREONAUTS over there, and probably have now migrated over to being Apple FanBoys, and you will find a way to integrate that into your system before you do BlackBerry.

That being said, I hope your CEO and whatever investors you have are glad being mediocre, because that's where Bullhorn is going to remain until you get your head out of your bullend and start giving the tens of thousands of potenital users you have what they want.

:::Rant Off:::

Guess What This Post Is About

Yep. You know.

BGR broke it and now everyone else is posting, so we decided "Eh, why not".

So apparently the Bold is being delayed, and knowing BG's history with accurately leaking RIM information, we wouldn't doubt if his two sources were ole Mike and Jim themselves.

Basically, yeah, who knows.

SO...Here's what WE promise YOU...

There will be no posts about "possible" release dates of the Bold posted here on BBHP until it's confirmed to launch by either AT&T or RIM. And internal documents are going to work. We're talking about a full-fledged press release.

Travel Channel Releases BlackBerry Application And...

it's pretty nifty!

Say you are in Chicago (just because that's the default location of the application) and you want to know what cool architecture there is around you...Or entertainment...Or attractions...Whatever...

Well, if you have the TravelGO, you would be one happy camper.

You can either set your location by GPS, or you can also enter zip codes, addresses, cross streets, cities, etc.

Then you flip on over to the next tab and boom, see what's near you.

Nothing new eh?

Oh no no no...

When you pull up a location (We are going to use Carson Pirie Scott & Company since it's the first one that popped up), it gives you the address, but also gives you a picture of the building and a description.

The great thing about the description is, if you are like us (AKA: LAZY) and don't want to read the description, simply press the option to "Listen", and the description will play through your BlackBerry speaker. Especially useful if you are doing a walking tour through the city and don't want to run into a lamp post because you are looking down at your BlackBerry screen.

You can also set that location or get directions to there or from there, so that's pretty nifty too. (Would be good if you could set up a walking tour with different waypoints!)

Also, there is an option where you can add friends, and send them locations or let them see where you are! We like that, just because of the fact that whenever we run SpotJots, it crashes our BlackBerry, plus, this has more features!

Click Here to check it out or go to http://go.travelchannel.com from your BlackBerry!

Thanks for the tip Simon!

BlackberryHomePage Review -- GetitBack!

I was approached by Convenience Software, the makers of GetItBack, to do a little review of their product. I must admit, at first I couldn’t see where I would ever personally use an application with these capabilities. Let me be the first to tell you, I stand corrected. After using the program for a few days now, I couldnt think of walking outside with my BlackBerry without it.

The application comes in two parts. There is a small application that is installed on the device, and a server side portion that requires logging in to a web site. Buy it here! The Home page has an excellent break down of the service and I will not overwhelm you with the details, but to quote a few:

BlackBerry Statistics
With the new web-interface, you can view vital statistics about your BlackBerry which are updated every thirty seconds including: battery life, backlight state and lock state.

BlackBerry Controller
Another feature of the web-interface is the ability to remotely control your BlackBerry. You can make it ring (even if it’s on silent), activate an alarm, make it call you, and make it display a custom message

SIM Number
GetItBack’s Web Interface will also tell you your phone’s SIM number, so if the thief replaces your SIM card, you can easily track and retrieve your phone.

GPS Location
GetItBack’s Web Interface will even show you your phone’s GPS coordinates (if they are available on your device), and you will be able to see your phone’s location overlayed on Yahoo! Maps.

As you can see the application provides a laundry list of information to assist with the return of your device. In my experience the mapping feature (which can refresh itself in as little as 30 seconds) is extremely accurate, with not only a street view, but also satellite and hybrid views. Even going inside, the map will show the last known GPS coordinates, which was in most cases, marked as the building I was in.

Still on the fence? How about signing up your entire family’s devices, and being able to log into the web portal from any other BlackBerry? Ever lost your device in your house and cant find where it is, wishing it had a homing device built-in? Log in to the web portal and quickly send a message to the device to turn on your alarm or ringer. The music will continue to play until you either mark it found or pick up the device and silence it. No more calling from another device - that you may or may not have readily available - over and over just to find your misplaced BlackBerry.

