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We’ve all been there. You’re on the phone and need to “write something down” while on the call. You of course don’t have a pen and paper because your BlackBerry, laptop and other electronic devices in your life have made it so you feel awkward even holding a pen anymore. Never fear… taking notes on your BlackBerry 8800 series while you’re on a call is easy.
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A question that we get fairly frequently is about adding custom ringtones and pictures to specific people in your address book for the BlackBerry 8800 series. For instance (totally true story) for some of my extended family members, the Green Acres theme song is their ringtone (and a totally long story). One of my best friends has “Smooth Criminal” for his ringtone with a picture of the two of us together at an event last year (trust me, the song definitely fits).

Being able to customize your address book is pretty cool. Not only does it make it easy to know who is calling, it also makes it easy to know who to ignore as well (not that we’re advocating that of course).
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First and foremost, we have absolutely no idea if that’s a real phone number, but if it is, we take no responsibility for anything that results from calling it, so if you attempt to do so, you are dialing at your own risk.

Yesterday, we got the following frantic (okay, maybe “frantic” is too strong a word, but an expletive was in the subject line of the email, so the question asker was obviously a little flustered) email:
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