Your BlackBerry is not just a phone, email and web device. All recent models of BlackBerry also include media functions. You can watch videos, listen to music, view pictures and more, right on your BlackBerry's screen. Who said the BlackBerry was all business?

In addition to sending and receiving emails on your BlackBerry, you can also send and receive text messages. SMS is a great way to send a short and near instant message to a contact when a phone call is not required.

While the BlackBerry offers a number of ways to stay in touch with your contacts including email, SMS and instant message, it's also a very capable phone. Jay Goldman leads us through using the phone functions on the BlackBerry while offering some valuable tips and tricks.

The BlackBerry's killer app is email. The BlackBerry uses what's called "push email" which automatically sends new emails to your device as they arrive. It also handles common email attachments. In this installment of the BlackBerry Basics series, we'll show you how to use the email on the BlackBerry Storm, along with some useful tips and tricks.

BlackBerry's oft maligned Storm smartphone does away with the hardware QWERTY keyboard that made BlackBerry smartphones the business device of choice. Jay Goldman runs us through an introduction to the Storm, using the software keyboard and navigating menus.

Finally, an easy way to get applications on your BlackBerry. The BlackBerry App World store has been much anticipated and now it's open! BlackBerry App World is a cool application for your BlackBerry device that gives you direct access to a wide range of cool and useful applications. Jay Goldman, AKA Mr. Mobile, has demonstrated the rigmarole required to get apps onto your BlackBerry. App World will simplify the process.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and that's never been more true than with the Viigo application on the BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Curve or any recent BlackBerry model. Jay Goldman, AKA Mr. Mobile, gives a guided tour of Viigo on the BlackBerry Storm and demonstrates why Viigo is the RSS reader for BlackBerry users.

Before the Apple App Store, installing an app on your mobile phone was an exercise in geekdom. Now, until BlackBerry catches up and releases its answer to the App Store for BlackBerry users, we still have to install applications the old-fashioned way. However, it's easier than it may seem and there's a whole world of great applications out there for your Storm, Curve or any BlackBerry smartphone.

Mr. Mobile keeps up the BlackBerry love with a look at some BlackBerry power user tips. Jay gives us five of his favorite tips for getting more out of your RIM mobile. From getting rid of BlackBerry apps you don't use to creating keyboard shortcuts and even getting rid of that annoying blinking LED, Jay Goldman has you covered.

Mr. Mobile takes a break from the iPhone love-in to look at the BlackBerry's answer to Apple's iconic phone, the BlackBerry Storm 9500 smartphone. What he finds is a BlackBerry that looks and feels great in the hand, but how does it perform?