{"id":243223,"date":"2010-01-28T14:17:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T19:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=25418"},"modified":"2010-01-28T14:17:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T19:17:31","slug":"busted-blackberries-t-mobile-will-fix-your-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/243223","title":{"rendered":"Busted BlackBerries? T-Mobile will fix your balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Screen-shot-2010-01-28-at-January-28-10.52.53-AM.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-01-28 at [ January 28 ] 10.52.53 AM\" width=\"434\" height=\"201\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everyone loves the feeling of a brand new BlackBerry trackball; you slide your finger across it, and it rolls in place like a hamster in a ball on top of a sea of butter. A few weeks later &#8212; primarily on the older devices &#8212; it starts to get a bit chunky; within months, it feels like the inside of your BlackBerry is filled with sand.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-25418\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If it feels like there&#8217;s a little angry man inside your BlackBerry pushing the opposite way whenever you try to use the trackball, T-Mobile wants to help. Beginning February 15th, they&#8217;ll be replacing the trackballs on any BlackBerry 8100, 8120, or 8320 handsets, free of charge. That still leaves owners of the 8820 and a few other handsets out in the cold &#8211; but considering that nearly all T-Mobile BlackBerry handsets are packing optical trackpads at this point, I doubt there will be too many angry folks picketing their long T-Mo spots.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmonews.com\/2010\/01\/t-mobile-launching-trackball-replacement-program\/\">TmoNews<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Crunch Network<\/em><\/strong>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\">CrunchGear<\/a><em> <\/em>drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/lEz7MN9wXlLSIhG7_X4JDTvlht8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/lEz7MN9wXlLSIhG7_X4JDTvlht8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/lEz7MN9wXlLSIhG7_X4JDTvlht8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/lEz7MN9wXlLSIhG7_X4JDTvlht8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=evCCdmb8Niw:z4-hhQJe5HE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=evCCdmb8Niw:z4-hhQJe5HE:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=evCCdmb8Niw:z4-hhQJe5HE:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=evCCdmb8Niw:z4-hhQJe5HE:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=evCCdmb8Niw:z4-hhQJe5HE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone loves the feeling of a brand new BlackBerry trackball; you slide your finger across it, and it rolls in place like a hamster in a ball on top of a sea of butter. A few weeks later &#8212; primarily on the older devices &#8212; it starts to get a bit chunky; within months, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}