Press Release

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NORTH CAROLINA and WATERLOO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Feb. 16, 2009) – Lenovo (HKSE:992)(ADR:LNVGY) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today announced that the two companies will work together to promote new Lenovo mobile solutions that will help on-the-go business users enhance their mobile computing and communications experience through tighter integration between Lenovo ThinkPad laptop computers and BlackBerry^® smartphones.

Leveraging Lenovo’s extensive global R&D capabilities and engineering prowess in laptop computers together with RIM’s expertise in smartphones and wireless solutions, Lenovo plans to develop and deliver a range of industry-leading solutions and technologies that can help professionals conduct business more effectively on the go.

Lenovo Constant Connect, the first solution developed by Lenovo, will leverage the strengths of the BlackBerry^® solution and Lenovo ThinkPad laptops to deliver an unparalleled user experience for flexible, real-time access to enterprise-based email. Lenovo Constant Connect will allow enterprise email received on a user’s BlackBerry smartphone to be automatically synchronized via Bluetooth^® onto the user’s ThinkPad laptop – even if the ThinkPad laptop is off – without the user having to take any additional steps.

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Some highlights from the press release:

• O3SIS AG, a leading provider of mobile email and synchronization solutions, today announced the launch of its new Device Client Suite. Based on OMA DS (SyncML), Java and IP-Push industry standards the brand new Clients enable users to synchronize all types of multimedia contents from and to mobile devices. The Clients also fully support Push Mail capabilities of today’s primary Smartphone platforms in the market, such as iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian Smartphones.
• Forecasts indicate rapidly emerging markets for groundbreaking services to restore content to any phone whenever required, to share and distribute content to a second phone or publish user generated multimedia in communities and social networks.
• With O3SIS Clients, operators are able to strengthen their value proposition towards their most valuable target groups, and can now position their brand on the latest state-of-the-art Feature and Smartphones.
• O3SIS Clients also can leverage the significantly growing Mobile Advertising landscape.

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BOLT has been in closed beta for a while, but today you can download the public beta version of the BOLT mobile browser for free!

Some highlights from the press release:

• As the world’s wireless and mobile industries assemble at Mobile World Congress, Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq: BITS) announced today the public beta of its acclaimed BOLT(TM) mobile browser.
• One month ago Bitstream began offering BOLT in a private beta that included more than 30,000 users around the world. From the data collected and comments received over the past month Bitstream made improvements to the user experience and further optimized BOLT by adding device-specific features and making pages load even faster.
• BOLT features unrivaled speed – routinely 25 percent faster, and as much as 50 percent faster, than the next fastest competitor in speed tests.
• The BOLT mobile browser lets people view full websites as they would on a personal computer.
• Built with proprietary compression, navigation and rendering technologies, BOLT enables users to find and read information quickly and easily.
• BOLT beta is available for virtually any handset with Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) 2.0 support that can run mobile Java (J2ME) applications, including BlackBerry devices.
• Attendees of Mobile World Congress can meet with Bitstream executives at booth 1E31 in Hall 1. Download the public beta of BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com.

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Press Release

Viigo leads the market in supporting the BlackBerry Storm

TORONTO, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ – Viigo Inc. (www.viigo.com), developer of the popular mobile content and services platform for smartphones, announced today that its award-winning application is the first third party application to be included in the BlackBerry Application Center for Vodafone.

Viigo is a free application that delivers a rich array of news, weather, sports, market data, personalised stock portfolios, shopping, social networks, movie listings, flight schedules, flight status and more, all customised by the user to suit their needs and delivered to them with unrivalled speed and simplicity.

“With the wide range of features it offers, it is believed that Viigo is not only an application that adds tremendous value to the BlackBerry Storm platform, it will likely also become a resource Storm owners use each and every day for a wide variety of purposes,” said, Dany Bolduc, Regional Director, Asia Pacific Research In Motion (RIM). “RIM is pleased to have Viigo available within the BlackBerry Application Center for Vodafone in order to enhance the customer experience on the latest BlackBerry device.”

