HOW TO CONSERVE BATTERY POWER ON A BLACKBERRY Longtime readers will know this guide will pop up from time to time. Last time we touched on battery conservation was when we were putting the Storm2’s battery through an advanced users’ typical usage test

So it’s not exactly a “Super App” by RIM’s definition, but you can’t deny how handy it is to use your BlackBerry as a flashlight when you need to find your way in the dark. Better than just letting your homescreen wallpaper light the way, ShaoSoft’s FlashOn app is a lot more full featured, allowing you to: set the color of the front LED or turn it off, set the colour of the screen, use the video camera flash LED as a light source and customize the duration of the light.

The CTO of Adobe, Kevin Lynch, said that they are “on the verge of delivering Flash Player 10.1 for smartphones with all but one of the top manufacturers . This includes Google’s Android, RIM’s Blackberry, Nokia, Palm Pre and many others across form factors including not only smartphones but also tablets, netbooks, and internet-connected TVs.” The missing manufacturer is of course Apple. There has been a lot of bickering between Apple and Adobe, culminating in Steve Jobs saying that Adobe was lazy and claimed Apple didn’t support Flash because it was too buggy .

? After testing out numerous different Blackberry devices over the past few years, I always find myself with “one more thing” i wish the device would have included. With the Tour it was Wi-Fi, with the CDMA Curve 2 it was a higher resolution camera, and with the 8900 or Pearl Flip it was 3G. Finally, I can say that RIM has “checked all the boxes” with the introduction of the Blackberry Bold 9700, AKA the Bold 2

Welcome to the Best of Smartphone Experts, catch-up edition. We’ve recovered from our tryptophan stupor (yeah, we know it’s a myth ) and are back with our favorite stories from the network.

Yesterday was the opening day of the BlackBerry Developer Conference and a lot of big press releases and announcements came out of it. Some were expected while others certainly came out of no where and left many people pleasantly surprised. Here’s a quick look back at the days events if you wanna catch up and check to see if you missed out on all the good stuff.

In a further advancement in the news we reported about earlier regarding “Flash On BlackBerry” and RIM’s joining of the Open Screen Project . RIM and Adobe today have announced at the BlackBerry Developers Conference, the tools in which developers will be able to work withwhen designing content for BlackBerry smartphones. Flash has been a long time request for many BlackBerry users and with RIM and Adobe working together to make this happen, it’ll finally be making it’s way to market

The BlackBerry Bold 9700 is the latest update to the Bold series and it’s all the specs you would expect from a Bold device, slightly upgraded and in a smaller form factor. Like many of the devices we have been seeing from RIM lately, it is a hybrid device, combining the power of the Bold with the design of a Curve 8900. The Bold 9700 from T-Mobile ships with OS 5.0.0.330, which is a welcomed update to the device

With the BlackBerry Bold 9700 now official, we can take a look at the known specs for the device. Overall, things are to be expected.

Here it is folks, the official word soooo many of you have been waiting for.