So (like me) you hosed your Blackberry trackball and there’s only a couple weeks left until you get your 3G iPhone. What do you do? What DO you do? Navigate old school Blackberry style. YES, you can. Here’s how:

Courtesy of J. Sanders, self-declared Crackberry genius, here’s how to disable home screen dialing and activate your old school Blackberry navigation super powers.

If you have Dial from homescreen turned off on your BB, you can use shortcuts.

This is complicated, but if you follow the instructions EXACTLY as posted below, you can do all this withOUT a trackball.

Get there by pressing the green dial key.

Press Menu, press O for Options, press the ENTER key, Press the ENTER key again to open General Options.

Now, you should see halfway down the screen “Dial from Homescreen”. Press ENTER until you get highlighted OVER the NO. Don’t Pass it. When highlighted over the YES, press ALT and the NO will appear, press the N to highlight NO and ENTER again.

Press the back escape key (right of trackball) and SAVE should be highlighted, if not press the S for Save, and let it save.

Now you are ready for Homescreen shortcuts, where from the Homescreen, you can press M for messages, L for calendar, etc.,

Now you need to learn how to navigate around your Blackberry like a circa ‘02 Wall St. stock broker. Learn the secrets on the Blackberry site.

Home Screen Shortcuts - BlackBerryFAQ.com

and

Tips and Tricks - BlackBerryFAQ.com

Have fun and try not to let anyone see you navigating via the Keypad.