Another great example? A corporation using a BES. We all know that the device can be remotely wiped/locked. You can also track the device via the BES. But what about being able to locate any of your employees’ devices, being able to see where they left their device, or track the cab that they left their BlackBerry in. With a 30 second refresh on the GPS map, as long as the device has power, you can see where it is with as much accuracy as any of the on-device GPS applications reveal. Now a BlackBerry Administrator can not only administer the devices, but we can now see where they are in near real time.

A few images are on the website as well, including the one used in this article. All in all, this is one of the best applications that I have used. Tech support was very quick to respond to the only issue that I had (on an OS that is not yet released to the public). This works beautifully on the 4.5 releases, including the many beta versions floating around. I would strongly recommend that you at least try this application out, because all it will take is just one use and you will be hooked

WeatherBug Direct Now Warns You When You May Die

Face it, when a tornado is coming your way, you want to get the hell out of Dodge. Or at the very least climb into your bathtub and weep uncontrollably (ahem, former intern). 

WeatherBug Direct now will actually give you AUDIO and VISUAL alerts on your BlackBerry, by adding an option in your Profiles for you to customize. 

What alerts can you set you ask? What alerts CAN'T you set we say!

Everything from tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, thunderstorms (and thunder cats!) and beyond...Well...Let's just say everything EXCEPT the Apocalypse (however, that may be added soon). 

One note of warning, when you are setting up WeatherBug Direct for the first time, make sure that you don't just whip right through the setup, as that's where you set up your "I don't want to die" alerts. 

Click Here to download OTA!

Thanks to BoneBox for helping us all live another day! 

BBText2IM-Threaded Text Messages...Coming Soon?

You have to admit: reading text messages on a BlackBerry is boring (as are emails, but after Saturday that will be changing). 

Many people would love to be able to read text messages like you do Instant Messages, and that has been impossible until now...Kinda. 

MDWHEATON (of BlackBerry Profile Scheduler fame) has come out of his dark hole he's been hiding in for a while to make a post on Pinstack announcing BBText2IM. 

Only problem is...There is no information on how to BETA test it yet. (Insert sad face). 

We will keep you up to date on when we find out how you can actually test this out, as apparently it's going to be a completely open BETA, so stay tuned!

bPlay Releases "The Office Game"...BBHP Files Infringement Lawsuit

bPlay (AKA: Really Expensive BlackBerry Themes, Games and Wallpapers but no "Trial Versions) have released a copy of The Office Game for BlackBerry devices.

Per the description on their website:
Win the title of ‘Office Champion’ by playing different office mini-games like balance, basketball, paper battle, chair racing, golf etc.
Play as an office slacker having fun on the job. Compete in seven different mini-games: basketball using a waste-paper basket, table mini-golf, a fun filled balance game; a paper-football field goal kick game, an all out paper-ball battle, a chair race around the office and a water cooler game. Earn maximum overall points to win the title of ‘Office Champion’.

WHAT THE HELL?!?!?! Needless to say as soon as we saw this description on their website, we paid a highly trained team of counter-terrorism experts to come into our office to check for bugs, because bPlay DAMN NEAR hit the nail COMPLETELY on the head with this one (other than the fact that we recently fired our office slacker that will probably be back Wednesday morning with a handgun he bought from some highschool kid, and the fact that Fun Fridays are now Nerf War Fridays).

Anyways, if you feel like dropping $7.00 on this game rather than buying a candy bar and a newspaper to sleep on , CLICK HERE and let us know how you like it...


UPDATE!
Good thing we paid Jack Bauer to come and check our offices out...They WERE bugged!

RIM Releases Desktop Manager 4.5-Inadvertently Tests BB Users Attention and Patience

While we were out enjoying the Summer Solstice this weekend by burning witches and sipping on snake soup, RIM celebrated by posting up the newest version of Desktop Manager, confusing many BlackBerry users.

