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  1. BlackBerry Bold 9000
    (2008)

    The ultimate status symbol for Wall Street executives and celebrities. This premium business smartphone raised the brand's prestige to its absolute peak. It perfectly combined top-tier corporate security with high-end luxury design.

    Specs: 624MHz CPU, 128MB RAM, 1GB storage, microSD slot, 2.6" crisp display (480x320), iconic trackball navigation, Wi-Fi, GPS, 2MP camera, and a stellar 1500 mAh battery.

    It featured a genuine leather back cover and a premium chrome frame. Its sculpted physical QWERTY keyboard is still considered one of the best ever made for typing. Combined with push email and BBM, it was an elite machine.

    #BlackBerryBold9000 #BlackBerry #QWERTY #RetroTech #VintageMobile #1EYEReview

  2. #Hispeedido #retrogaming #nintendo #gameboy #gbc

    ... An hour and a small pile of plastic clippings and filings later, I managed to fit the screen in the original top part of the case.

    They weren't lying! The screen is a bit bigger on the front, but required a lot more room on the back. You have to remove everything but a 2mm edge underneath the bezel of the screen, to which it adheres with some heavy duty double sided tape.

    From what I hear, the screen is actually surplus from the old #Blackberry handheld devices. For this to work in the GBC, they need a controller board, which is fixed with dreaded #kapton tape. There is plenty of room for this though, and it seems like an electrically safe sandwich of hackish goodness.

    Fully assembled, I turned the unit on and everything just works! Here it is, with a brightness of 2 out of 4. I turned it down to 1 afterwards, and that's fine too.

    Not sure how much I'll be using it, but installing the mod was a lot of fun and very satisfying.

  3. #Hispeedido #retrogaming #nintendo #gameboy #gbc

    ... An hour and a small pile of plastic clippings and filings later, I managed to fit the screen in the original top part of the case.

    They weren't lying! The screen is a bit bigger on the front, but required a lot more room on the back. You have to remove everything but a 2mm edge underneath the bezel of the screen, to which it adheres with some heavy duty double sided tape.

    From what I hear, the screen is actually surplus from the old #Blackberry handheld devices. For this to work in the GBC, they need a controller board, which is fixed with dreaded #kapton tape. There is plenty of room for this though, and it seems like an electrically safe sandwich of hackish goodness.

    Fully assembled, I turned the unit on and everything just works! Here it is, with a brightness of 2 out of 4. I turned it down to 1 afterwards, and that's fine too.

    Not sure how much I'll be using it, but installing the mod was a lot of fun and very satisfying.

  4. #Hispeedido #retrogaming #nintendo #gameboy #gbc

    ... An hour and a small pile of plastic clippings and filings later, I managed to fit the screen in the original top part of the case.

    They weren't lying! The screen is a bit bigger on the front, but required a lot more room on the back. You have to remove everything but a 2mm edge underneath the bezel of the screen, to which it adheres with some heavy duty double sided tape.

    From what I hear, the screen is actually surplus from the old #Blackberry handheld devices. For this to work in the GBC, they need a controller board, which is fixed with dreaded #kapton tape. There is plenty of room for this though, and it seems like an electrically safe sandwich of hackish goodness.

    Fully assembled, I turned the unit on and everything just works! Here it is, with a brightness of 2 out of 4. I turned it down to 1 afterwards, and that's fine too.

    Not sure how much I'll be using it, but installing the mod was a lot of fun and very satisfying.

  5. #Hispeedido #retrogaming #nintendo #gameboy #gbc

    ... An hour and a small pile of plastic clippings and filings later, I managed to fit the screen in the original top part of the case.

    They weren't lying! The screen is a bit bigger on the front, but required a lot more room on the back. You have to remove everything but a 2mm edge underneath the bezel of the screen, to which it adheres with some heavy duty double sided tape.

    From what I hear, the screen is actually surplus from the old #Blackberry handheld devices. For this to work in the GBC, they need a controller board, which is fixed with dreaded #kapton tape. There is plenty of room for this though, and it seems like an electrically safe sandwich of hackish goodness.

    Fully assembled, I turned the unit on and everything just works! Here it is, with a brightness of 2 out of 4. I turned it down to 1 afterwards, and that's fine too.

    Not sure how much I'll be using it, but installing the mod was a lot of fun and very satisfying.

