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You gotta love the Ongoing Follow CrackBerry Contest... you get a chance to win great prizes each month just for following CrackBerry on youtube, twitter and facebook!

May's Awesome Prizes: For May we're mixing up the prizes so you'll want to make sure you're following us on all of youtube, twitter and facebook so you get a shot of winning all three:

• Youtube: The BlackBerry Music Gateway lets your BlackBerry's music be heard through your home audio system via Bluetooth
• Twitter: The BlackBerry Presenter connects to a projector and your BlackBerry (wirelessly) so you can broadcast and control presentations rght from your BlackBerry
• Facebook: The Solio Rocsta solar charger gets it's charge from the sun, so if you're out doing stuff with no electricit nearby you can still make sure your BlackBerry always gets a charge.

Wicked prizes. And remember... all you need to do is follow, so if you're already following us... you're in! We'll announce the May winners and June's prizes later this week, so stay tuned! Visit the follow crackberry contest page for full details.

CrackBerry.com's feed sponsored by ShopCrackBerry.com. Reminder to get in on May's Prizes in the Follow CrackBerry Contest: Win a BlackBerry Presenter, Music Gateway or Solio Rocsta!

The newest release from BBFreaks is ColorStarsBB. Bright, colorful backgrounds with stars on the home screen that change color as you move about ColorStarsBB is lots of fun. On sale for $3.99 until June 7th in our Berryreview Store for those first 50 of you who sprint down to the store, select your device and enter coupon code CST50BR you can walk away with this theme for free! Please thank BBFreaks in the comments if you get lucky and all of us at Berryreview would like to thank them as well. Remember these babies go fast, so if you don’t lucky this time, there will be other chances.

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Posted by Vicky for ©BerryReview, May 31, 2010, 1:41 pm. | New ColorStarsBB Theme – 50 Free Copies! | 12 comments |

How many times have you been told to not bite off more than you can chew? If you take on too many projects, or flood your schedule, chances are something will be forgotten. Without proper management, you will probably neglect an important item of interest. It’s almost a natural reaction to smack your forehead when you realize your mistake. Luckily, your ever faithful BlackBerry is equipped with a Calendar and Tasks list to keep you in line. On the other hand, what if you are reminding yourself of a meeting request that was emailed to you? You could be doing a lot of back and forth navigation between applications to get your reminders straight. The Copy and Paste option isn’t always the easiest solution either.

Role Call Tasks is an incredibly powerful task management tool that builds upon what your native task application started out to do. It allows you to easily create tasks with reminders and various sorting options. If you’re up to the task (pardon the pun), why not check out if Role Call Tasks will help you stay on top and on the task at hand (sorry, another one).

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CrackBerry.com's feed sponsored by ShopCrackBerry.com. Review: Role Call Tasks for BlackBerry

Sprint Curve 8530

Summary: Sprint’s Blackberry Curve 8530 is a thin, light, reliable, lower-end blackberry with more of a professional design than previous Sprint models.

Hardware: Sprint’s Curve 8530 consists of the same hardware as the Verizon Curve 8530 reviewed earlier on BerryReview.  See: http://www.berryreview.com/2009/12/16/review-verizons-blackberry-curve-8530/.  Elaborating on the earlier review, the keyboard of the Curve 8530 is a little more difficult to use than some of the more high-end Blackberry models—the keys are small and placed somewhat close together.  The trackpad is nice and gives the phone a more professional and modern appeal but, like other newer models with trackpads, it sometimes does not catch your movements and you have to move your finger across the trackpad a few times before it works.  The resolution of the screen is nice and sharp and the colors are bright.  The rubber on the top and bottom parts of the back of the phone detracts a bit from the otherwise professional look of the Curve 8530, but does contribute to its durability.  Similarly, there are music button on the top of the phone, as well as volume control on the side. Furthermore, the phone does not have any of the bright colors seen on older Sprint models, and is a lot slimmer and less clunky, which helps with the professional look.

Software: Overall, the Sprint software contains standard items like navigation pre-installed on the phone, and also comes with SprintTV.

Navigation: To use the Sprint navigation system you have to register with your name and email address.  The program allows you to get turn-by-turn directions.  What is cool about the program is that you can enter an address by speaking into the phone, but this is not always accurate.  You can also save favorite places, which mitigates the hassle of typing in frequently used addresses.  As with other navigation software, you can choose different routes (fastest, etc.).  The directions come up on the screen in color with maps and arrows, and the phone will also say the directions out loud, which really helps if you are in the car.  Also, you can see whether there are traffic delays on the screen while you are getting the directions.  By pressing “0″ when an accident or traffic delay comes up, the navigation will change your route to avoid it.  The software also allows you to search for restaurants, businesses, and other points of interest and get reviews for them.  A feature that I really like about the navigation software is that you can also set up a traffic alert for your commuting route so that if you take the same road every day, you can get an alert if there is traffic.

SprintTV: The concept of being able to watch TV on your Blackberry is really cool, but the problem is that the quality of the TV isn’t great—it looks pixely.  For a small screen, though, it isn’t too bad.  Also the video comes up quickly and there is no buffering, which was a nice surprise.  The sound also gets pretty loud.  The TV programs are not live, but you can choose to watch different programs from stations such as ESPN, ABC, NBC, and CBS.  You have to pay extra for some of these (SprintTV Premium), which will run you $7.95 plus tax per month.

Sprint Radio: The basic radio program is free and has a variety of music genres, including Hip Hop, Latin, Jazz, Rock, and Country.  There is also a subscriber version of Spring Radio, called Spring Radio Extra, which costs an additional $5.95 plus tax per month.  Some people might enjoy this feature, but I personally preferred to install the Pandora application on the phone.

