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The tools on the cover of BlackBerry Hacks are BlackBerry mobile handhelds. Pictured on the left is the BlackBerry 7250 handheld offered by Verizon Wireless. It uses Verizon's CDMA network for voice and typically gets a data speed between 60 and 80 kbps. The phone pictured on the right is the BlackBerry 7100t offered by T-Mobile. It operates on T-Mobile's GSM network and reaches a top data speed of 40 kbps. Both handhelds offer a rich web, email, and voice experience.

Jamie Peppard was the production editor for BlackBerry Hacks and Linley Dolby was the copyeditor. Ann Atala proofread the book. Reba Libby and Claire Cloutier, and Darren Kelly provided quality control and Lydia Onofrei provided production assistance. Angela Howard wrote the index.

Marcia Friedman designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is an original photograph by Marcia Friedman. Karen Montgomery produced the cover layout with Adobe InDesign CS using Adobe's Helvetica Neue and ITC Garamond fonts.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Keith Fahlgren to FrameMaker 5.5.6. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Helvetica Neue Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano, Jessamyn Read, and Lesley Borash using Macromedia FreeHand MX and Adobe Photoshop CS. This colophon was written by Jamie Peppard and Brian Jepson.