  6. #Hispeedido #retrogaming #nintendo #gameboy #gbc

    ... An hour and a small pile of plastic clippings and filings later, I managed to fit the screen in the original top part of the case.

    They weren't lying! The screen is a bit bigger on the front, but required a lot more room on the back. You have to remove everything but a 2mm edge underneath the bezel of the screen, to which it adheres with some heavy duty double sided tape.

    From what I hear, the screen is actually surplus from the old #Blackberry handheld devices. For this to work in the GBC, they need a controller board, which is fixed with dreaded #kapton tape. There is plenty of room for this though, and it seems like an electrically safe sandwich of hackish goodness.

    Fully assembled, I turned the unit on and everything just works! Here it is, with a brightness of 2 out of 4. I turned it down to 1 afterwards, and that's fine too.

    Not sure how much I'll be using it, but installing the mod was a lot of fun and very satisfying.

  7. Lilbits: Android for desktop PCs leaks, as does NVIDIA’s processors for laptops

    Google has made it pretty clear that it’s working on bringing a desktop mode to Android, effectively blurring the lines between Android and ChromeOS (and maybe eventually phasing out the latter). But most of the work on that project has been taking place behind closed doors.

    A recent bug report in the Chromium bug tracker provided an early look though. While the web page has been removed, the […]

    #aluminumOs #anbernic #anbernicRgG01 #android #androidForDesktop #blackberry #bringBackBlackberry #chrome #clicksCommunicator #gmk #gmkNucboxK13 #leaks #lilbits #lunarLake #miniPc #nvidia #nvidiaN1 #nvidiaN1x #riscV #spacemit #spacemitK3 Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-android
  8. For #SchiffsSamstag here's the superyacht Artefact docked in Philipsburg, St Maarten a couple of weeks ago. She was quite a striking and unusual sight and was the subject of a huge number of photos from everyone disembarking our cruise ship to head ashore.

    Artefact is owned by Mike Lazaridis, co-founder of Research in Motion and former co-CEO of BlackBerry.

    #Photography #SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday #Yacht #Travel #Blackberry #MikeLazaridis #Artefact #StMaarten #SintMaarten #Philipsburg

  9. @koutropoulos as a former #BlackBerry user, the Titan never appealed to me.. The keyboard is one aspect, security another..

    The Minimal phone looks promising: minimalcompany.com/
    Though i'd rather have it de-googled.

    I wish i could use a slider or keyboard case with my current phone. The Clicks thing wont fit.

    #MinimalPhone

  10. Making some elderberry juice. I threw in some green apples that fell from the tree.
    I got going in the outer reaches of the yard what I call assisted #foraging. I plant some native food plants, water them enough to get them going, and then let them be on their own to grow and reseed. The current list of native edible berries and nuts:
    #elderberry
    #toyon
    #goldencurrant
    #mahonia
    #Catalina_cherry
    #manzanita
    #lemonade_berry
    #blackberry
    #acorn
    #PineNuts
    #mesquite
    It's a #NativePlant #foodforest
    . Gardening for the seventh generation.
    #permaculture
    #GrowYourOwn

  11. Lovely evening on the #CommunityAllotment with lots of plant swaps with folk on neighbouring plots.. we have acquired #peppers #sunflowers #kale #broccoli and #cornflowers and passed on #jostaberry and #blackberry cuttings #lungwort #foxglove #marrow and some of the #cornflowers 😀🌱❤️ #gardening #permaculture #CompanionPlanting

  12. @[email protected] I’m not hopeful about #Apple opening up #iMessage in any meaningful way. Vendor lock-in is one major strategy to sell their devices & related services.

    In the
    #US, they have a stranglehold of the messaging market like #Blackberry did with #BBM. Outside of the US, Apple doesn’t have this “upper hand”, also why the whole green vs. blue bubble thing is very much a US problem. Other players like #WhatsApp, #WeChat, #Viber, #LINE, #KakaoTalk and more are the biggest players in different markets and all of them are multiplatform #messaging apps.

    I’d be surprised if Apple intends to make their cash cow of an app interoperable, making it easier for people to leave their
    #ecosystem.

  13. The Feather “FAUXBERRY” Is Now A Real Thing - Last month we featured an interesting project from Hackaday.io that was essentially trying to recrea... more: hackaday.com/2019/06/20/the-fe #microcontrollers #blackberryhacks #adafruitfeather #blackberry #python