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Posted by David for ©BerryReview, May 31, 2010, 1:00 pm. | Hands-On: Sprint Curve 8530 | 2 comments |

A few weeks ago I received a slotRadio+ music card courtesy of the folks at SanDisk to play around with. The card is a preloaded microSD card that has 1,000 songs and offers 4GB of memory for saving photos, music or videos. The cards work in all Verizon devices and are available as Billboard HITS or DECADES. Each card has 8 preset playlists and the free slotRadio+ application lets you easily play the music from the card on your device. This makes for an easy solution if you're looking to have some tunes on your BlackBerry, but don't want to go through the effort of downloading songs or installing other streaming media applications. The cards also offer 4GB of additional storage so you won't be out of luck trying to save other media when the card is installed. Currently only available for Verizon devices, the slotRadio cards sell for $49.99. Not the best (or cheapest) soution for getting music, but it gets the job done.

Contest: We have two slotRadio cards (one DECADES and one HITS) up for grabs. Just leave a single comment on this post for your chance to win. Keep in mind these cards and the application only work in Verizon devices. So if you aren't with Verizon, please don't enter. Contest ends Sunday at midnight. 

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Many of us are caught up in the Memorial Day fun here in the US so we thought we would share the love. One of the best traditions on Memorial Day is amazing sales. In honor of that tradition we have slashed the price for our BlackBerry carrier unlock codes by 50% until June 1st @ 11:59 PM EST. That means you can have your BlackBerry unlocked for only $4.50!

All you have to do is:

1. Head to unlock.berryreview.com
2. Select the unlock code you need
3. Add it to your cart
4. Copy or type in the code memorialday in the promotion code box on the checkout page and enjoy the 50% off savings!
5. Rinse & Repeat

NOTE: We will try to process these orders as soon as possible. We should have them to you as fast as our normal schedule but bear with us if this sale causes an influx of orders.

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Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, May 31, 2010, 12:17 pm. | ALL BlackBerry Unlock Codes $4.50 Until June 1st! Memorial Day Sale | Leave a comment |

There are plenty of reasons to unlock your BlackBerry Smartphone. If you have a device from one carrier you want to use on another; if you will be traveling and want to use a local SIM; or if you will be selling the device, having it unlocked can increase the value. No matter what the reason, BerryCracker is here to help. Just download and install the app, fill in a few bits of information and submit. BerryCracker automatically pulls all the necessary information from your device so you get a working code every time. After submitting, you will be emailed an unlock code and detailed instructions instantly (my code showed up before I even exited the application) and you're done. Just follow the steps, enter the code and your device is unlocked. You can grab the app now through June 4th (good for one code/one device) for $9.99 in the CrackBerry App Store.

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The FIFA 2010 WorldCup is set to kick off on June 11th in South Africa, and if you are looking to keep up with all the action, you'll certainly want to have grab the app that was released by the folks over at S42 and ZonaBlackBerry. The app itself looks great on your device and is available in both Spanish and English. With access to live score updates, calendar integration and team statistics, you'll want to have this on hand just to ensure you don't miss anything. Storm users - yes the app will work, but you may have issues navigating as it was designed without a touchscreen UI.

For people having issues with the language shown in the app, within the app press the MENU Button > Configuracion > in "Seleccione su idioma" pick Ingles, then press "Guardar"... the app will tell you that it needs to close the app to take the new settings. When you open it again it should be in English.

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First we had people driving off cliffs when their GPS told them to take a wrong turn. I am not sure what those people were thinking but now things have been taken one step further. Lauren Rosenberg was in Utah following Google Maps walking directions on her BlackBerry when she was hit by a car. It seems like she was totally missing the fact that she was walking on Deer Valley Drive which is also known as Utah State Route 224 a highway she would have no business walking on.

I know when you use Google Walking directions from your computer it warns you that:

Walking directions are in beta. Use caution – This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths.

Since Lauren is now suing the driver and Google for $100,000 something tells me we will be seeing a similar warning message on Google Maps for BlackBerry. Maybe Google should give a simple common sense test when you start the app…

Here is some of the wording from the court documents:

Defendant Google, through its "Google Maps" service provided Plaintiff Lauren Rosenberg with walking directions that led her out onto Deer valley Drive, a.k.a. State Route 224, a rural highway with no sidewalks, and a roadway that exhibits motor vehicles traveling at high speeds, that is not reasonably safe for pedestrians.

The Defendant Google expects uses of the walking map site to rely on the accuracy of the walking directions given….

As a direct and proximate cause of Defendant Google’s careless, reckless, and negligent providing of unsafe directions, Plaintiff Lauren Rosenberg was led onto a dangerous highway, and was thereby stricken by a motor vehicle…

You can check out the route she was taking below: (Thx to Mashable via Fortune)

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, May 31, 2010, 9:29 am. | PSA: DO NOT Follow Google Maps Walking Directions Blindly… | 5 comments |

Released last week, eSurvey is a new tool for that allows for easy data collection via BlackBerry devices. Users can conduct market research, issue incident reports or simply run a survey. eSurvey is a quick, easy solution to gathering data through the BlackBerry platform.

eSurvey will empower corporate managers to quickly and easily, create, modify and deploy directly from their Blackberry all forms to all subscribed employees, so that subsequently they can engage, collect and simultaneously release back, data feeds & reports to the company's cloud content management system with Box.net, to the company's social networks and to the company's own back-office with customizable web services. 

eSurvey is available for a yearly fee depending on the required number of licenses. A free trial is available as well that allows for users to create a survey of up to five questions. Check out the links below for more information.

• More information/download of eSurvey >>

CrackBerry.com's feed sponsored by ShopCrackBerry.com. eSurvey for BlackBerry now available