Quick flip on NA.TO calls + Musings on the future of Blackberry

Yesterday's market meltdown was a nice opportunity to buy some calls on NA for a quick flip.  It wasn't much money (Canada doesn't have the most liquid of option markets) but hey, I'll take it.
I now turn my attention back to Blackberry.  This stock is like an itchy scab that you just can't stop picking at.  Not really a good thing.  But I'm really tempted to buy some calls.  Here's my reasoning why;
1. The stock has gotten the shit kicked out of it lately. Not without good reason, mind you - since the hardware side continues to disappoint, and software revenue is a bit skewed by the Good acquisition... But it's so cheap that it looks attractive.
2. The PRIV effect.  It's an awesome phone.  Absolutely beautiful.  And it's actually been selling.  I'm not talking Iphone or Samsung volumes, here, but still - it's selling.  I don't access to any real stats - so I've resorted to walking into wireless retail establishments, who all tell me that it's been selling well, and also to looking at Amazon reviews as a proxy for sell through rates (e.g. lots of reviews for the Priv and associated accessories means good sell through).  Based on that unscientific-but-hey-I-have-access-to-no-other-metrics approach, I'm thinking that the hardware estimate could be a surprise to the upside.
3. What have they got to lose?  What I mean by that is, they've publicly stated that the Priv is make or break.  If they don't make their numbers, they get out of the hardware business and focus on services - value gets unlocked and the stock goes up.  If they make their numbers - everyone is appropriately surprised - stock goes up.
Those are my quick thoughts. Of course, there are lots of other fundamentals to consider - but then, when was the last time a stock traded on fundamentals...
What do you think?

Tethering a Blackberry Curve to Rogers

I spent more of my day than I really want to think about working on tethering my Curve to Roger's yesterday. Using their Wireless Connection Manager software was a complete failure, as it caused two Curve's running two different versions of the BB OS to crash and reboot. Not fun. I finally gave up and called Roger's, who gave me the instructions to connect. Almost perfect, except for one crucial typo which messed me up until I stumbled on this Crackberry forum post. I had to combine the Crackberry instructions with the Roger's instructions to get connected. Minor, but important differences. Here are the steps I followed (and which are allowing me to type this blog entry now). I copied them almost verbatum from kcladygemini's Crackberry post, with the minor customizations that allowed me to connect to Rogers. Hope they work for you!

Configuration: Curve 8310, running v4.5.0.81, with Desktop Manager v5.0.0.11
Query the modem, using the modems properties:
1 Click Start, Settings, Control Panel.
2 Double-click on Phone and modem options.
3 Click on the Modems tab.
4 Left-click on the modem installed above. (Standard Modem or Standard Modem over Bluetooth)
5 Click Properties.
6 Click the Diagnostics tab.
7 Click Query Modem.
8 If dialog shows in the empty box, the modem is responding, then continue with the below steps. Otherwise contact tech support.
9 Click the Advanced tab.
Enter the initialization command:
Rogers Users: +cgdcont=1,"IP","internet.com"

Create dial-up networking :
1 From your computer, click Start, Settings, Control Panel, then Network Connections.
2 Click Create a new connection, then Next.
3 Select Connect to Internet.
4 Select Set up my connection manually.
5 Select Connect using a dial-up modem.
6 Select the Standard Modem, then Next.
7 Enter Roger's as the ISP Name (or whatever else you want to use).
8 Enter *99# as the Phone number.
9 Click Next.
10 Enter wapuser as the User name and wap as the Password.
11 Leave the check boxes as whatever they are defaulted to.
12 Click Finish.
13 In the Connect window, click Properties.
14 In the Properties window, verify that Modem - Standard Modem appears beneath the Connect using heading, then click Configure.
15 In the Connect window, select Save this user name and password for the following users.
16 Select the appropriate option.
17 Confirm that the BlackBerry Desktop Manager is running.
*IMPORTANT: BlackBerry Desktop Manager must be running, or error 692 will appear during the dial up attempt.
18 Open the web browser and navigate to any website to test the connection.

If the laptop/PC connects but Internet Explorer does not, follow these steps:

1 From Internet Explorer, click Tools, then Internet Options....
2 Click the Connections tab.
3 From Dial-up and Virtual Private Network settings, select T-Mobile.
4 Click Set Default.
5 Select Dial whenever a network connection is not present.
6 Click OK.
7 Click OK again.

Good luck! Credit to kcladygemini for the instructions.