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Software For BlackBerry® Curve (TM) 8900 smartphone

BlackBerry Handheld Software v4.6.1.241 (Multilanguage)
Package Version: 4.6.1.241
Consisting of:

• Applications: 4.6.1.152
• Software Platform: 4.2.0.91
• File name: 8900M_PBr4.6.1_rel241_PL4.2.0.91_A4.6.1.152_Mobily.exe
• File size: 123.06MB

Note: The Software Platform and Applications version numbers can be found under Options-About screen on the handheld.

• Download: OS 4.6.1.152 for the BlackBerry Curve 8900 [Official]

REMEMBER: Install at your own risk. Always make backups before making major changes/upgrades/downgrades to your BlackBerry.

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Joe let me know that he has updated his VyMail application to version 0.8.3.5.

Check out the changes:

• Added: Multi-selection in the voice mail list view
• Added: Home screen icon changes on new messages
• Added: Alerts on new messages (manage them under your standard ringer profiles)
• Added: Headset and bluetooth support
• Added: Ability to change audio output directly from the message detail screen
• Added: Player progress bar
• Added: Key shortcuts to message detail screen:
  • space – play/pause
  • shift+space – restart playback
  • f – flag/unfloag
  • r – mark read
  • delete – delete the messge
  • c – call the number that left the message
• Changed: The color and padding values of the second line in the list display (hopefully this improves readability with pearls, et al)
• Fixed: PIN field only allows numeric input now
• Fixed: Changing connection type did not take affect until device reset
• Fixed: Ribbon icon only displays if VyMail is currently active, and will now activate the application.

Current Limitations:

• The Verizon Storm 9530 OS version 4.7.0.75 and 4.7.0.76 currently have a major flaw that doesn’t allow the phone to play through the speakerphone. If you are running this OS you’ll want to make sure that the default audio output is through the handset (Options->Play audio through, select ‘Handset’).
• There is no way to mark a message as “unread”. This is a limitation of YouMail itself.

Awesome! VyMail is a must have application for every BlackBerry YouMail user.

• Download OTA: http://www.joekrill.com/vymail/ota/
• Download ZIP: http://www.joekrill.com/vymail/0.8.3.4/vymail-0.8.3.5.zip
• Info: http://www.joekrill.com/vymail/
• How to: Install Applications via Desktop Manager

Software For BlackBerry® Storm(TM) smartphone

BlackBerry Handheld Software v4.7.0.141 (Multilanguage)
Package Version: 4.7.0.141
Consisting of:

• Applications: 4.7.0.100
• Software Platform: 4.0.0.124
• File name: 9500_omadrmEuropean_PBr4.7.0_rel141_PL4.0.0.124_A4.7.0.100_Vodafone_Greece.exe
• File size: 116.19MB

Note: The Software Platform and Applications version numbers can be found under Options-About screen on the handheld.

• Download: OS 4.7.0.100 for the BlackBerry Storm 9500 [Official]

REMEMBER: Install at your own risk. Always make backups before making major changes/upgrades/downgrades to your BlackBerry.

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So it looks like AT&T might be getting both the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and the Pearl Flip 8210 in February and March respectively.

BG is usually on point with his tips and rumors, so cross your fingers AT&T users!

Rumored pricing:

• Curve 8900 – $199 or lower
• Pearl Flip 8210 – $99 or lower

Nice! BG also had this to share:

P.S. The date also seems right because it does lineup with AT&T phasing out those EDGE devices. These could very well be the last of the Mohicans. Yeah, we totally said that.

Lots of good deals in the BlackBerry Rocks! BB Shop.

Free BlackBerrys after rebates, discounts and/or new 2 year agreement:

• BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 Black – T-Mobile
• BlackBerry Curve 8310 Titanium – AT&T
• BlackBerry Curve 8330 Silver – Verizon
• BlackBerry Curve 8330 Titanium – Sprint
• BlackBerry Curve 8310 Red – AT&T
• BlackBerry Pearl 8100 Ruby with My Faves – T-Mobile
• BlackBerry Pearl 8110 Titanium – AT&T

Great deals on the Verizon BlackBerry Storm 9530 and  AT&T BlackBerry Bold 9000 too!

• Check it out: BlackBerry Rocks! BB Shop

Great job by Mepster over at the CrackBerry forums! If you need the ALX or COD files be sure to check out the thread.

• Download OTA: Smooth Blue Today (Storm)
• Download OTA: Smooth Blue Zen (Storm)