You've purchased a used Blackberry on eBay or through some other online or offline seller, you put your sim card (hopefully you've already called your carrier to add a Blackberry data feature) into the device and try it out. Maybe the phone works okay, but the browser doesn't respond. Perhaps the ph...

We know that a CDMA only touchscreen BlackBerry is coming to North America. The BlackBerry Storm is rumored to hit Verizon anytime between the end of next month and mid November. A Bell BlackBerry Storm is rumored to hit bill towards the end of Q4. We also know that a GSM variant of the [...]

Hobbes, I had it already with the new BlackBerry Bold 9000. I have had crackberries for the last 3 years, always getting the last model (what's life without those little caprices?) and this is the first time I had to regret the change and go back to my 8310 (or 8300, it doesn't matter if I [...]

This post is about whether police can search a Blackberry carried by an arrestee without getting a warrant to do so.That is, it's about what's known as "search incident to arrest."As Wikipedia explains, search incident arrest is a traditional exception to the 4th Amendment's requirement that police ...

Several years ago, while skiing at Whistler, a member of our party broke her leg in the most remote (but still in-bounds) glacier (Blackcomb Glacier) with only one route in and out. Having cell phone access resulted in having the ski patrol on the scene within about five minutes and timely removal f...