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The best Blackberry Twitter client has a new Beta version. Beta-6 of Ubertwitter is available for download.

The updated features from their website:

• Lists, Lists, Lists!!! – You can create, delete, subscribe, add members, view members, all the functionality you would expect of an Über mobile client!
• Find People – You can search for people, just like the ‘Find People’ link on Twitter’s home page.
• New Icon – We love it!
• Über Bar – We couldn’t resist the name! This is a tab bar at the top of the screen, the neat thing is that you can add your own tabs! A list can be a tab, users timelines, and soon saved searches
• Retweets – We support the old method and new method, you decide!
• Update Twitter Profile – Yes, you can update your Twitter profile directly from your phone.
• Profile Picture – We have heard you, upload a picture for your Twitter avatar right from your phone!
• Report Spam – One menu selection to report a tweet as a spam.
• Twitter Geo-Tagging – We provide support Twitter’s new geo-tagging capability. You can decide whether to use myloc.me URLs, Twitter Geo-Tagging, or both!
• Friend Picker – Type ‘@’ and a list of your friends automatically pops up allowing selection
• Larger Avatars – Click the profile picture, and view a larger version! You can even email that larger version!
• TwitLonger – Yes, you can tweet MUCH longer tweets now, thanks to the folks over at TwitLonger.com, we have fully integrated this capability into both sending long tweets, and automatically retrieving long tweets. We love it!
• What The Trend? – Ever wonder why certain topics were trending or what they meant? No more! We have integrated with the folks over at WhatTheTrend.com to allow you to see the explanations for trending topics, and also for you to provide your own explanations!
• Choice of timeline layout – Choose the new ‘bubble’ layout or the original ‘bar’ layout.
• Verified Users – We show a small blue check-mark icon in the timeline to denote verified users
• Network Connection Logic – We re-worked the network connection logic, things should be alot smoother.

Beta-6 can be downloaded at: http://www.ubertwitter.com/bb/download.php

Blackberry Internet Service users are getting tired of the flaky RIM network these days.

What has historically been a very stable and reliable network can only be described as suspect at best this year. RIM had ANOTHER outage today, and has yet to be resolved.

The outage, the third major outage this year started at 2:30PM eastern time and is still affecting millions of Blackberry users.

E-Mails, Blackberry Messenger, PIN Messaging and 3rd party applications like Facebook, Windows Live Messenger are affected by the outage.

Voice and SMS (Text Messaging) are still functional as these services do not use RIM’s network and are transported directly through the carrier’s network.

Paypal and Blackberry App world are offering upto $15 back from Paypal if you make at least two purchases via BB App World from now till Jan 12, 1009.

Here are the details:

To take advantage of this great offer, simply follow these steps.

• Enter the email address associated with your PayPal account below
• Buy two apps from BlackBerry App World between December 17, 2009 and January 12, 2010
• Get up to $15 plus taxes and fees back from PayPal in 4-6 weeks or by February 23, 2010

LINK

Blackberry addicts including myself woke up this morning to a great surprise. No emails on my Blackberry!

As I’m writing this right now at 9:00 AM Toronto time, email service on the Blackberry Internet Service is currently non-functional. Blackberry users are not able to send or receive emails, receive alerts on Facebook app (it also uses emails to receive the alerts) to the handheld device.

Blackberry Enterprise Service users are not affected by the outage.

Update: 11:15AM, I’m able to send e-mails out.

Update 2: 12:00PM, I’m receiving a backlog of messages.

Mobile in Canada is offering to unlock your Rogers Blackberry for FREE if you become a fan of their Facebook group.

Facebook Promotion !!!

Become a Fan of our FaceBook Page and get Rogers Blackberry Unlock code for FREE!

For save verification time, write a comment on the wall. Only one unlock code by Facebook name.

Promotion for a limited time ( only 11 free unlock code left.. )

More details

RIM released an eBay Beta app for your Blackberry.

With eBay on your BlackBerry smartphone, you won’t miss out on what’s happening online.

Features include the following:

• Real-time home screen notifications of bids
• Calendar reminders and email notifications for auction end dates
• PayPal™ compatibility***

http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/4557

It can be downloaded for free at BB Appworld.

It’s beta, so use at your own risk! Make sure you have a backup of your data before you download and install the application.

Mobile in Canada.com is offering an amazing promotion for unlocking your Rogers Blackberry.

Only $1 for a Rogers Balckberry

$5 for all other Rogers, Fido, Videotron and ATT phones.

What’s the benefit of unlocking your phone?
Once you’ve unlocked your Rogers phone, you can insert any other provider’s SIM card and use it in a Rogers phone. This is ideal for those who travel outside of Canada. You can purchase a prepaid SIM card from that country, insert it in your unlocked Rogers Blackberry and avoid the incredibly high roaming charges from Rogers.

details here

If you have ever tried to add your Gmail account to your Blackberry, but were getting the following error:

Please verify your email address and password. The information you provided is incorrect. If the error persists contact gmail.com (your email provider).

Here’s the fix:
1. Confirm you are entering the correct username and password (by successfully logging into Gmail on your computer’s web browser).

2. Unlock the captha account by visiting the following URL:

https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha

3. Once you have unlocked the captcha, retry configuring the e-mail account with your blackberry using the Blackberry Web Client (BIS).