We’re always looking for progressively easier ways to make sure we’re not blowing by our minute allotment for the month, and if you’re using a BlackBerry on Verizon, this is probably about as easy as it gets. It seems that Big Red posted a “My Verizon” app recently, giving quick on-device access to a store locator, billing, feature management, voicemail password reset, and more. Ironically, it doesn’t seem to work on the Storm yet — but if you’ve got something else in your pocket with a BlackBerry logo on it, give it a whirl.

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It’s one thing to see it on video, but it’s quite another to try it for yourself, isn’t it? Intrepid Bold users are now invited to take BlackBerry OS 5.0 for a spin courtesy of a freshly-leaked build (5.0.90, if you’re curious). Of course, a good majority of the world’s Bolds are used in somewhat mission-critical environments — so if you use your trusty sidearm for corporate email or anything else where bricking the phone might cause some drama at the workplace, you may want to hold off. Just sayin’.

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When a key feature of a new platform version is said to be its awesome startup screen, we question the importance of said version — but when that new startup screen is nothing more than a logo and a progress bar, we’re really starting to lose hope. Don’t get us wrong, BlackBerry OS 5.0 is shaping up to be a nice little upgrade for folks currently on 4.6 or 4.7, but from what we can tell in the preview video posted over on CrackBerry, it’s certainly not worthy of a major version bump; indeed, it seems that it’s only being called 5.0 to bring it in sync with the imminent launch of BES 5.0. There’s a new memory details screen (pictured), trackball “flicking” through photos, some minor improvements to email and folder management, browser updates (thank goodness), and a handful of other trinkets scattered through the platform — not exactly the scorched-earth rewrite you might expect going to a number as grand as 5.0. Then again, why mess with a good thing, right?

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