How to Upgrade Your Blackberry Firmware

Posted by Nam-o | Filed under Electronics, Rambling

Let’s be honest for a second here. We always need to have the latest and greatest especially when it comes to free firmware upgrades. Why?.. because it’s FREE!

I’m not going to run down the list what the update entails other than you can now view your emails in HTML and for some of us Curve owners, the update enables Video Capture. If you would like to see the whole gamut, just follow this link: http://theblackberryguy.blogspot.com/2008/02/blackberry-owners-rejoice-upcoming.html

What I’m not really too sure is why AT&T are taking their sweet time to release the 4.5 firmware update for the Curve; everyone else pretty much have their firmware update available through their carrier for some time now.

No worries! Check out this how-to @ Blackberrycool.com

Now, I haven’t had time to upgrade my Curve so I can’t tell you if I have been successful or not.

**Update** (12/21/08) Humm, seems like AT&T finally gave their blessings to the new 4.5 firmware update. Just connect your Curve via USB and just run the Blackberry Desktop Manager. Don’t worry, the Desktop Manager will backup your goods and the whole process is automated. You just have to give the Desktop Manager your blessings now.

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Read more | Comments (0) | December 21st, 2008

Say Hi to My New Blackberry Curve (and a Hello to at&t!)

Posted by Nam-o | Filed under Electronics

Humm, what can I say.. Sprint served me well for those 7 years that I have been with them but I felt it’s time for a change.

I felt Sprint was lacking some much needed flavor such as:

  • Cool Phones
  • The inability of swapping phones on the fly (SIM card)
  • and Customer Service

It’s really too bad. I really did like Sprint for the most part but then again, Sprint never really gave me the opportunity to move out of the basic flip-phone era unless I payed out some outrageous greenbacks for a smart phone.

Without further adieu, say hello to my new phone, the Blackberry Curve!

If I was not in a such desperate state to switch carriers, I would have waited for the new Blackberry Bold or the Javelin but the Curve is still a great phone to begin with.

Is it better than a Windows Mobile based phone such as the Blackjack II? I don’t know because I haven’t really had a chance to play around a WinMo phone in an extended period of time. The only comparison I can report between a WinMo phone (in this case a Blackjack II) and the Blackberry is the snappiness of the OS when initiating and switching apps.

For the price, this is a lot of phone.

First off you have the great, world-renowned Blackberry email push feature and it is so easy to setup. Just enter you email address, the password, and that’s it! (Almost reminiscent of those Ronoco’s commercials: Just set it and forget it!)

Another cool gadget built in the phone is the GPS. I’ve paired the GPS with Google’s own Maps application and it provides outstanding results in regards to accuracy and nick knacks such as the traffic status and street view (if available for your location).

The only oddity that appears with my particular Curve is that the phone will not accept a charge for the wall charger; only from the USB cable connected to the computer. (And yes, an exchange is in order.)

I have had the phone for a whole week and the transition from my old but super durable Samsung A900 to the Curve has been seamless.

Samsung A900 and Sprint, R.I.P.

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Read more | Comments (0) | October 12th, 2008