Seeing that a new version was available, thousands of BlackBerry users headed on over to download it (you can find the link here) and clicked the first link they saw, not knowing that it was only the Desktop DEVICE MANAGER and it was in French. HAH! (pourquoi n'est pas mon Desktop Manager de travail?-BTW, thanks Google Translator...I don't speak French, so if I jacked up that phrase, please let me know and we will fix it.)

Judging by the amount of people who then started posted on forums and blogs that "There is no Desktop Manager icon" and "Why is it only in French" shows the impatience and inattentiveness of BlackBerry owners across the world.

For those of you who DO want to download the 4.5 Desktop Manager and DON'T want to look stupid in the process wondering why it's not working, make sure you scroll down to at least the 5th download link.

Thanks Terrapin!

2 Kids In Spain Treated For "Cell Phone Addiction"-Parents Should Be Charged With Child Endangerment

Yep...Teens addicted to cell phones. As if cough syrup, gossiping and MySpace weren't bad enough; now 2 teens in Spain are being treated for "addiction to their cell phones".

According to Dr Maite Utges, director of the Child and Youth Mental Health Centre in Lleida, Spain "it may take a year to wean them off of the drug".

We blame the parents on this. The kids were 12 and 13 years old and spent over 6 hours a day on their cell phones. Plus, just because the word "CrackBerry" has made it into Websters Dictionary, it's still not an actual drug, and with no actual drug, there can be no actual addiction.

Are todays parents THIS out of touch with their kids that they had their phones for 18 MONTHS and they didn't recognize it? It's no wonder that 17 teenage girls get knocked up without the parent's batting an eye.

It's AMAZING that isn't actually a story from the United States, because, if it were, the parents of the teen girl in the above picture would be fighting their insurance company after the awesome rear-end collision that is about to happen, saying it's because "the power of the drug called the cellphone was too over-whelming to her" causing the wreck, rather than "Little Shelly was 2 biz-e reading a txt msg from her BFF Jennifer cuz OMG Mark thinks she's hawt".

Update: BTW, shout-out to Engadget for bringing this story to our attention and Telegraph.co.uk for originally posting it.

RIM Will Make Investors Happy With Our Money...

You may think the above picture was funded by the ridiculous price of gas that you have been pumping in your 14mpg SUV...But NO NO NO...

Above you are looking at the new HeadQuarters of BlackBerryHomePage and the fleet of ridiculously over-priced rides we purchased for the staff after the success of our stock because of the amazing first quarter RIM had this year!

For those of you who have stock in RIM and want to hear WHY your stock is doing so well, you can tune into the First Quarter results live on the 25th you can Click Here for info.

It's a good thing they will continue to re-broadcast it until the 9th of July, because we will be in an alcohol induced coma on the beaches of Cancun for probably about a week.

NOS VEMOS AL RATO!

UPDATE:

Our Intern has now been fired. Apparently we all bought thousands of dollars in stock for a BlackBerry Pie Company based out of Montana rather than in Research In Motion. Excuse us while we hide all of our cars from the Repo Man before the first payment is due. Those of you who enjoy BlackBerry Pie though, feel free to email us at saveourasses@blackberryhomepage.com. Orders start at $5,000/pie...But it's yummy. 

Synch Your iTunes With Your BlackBerry

Get it while it lasts folks! MediaSynch is a standalone app that lets you transfer all your iTunes music (artwork and all) to your BlackBerry. BerryReview is reporting 260 songs transferred to their device in under 10 mins; with songs, albums and artists in all the right places! Oh. Yes.

Get it here and let us know what you think:

http://download-mustang.rim.edgesuite.net/autoupdates/MediaSync/108_120608/BlackBerryMediaSyncDM.exe

Pictures of the JAVELIN (9300)

Looks like the Javelin will be slated with the 9300 model number. Here are some great shots of the new Javelin. The screen is bigger than the Bold. Thanks BlackBerry news for the pictures. We hope to have you a release date soon.