The Mobile World in Plain English

BlackBerry Storm

The BlackBerry Storm, their first attempt at a touch-screen device, is coming for thie 2008 holiday season. It will only be available through Verizon. Essentially, it boasts a touch-screen display with a tactile response. When you touch the screen, you're actually pushing down on it. The screen moves down as you push. This is called haptics. I think "touch-screen" should be replaced with "push-screen".

The device will run BlackBerry's newest OS - BlackBerry OS 4.7. CompanionLink expects full compatibility with this OS and device.

Here's a full review of the BlackBerry Storm.

Fix the calendar bug in BlackBerry Curve devices

Early versions of this new device shipped with a major bug that affected calendar fucntionality. RIM (the makers of BlackBerry devices) released a patch for this, which you can download here.

You'll need this patch installed in order to successfully use CompanionLink's products to sync calendar events with BlackBerry Curve devices.