A little while ago I received a broadcast message via BBM. Now anyone who knows me, knows I hate broadcast messages, but this one was special. Our good friend, BBMorDie (who has used every device on the planet) had this to say: Be Yourself  •presented to you by ̸ ввм …

In light of today’s news & in our attempt to put a *bbmsmiley* face on the whole lot of you, at least the 9930 users out there, OpenSourceBB brings you it’s latest hybrid creation! After a week of testing & even more testing (fickle hotspot battery raping issue) i’ve prepared …

RIM recently made official the release of the Curve 9310, which will be available on July 10th. The 9310 itself is nothing spectacular (has WiFi, makes calls, full qwerty keyboard, etc), although a dedicated BBM button is pretty cool. What is pretty cool is a deal being offered for the …

As you know, OSBB is commited to BlackBerry and to BlackBerry developers. In keeping with that commitment, we announced OSBBx a few weeks ago. OSBBx is a new division of OSBB for BlackBerry developers featuring many resources to help facilitate BlackBerry application development. We have been hard at work prepping …

Over the last while more and more emulators have been making their way to the PlayBook. If we were to ask anyone what was still missing, I think you would be hard pressed not to hear Nintendo 64 (N64). As my first post to OSBB I’m happy to announce the …

This morning a youtube link was floating around on Twitter showing several popular iOS games playing on the BlackBerry PlayBook. Personally, I was a bit skeptical at first, but it seem fairly likely that this video might actually be legit, and is being called Brine by its developer. Apparently the …

Here at OSBB, we generally do not post the same old news that other BlackBerry blogs push out, rather we try to only post information that anyone who happens to visit us might find useful.  Normally we would not blog about the BlackBerry Fan of the Month (FOTM) winner (after all, …

This is a OS6 hybrid made up of OS 6.0.0.723 and OS 7.1.0.428 files. 7.1.0.428 is used instead of .437 because it seems more stable and offers better battery life in my personal testing. Installation instructions: Download from: http://scrapps.org/blackberry/latesthybrid/ Install OS 6.0.0.707, or another version of OS6 of your choice. Unzip …